This week in Nursery, we were looking at our Big Question for PSHE – ‘What am I looking forward to?’ We discussed what they were looking forward to in Reception. Some of the things that the children spoke about were: the Reception garden and some...
This week in Nursery, we were looking at our Big Question for Geography – ‘What is a map?’ We started off by looking at different maps and even found our school using Google Maps. We talked about what things are important to have on a...
This week in Nursery, we were looking at our Big Question for Science– ‘What floats and sinks?’ We started off by observing a boat floating in a tray of water. We talked about why it was floating and experimented by pushing it down slightly and...
This week in Nursery, we were looking at our Big Question for Computing – ‘How can we take a photograph? We started off by looking at some photos and then discussed what devices could be used to take photos, e.g. tablets, cameras and phones. During...
This week in Nursery, we read the book, ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. We discovered that in the book the troll was underneath a bridge. We looked at different bridges and discussed what a bridge was used for. Then we made bridges using different resources;...
This week in Nursery, we have been started our new theme ‘Towers, Tunnels and Turrets’. During this unit we will be reading the book, ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. On Wednesday we had our entry point, when the pupils went into the garden and found...
This week we ended our Talk for Writing unit on ‘The Very Busy Spider.’ This meant that we changed the characters in the story to make up our own version. In order to do this, we picked out new animals from a mystery bag. We...
This week we thought we would give you an update on the eggs that we have been looking after in Nursery. After day 19, which was on Tuesday, we were told that they may start to crack and hatch. So, we set the chick house...
This week in Nursery we have been looking at some 2D shapes: circle, square, triangle and rectangle. Once we recognised them, we drew them in the air. We then started to identify the number of sides and corners they have. During the week, we had...
We had some very exciting news this week in Nursery when we were asked to look after some eggs for Wellgate Farm. The farmer explained to us how to look after them – by adding some water each day into the incubator. After 19 days...