Nursery Team: Mrs D Grayson (Class Teacher): Blog items
Date: 16th Oct 2025 @ 4:19pm
What a fabulous week! Each day this week has brought something special – whether through play, reflection, or family!
This week our learning has been rich with stories of inspiration, invention, and imagination as we joined in with Black History Month.
We began learning about Garrett Morgan, an incredible inventor whose ideas helped make the world a safer place. We read the book, ‘Saving the Day’, that told the story of how Garrett created one of the first traffic lights. The children were fascinated to discover how he gained this inspiration and how his invention helped keep people safe on the roads.
This sparked some wonderful play and creative thinking. The children used traffic lights in their small world play, practising road safety. Outside we took a step further by making a large-scale traffic light, which became a key feature in our outdoor space. It was fantastic to see the children using it to ensure our traffic (ride-on vehicles) moved around safely and followed the coloured signals – just like real traffic lights!
We even brought our traffic light learning into PE, where the children played the Traffic Light Game – listening and looking for red, yellow, or green commands and moving accordingly. This was not only great fun but also supported their co-ordination, reaction time and listening skills.
We have also learned about Baroness Floella Benjamin, and read her powerful story ‘Coming to England’. This thoughtful book opened up conversations about kindness, fairness, family, and the experience of moving to a new place; together with how we can help others feel welcome, included, and loved.
In Maths, we continued to explore grouping objects to match a set ‘rule’ – developing our thinking further by creating our own rules! This encourages the children to notice patterns, apply logical thinking, and deepen early understanding of sorting and classifying.
In our Early Listening work, we identified sounds and paused to ponder what they might mean – a lovely way to develop both listening and thinking skills in a playful and reflective way.
As Autumn continues to unfold, we have added many of our treasures from home into our classroom learning, from using them in Maths, to completing observational drawings. This week, we also used apples to make apple crumble balls – a delicious hands-on experience where the children showed great focus and care as they peeled and cut. These types of activities not only build fine motor skills but also promote independence, confidence and responsibility.
Thursday, we welcomed Caroline from St Peter's Church for this year’s first Godly Play where the children enjoyed an enlivened story of ‘The Creation’.
We’ve continued to celebrate the growing friendships and independence developing across the class. It’s been such a joy to see the children supporting each other, trying new things, and growing in confidence.
Our ‘Stay and Play’ sessions have also been a highlight – and we hope you’ve enjoyed them just as much as we’ve loved welcoming you! It’s always a pleasure to share our space and learning with you and we look forward to welcoming more families next week!
Thank you, as always, for your support and for sharing in these special moments. Wishing you all a restful and happy weekend – maybe with a little apple crumble on the side!
Warm wishes,
Mrs Grayson and the Nursery Team.
Dates for the diary: -
Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st October – Nursery Stay and Play Sessions
Friday 24th October – Alder Hey PJ Day
Friday 24th October – Finish for Half-Term
Wednesday 5th November – Team TSP Community Firework Display
Date: 9th Oct 2025 @ 3:59pm
A Week of Autumn Adventures, Active Learning and Happy Hearts!
We’ve had another rich and joyful week, filled with seasonal exploration, creative learning, and moments of reflection.
We began with a lively PE session, where the children played an autumn-themed movement game. They needed to navigate their vehicles whilst practising safe movement and controlled stopping as they encountered seasonal obstacles such as conkers and hedgehogs. These playful challenges support the development of co-ordination, spatial awareness, control and listening skills while embracing the spirit of the season.
Our Autumn learning continued with a special focus on conkers! The children were fascinated to discover that conkers can be used to make soap. Using a pestle and mortar, they pounded the conkers and helped create our very own conker soap. It was wonderfully tactile and exciting experience that sparked lots of curiosity.
In Forest School, we played “1, 2, 3, Where Are You?” — a forest-style twist on hide and seek that brought laughter and excitement. The children loved exploring the outdoor space, calling out to their friends, and practicing their listening and teamwork skills in nature.
