Nursery

A warm welcome to the St Clare's Nursery Webpage. Here you can explore all the wonderful and exciting learning we are doing in nursery and browse our photo galleries to experience some of the activities we have been involved with.

Here is our Long term overview including some of the wonderful things we will be experiencing in nursery this year:

Autumn 1: Super Me, Super You

Our topic for Autumn Term 1 is "Super Me, Super You!"  We will be learning all about ourselves and the amazing people around us. 

RE: God Created Us! 

In RE, we have been learning about the Creation Story. Today, we discovered that God created all people, and when He saw what He had made, He saw that it was good.
We then drew self-portraits to show that we are part of God’s family and that God loves each one of us!

Music:

Last Friday, we all enjoyed experiencing musical instruments. We talked about them - their name and how we use them. Then, we made lots of noise playing them whilst singing along to some nursery rhymes. At times, we also played them quietly.

Maths: Matching

This week we have been learning about matching. We learnt that a ‘match’ means that they are the ‘same’. Today we had a very fun time taking one of our shoes off and finding our matching shoe. We walked around the circle and when the music stopped we had to find our shoe and say, “It’s a match”. Well done everyone! 

Fruit Kebabs:

We have had so much fun making fruit kebabs using pineapple, watermelon, peaches and bananas! We talked about them being good for us and we know that fruit is healthy because it they have lots of vitamins inside. 

We're Going on a leaf Hunt: 

This week we have been reading the story, “We’re going a leaf hunt”. We have been learning all about the season Autumn and the changes we see outside e.g. the leaves changing colour, the leaves falling off the trees, the weather getting colder, the days getting shorter and the nights get longer. We also learnt about Hedgehogs and hibernation.

Today we went on a leaf hunt, collecting lots of different leaves. We then used these leaves to create our own Hedgehog collage.

We even gave our Hedgehogs names:
Mr Hedgehog
Spiky
Daisy 

Dentist Visit: 

This morning, we had a special visitor from the Oral Health Improvement Team, a lady called Pauline. She talked to us about how we can look after our teeth and why it is important. We talked about foods that are good and bad for our teeth and we learnt how to clean our teeth properly. To help look after our teeth, we are going to start brushing our teeth after lunch every day in school.

Fizzy Programme:

In Nursery, we take part in something called The Fizzy Programme, which includes lots of fun activities to help strengthen our gross motor skills. Today’s activity was jumping across the stepping stones! This linked perfectly with our story We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt — we pretended to use the stepping stones to make our way around the waterfall 

Indoor Learning:

This week we have had lots of fun within our continuous provision!

For fine motor we threaded the pipe cleaners through the colander????

In the water tray we used the nets to catch the ducks and we emptied and filled the containers????

In the painting area we used the paint and cotton buds to create our own autumn leaves ????

In the maths area we sorted the people into big and small. Some children even managed to match some of the people up and say, “It’s a match”✨

In the investigation area we were being Lego Detectives. We used the magnifying glasses to match the Lego to the pictures????????????‍♂️

In the play dough area we made some different shapes using the cutters????????????

We have had so much fun!

Library Visit: 

We listened to stories in our school library, sitting comfortably on beanbags, sofas and chairs.

Autumn 2: My 5 Senses

Our topic for Autumn Term 2 is "My 5 Senses!". We will be learning all about our 5 senses and also celebrations.