This week in Nursery we have been learning all about Bonfire Night, why we celebrate it, and the different things we can do to celebrate this event. Our main story this week has been ‘Sparks in the Sky’. The story is all about a child’s experience of bonfire night, and what they saw. The story allo
With Halloween being in the half term we decided to celebrate Halloween this week to get us excited for our half term. When looking at Halloween we have based this around the stories of ‘What’s in the Witch’s Kitchen?’, ‘Funny Bones’ and ‘Spinderella’. We have discussed what Hallowe
Today the new Rights Respect Officers gathered for their first meeting of the academic year. We discussed World Food Day and looked at the vast amount of donations displayed in the main office. We had a visit from one of the volunteers, Keith, who works at The People’s Kitchen. He shared lots of i
In the summer our lovely willow hens had a revamp, and are looking splendid in their new outfits. Now our firepit has had a make over too, thanks to our talented friends at Sylvan Skills. The old willow fencing has been replaced with hazel to make a more robust screen from the elements. Our nature g
Nursery visited our Forest School today to look for signs of Autumn. Along the way they made some exciting discoveries, some small houses had appeared, strange holes in the ground, there were even some messages that looked like they were sent by fairies. The children went deep into the undergrowth t
The children have taken an interest in the leaves outside and the colours, therefore we have looked at ‘autumn and harvest’ this week, which linked into our theme of ‘My World and Me’. When looking at autumn and harvest we have based this around the stories of ‘Leaf Man’ and ‘Vegetable
Friday 16th October is World Food Day. World Food Day is a day of action against hunger because when it comes to hunger, the only acceptable number in the world is zero. World Food Day celebrates the creation of the Food and Agriculture Organisations of the United Nations. As Harlow Green is Silver
In Nursery we plan around ‘children’s interests’ as well as a topic, however the children had a big interest in talking about their families and themselves which linked into our theme of ‘My World and Me’. We have had a week discussing ‘families’ and based this around the stories of �
Our Nursery children have been reading Stick Man this week, to help them to learn about families. After reading the story they went outside into our Forest School with Miss Rowe and collected some good sticks. These were brought back to nursery to make into stick people which they could take home. A
This week at Nursery we have had a ‘birthday week’ looking at how old we are ‘I am3’ ‘I am 4’, how old we will be on our next birthday, and who is the oldest/youngest. We have celebrated birthday week by counting different numbers of candles onto cakes, making and decorating birthday cupcakes, p
