This week in maths, Nursery have been learning to use positional language with the help of one of our favourite stories ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. The children have enjoyed using actions to help…
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Kandinsky art in Nursery
This week the children have been learning all about 2D shapes – circles and triangles. They have enjoyed singing songs to remember these shapes as well as going on various shape treasure hunts outside. We…
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This week in Nursery, both classes have been exploring the nativity story. We dressed up as our favourite nativity characters, made beds and houses for the baby Jesus and most excitingly were visited by a…
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This week in Nursery we began learning all about Advent. We learnt that it is the time we have to wait until Jesus’ birthday on Christmas day. We made our own advent calendar to help…
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This week in White and Pearl Classes, we have continued our birthday topic. We made personalised Birthday cards for our friends, wrapped friends up as presents and asked others to guess who was inside. We…
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This week in Nursery we have been learning about Diwali, the festival of lights. The children enjoyed learning the story of Rama and Sita as well as how people choose to celebrate Diwali. They made…
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This week we have been very reflective in Nursery. As part of Remembrance Day We have thought about people who have been brave and who have done things to help us. We learned about Captain…
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This week in Nursery we got our ‘Let’s Celebrate!’ topic off to a bang! The children enjoyed exploring the insides of a pumpkin and made their own pumpkin soup. We learnt how pumpkins are grown…
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This week in St. Josephs nursery, we have been celebrating ‘Black History Month’. We read the books ‘Handa’s surprise’ and ‘Handa’s Hen’ and discussed the African setting and characters. It was interesting to explore what…
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This week the children really enjoyed learning the story Owl Babies by Martin Waddell. They used story maps to retell the story and acted it out using actions with their friends. They gained a really…
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