Nursery Dolphins 2024-2025

Please call our school office (01788 575328) or email admin2415@welearn365.com to discuss our Nursery and to register your child.

Miss Merrick, Mrs McCracken and Mrs Ryan would like to welcome you to the Nursery webpage. 

November 

 What a busy month November has been in Nursery! Our topic has been all about transport and our key texts have been 'The Train Ride', and, 'It's a Marmalade Jam', where we looked closely at rhyming words from the story and had a go at creating our own rhyming train. The children have enjoyed learning all about the different types of vehicles there are and discussing which ones they have been in before and which ones are their favourites.  Nursery have also liked designing their own train tracks using various construction and also playing with the small world trains and tracks. We also looked at emergency vehicles and what these vehicles are used for and made our own fire engines using paper plates. 

Alongside our transport topic, we have also taken part in activities linked to Children in Need, Diwali, Bonfire night, Remembrance day and Anti- bullying day. We have continued with our Ten Town learning of numbers up to 7 so far and have also been very busy practicing our Christmas songs ready for the Nativity. 

 Please can we ask for all items of clothing to be named, including hats, scarfs and gloves, as now the cold weather is upon us the children have lots of different items of clothing in school and it makes it easier and quicker for staff to identify which items belong to each child. 

Here is some of our November learning: 

October

 What a fantastic few weeks we have had in Nursery. We are so proud of how well the children have settled in and adjusted to Nursery routines. The children have been learning about themselves and others in our 'All about me' topic, where they have looked at themselves closely in mirrors and painted their self portraits (which look great on our display!)  drawn around their bodies and helped to label what body parts we have, discussed our likes and dislikes and how we are all different, and learning all about emotions. We have started dough disco, where the children each day will have an opportunity to manipulate dough to music in order to develop their gross and fine motor skills. 

During October, our topic will be Autumn/Bears, where alongside taking part in lots of lovely Autumn themed activities, we will also have a focus in literacy on the key texts, 'We're going on a bear hunt' and 'Owl Babies'. We will also be going on our very own teddy bears picnic where the children will be invited to bring in their favourite teddy from home (more information to follow!) We will also be starting to learn numbers and practice our counting skills through our Maths programme Ten Town, where the children learn numbers through stories and songs. 

Can we just remind parents to name every item of clothing (including shoes) please, so it is easy for us to identify clothing when the children take things off.

Here are some photos of how busy we have been so far in Nursery. 

September

 The Nursery staff have really enjoyed meeting all the wonderful families and children who will be joining us in Dolphin's class this year. Over the next few weeks, the focus will be on settling the children in to Nursery life gradually and for the children to become familiar with a new classroom and new routines. They will be busy exploring all the learning areas we have both indoors and outdoors and forming relationships with their peers and adults. 

You will be provided with login details for Evidence Me where we will keep you updated with your child's learning throughout the year and also to keep you updated with any news or information you need to know. 

Please can you provide your child with a pair of named welly boots in school as they will be outdoors in all weathers, in areas such as the mud kitchen! Please ensure that your child has spare clothes in their bags each day and also ensure that every item of clothing is named so we can make sure everything is given back to the children.

We are very excited to get to know the children even better over the coming weeks!