Nursery

Dough Disco 🪩

The children followed a superhero dough disco routine. Dough Disco improves the children’s fine and gross motor skills, it enhances hand muscle strength and their hand-eye coordination.

The Rainbow Fish 🐠

This week we have been reading The Rainbow Fish, the children designed their own fish and put their very own shiny scales on just like the story.

Making Play-dough in Nursery

The children worked together to make play-dough, we gathered all the ingredients that we needed and measured them using a cup. The children took turns adding an ingredient each, then we got messy using our hands to knead the dough.

The Hug Button

In PSED we read the story ‘The Hug Button’, we used the Zones of Regulation to describe how the character was feeling at different points in the story. Some of the children re-read the story using the coloured bean bags to describe the feelings.

Family houses

This week we’ve been exploring our own family histories, inspired by the story Owl Babies, which celebrates the comfort of family and belonging. The nursery children talked about the people who are important to them and how families can be the same or different over time.

Using lolly sticks, they carefully built little houses and then drew their families inside, sharing stories about parents, grandparents, and siblings. It was a lovely way to connect our learning about families in the past and present while celebrating what makes each home special.

Muddy Fun!

Garden Fun and Helping Hands

Our nursery children had a wonderful time exploring the garden stomping in muddy puddles, mixing water and soil, and discovering different textures. They also became little helpers, using paintbrushes and squeegees to clean the garden windows, making them sparkle while enjoying plenty of splashes along the way!

Shape Hunt!

Our nursery children set off on an exciting shape hunt around the school! We navigated our way through our school using directions. Armed with sharp eyes and plenty of curiosity, they spotted circles, squares, triangles, and more hidden in everyday places from windows and doors to playground markings. The children loved naming each shape and talking about where they appear in our world.

Mark Making

We used some magic pens to write our names this week. Once we had made our mark on paper, we placed it in the microwave and watched our letters puff up!

RE: In the Beginning

Our nursery children enjoyed looking at the book In the Beginning, which shares the Christian story of how the world began. We spent some time looking at the front cover, noticing the colours and images, and talking about what the story might be about.

Together we discussed some of the ideas in the story light and dark, land and sea, animals and people as part of our wider exploration of different beliefs and stories about how the world was created.

All About Me!

All About Me!
Our nursery children have been celebrating everything that makes them special. We shared stories and conversations about ourselves—our faces, favourite things, and what makes each of us unique.

Using natural treasures from our garden walk that we found, we created fantastic faces using leaves, twigs, and stones from the garden to create beautiful self-portraits. Inspired by Billy and the Big New School, they explored different facial expressions and how our feelings can show on our faces by sticking and gluing different facial expressions on to portraits pictures.

To finish our “all about me” adventure, everyone designed a delicious pancake face using breakfast items and fresh fruit—smiles you could eat! What a wonderful way to learn about who we are while being creative, curious, and proud of ourselves.

Marvellous Me – Nursery Diversity Day

In Nursery this week, we explored the story Marvellous Me! The children enjoyed thinking about what makes them special and unique. Using mirrors, they carefully looked at their features and created wonderful self-portraits. We finished by talking together about all the reasons why we are marvellous – from being kind friends to trying our best every day!

Party Day🎉

Nursery and Reception have had a wonderful party day today, they enjoyed playing lots of fun games in the garden such as hook a duck, bean bag toss and making some fantastic party hats.

Family BBQ

A big thank you to everyone who attended our family BBQ last week. A great time was had by all and we managed to raise over £1000 which will help school funds. We were also able to make a donation to Shy Lowen Sanctuary, where lots of our children have attended over the years. We cannot wait until our next event.

Sports Day 🏃🏻‍♀️

The children had a fantastic time at sports day, completing different races and other sports based activities. They were all really supportive and amazing team players.

Nothing Can Frighten a Bear 🐻

Our NELI story this week is “Nothing Can Frighten a Bear”. One of our special words inside the book was “frightened” so the children thought about something that frightens them and then drew it.

The Colour Monster ❤️💛💚💙🖤

Today we listened to the a story called “The Colour Monster” and we spoke about all the different emotions that we may feel. In a circle the children confidently shared what makes them happy whilst holding the yellow monster which resembles happiness.

Dinosaur Rocket 🚀

We enjoyed reading the story “Dinosaur Rocket” it allowed us to get creative and use our imagination. The children enjoyed making their very own rockets and shared ideas of what they would take to the moon if they were given the opportunity.

Number Tracing 🔢

The children are becoming super confident with their number recognition 1 to 10. We’ve been working really hard in Maths to support the children’s number formation skills.

Find Your Happy

Today we enjoyed ‘Find Your Happy’ and listened carefully to the actions we can do when we feel sad, lonely or worried. We focused in on when we might feel in the blue zone and the actions we can take to try to make ourselves feel a little better. We hugged our friends, spoke about listening to music and having a dance and talked about eating our favourite foods to try to move to the green zone.

NELI Nursery 📕

Our story this week is Pip and Posy – The New Friend. Today our special word was “collect” so the children went into the garden with a checklist to collect particular items and put them inside their bag.

