Blog by Tag: Early Years

This week nursery have been learning about how families celebrate Diwali and have been making our own Diva lamp pots.

We have made an excellent start to our new topic this week; Seasons and Celebrations! We shared our experiences of bonfire night and talked about the sounds, sights and smells during the celebrations. We learnt a little bit about Guy Fawkes and who he was. We discussed how he is a British…

Don’t we all look brilliant in our costumes?! We have had a very busy and exciting day today. We have made potions, spells and magic wands. We also wrote our own spooky spells and enjoyed finding rhyming words in the yucky goblin snot rhyming pot! We listened well to the story of Room on the…

In reception, we have talked lots about the people in our community who can help us. We have had visits from April, who works for the police and Mark and crew from the fire service. They all told us about their jobs and how they help people. They showed us their special uniforms, their equipment…

Today we were visited by Mike and Jamie who are paramedics. They told us about how they help people. We looked around their ambulance and they showed us the special equipment they use to help make people better. We listened to the loud sirens and talked about what we should do in an emergency.…

We had a great day yesterday making vegetable pizzas! After learning about how vegetables and fruits grow, we were keen to give some of them a try. We read Oliver’s Vegetables and discussed the different places that vegetables can be grown. Our pizzas tasted pretty good and we have really improved…

What a fantastic way to finish off our Minibeasts topic! Laura from Animals UK introduced us to some of her creepy crawly friends including an African millipede, a stick insect and Charlotte the tarantula. Laura told us lots of interesting facts about the animals and we also got to look at them…