In Maths, we’ve been exploring the concept of groups. The children have been sorting objects and looked closely to spot ‘the rule’, as well as recognising when something does not belong. These early sorting activities build the foundation for logical thinking, problem solving and developing their early reasoning and classification skills in a fun and interactive way.
In our Early Listening and Sound Work, the children have been showing great awareness of sound. They’ve enjoyed games such as 'Mrs Grayson Has a Box', 'Describe It and Find It', and a seasonal twist on I Spy, where they used descriptive clues to identify objects. These activities have helped tune their ears to the world around them and build important listening and language skills.
Our focus book this week was ‘Farmer Duck’ by Martin Waddell. Through this story, we explored the actions and feelings of both the duck and the farmer, and the importance of kindness and caring for others. Just like Jesus helped those who were tired or treated unfairly, the animals in the story came together to support the hardworking duck. We can follow Jesus’s example by being thoughtful and helping those in need – just like our SHINE friend, Cuddles.
We also had a delicious treat — we made our very own apple juice using apples from my garden! The children noticed the red skins and described it as “Autumn juice” — and it certainly was very tasty!
We continue to take part in our weekly classroom chores, and this week during playdough making, the children chose yellow as our colour — inspired by the Yellow Colour Monster, which represents happiness.
To end our week, we celebrated 'Hello Yellow Day'. As a whole school we created cheerful bunting filled with pictures and patterns that make us feel happy, with the hope of brightening someone else’s day. In class, we made a large-scale smiley face using items from our outdoor environment and shared things that make us feel happy — a beautiful way to celebrate positivity and emotional wellbeing.
Thank you for your continued support and for sharing in these special moments with us. Wishing you a bright and happy weekend — and maybe a glass of “Autumn juice” to go with it!
Warm wishes,
Mrs Grayson and the Nursery team
Dates for the diary: -
Monday 13th – Tuesday 21st October – Nursery Stay and Play Sessions
Friday 24th October – Alder Hey PJ Day
Friday 24th October – Finish for Half-Term
Reminders for this half term: -
Please could you support your child at home in being independent when putting on their coat, shoes and wellies.
Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 7:59am
What a fantastic and fun-filled week we have had in Nursery!
We have continued to explore the classic tale of ‘The Little Red Hen’, which the children have absolutely adored. We revisited the importance of teamwork and how it’s okay to do things independently when help isn’t offered – just like the Little Red Hen from the story. To celebrate the tale, we had a very special moment during our first WOW service in Church with a focus on Harvest, where the children confidently acted out the story and we all sang songs linked to Harvest and Autumn – the children sang beautifully ad we are so proud of each and every one of them for their enthusiasm and confidence!
As Autumn really starts to show its colours, we’ve been embracing the season in every area of our learning. In our Creative area, the children have loved creating Autumn trees by ripping brown paper to make the trunk and branches, and then use paint and their fingers to add leaves in rich Autumn colours. The results were beautiful and full of texture.
We’ve also enjoyed sharing Autumn collections brought in from walks and adventures with family – conkers, acorns and more! These treasures have sparked so much excitement and curiosity, and the children have had lots to say about what they had found.
Using some of these special items, we created Autumn faces, arranging natural materials to form eyes, noses, mouths and even a few wild hairstyles and bushy beards – it was such a fun and imaginative activity!
Over in Forest School, we joined forces with our friends in Reception to create Autumn tress in pairs, which we then used to decorate one of the site dens. The children showed wonderful collaboration as they worked together to create their masterpieces. We also learned more about our fire circle and the rules that help keep us safe, and we’re getting good at recognising our special ‘Forest School’ call!
In Maths, we’ve been busy exploring Numicon and practising our matching skills, sorting items and finding which ones are then same or not. This hands-on approach has really helped the children develop their early number sense in a fun and engaging way.
Within our Early Listening and Sound Work, the children took part in outdoor drumming activities, learning to listen carefully to different beats and sounds and identify sounds in nature and around them. It was a great way to tune into the world using our ears!