A Trip To Acorn Farm 🐷🐴🐓

Nursery went on a special trip to Acorn Farm to see a range of different farm animals, to learn new things about the animals and see where they live. The children enjoyed watching the adults feed some of the animals and for some children this was their first time experiencing visiting the farm which they found really exciting.

Maths in Nursery 🥛

In Maths we have been learning about full, half full and empty. During this activity the children used their fingers or a cotton stick in the paint to display a “full”, “half full” and “empty” jar, The children understood the concept and used the correct language throughout this activity to show a clear understanding.

NELI Story 📚

The children have been reading a story called “Pip and Posy – The New Friend”. The story is set at the beach so we explored what types of things we might see at the beach. The children used a magnifying class to look closely.

Fun in the Mud Kitchen

This week, our mud kitchen was a hive of activity as the children made pancakes, ice-creams and magic potions in the sunshine. We also overheard some of our special words from Maths and NELI this week where the children discussed heavy and light.

Bug Hunting in the Garden

Nursery have enjoyed observing caterpillars, spiders and bees in the garden. They used magnifying glasses and screens to take a closer look.

Measuring Height in Maths.

In Nursery the children have been learning how to measure height, in a group we used wooden blocks to measure how tall the children are. The children then began to use this knowledge into their play and make their own towers using the language taller and shorter.

Stay and Play with our families 🎨 🧩

Our families joined us to play, we explored the nursery and the children were able to show their families what new things they have learnt and currently learning about.

Cinderella

Nursery have been reading ‘Cinderella’ this week. The children have enjoyed making a carriage, writing invitations to the ball and creating magic wands 🪄✨.

Mini Beast Hunting

This morning a number of children decided to go on a mini beast hunt. They looked under logs, branches and leaves to see if they could find any of the mini beasts on their checklists and they were pleased to find lots of signs of life in the garden!

The Squirrels who Squabbled

The children listened to the story, The Squirrels who Squabbled. We noticed what happened when Cyril and Bruce argued over a nut they got into all kinds of trouble. We discussed being kind to each other and how important it is to share. We spoke about the things we can share with our friends and families in school and at home.

Mystery Reader

A big thank you to one of our Nursery and Y1 parents, who surprised the children this afternoon as our Mystery Guest Reader. He read two wonderful books, singing songs and putting on different voices for the characters.

Thank you for your time, the children loved it!

Mystery Guest Reader 📕

The children enjoyed being read to by a mystery guest reader.

Maths activities in Nursery 🔢

The children are showing a great level of understanding with their counting and recognising numbers. During this activity, the children independently counted the correct amount of flowers and glued it to the correct number plant pot.

PE in Nursery 🤸🏻‍♂️

This week we got the opportunity to explore the balancing and climbing apparatus, the children showed confidence and resilience.

Our Trip to the Aquarium 🐠

Today we visited the Aquarium inside the Museum to further explore our under the sea topic, the children were able to first hand see different types of fish and sea creatures.

The “Same”

In Nursery we’ve been focusing on the word “same”, the children have enjoyed playing and matching the same and not the same items around our classroom independently and adult-led.

Balancing in PE.

In PE we utilised the benches to practice our balancing skills.

Maps 🗺

The children enjoyed looking at a Map of Liverpool, we looked around our school and tried to navigate areas that we may recognise or have visited before.

Diversity Day

During diversity day Nursery discussed the different emotions we can feel. We looked at some images of emotions and spoke about what makes us feel happy, sad, angry etc. Nursery then used a variety of different resources to create faces with different emotions.

Kind 📕

We read a story called “Kind”, the children completing a sorting activity highlighting what actions are kind or unkind.

Whatever Next 📕

This week we created our own story map for “Whatever Next”.

Maths in Nursery

In maths we practised sending repeating patterns of balls along the gutters.

Trip to the Pumpkin Patch 🎃

We had a fantastic time visiting the Pumpkin Patch, we enjoyed exploring the big open field looking for different sized and coloured Pumpkins.

Oliver’s Vegetables

This week we have been reading Oliver’s Vegetables, we discussed what vegetables we already know and some new. To find out wether the children liked or disliked the vegetables we did a taste test.

Music in Nursery 🎶

We love playing and listening to music in Nursery with Mrs Grindley.

PE in Nursery

We enjoyed learning how to balance a bean bag on our bodies whilst travelling.

Diversity Day in Nursery – Autumn 1

In Nursery we read the story “The Colour Monster Goes to School”.

We discussed a range of emotions, the children described how they feel and created their own monsters.

Acorn Farm 2024

Nursery had a wonderful visit to Acorn Farm, building upon our Understanding of animals and the natural world

Spring has sprung

Great to see our nursery children exploring seasonal change, and enjoying themselves in our wonderful outdoor environment

Exploring Seasonal Change

Our EYFS garden looked like a Winter Wonderland this morning so we couldn’t resist the opportunity to explore seasonal changes to our environment………… and to have some fun ? ❄️ ⛄️

A Special Visitor

We had a very special visitor in school on party day, every class had the opportunity to visit the grotto and they left with some gifts.

Diversity Day – Marvellous Me

Today, we celebrated Diversity Day. In Nursery we read a wonderful book called “Marvellous Me”. This text allowed our children to consider how they’re different from their classmates, but how each of them are Marvellous in their own unique way.