Nursery learning: 26th- 30th June 2023

 

Important notice: 

Missing shoes: A child is missing a pair of black boys school shoes. Can everyone please double check their children's shoes and return them if they are not yours. We have a pair of black boys school shoes in nursery which have not yet been claimed.

On Tuesday 11th July we will be having a pirate dress up day to celebrate of pirate topic. We look forward to seeing the children in their outfits.

We love playing with water outside in the sunny weather. To keep the children safe can all parents please apply water resistant sun cream before attending nursery. Please ensure each child wears a sun hat and has spare clothing in nursery at all times.

Reminder:

 

The Nursery entrance is open 8.30- 8.55 am and 12.15- 12.25pm. After these times all children must be registered at the school office.

Collection takes place from 11.20 - 11.30am and 3.05 - 3.15pm. Please contact the school office if you are late or someone else is collecting. After these times children will be taken to the school library and collection will be from the main school office. 

The nursery team politely remind parents please do not send children into nursery with toys from home. We have a fun selection of resources for the children to play with.

Thank you

This weeks focus topic: 

This week we have continued our under the sea theme with a Broadford 105 book called, 'The Rainbow fish'. The children have enjoyed listening to the story and like sharing their knowledge and ideas about the book. The main theme of the story is about sharing with others, making friends and our feelings.

The children have demonstrated their knowledge of the book during their play, using playdough to create their own rainbow fish. We have used a variety of mediums in the art area to make our own colourful fish artwork.

This week we had fun:

This week the children had lots of fun showing off their imaginative play. We created fun role play games using different resources to test our ideas and have fun, sharing ideas and helping friends:

All aboard the Broadford nursery train... Choo! Choo! Emir the train driver has taken the children on a tour of the classroom.

In the home corner we made lots of yummy food. Eden sharing his tasty soup, whilst Amelia and Patrick cooked and shared rice with each other and their friends.

 

James shared his idea with his friends to make a slide. After many attempts using different resources, they finally created a slide which worked, Yay! Go team! All the children had fun thanks to James and his great idea.

The children have been working their muscles moving the tyres around the garden. We have been rolling, lifting, working together and helping others to achieve their goals. Leonor was very kind to her friends, asking how she can help.

This week the children have been discussing the foods they like to eat and how we keep healthy. We discussed a variety of fruits, including apples, oranges and berries, with many children sharing their love for making smoothies.

I spy with our little eyes...

This week we spotted the children independently creating structures using puzzle and rainbow pieces. The children had fun experimenting how they could balance the pieces to see who could create the tallest tower. 

 

Wow, we are amazing story tellers!

This week the children unexpectedly found an egg in the nursery garden. They were excited to show the mysterious egg to all their teachers and friends. The children were fascinated by the mystery and began imagining different ways the egg came to be. We heard stories about dinosaurs, birds and broken bags, as well as role play detective games to search the garden for more eggs. We were delighted to hear the children demonstrate their knowledge of literacy within their story telling. Understanding stories have a beginning, middle and an end, creating characters and how they feel as the story progresses. James imagined a mummy dinosaur lost their egg and would be sad until they got it back, so he began looking for dinosaur foot prints to help the egg find its way home.

We have so much fun listening and creating stories with our teachers, especially using puppets. 

Ten Town Focus 

This week the children have been learning about Seal six from ten town. We have practiced forming our number 6 formation and our number bonds to 6.

A big thank you

The children would like to say a big thank you for all the lovely toys and clothing donations we have received recently. We appreciate your kindness.

Reception Certificates 30.6.23

 

A big congratulations to all of our certificate winners in Reception this week!

E for Excellence

Each week, a child in each class is awarded the E for Excellence certificate in recognition of their hard work.

Aspen -  Kateryna, for your positive attitude towards your learning! You arrive each day with a smile and have been working hard to use your sounds. 

Apple - Theodore, for the hard work he has put in during maths activities this week. Theo has been practicing addition and subtraction with confidence!

Alder - Sofia, for your hard work during your RWI sessions. You are becoming a fantastic reader Well done!

Dojo Winner Of The Week

During the week, the children in reception can earn dojo points for good behaviour. They can earn these for good listening on the carpet, being kind and polite, sharing and tidying resources or helping a friend. Each week, the child with the most dojo points will be awarded with a certificate and have their photo displayed in the classroom.

Aspen - Jayden

Apple -  Rylie and Harlie

Alder - Connie

Star Writer 

Awarded to children who have worked hard in their writing this week. 

Aspen - Isabella

Apple - Afreenish

Alder - Antonina 

4R Awards

Resourcefulness - Rory, Zachary and Serghei

 Resilience - Theodore

Reciprocity - Ahmad and Nicole

Reflectiveness - Adelina 

RECEPTION PARENTS: Bring Your Favourite Toy To School

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

Please could you bring your child's favourite toy to school on Monday 3rd July. This week in our topic lessons we will be reading 'The Naughty Bus' by Jan & Jerry Oke and will be writing about our favourite toys.

As you may recall, we did a similar activity back in the Summer term and we would like to repeat this now that we have reached the end of the year and our children have developed their speaking, listening and literacy skills. Please note, it does not have to be the same toy but it can be.