It’s been such a rich week full of Autumn discoveries, creativity, music and learning. A big thank you for continuing to support your child’s learning at home, especially by collecting and sharing Autumn treasures – we’ve loved seeing them!
Wishing you all a lovely weekend, and don’t forget to look out for signs of Autumn all around you on your family walks and you may wish to do a little bit of ‘stick drumming’ of your own!
Warm wishes,
Mrs Grayson and the Nursery Team
Dates for the diary: -
Thursday 2nd – 7th October – Scholastic Book Fair
Monday 13th – Tuesday 21st October – Nursery Stay and Play Sessions
Friday 24th October – Alder Hey PJ Day
Friday 24th October – Finish for Half-Term
Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 5:11pm
What a fun and busy week we have had in Nursery!
This week, we’ve been diving into the classic tale of ‘The Little Red Hen’! The children absolutely loved hearing about the hardworking hen and her friends. As we read the story, we talked about the importance of teamwork and sharing, and how sometimes it’s okay to do things by yourself if others aren’t ready to help.
To bring the story to life, we had a special bread-tasting session! After talking about how the Little Red Hen made the bread from scratch, the children were excited to try different types of bread and share their thoughts on the flavours. It was a tasty, hands-on way to connect with the story and explore our senses.
We’ve also started to notice the changes in the weather as Autumn begins to arrive. The children enjoyed talking about the signs of the new season – the cooler air, the falling leaves and changes in their colour. At our ‘Creative Area’, we explored autumnal fruits and vegetables by doing some vegetable and fruit printing! It was so much fun experimenting with different shapes and colours, creating beautiful textured prints.
In Maths, we’ve been using positional language, exploring terms such as, ‘on’, ‘under’, ‘next to’, and ‘between’. The children enjoyed using toys and objects to help demonstrate these concepts in fun, interactive ways.
And to top it all off, we had our very first ‘Forest School’ session! The children were so excited to explore the great outdoors, and showed exceptional conduct walking to and from School. We learnt all about our fire circle and the rules we needed to follow to keep us safe, particularly when entering and leaving the circle. We can now, also recognise and know what to do when we hear our ‘Forest School’ call! In exploring our site, the children enjoyed collecting leaves, and twigs, and learning all about nature. It was a wonderful way to embrace the Autumn season and get our hands dirty (in the best way possible)!
Thank you for another fantastic week of laughter, learning, and discovery. We can’t wait to see what next week brings!
Wishing you all a lovely weekend, and remember to keep an eye out for those Autumn leaves and treasures on your walks!
Warm wishes,
Mrs Grayson and the Nursery Team
Dates for the diary: -
Monday 29th September – Flu Immunisations
Wednesday 1st October – Harvest WOW service 2pm @St Peter’s Church
Thursday 2nd – 7th October – Scholastic Book Fair
Monday 13th – Tuesday 21st October – Nursery Stay and Play Sessions
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 8:21am
What a busy and exciting week we’ve had in Nursery!
On Monday, we celebrated International Dot Day. We arrived to find a surprise 'dotty' package and our classroom covered in colourful dots! Inside the package, we discovered a special book, a message, some paper, and – to everyone's delight – dot stickers! (We do love stickers!)
We read the inspiring story "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds and learned about Vashti, a little girl who thought she couldn’t draw. With encouragement from her teacher, Vashti found the courage to “just make a mark and see where it takes you” – and that one small dot sparked a wonderful creative journey.
We linked Vashti to our SHINE character Leo, who reminds us to be brave, have a go, and not give up. Leo has been helping us all week to understand our school values and follow Jesus' example of perseverance and kindness.
Throughout the week, the children have been making their mark in lots of creative ways – discovering that creativity is all about experimenting and trying new things. We've explored many fun dotty activities, and even had a go at singing The Dot Song together!
In maths, we focused on matching items by colour, pattern, and shape. The children were brilliant at helping sort Mr Grayson’s socks – such clever little problem-solvers!
As part of developing our early listening skills, we went on a listening walk and played a mystery sound game. The children loved guessing the sounds and thinking about what they might mean – many of them said they’d like to play the game at home too!
