Nursery

Hello and a huge welcome to our class webpage.

Our Nursery staff team are: Miss Quartermaine (M,Tu,Th,F), Mrs Lowery (W), Miss Ahmed and Mrs Hardy.

Our children have lots of fun, here you can find out what’s been happening in Nursery this week.

Class Update

13/12/25- ITS CHRISTMAS!!! (Well, nearly!)

This week Christmas has been in full swing. Your little elves are buy making lovely Christmas things to bring home at the end of the year. You’ll have to wait until next week to find out more!

We have been busy continuing with our rhyming learning this week. we read some great stories: Unicoorn Noonicorn and moo Cow Kung-Fu cow. Both very entertaining!

No number of the week this week. Instead we have been learning to subitise. What???? Well, it really means being able to look at a small group of objects and know how many without counting. So there’s a fancy maths word for those of you that don’t know it- subitise!

 

Of course the main event this week was having you all in for Christmas lunch and to show you our Nativity film. What a treat that was! It was so lovely to see you all and didn’t the children do well.

06/12/24 Stick Man

We had a fabulous week reading the story of Stick Man. I think it’s safe to say we can all recite the whole book now.  We made our own adorable stick men from real sticks and craft materials.

Once our stick stick men were finished, we made chocolate ones from mini rolls and matchmakers, sadly no photos to show you as the children ate them almost as fast as they made them!

Our number of the week was 5. We’ve been learning to recognise the numeral, counting five objects, sequencing numerals 1-5, and, most impressively, using both hands to find lots of ways to make 5 i.e 2 fingers and there fingers is five etc.

Our Early Phonics skill is rhyming and we’ve been reading Octopus Socktopus and playing willoughby wallaby woo to learn words that rhyme with our names.

 

Have a fab weekend!

29/11/24- Nativity madness and Owl Babies

Well, this week feels like two rolled into one! Perhaps it was because we kicked off our week with making our nativity. We’re a bit different to the rest of the school and we don’t do a live performance (mostly because it turns out to be an embarrassing solo from me and no one wants time off work to hear that!) So we got creative and we dress up as all the nativity folk and we each filmed a little bit of the story. The whole thing then gets stitched together and made into a mini film. Very entertaining indeed!

Please check parentmail to book a ticket to our Christmas Lunch/Film premiere!

So that felt like one whole week in itself. The following days saw us return to our topic learning and we read the story of Owl babies and did lots of lovely owl based activities.

Miss Ahmed got us all counting and we had to feed the correct  number of things to each baby owl. Miss Maye had us all in the creative area to make some lovely owl pictures. Miss Lowrey worked her magic with loo rolls and craft items and Miss Quartermaine was firmly on Christmas duty!

Our Number of the week was 4. Get spotting when you are out and about!

Our words of the week were; owl, wings, beak and feathers- give yourself 10 points every time you fit those into conversation this weekend!

Have a lovely weekend and hopefully we’ll be seeing most of you at the Christmas fair.

22/11/24- Say Hi to Hedgehogs.

Dear all,

This week we have been learning all about hedgehogs. Our words of the week were spiky and prickly. We read a fantastic picture book called; Say Hi to hedgehogs which and some fabulous hedgehog facts and some lovely pictures.

In class we produced some really lovely hedgehog art. We made clay hedgehogs and painted pictures of hedgehogs. All of them have a lot of character and you’ll be able to see them if you visit class on Tuesday morning to see our books.

We have been working hard at our counting skills and numeral recognition and many of us are now confident at recognising numerals 1-3. Sock Monster always comes along to our maths sessions and we’ve been teaching him to count accurately and helping him to learn his numbers too.

 

 

15/11/24- Autumn

Dear all,

This week we have been learning about autumn and gathering some autumn treasures for a lovely autumnal activities. We found some beautiful leaves at school and we used them to make leaf rubbings and prints.

We’ve been talking about what happens in the autumn and what the trees do and how they look. Though, obviously the British weather did it’s own thing and was a bit more summer-ish.

Our word of the week this week was; crunchy and we looked at some Crunchy autumn leaves. I wonder what you can find at home that is crunchy? We found leaves, breadsticks, cornflakes and a few other things at school.

Our Number of the week was two and we all enjoyed stomping along to the number of the week song. We sorted objects into groups of 2 or not 2 and we taught sock monster how to count to five, making sure that he got all his numbers in the right order and he gave each item a number.

Miss Ahmed did a fantastic job of getting everyone to decorate their Diwali Diyas and they are all looking fab.

Miss Maye did a wonderful maths session with us and we all enjoyed colouring in some numbered ducks and sticking them on the river in the right order.

On Friday we all had our first ever school photos and we were amazing at lining up and sitting for our pictures. I’m sure you are all looking forward to seeing them.

Have a lovely weekend and remember if you are out and about we need some sticks!

08/11/24 Diwali and Spanish day

Dear all

What a week! We’ve been so busy that the half term holiday is just a distant memory. This week we have been learning about Diwali and how Hindu’s celebrate their special day.

