People Who Help Us
As part of their topic, ‘People Who Help Us’, the Nursery children were very fortunate to have a visit from Nurse Justine. She talked to us about her role as a Nurse and showed us how to take our pulses. The children had great fun practising their bandaging skills!.

 Nursery School celebrates Diwali
On Tuesday, the Nursery children received a visit from Mrs Nila Patel, who told the children the story of Rama and Sita. This was part of their celebrations for Diwali, the Festival of Lights.
Afterwards they tried on Indian saris and beautiful jewellery. Nila kindly brought the children bangles which they could take home. Later in the day the children made some Indian sweets to share with their families.

Ahoy Shipmates
As part of our transport topic the Nursery children and staff turned themselves into Pirates for the day last Friday. 

The excitement had been building all week as the children made pirate hats and treasure maps.  We all had great fun “frightening” the rest of the school before setting off with our maps to find the buried treasure. 

After much digging in the sand and mud we finally discovered the treasure chest, which was filled with pieces of eight, necklaces and sweeties!

Creepy Crawlies
Creepy Crawlies were the order of the day when Zoolab visited the Nursery and Reception class.  The children learnt about animals that hibernate and life cycles. 

There was great excitement as boxes were opened and a variety of insects and animals were shown.

All the children were invited to touch or hold the animals. Dave, the giant land snail and Ka the corn snake proved popular. We learnt how some animals shed their skins.


Charlotte the tarantula stayed in her cage but we were able to look at her and the skin she shed last year. By far, everyone’s favourite was Daisy, a very friendly pet rat. She finished the show by performing a leap in air from her handler’s hand to her cage.  The children were very well behaved and much braver than their teachers!

Jo Jingles

Amanda Davies kindly revisited the Nursery on Friday, with another fun filled ‘Jo Jingles’ music and movement session. 

Amanda enhanced our current Noah’s Art topic with many weather and animal related songs and activities.  We all helped ‘Noah’ to build the Ark in one game and enjoyed crashing our cymbals together rhythmically in another. 

To simulate an underwater scene lots of bubbles were blown over us as we lay on our backs thinking about tropical fish in coral caves!  What a wonderful morning.