Foundation Stage

Our new topic is ‘Amazing Africa’

We have been learning lots of facts about Africa and the children were very excited to go on safari. 

Our Nursery children and staff would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas!

We are having lots of fun in reception getting ready for Christmas. We have been baking Christmas cookies, learning about why Christmas is a special time for Christians, taking part in lots of Christmas craft activities and we especially enjoyed our Polar Express day in our pyjamas. 

Christmas has landed, the children have been very busy taking part in Christmas activities.  We can’t wait to show you all the lovely things they have done. There may also be a few surprises in store for you too. 

We have blasted off into our Let’s Move topic. The children were excited to find their very own maths rocket and p p p pirate Pete’s ship in the classroom. Take a look at all the exciting things we have been doing this week. 

This week we have been discussing journeys we have been on and the places we travel. We have drawn the places that we go to on a map of our area. We enjoyed reading The Naughty Bus and have talked about the different ways that we can travel. We have been role-playing in our new red bus and using…

This week we have been learning to use positional language and follow positional language directions. We had fun playing the beanbag game. We listened carefully to the directions and placed the beanbags in the right positions. We then took turns to give and follow positional language instructions.…

We have been very busy in nursery this week. We have started exploring our new topic ‘Let’s Move’ where we began to talk about different types of transport. We made our own vehicles using 2D shapes. 

This week we have introduced our ‘Chatty Chest’ which is a fun activity to promote…

We spent time discussing Remembrance Day. We held a minute silence and took part in our own poppy factory. 

The children enjoyed a fun filled Room on the Broom activity week. We acted out the story in our role play area, explored rhyming words and loved finding the spooky objects in the slime. 

We have all had lots of fun this week learning about spiders. We learnt lots of facts and went on a spider hunt. The children were excited to make their own spider biscuits, showing good maths skills counting all the legs. 

We had lots of fun at exploring Forest School. We also listened carefully to the sounds we could hear around us. 

Mrs Augusta had a problem finding a matching pair of wellies, maybe the Dojo monsters are playing a trick.