Even with the changing weather, we’ve made the most of our outdoor play – using our windy day toys and getting creative with brushes and bubbles in puddles!
Thank you for another wonderful week of fun, learning, and laughter.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend – and don’t forget to practice those smiles ready for photo day on Monday!
Warm wishes,
Mrs Grayson and the Nursery Team
Dates for the diary:
Monday 22nd September – Individual school photographs
Wednesday 24th September – Nursery Welcome Meeting @3.30pm
Monday 29th September – Flu Immunisations
Wednesday 1st October – Harvest WOW service 2pm @St Peter’s Church
Thursday 2nd – 7th October – Scholastic Book Fair
Nursery - Autumn Term 1 Week 2
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 5:07pm
What a 'colourful' week we have all had, as we focussed on the book, 'Elmer' by David McKee. In sharing the story we learnt that Elmer was a brightly coloured patchwork elephant - we had great fun naming all his colours! We discovered that Elmer lived with a herd of grey elephants and in attempting to look like the rest of the herd, he finally realised his friends loved him for who he is.
After creating our own 'Elmer', we compared our work, discovering they all looked different and beautiful. This made us realise that it's okay to be different, it's what makes us unique and shine brightly.
Tuesday, we found that our class bear 'Ted' had left us a book, 'Where's My Teddy' by Jez Alborough. Ted also needed our help! He had lost his little cuddly teddy bear! Reading the book, it helped us think about how Ted was feeling. We linked these feelings to our class 'Colour Monsters', giving each feeling a name. Luckily, Nursery are great detectives and managed to find Ted's bear super quick!
As our family photographs have been coming into class, we have spent time sharing them with our friends and talking about what a family is and who makes up our family.
I also, just wish to say how well the children are settling into school life and all the busyness that it can bring. They smashed their first PE lesson and are enjoying the responsibility of taking the class register to the office! Such big steps for little people!
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend and looking forward to seeing you on Monday.
Mrs Grayson and the Nursery Team.
Reminders for this half term:-
Please could you ensure that your child's belongings are labelled, including their coat.
If you haven't done so already, please could you send your child in with their labelled puddle suit and wellies, ready to be able to access our outdoor sand, mud kitchen and start Forest School.
Dates for the diary:-
Monday 15th September - Acknowledging International Dot Day
Monday 22nd Septmeber - Individual school photographs
Wednesday 24th September - Nursery Welcome Meeting @3.30pm
Wednesday 1st October - Harvest WOW service 2pm @St Peter's Church
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 5:35pm
Welcome to the Nursery blog for the academic year 2025 -2026.
What a fabulous first week back! We have welcomed new and existing children and their families into our Trinity St Peter’s Nursery ‘family’ and we can’t believe how well they have settled in.
The children have enjoyed exploring our environment both inside and out, and already begun learning each other’s names and making friendships.
Thursday, we read the book, ‘The Invisible String’ by Patrice Karst and feeling inspired coloured our own heart to put on our string for our mummies and daddies. We ended our week by sharing our thoughts and ideas about what we have enjoyed this week.
We look forward to seeing you all next week – to do it all over again!
Please see our curriculum map for an overview of what the children will be learning this half term.
Our virtual classroom can also be found here. The virtual classroom includes links to a variety of quality websites, apps and resources to support your child’s learning.
The Successful Start PowerPoint is also attached. This includes information that all parents should read.
Mrs Grayson and the Nursery Team
Reminder for this half term:
Please can you ensure that all of your children’s clothes including shoes, water bottles, hats and sun cream are clearly labelled.
If you haven’t done so already, please can you send your child in with their labelled puddle suit and wellies.
Monday is P.E. day, please remember children are to come to school in their preferably black Velcro trainers on this day.
Dates for the diary:
Monday 15th September – Acknowledging International Dot Day
Monday 22nd September – Individual school photographs
Wednesday 24th September – Nursery Welcome Meeting @3.30pm
Date: 15th Jul 2025 @ 4:18pm
We would like to say we have had a truly amazing year and are incredibly proud of all the children in Nursery. This half term the children have enjoyed learning about Sunflowers and growing vegetables from seed, along with exploring ‘Under the Sea’. A main highlight has to be our class trip to Windmill Farm, what a fabulous day we had.
