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Hugo Meynell

CofE (VC) Primary School

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Nursery

Key information for parents:

  • Nursery children are greeted at the wooden door by our Nursery cloakroom at 8.50am.
  • The morning session starts at 8:50am and finishes at 11:50am.
  • The afternoon sessions starts at 12:10pm and finishes at 3:10pm.

 

Mrs Vaughan, Mrs Williams and Miss Lawton look forward to seeing you in Nursery.

 

                        Autumn Term 2024

 

 

Friday 25th October 2024

What a fantastic start to the academic year. The first half term in nursery has flown by . We have been so busy but have had lots of fun. The children have all settled in so well and are getting to grips with the daily routines. During our busy half term we have joined in some whole school events and this week we joined in thinking about Diwali and all worked together to create a whole class Rangoli to display in school. 
We have enjoyed using our amazing new outside area and our new equipment. The special surface means we have been able to access the area safely come rain or shine. 

Friday 11th October 2024

This week we celebrated World Mental Health Day. Even though we are very young it’s important to talk about how we feel. We approach the subject using stories and we particularly like The Colour Monster. All his emotions are mixed up and a friend helps him to sort his feelings into colours. Yellow stands for happiness so we decided to make yellow collages. By coincidence our snack for the day was yellow bananas which made us smile 😊.

Friday 4th October 2024

We have been inspired by our story Wow said the Owl this week. We painted amazing rainbow pictures to put up on the wall. Some children enjoyed making rainbow bubbles outside using big brushes, washing up liquid and different paint. We only had three colours but we managed to mix some beautiful colours. When we had finished brushing we rode the bikes and scooters through the bubbles, watching the tracks on the path. 
On Friday we went on a great big adventure looking for different leaves and signs of Autumn. We were patient as we waited to watch leaves fall off the trees, maybe we will try this again on a windy day.

 

Friday 27th September 2024 

It has been another very busy week in Nursery. We have continued to balance in lots of different ways. The children have created paths with the planks and the crates. Some of us made a train with the crates and went on a trip to the seaside, we even had tickets to show the conductor.

We have been playing with the conkers and looking closely at their spiky shells . At circle time and through stories we have been introducing different colours and we are starting to talk about our pets. 

Friday 20th September 2024

We are all loving our new outside area in the Early Years. Every day we are finding new ways to use the new space. We have been creating different buildings, moving in different ways using the equipment to balance and scoot along. The children have worked together and helped each other as they negotiate the space. We are going to have so much fun and can’t wait to see where our adventure will take us.

Friday 13th September 2024

Our first full week in Nursery has flown by. The children have started to get to grips with the creation station as they explore the whole range of possibilities available to them. They have been using the hole punch, collage pieces ,googly eyes and junk modelling boxes. Some of the children have been having fun creating an office with clipboards, keyboards and phones as they practise their writing. In the outdoor classroom the children have been balancing in different ways and making lots of drainpipe configurations for the balls . 

Friday 6th September 2024

What a great start to our new school year. The children have settled in well and are quickly learning the nursery routine. They have enjoyed exploring inside and outside, particularly enjoying our amazing new outdoor space. We are looking forward to a brilliant year together.

Friday 28th June 2024

We have watched our caterpillars change into Chrysalides this week. Now we have to wait and be patient. 
This week we found a snail in our garden and have been watching and observing it all week. What a fantastic treat today when Sid the Giant African Land Snail came to visit. Olivia told us all about his house and the different things he eats. Thank you to The Allen family for sharing Sid with us today.

Friday 21st June 2024

We have continued to watch and observe our wonderful caterpillars. As we have talked about the caterpillars getting bigger and longer,  we have introduced more mathematics. We have made long trucks, long snakes and lots of other long things with different equipment and have talked about the different lengths. The children have really been showing off their mathematical knowledge. Some children can say which objects are longer or shorter or which object is the longest or shorter. Some children can order several different objects from shortest to longest.
The children were treated to a Balance bike experience on Monday and since then we have been finding different ways to balance inside and outside our classroom. We have enjoyed building and balancing objects  in our classroom and have made some brilliant towers. What a busy week! 