All toys will be collected upon arrival in the morning and stored safely until the lesson. It would be useful if you could discuss the toy your child has chosen with them before Monday to support them with talking about it in class. This could include information such as where they got it, who bought it for them, whether it was a gift, how long they have had it, how they play with it etc.

Any questions, please speak to your child's class teacher.

Many thanks

The Reception Team

Pirate dress up day - Nursery

Pirate dress up day
    Tuesday 11th July 

Come and join in the fun with special activities and action songs

There is no need to buy a costume. Have a look at home for items you can transform into your pirate costume.

We have included a few ideas to make a costume from items you may have already. 

IDEAs for homemade costumes	Items you may find at home to create the look
	Top in white, red, blue or black Striped bottoms (skirt/ trouser/shorts) Colored scarf/belt/ tie Bandana to cover head
	White top with open white shirt on top,  Plain coloured bottoms  coloured scarf around the waist Head band
	Stripe top Scarf around the waist Shorts Hat or head scarf on head Beard drawn on using eye liner or face paint
Other ideas:	Draw on white top using marker pen; stripes, skull, boat or treasure map etc School skirt or shorts Headband/ belt made from; ribbon, coloured paper using sellotape or paper boat hat

Kind regards,

The Nursery Team

Reception Stay & Learn - Tuesday 4th July 2pm

 

 Reception Stay & Learn 

Dear Parents and Carers,

There will be a Reception stay and learn session on Tuesday 4th July at 2pm. The session will focus on how Topic is taught through stories in Reception. Please n make your way back to the main entrance just before 2pm and you will then be admitted to the classrooms for a 2pm start. The session will last approximately 45 minutes - 1 hour and you will be able to take your child home once finished.

Many thanks

The Reception Team

Nursery learning 19th-23rd June

 

Important notice: 

On Tuesday 11th July we will be having a pirate dress up day to celebrate of pirate topic. We look forward to seeing the children in their outfits.

We love playing with water outside in the sunny weather. To keep the children safe can all parents please apply water resistant sun cream before attending nursery. Please ensure each child wears a sun hat and has spare clothing in nursery at all times.

Reminder:

 

The Nursery entrance is open 8.30- 8.55 am and 12.15- 12.25pm. After these times all children must be registered at the school office.

Collection takes place from 11.20 - 11.30am and 3.05 - 3.15pm. Please contact the school office if you are late or someone else is collecting. After these times children will be taken to the school library and collection will be from the main school office. 

The nursery team politely remind parents please do not send children into nursery with toys from home. We have a fun selection of resources for the children to play with.

Thank you

This weeks focus topic: 

This weeks focus story has been Commotion in the Ocean. The children have enjoyed learning about different mammals which live in the Ocean. Please click the link if you wish to watch the story at home with your Children: Commotion in the Ocean

The children have continued their learning about under the sea. We have used our rice play to support our math's and science learning on numbers and shapes, space and measure. 

Vienna counted how many handfuls it took to fill her cup, Patrick scooped rice in his hand to fill his cup, whilst Harley-jean used the small scoop to fill her cup. The children then discussed the number of times they scooped to fill their cups.

Little chefs 

This week the children have been working hard at the snack table making Strawberry ice lollies. We chopped, crushed, mixed and poured our ingredients into moulds, then learnt how fluids change from liquid to solids when frozen, as we put our ingredients in the freezer. 

The children loved making and tasting their strawberry ice lollies. To ensure all children could take a turn we used milk substitutes for those unable to consume dairy products.

Ten Town Focus 

This week the children have been learning about Thelma five from ten town. We have practiced forming our number 5 formation and our number bonds to 5.

The children have been practicing our numbers counting a variety of objects during play. Some children are now able to subitise (the ability to look at a small number of objects and instantly recognise how many objects there are without needing to count).

Our turn taking steps

We have all been practicing our turn taking

Special mentions to Leonor for bringing in her very big runner bean which she has continued growing at home and to Oscar for using the alphabet resources to independently spell his name. Emir M, Mariam and Afrahim worked very hard to create and extend their ideas using the construction.

Well done everyone for all your hard work.

We have had lots of out door fun this week playing in the water area with our car wash, being resourceful creating games with our toys and having super fun watch the builders user exciting machinery like the excavator.  

We have been working hard to stay cool and refreshed at nursery, taking turns to make sure we stay hydrated.

The children have enjoyed caring for our strawberry plants. This week some of our strawberries were ready to eat. A few helpers carefully picked their strawberries, washed and tasted them. The children spoke about the difference in taste from our shop bought strawberries we had used for our snack activity and our nursery grown strawberries.

Nursery Certificates- 22.06.23

 

Each week, 2 children in Nursery will receive an E for Excellence certificate in recognition of their hard work. 

A massive congratulations to Ibrahim, who has been awarded the E for Excellence for his excellent work whist doing maths this week. Ibrahim was working with Mrs Ngenge and used his words to ask for help when counting, using the peg board. He then stacked the pegs in a tower and independently counted each counting up to 6. Super job, Ibrahim! 

A huge well done to Stacey, who has been awarded the E for Excellence for her growing confidence in nursery. Stacey comes in to nursery happy, takes care when playing with the resources and tidies up at the end of the session. Good work Stacey, keep it up!

Well done to Harley-Jean, James, Eden and Afrahim, who have completed their tracker by reading 'our five favourite books' in Nursery! Super job, keep up the reading!