Other highlights include:
- Planting and Growing Sunflowers
- Sport’s day
- Playing Follow the leader at Forest School
- Learning about Snails
- Making Smores at Forest School
- Summer Fair
- Learning Phonics sounds
- Father’s Day
- Sunflower Birthday Cakes
Please see our virtual classroom attached to this blog if you would like to explore any of the themes that Nursery will be exploring in September.
Please also find attached our ‘Successful Start’ PowerPoint there you will find any useful information you may need for starting Nursery or moving to Reception in September.
A big thank you also for all your kind gifts and support this year, we hope you enjoy a well-deserved summer break and look forward to seeing everyone in September.
Mrs Bevin, Mrs Molloy and the Nursery Team
Date: 3rd Jun 2025 @ 4:10pm
We hope you all had a lovely half term and can’t believe we are in our final half term of this school year! We hope to have lots of fun together making memories before our summer holidays and some children move up to Reception class!
The children are going to continue to enjoy Forest school as well as learning about ‘Summer, Under the Sea and Growth and Change’ as our themed focuses.
Please see our curriculum map for an overview of what the children will be learning this half term.
Our current virtual classroom has been attached again to this blog, which includes links to a variety of quality websites, apps and resources to support the children’s learning.
Reminders for this half term:
- PE will continue on a Monday please can your child come to school wearing trainers on this day only.
- WOW Service – Wednesday 4th June, 16th July at 2pm
- Wednesday 11th June – Father’s Day Present Room
- Thursday 19th June – Sports Day
- Friday 27th June Mufti day – Bottles for Summer Fair
- Wednesday 2nd July – Class trip to Windmill Farm – More information to follow
- Friday 4th July Mufti day – Rainbow raffle for Summer Fair
- Monday 7th July – Mufti Day Summer Fair
- Friday 18th July finish for Summer 1pm
Please see our ‘Summer Diary Dates’ for all school events taking place this term.
Date: 14th May 2025 @ 2:02pm
We simply can’t believe how quickly this half term has gone!!
This half term the children enjoyed our theme all about ‘Dinosaurs’ and exploring the story ‘Gigantosaurus’ by Jonny Duddle. There was a particular excitement when we had to look after a dinosaur egg! The children also dissected Dinosaur poo, to decide if the dinosaur was a herbivore or a carnivore!
Other Highlights include:
· Planting beans and gardening
· Learning team games outdoors
· Showing pride in achievements
· Learning letter sounds
· RSE week talking about Families and how they how we are all unique and have different gifts and talents
· Learning about shapes 2d and 3d and composition of numbers to 5
Please see or updated virtual classroom attached to this blog if you would like to explore any of the themes we will be exploring after the half term.
Reminders for next half term:
· PE will continue on a Monday please can your child come to school wearing trainers on this day only.
· WOW Service – Wednesday 4th June, 16th July at 2pm
· Wednesday 11th June – Father’s Day Present Room
· Thursday 19th June – Sports Day
· Friday 27th June Mufti day – Bottles for Summer Fair
· Wednesday 2nd July – Class trip to Windmill Farm – More information to follow
· Friday 4th July Mufti day – Rainbow raffle for Summer Fair
· Monday 7th July – Mufti Day Summer Fair
· Friday 18th July finish for Summer 1pm Please see our ‘Summer Diary Dates’ for all school events taking place this term.
Date: 23rd Apr 2025 @ 12:41pm
We hope you all had an amazing Easter break, we are full of excitement and looking forward to a fun filled action packed half term!!!
We have welcomed some new children to our class; who have settled well and making new friends. The children are going to continue to enjoy the visits to Forest school as well as learning about ‘Dinosaurs’ as our themed focus. Please see our curriculum map for an overview of what the children will be learning this half term.
