Nursery

Welcome to Nursery!

Teachers:

– Mrs Ward- Monday Tuesday Wednesday (Beginning of the Week)

Email: Nbeginning@parkspringprimary.co.uk

– Mrs Martin – Wednesday Thursday Friday (End of the Week)

Email: Nend@parkspringprimary.co.uk

Nursery Officer:

Mrs Jones

Teaching Assistants:

Miss Smith

Mrs Lawton

Important information

Good choices

We reward good choices in Nursery by collecting Dojo points. Every time we collect 25 Dojo points we get a certificate and a prize! We also highlight positives in class by ringing the Good News bell to share children’s good choices with the class.

‘Borrow a Bedtime Book’:

We love reading stories in Nursery! We would love you to borrow some of our Library Books to take home and share at bed time as a family.

Beginning of the Week’s Library day is on Monday and the End of the Week’s Library day is on Thursday, thank you.

Tapestry:

We share observations of your children with you via the Tapestry App. We ask that you also share photo’s with us – the children love it when they see themselves on the screen when we share the pictures from home in class!

Useful links

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/numberblocks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks

2024-2025

Autumn 2 2024

Week 3

This week we have had SNOW!!! HOORAY! We had snow much fun playing outside together.

The children have also been keen to make more Barrys! They have really engaged with the Sue Hendra stories and have been wanting an adult to read them throughout the day.

We have been really looking after the creative area well, remembering to only use a little bit of paint and then get more if we need it. Such amazing independent and friendly playing, well done.

Hallie and Niamh have got their SECOND certificate for 25 Dojos! WOW! The rest of the children are not far off theirs either.

We really enjoyed sharing Jessica’s photos on Tapestry this week too and she was delighted to chat to us all – thank you! Please try and remember to send these in each week, thanks.

Week 2

It was Remembrance Day on Monday and we respectfully talked about the soldiers that have fought for us. We made our own poppy bracelets by carefully ripping red and black paper as a reminder of what the soldiers have done for us. We also watched the Poppies clip on Cbeebies as we held our 2 minute silence.

Poppies – CBeebies

We have also been enjoying the Sue Hendra story, Barry the Fish with Fingers. Have a look at some of the amazing fish – with – fingers creations that we have made this week…

Week 1

It has been lovely to see the children back after the holidays and to hear all about the different things we did during our holidays! Henry, Liwia, Jaylen and Hallie enjoyed standing up in front of the class this week to share their holiday photos on Tapestry – thank you so much for sending them in for us to see.

We talked about Bonfire safety on Tuesday and enjoyed having our own Bonfire in the wild woodland. We learnt how to stay safe near the fire and enjoyed eating the popcorn that Mrs Ward and Mrs Jones made – it sounded like popping fireworks as it was cooking! We then made our own (safe) sparklers by pushing ‘firey’ coloured leaves onto the end of sticks that we collected. We also made firework explosions with the leaves. Mrs Jones and Miss Smith helped us to have a go with our very own sparklers later in the day. We learnt how to safely leave fires and sparklers when we have finished with them so that the don’t burn any one or relight and start another fire – can you remember what we have to do?

AUTUMN 2 INFO:

Autumn 2 Author of the Half Term – Sue Hendra

Autumn 2 Class Reader – Dear Santa (By Rod Campbell)

Autumn 2 Songs to Master – ‘Wind the Bobbin Up’ and ‘The Wheels on the Bus’

You could enjoy these songs together at home (we sing slightly different versions in class. We sing ‘all day long’ when singing The Wheels on the Bus and we sing ‘wind it back again’ after ‘wind the bobbin up’, rather than as a separate verse):

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/songs-and-rhymes/wind-the-bobbin-up

https://www.google.com/search?q=british+council+wheels+on+the+bus&rlz=1C1GCEU_en-GBGB958GB960&oq=britishcouncil+whee&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgBEAAYDRiABDIGCAAQRRg5MgkIARAAGA0YgAQyCAgCEAAYFhgeMg0IAxAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0IBBAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0IBRAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMgoIBhAAGIAEGKIEMgYIBxBFGDzSAQg1NjE2ajBqN6gCCLACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Autumn 1 2024

Week 8

This week has been all about our Author of the Half-Term, JULIA DONALDSON.

We have particularly been enjoying the story of Room on the Broom…so much so that we decided to dress up as the characters from the story for the day! Nursery was full of witches, cats, dragons and even cat-spiders! We made our own stripy wands, just like the witches.

We also made a massive broomstick that catered for all our needs (it had a fridge and a toilet!).

The children really perfected their face painting skills on this day…..

The witch from Room on the Broom told us that her favourite animals are owls. She kindly invited us to meet her woodland owl friends at school and a lovely lady called Katie brought them to see us. We were so excited to meet them and many of the children were keen to ask questions. We all bravely went close to them too, some of us even held the owls with the special glove.

If you have enjoyed hearing stories by Julia Donaldson, then here are some more Julia Donaldson stories for you to enjoy at home:

Mrs Ward reading the Gruffalo

Miss Ward Zog

Week 7

We have been loving the story ‘Come on Daisy’ for the past few weeks.

We have introduced widget cards to help support our understanding of new vocabulary and these have been really well used by the children.

We made our own dragonflies and ducks

Week 6

This week, in Phonics, we have been exploring the noises that we can make by patting objects with our hands and sticks! We went into the wild woods to explore the exciting noises we could make there…

Our Dojo monsters (who help us collect points when we make good choices) have finally hatched out of their eggs and because there have been so many positive choices happening in Nursery, lots of children have received their Dojo prizes for getting 25 Dojo points! Wow!! We have also had a treat ( going on the Adventure Playground) for working as a team to tidy up AND we have had lots of names on the recognition board for sitting on the carpet when asked. WELL DONE EVERYONE!

Weeks 4 and 5

Most children have started their exciting journey in Nursery now, so we have begun to settle into Nursery life……..

We have started our Dough Disco sessions and our White Rose Maths and yesterday we went on a Listening Walk around the school grounds. We heard birds, cars and even a helicopter. The children all had their ears switched on and could talk about their surroundings. Well done Nursery

Weeks 2 and 3

My, my what a hectic and exciting time in Nursery !!!!

We have had numerous new starters who have been exploring all of nursery, both inside and out and of course we had our very special celebration of 60 years of Park Spring !!

In maths we have been looking at fewer and more than, following the White Rose Maths scheme and our Class Reader has been ‘Come on, Daisy!’ by Jane Simmons. All children have made a very positive and happy to start to Nursery !

Week 1

Welcome back to Nursery !!!

We hope you had a lovely Summer and are looking forward to the new and exciting adventures that we are going to be having in Nursery.

We have home visits and new starters galore so the returning children have been great ambassadors and are steering the new children in the right direction.

We will keep you posted with all our exciting news and cant wait to see your happy smiling faces.