Friday 14th June 2024

Caterpillar watch has started in Nursery. Our caterpillars arrived by post on Monday and we have been watching them every day. The children are keen to see if they have grown each day and have been using the magnifying glasses to have a closer look. 

Friday 7th June 2024

We have had a fantastic start to the second half of the Summer term. The children have settled back into our routines quickly. Lots of children went straight to the Creation Station on Monday morning , getting busy with the paint and glue. What a very busy week!

Friday 10th May 2024

We have had lots of fun getting outside in the nursery garden this week. The children have been building with the bricks and making their own dens and tents. Everyone has enjoyed playing with the water and drainpipes as they created waterfalls and tried collecting the water. 
Our circle activities have been all about “ Good listening “ and what this looks like. Our favourite listening game is Listen for your name. If you are doing good listening in the circle and the grown up spots you, they will call your name to pop the bubbles or catch the balloon. 

Friday 26th April 2024

We have had a jam packed week in Nursery. We all enjoyed a special visitor on Tuesday. Shellby  the Tortoise came to see us and we found out lots of interesting things. We now know that a tortoise is a herbivore and that they have sharp claws for digging. On Thursday we went for an impromptu bear hunt and on Friday we found a spider in the cloakroom and enjoyed watching it move and getting a closer look.
 

Friday 12th April 2024

We are off to a flying start in Nursery this week. We have had lots of fun exploring and experimenting for Science Week. Although our experiment didn’t quite go to plan we still enjoyed mixing powder paint and creating new colours from three primary colours. We have had discussions about old and new devices and thought about what happens to us as we get older. Do we keep growing? We are going to see if we are taller at the end of the summer term.

Friday 22nd March 2024

We have had an egg-cellent week in nursery. After starting the week discovering ladybirds in the garden we were keen to make our own ladybird creations.

The children enjoyed exploring in the mud kitchen and finding lots of worms.

Inside the children made their own shop and quickly organised their own queuing system for a turn with the till.

On Thursday we all enjoyed a whole class treat won by Myles. We tucked into toast and chocolate milkshake. There were more treats to follow when we went on an egg hunt.

We hope everyone has a wonderful Easter time.

 

Friday 15th March 2024

Today we came to school in our own clothes, made fantastic red collage pictures, made funny faces in the playdough and enjoyed some delicious hot buttered toast for snack. We raised lots of money for Comic Relief / Red Nose Day 2024. 

Friday 8th March 2024

In nursery this week we painted daffodils for a special grown up. The children impressed us with their painting skills. 
All week we celebrated reading, stories and books. We had ten special books all wrapped up and delivered to the classroom. Each day we opened them and enjoyed new stories by our favourite authors or some of our favourite books. We read stories about mummies too.

Although we have been celebrating reading all week, we enjoyed joining the whole school for some World Book Day fun on Thursday. We had a picture hunt outside and also enjoyed guessing the teachers book on the big screen. 

Friday 1st March 2024

This week in Nursery we have been taking turns and sharing. We might have been sharing the marbles in the marble run or taking a turn with the click clack track. Some children have enjoyed taking their turn washing the babies in the water tray. A few children built a rocket and blasted off to the moon but the rocket couldn’t fit everyone in so we had to be patient and wait for our turn.  At circle time we waited patiently for our turn on the balance beam. During free play we had to line up on the shapes and remember to go to the back of the line if we wanted to have a turn. The children quickly got the hang of this. 

Friday 23rd February 2024

The children have been super creative in nursery this week. From different creations using pens, paints, playdough and scissors to making their own ice cream shop. Outside there was lots of role play and another ice cream shop using the very large cones, for the aliens in their game . The children have really used their imaginations in lots of different ways.

Friday 2nd and 9th February 2024

What  a brilliant half term we have had in Nursery. We have welcomed new children into our classroom and they have all settled in so well. We are so proud of them and also our older children who have helped them settle in. They have shared their toys and helped our new friends learn our routines. There has been lots of building, creating and exploring both inside and outside. We hope everyone has a restful half term break it is certainly well deserved.