Our current virtual classroom has been attached again to this blog, which includes links to a variety of quality websites, apps and resources to support the children’s learning.
Reminders for this half term:
· PE will continue on a Monday please can your child come to school wearing trainers on this day only.
· WOW Service – Wednesday 7th May at 2pm
· Friday 23rd May finish for Half Term
· Return to Nursery on Monday 2nd June
Please see our ‘Summer Diary Dates’ for all school events taking place this term.
Date: 26th Mar 2025 @ 11:44am
Gosh we can’t believe it is Easter already! The children continue to grow and flourish and we can’t believe how independent they are becoming. We hope you are as proud of them as we are! The children have enjoyed the brighter weather and exploring the outdoor area and preparing our pots for planting. Well done!
- This half term the children have particularly enjoyed our theme of ‘Stories of 3’ and exploring different traditional tales, they have loved re-telling the different stories and their story book language is really developing.
Other highlights include:
- Forest school we have enjoyed talking about spotting the signs of Spring and the changes it brings.
- For International Women’s day we enjoyed the story ‘Girls can do anything’ by Carly Hart
- Learning to play hop scotch and Hide and seek.
- We enjoyed getting dressed up for ‘World Book Day’
- Tasting porridge with different toppings whilst enjoying the story ‘Goldilocks and the 3 Bears’
- Making Pancakes for Shrove Tuesday
- Taking part in British Science week – with the theme ‘Change and Adapt’
- Celebrated Mother’s Day, the children enjoyed making cards to bring home.
- Taking part in our Easter Bonnet parade in St Peter’s Church
Please see or updated virtual classroom attached to this blog if you would like to explore any of the themes we will be exploring after the half term.
Have a lovely Easter break.
Reminders for next half term:
- PE will continue on a Monday please can your child come to school wearing trainers on this day only.
- WOW Services – Wednesday 7th May at 2pm
- Friday 23rd May finish for Half Term
- Return to Nursery on Monday 2nd June
Date: 26th Feb 2025 @ 2:14pm
We hope you all had relaxing half term, we are excited and looking forward to another fun filled action packed half term!!! The children are going to continue to enjoy the visits to Forest school as well as learning about ‘The Story of 3’ based around Traditional Tales as our themed focus.
Please see our curriculum map for an overview of what the children will be learning this half term.
Our current virtual classroom has been attached again to this blog, which includes links to a variety of quality websites, apps and resources to support the children’s learning.
Reminders for this half term:
- PE will continue on a Monday please can your child come to school wearing trainers on this day only.
- World Book Day – Thursday 6th March – dressing up as a book character.
- WOW Services – Wednesday 5th March at 2pm and Wednesday 2nd April – Easter Bonnet Parade in St Peter’s Church – All welcome
- Friday 4th April finish for Easter at 1pm
- Return to Nursery on Tuesday 22nd April
Please see our ‘Spring Diary Dates’ for all school events taking place this term.
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 8:18am
Time flies when you are having fun! We have been busy learning new things and encouraging the children with their independence. The children are good at managing their own coat and zipping it up as well as taking off and putting our own shoes on. Well done!
- This half term the children have particularly enjoyed learning all about Winter and different animals especially penguins. They have enjoyed exploring the artic small world. They have listened to the story of ‘Gruffalo’ and enjoyed retelling the story with the characters.
Other highlights include:
- We have also welcomed some new children to our class; who have settled well and are making new friends.
- Forest school where we have made bird feeders and bird hides for us to spot different birds from. We have also enjoyed talking about spotting the signs of Winter and the changes it brings.
- Painted Winter scenes and pictures of penguins where we enjoyed mixing our own colours for them. We have then enjoyed washing our own mixing palettes and brushes independently.
- Celebrated Chinese New Year the children enjoyed making lanterns, snakes, taking part in Dragon dancing and we enjoyed our own Chinese banquet. We have learnt lots of new facts that we love to share with others.
- We enjoyed a visit from My Dentist Formby as part of Dental Health Month to talk to us about how we look after our teeth and how we can keep them healthy by the food we eat.
Have a lovely half term break.