We had a look at some clay diyas and made our own from some lovely terracotta clay. They’re still drying out, but hopefully they’ll be ready to paint next week. We tried our hand at Rangoli patterns in the garden, I’m not sure we quite captured the beauty and symmetry of traditional Rangoli, but we were very creative and enjoyed the experience!

We had a look at some traditional Indian clothing which was very colourful and sparkly. Eloise and Ivy modelled the top and skirt and Henry and Frankie had a very good go at walking in the adult-size sequined high heels! It was very hard to part with the sparkly clothing because it was so beautiful.

Then on Friday we joined the whole school with Hispanic day and we found out all about Spain. We decided we would like to visit the beaches and some of the Moorish “castles” that we found on Google Earth. It was the busiest of busy days as we watched a Flamenco show at 9am, went straight to gymnastics from there and then went to a flamenco workshop where we strutted our stuff and very much enjoyed the stamping and clapping bits.

24/10/24- Hooray for Fish

This week we have been having fun with the story: Hooray for Fish. It’s lots of fun and has lots of made-up fish for us to spot; scary fish and ele-fish have been very popular.

We made some brilliant books with our own fish pictures in which was great practise for our pencil skills.

Then, we made mixed media fish pictures so we can make our own aquarium display in the classroom. We explored acrylic pens and drawing inks to create our fish. Lots of fun and quite a few messy hands!

It’s been a brilliant half term and we’ve had so much fun together. after the holidays we will be learning about: Diwali, autumn, hedgehogs, owls and Christmas.

18/10/24 - Eat Up Gemma

This we we read the story of Eat Up Gemma. It’s a story all about a baby that wont eat up until he big brother thinks of a good trick to get her munching. This led to lots of baby themed play in the home corner and lots of thinking about our favourite foods.

In the story, baby Gemma feeds her chocolate biscuits to the pigeons! So on Monday we made the most delicious chocolate biscuits and the pigeons of Shepherd’s Bush were not so lucky because they were so tasty we ate them all!

Thank you for all your donations for cooking- much appreciated. The classroom smelt amazing and everyone was instantly very hungry the minute we could smell them. If you fancy baking at home we used this BBC Good Food Recipe

They were super simple to make and the children really did get involved with all the stages of the recipe (and the eating!)

Later in the week, we practised our knife skills and chopped (and ate) lots of lovely fruits, just like Gemma in our story. The fruits even got their portraits painted and we have some lovely watercolour fruit pictures.

As a school we have revised our Behaviour Policy and simplified the school rules to three very simple rules to understand:

• Be Ready
• Be safe
• Be kind/respectful (the wording here depends on the age, in Nursery we use Be Kind)

We have been learning these three very important rules this week and discussing how we can show teachers that we are ready for learning, show our friends that we are kind and show everyone how to use things safely.

On that note, have a lovely weekend! I’m sure we are all READY for it!

 

04/10/24 - We're Going on a Bear Hunt

This week we have been reading the fabulous; We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. We set up a real bear hunt in the garden and stomped through the mud and felt the (fake) snow etc, mercifully there was a teddy bear in our cave rather than a big scary brown bear.

We then excelled ourselves in the cooking department and made the most amazing lemon drizzle cakes. They were so delicious we scoffed most of the first one for our pudding on Tuesday and then tucked into the second on Wednesday.

We’ve started work on our ‘Special Books’ these are special by name and special by nature, it’s where our teachers stick all our photos and keep some drawings etc. This week we made lovely handprints so you will always be able to remember how little our hands were when we started nursery.

                                          

20/09/24- Brown Bear, Brown Bear

Dear all,

We had a fab week reading the story of Brown Bear, Brown Bear. We enjoyed working out which animal was next in the book and remembering the sequence of the story.

We did our first little learning activity this week. We all had our own photos to cut out and stick into a book and we turned it into our own version of Brown Bear, Brown bear. But, instead of animals we are the stars of that story.

Some of us did a brilliant job of cutting out and some of us are quite new to using scissors. If you would like to have a go at some more cutting at home, see our weekly email for advice about choosing the right scissors.

We also started learning a few numerals and practised a bit of counting.

We have learnt lots of new songs; 10 Elephants, Five Speckled Frogs, Little Peter Rabbit and many others.

13/09/24 Our first full week

Wow, we managed our first full week at school. We have had lunch every day and we’ve done so well. Roast chicken was probably the most popular dish of the week and the strawberries and cream for pud!

In class we have been learning to listen to a story together. We read ‘Where is the Green Sheep’ and all enjoyed finding all the different sheep in the book. Spoiler alert: the green sheep is always asleep.

We’ve also had our first PE, Music and Gymnastics lessons and we did so well.

06/09/24

Hello and welcome to the start of our weekly updates. this is the place to check and see what we’ve been doing each week and if the teachers have survived!

This week we made an excellent start with our first three days. We had a great time, not too many tears (long may that last) and most of the wees and poos landed in the toilet! so all in all, pretty good!

We’ve been exploring all the toys in the classroom (literally ALL of them, tidy up was an epic job!) and getting to know each other.

We’re looking forward to lots of fun this coming week with our first full time days.