Nursery

50 Things is an exciting initiative that supports children’s learning at home. It is inspired by parents and carers with each activity developed by Early Years experts and language specialists to create a fabulous resource for families.

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This term we have been lucky enough to have a Mystery Guest visit us each week.

The mummies and daddies have kindly given up their time to talk to the children about the jobs they do, to tell them a story, share their cultures and beliefs or share their hobbies and interests.

The children have used these guest sessions to inspire their play. We have been paramedics, pop stars and chefs in role play, we have carried on exploring sculpture and making models at our creative table, using new words learnt in our play and we have acted out stories shared with us.

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Mark making and Literacy

Literacy elements can be found across of areas of our curriculum and in many of the activities and areas in our Nursery environment, both indoors and out. At the beginning of the academic year, a focus is placed on early marking, listening skills and developing communication skills. As the year moves on we begin exploring phonics through games and activities that include elements of ‘Read, Write, Inc’ (the phonics programme used in the main school).

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Maths in Nursery

Maths can be found across of areas of our curriculum and in many of the activities and areas in our Nursery environment, both indoors and out.

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Numbers through rhyme

Shapes around us

Being Creative in Nursery

In Nursery we love to explore the mark making table, the craft area and use the painting easels.

Children are encouraged to plan out ideas, select resources and adapt their work to achieve their desired outcomes, all independently. We love to see how children take the skills we teach and come up with their own creative ideas.

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Out and About in Nursery

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To celebrate Book Day this year in Nursery we explored Judith Kerr's book 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea'.

The children explored all things tiger related. We used non-fiction texts to find out about real tigers and we shared other stories about tigers.

Children painted tigers, used Kerr's story to inspire they own writing, played with all things orange and a host more activities.

We also had our own tea party, I wonder if a tiger came to our class?

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This term began with a visit from Jack Frost, the children arrived to find he had turned our room blue and white, as well as freezing our pencils, scissors and toys in ice that we had to try and free.

Over the next few weeks we will discover how ice is formed, go out around our school to find the cold, speak about the weather in Cheshunt and made comparisons to other countries, explore winter science experiments and learn how to keep warm and safe in winter.

This term we also celebrated Story Telling Week. We based our learning around Eve Sutton's book 'My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes'. We celebrated our love of books in Nursery by using this book as a basis for all our activities. We were also joined by other teachers from Flamstead End who shared favourite stories with us, year 6 children came to read to us and Mrs Nicolaou read 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' to us in Greek.

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AUTUMN

In Nursery we love to explore the seasons and find out what is happening around us. We used 'Autumn' to support a variety of our curriculum objectives.

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SUPERTATO

The children loved hearing stories from the ‘Supertato’ series. We used the stories as inspiration for some of our learning. We explored making traps for the Evil Pea, we saved veggies from his doom, we developed our fine motor control when saving mini peas from jelly using tweezers, we explored the concept of heavy and light with vegetables and we imagines ourselves being veggies from the story.

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THE GINGERBREAD MAN

The children have enjoyed listening to the story of the Gingerbread Man. The children explored all areas of our curriculum through the story, from making their own Gingerbread Men to finding ways to travel over 'water' in our PE time. They have gathered evidence on an ipad every time the Gingerbread escaped into the Nursery and retold the story in their own words using puppets and small world.

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PANTOMINE DAY

We were lucky enough to have Elfy, one of Father Christmas's elves visit Nursery. The children joined in songs and actions as they helped Elfy hunt for Father Christmas's key for his sleigh.

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The children in Nursery had a great day in the sunshine at our end of year Teddy Bears Picnic.

We were joined by the brilliant story teller, Vickie Holden-Swinton. We heard all about Bob - a bear who was supposed to be enjoying a picnic that did not go according to plan. We followed this with our own delicious picnic with our teddy bears.

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Images of our activities are available to view in our School Gallery. Click here to see more...

The children in Nursery and Preschool celebrated the Jubilee with their very own street party. Over two weeks the children learnt all about London and compared it to Cheshunt. They learnt about why we were celebrating this historic day and made many decorations to help us celebrate and remind us of the day.

We even had a visit from the Queen!

Click here to see more photos in the Jubilee 2022 gallery.