Nursery - Summer 2 Week 1 Another great week of learning 11/06/21

 Learning Theme: Under the sea

This blog shows some highlights from this week including:


Under the sea


Fun with maths


Outdoor Fun


Learning new roles


SHAPE activity


Key Information- CLASS PHOTOGRAPHS



Quote of the week:

“Viper fish, tiger fish, fire fish, eel, hermit crab!”

Bernice said as she looked through the Ocean book



Important notice:


As the weather changes we ask for children to come to nursery wearing SUNCREAM and a SUN HAT, along with appropriate clothing for british weather. Please LABEL all your children's belongings



Thank you














Outdoor learning


The sun has been out and the children have had lots of fun learning in the garden with friends























Fun with Maths



The children have been learning about shapes; using shapes to make pictures, counting sides and learning their names. During play the children have been counting their blocks to identify if they have more or less blocks than their friends. The children have also been fishing for numbers and measuring capacity through water play. Go nursery!









“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, hexagon”

Sonny




Under the sea

The children have been engrossed in learning about life under the sea. They especially like learning about String- rays, fish scales and discovering shell prints using play dough.














Role play: learning about Different types of jobs


The children have been enjoying our role play area. They have discovered different work roles, including: Ship Captain, Scuba diver, Submarine Captain and scientist. Their favourite role of the week was learning about photographers! The children enjoyed using the Ipads to take photos of objects, friends and teachers around the nursery.









“ I asked Ryan for his Photo, look I did it, his picture, I the photographer”


Said Eva showing her teacher the Ipad and pointing to the Camera picture on her

role play lanyard


SHAPE Activity (Wellbeing Curriculum)


SHAPE Activity Focus: ENVIRONMENT


This week the children have been enjoying Caring for and protecting animals from the garden. They have rehomed the Nursery wormery to the allotments. The children worked together to dig a hole and safely place the worms in the earth. Some children kept watch for birds, after learning birds like to eat worms.













Key Information





Important dates:


Friday 18th June: School Photograph day


Friday 02nd July: Pirate dress up day (Nursery only)


Friday 16th July: End of year reports will be sent home


Thursday 22nd July: Last day of the nursery and school year


Friday 23rd July: INSET day (nursery and school closed)


Nursery now has a separate email account to reception: nursery@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Please note the nursery will be having a pirate dress up day after half term (date to be confirmed).


If you have any questions please contact nursery@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


The Nursery Team


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Nursery: Summer 1 Week 6

Learning Theme: Transport and People who Help us

This blog shows some highlights from this week including:


Junk Modelling


Inspecting the butterflies


ICT Beebot programming


People who help us: Doctor role play


SHAPE activity


Key Information





Quote of the week:

“I can’t wait, I love doing my writing, it's so fun!” Ameera N said as she rushed to the mark making table wanting to write her name.



Important notice:


As the weather changes we ask for children to come to nursery wearing sun cream and a sun hat, along with appropriate clothing for British weather.

Thank you




Junk Modelling


The children have been exploring different types of transport and creating their own models using recycling materials.













Inspecting the butterflies


“Look, Look the caterpillars are wriggling,” Aisosa has particularly enjoyed observing the caterpillars moving around.


The children have been learning about the butterfly life cycle and have enjoyed observing how the caterpillars have changed from an egg to caterpillars. The children are in suspense waiting for the butterflies to appear from the cocoon.











“The caterpillars will turn into butterflies, it will grow wings”


Amerah A


BeeBot Programming

The children have been engrossed with using technology in the environment. Accessing the Beebot app on the ipads and learning how to programme the big Beebots to move in different directions. We have had lots of fun.








People who help us: Doctor role play

The children have been enjoying our role play area. They have played doctors, nurses and patients helping each other get better. We have been learning how to keep safe and to call 999 for help in an emergency. The children have used bandages, stethoscopes and medical bags to enhance their play.







SHAPE Activity (Wellbeing Curriculum)

SHAPE Activity Focus: Working together


This week the children have been enjoying turn taking, sharing and helping each other to create and count their tall tower of pegs.















Key Information






Important dates:


Friday 28th May: INSET (nursery and school closed)


31st May - 4th June: Half term (no nursery or school)


Monday 7th June: School and nursery reopen for the final term.


Friday 16th July: End of year reports will be sent home


Thursday 22nd July: Last day of the nursery and school year


Friday 23rd July: INSET day (nursery and school closed)



Nursery now has a separate email account to reception: nursery@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Please note the nursery will be having a pirate dress up day after half term (date to be confirmed).


If you have any questions please contact nursery@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

Nursery: Summer 1 Week 5

Learning Theme: Transport and People who Help us

This blog shows some highlights from this week including:

• Broadford’s Best Dressed

• Inspecting the worms

• Mark Making

• People who help us: Lolly pop lady visits

• SHAPE activity

• Key Information

Quote of the week:

“I’ve found a worm, it’s wriggling!” Zofia said as she held a thick long worm in her hands, we put it in the wormery to keep as a pet!

