Nursery: Spring 2 Week 4

This week was the children’s second week back since the lockdown and the first full week for our new starters! They have continued to We have been amazed by the children’s ability to settle back into nursery and we have even had some new faces this week. Our new intake have also done extremely well to settle into nursery this week.

This blog shows some of our highlights from the week including:

• Experimenting with the effects of wind using ribbons

• Learning about the frog cycle

• Rebuilding Wellbeing: Physical

Experimenting with the effects of wind using ribbons

This week was a particularly windy one so it was a great opportunity to get the coloured ribbon streamers out. The children enjoyed experimenting with how to catch the wind with their ribbon and learnt that the higher they held it the more the wind would catch it! They ran with their streamers and learnt turn taking skills.

Learning about the frog cycle

This week we had some more new intake however this time it wasn’t children but frog eggs! We have two tanks with the frog eggs in and some have already began to hatch. Each day many children have shown an interest in how the frog eggs are growing. We have looked at the frog life cycle, learnt about how to keep them safe whilst in nursery, collected rocks for the froglets to climb on, researched what they will need to eat and learnt about how they breathe at different stages. 

Rebuilding Wellbeing

The school will be using a new curriculum to focus on the wellbeing of our pupils. It is named Rebuilding Wellbeing and is made up of 5 pillars: SHAPE.

SOUL: Exploring who you are, understanding yourself, growing yourself and continuously improving, being at ease with yourself, learning and practicing gratitude, reducing screen time, developing a growth mindset, and pushing into your stretch zone.

HEART: Being kind, helping the elderly, combatting loneliness, examining online behaviour, building a community within shared values, the importance of family and friends, being compassionate to the situation of others, and eating/drinking together.

ATTITUDE: Learning about, growing, and spreading positivity, optimism, resourcefulness, resilience, and grit.

PHYSICAL: Cooking, nutrition, eating five different colours of food every day, drinking water, regular exercise, developing physical strength, yoga, walking, running, sleeping, breathing and being still, and personal hygiene.

ENVIRONMENT: Caring for and protecting animals, gardening, bush craft, carbon footprint reduction, recycling, sustainability, and den building.

This week we looked at the Physical aspect and made food together. We learnt about how chocolate can be melted using heat, mixed with cereal and then cooled in a fridge to set. The children took them home at the end of nursery (no doubt they were demolished in seconds!). 

Here are some photos from the activity.

The children have also continued to care for the seeds we planted the week before by watering them each day as you can see in these photos.

Next week:

• Springtime

If you have any questions please contact eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk or for more urgent messages speak to a member of staff or contact the school office: 01708 342880 or office@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Kind regards,

The Nursery Team