Butterfly fun

The children have enjoyed learning about the butterfly life cycle and seeing them change as they grow. We realised them into the world today after seeing them turn into beautiful butterflies!

Lovely Spring

We have been looking at our natural world over the last few weeks and how plants grow. We have enjoyed developing our maths and phonics. We love pe and music and have enjoyed making our own puppets to do a show.

Lots of learning and fun in March!

Den making, crafts, finding out about new life, numbers, writing, print walks and much more! Our littles minds and been working hard this month and we've enjoyed every minute! Have a good rest over Easter, ready for more learning next term. Thank you once again to all our brilliant parents and carers for their partnership with us. We would like to say welcome back to Kirsty on reception and welcome to Ellie our student teacher in pre school. 

Easter bonnets

Thank you for all that joined in with our Easter celebrations! We all enjoyed our Easter egg hunt and bonnet March. The children looked fabulous! Have a good break everyone. Happy Easter!

February

We've been learning lots in nursery! We've been practising our voice sounds in phonics and doing Mr tongue exercises for our pronounciation. We made dragons for Chinese New Year and did dragon dancing! We had the opportunity to practise bike riding with a visitor. We are now beginning to learn about Spring and new life.

Reading event

We held an event in the children's centre for parents and carers of children in pre-school and reception to encourage reading and making stories come alive for children. The puppet lady visited and we made our own sock puppets. We also encouraged sharing stories through imaginative and creative  play. Early reading with your child is so important to prepare them for reading independently. 

January 2015 so far

We have been enjoying the New Year so far in pre-school and been learning all about winter. The children have loved our frozen theme and the staff have enjoyed singing a few versions of let it go! The children are really trying hard with their numbers and letters and have been developing their mark making skills. We are always thinking of new ways to learn whilst also following the children's interests. They are a great group and we have really enjoyed these past few weeks, finding out and exploring through play and talk. Circle time and a focus on personal, social and emotional development is always important to us, as we want your children to feel settled and content in our care and amongst their peers, we have had some lovely comments from children, such as "I love playing with ...... because they make me laugh" and " my best friends are..... I like playing with them." It's great to see the children so happy together. We will be learning all about Chinese New Year next and will also be practising out nursery rhymes for the rhyme challenge.