Broadford’s Best Dressed

It was wonderful to see the children dressed in different costumes this week! The children took on their characters in role play and engaged in lots of imaginative play. Here are some photos including two of Sophia, who won the Broadford’s best dressed competition for her brilliant unicorn outfit. Sophia took on the role of a unicorn and had lots of fun play with her classmates.

Inspecting the worms

“Here’s some leaves for the worms,” Danni-ella has particularly enjoyed finding food for the worms this week!

We have had the wormery for a few weeks now and what is interesting to see is how the worms form tunnels through the different layers of earth, compost and sand. The children have spotted the worms in their tunnels and it has provoked much thought and enquiry.

Mark Making

Since the children started practicing mark making with their key workers in their handwriting books last week, it has inspired them to mark make a lot more in their play. Many children have even been challenging themselves to write their own name which has inspired other children to do the same! Here are some photos of the mark making activities, including painting a box to make a fire engine, painting the fence with water, artwork on the easel.  Fun fact: vertical mark making with large arm movements is great for building shoulder strength (a prerequisite to writing).

People who help us: Lolly pop lady visits

The afternoon children had a visit from Karen the lolly pop this week who told us all about her role and road safety. The children listened really well and learnt new vocabulary including: blackboard and barrier (see if your child can tell you what they mean). Thank you Mrs Light for organising the visit! Karen will be coming back as soon as she can to visit the morning children!

SHAPE Activity (Wellbeing Curriculum)

SHAPE Activity Focus: Heart

We have introduced French Fridays into nursery which the children have loved. We have learnt pomme de reinette et pomme d’api and another greeting song. Here are some videos.

Key Information

If your child is returning to nursery in September you must confirm this via email in response to your placement offer by Wednesday 26th May. 

Nursery now has a separate email account to reception: nursery@broadford.havering.sch.uk

You will have received an email this week explaining the focus child learning journey and follow up meeting process this week.

Upcoming dates:

• Friday 28th May: INSET (nursery and school closed)

• 31st May - 4th June: Half term (no nursery or school)

• Monday 7th June: School and nursery reopen for the final school term. 

If you have any questions please contact nursery@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

Nursery: Summer 1 Week 4

Learning Theme: Minibeasts

This blog shows some highlights from this week including:

• Celebrating Eid

• Finger Gym

• Understanding of the World

• SHAPE activity

• Photos of the water play area

• Other Information

Celebrating Eid

The children really enjoyed celebrating Eid on Friday! Some children chose to create paper chains with Mrs Ahmed (midday assistant) and decorated their own prayer mats matching colours and shapes. Lots of children dressed up in colourful clothes, here are a few photos.

Finger Gym: Arts & Crafts and Handwriting

The children have been creating minibeasts in the crafting area which have decorated our classroom. They have coloured them in, challenged themselves to cut them out and made puppets with them also. Some have added their minibeast to the art area working wall too! The children have also started learning to write their names with the correct letter formations.

Take a moment to look at how your child holds a pencil at home. Below are images of the different pen grips. As your child’s fine motor skills develop they will have more strength to hold a pencil correctly. It is important to ensure gross motor skills are developed first, ie large movements (pulling, pushing, climbing, vertical painting and drawing).

Understanding of the World

As part of our minibeasts theme, the nursery have some tiny pets! We now have a wormery and caterpillars for the children to observe and ask questions around. It has brought out lots of new vocabulary.

Noah A. said, “The caterpillars are spikey!”

Danni-ella said, “I think the caterpillars are sleepy; they will turn into butterflies.”

Physical Development

Many of the children have been interested to challenge themselves this week in using the hula hoop, including Tommy who really impressed us with his control and ability to use the hoop in this way; well done Tommy! Zarrar also challenged himself to have a go with the Hula Hoop- well done!

SHAPE Activity (Wellbeing Curriculum)

Last week Mrs Luca focussed on the Environment aspect of our wellbeing curriculum. She got the children to help her plant seeds, water them and create decorations for our allotments to go with the minibeast theme.

This week the children focussed on the Heart aspect and we filmed the children singing nursery rhymes; look out for the videos in next week’s blog.

Other Information

You may be aware of some building work that is taking place in the outdoor area for nursery currently. Next week we expect the building work to continue so it may be that afternoon collections are at the main entrance for safety reasons. The construction work is to develop a water play area in which the children can transport water from different heights and directions, including a magnetic water wall! We will be sure to post photos so that you can see as soon as it is done! Here is the latest picture of the developments:

Upcoming dates:

Wednesday 19th May: World Book Day Dress Up

Weeks 5 and 6 of this term will be focussing on Transport including people who help us.

Friday 28th May: School Inset Day (nursery closed to children)

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