Reminders for next half term:
- PE will continue on a Monday please can your child come to school wearing trainers on this day only.
- WOW Services – Wednesday 5th March at 2pm and Wednesday 2nd April – Easter Bonnet Parade in St Peter’s Church – All welcome
- Friday 4th April finish for Easter at 1pm
- Return to Nursery on Tuesday 22nd April
Date: 8th Jan 2025 @ 11:33am
We hope you all had an amazing Christmas and New Year, we are full of excitement and looking forward to a fun filled, action packed half term!!! We have also welcomed some new children to our class; who have settled well and are making new friends. The children are going to continue to enjoy the visits to Forest school as well as learning about ‘Winter’ as our themed focus.
Please see our curriculum map for an overview of what the children will be learning this half term.
Our current virtual classroom has been attached again to this blog, which includes links to a variety of quality websites, apps and resources to support the children’s learning.
Reminders for this half term:
- PE will continue on a Monday please can your child come to school wearing trainers on this day only.
- WOW Services – Wednesday 5th February at 2pm in St Peter’s Church – All welcome
- Parent Teacher Meetings – 4th , 5th , 11th and 12th Feb (more information to follow)
- Stay and Play Sessions for New starters - Oct to Jan - 12th and 13th Feb (More information to follow)
- Friday 14th February finish for Half Term
Please see our ‘Spring Diary Dates’ for all school events taking place this term.
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 7:44pm
What a fabulous end to an amazing Half term!
- The children enjoyed the story ‘Kipper’s Birthday’, we talked about how we prepare for birthdays and what we do to celebrate birthdays at home. The children spent some time writing party invitations, making cakes from the playdough and even the home corner was set up for a birthday party. The children especially enjoyed it when we created a sweet treat to share together.
Other Highlights include:
- talking about their experiences of watching fireworks and discussing different traditions they may have and enjoyed making firework pictures.
- ‘Remembrance Day’ and why we celebrate it. The children also took part in a 2 minutes silence where they had time to think about and remember all of those who were injured or died at war.
- World Nursery Rhyme week. They enjoyed singing different Nursery Rhymes and then completing various activities linked to them.
- A flurry of Snow, the children had such a wonderful time playing in the snow and exploring the garden area. What a magical time was had!
- Baking mince pies, making cards and decorations for our family.
- Learning about the meaning of Christmas and how it is a time we celebrate Jesus’ birthday. The children also enjoyed attending our Christmas WOW service where they gave another fantastic performance of a couple of their songs from the ‘Sing-a-long’.
Please see or updated virtual classroom attached to this blog if you would like to explore any of the themes we will be exploring after the half term.
We would like to thank you all for your kind wishes, cards and gifts and we wish you and your families a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Reminders:
- Return to school Monday 6th January 2025
- PE will continue on a Monday please can your child come to school wearing trainers on this day only.
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Date: 5th Nov 2024 @ 4:32pm
We hope you all had an amazing half term break and are ready for the excitement and fun that this next half term has to bring!!! We have also welcomed some new children to our class; who have settled well and making new friends. The children are going to continue to enjoy the visits to Forest school as well as looking forward to the Christmas activities and of course our very special Sing-a-long.
Please see our curriculum map for an overview of what the children will be learning this half term.
Our current virtual classroom has been attached again to this blog, which includes links to a variety of quality websites, apps and resources to support the children’s learning.
Reminders for this half term:
- PE will continue on a Monday please can your child come to school wearing trainers on this day only.
- WOW Services – Wednesday 6th November and Wednesday 11th December at 2pm in St Peter’s Church – All welcome
- Nursery Christmas Sing-A-Long Thursday 12th December 9:15am further information to follow
- Wednesday 18th December finish for Christmas 1pm
Please see our ‘Autumn Diary Dates’ for all school events taking place this half term.
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 2:33pm
We have had a wonderful start to Nursery, the children have been enjoying exploring all of the exciting activities available to them and getting to know new friends. We are also encouraging and supporting the children with their independence. We are very proud of how well they have settled and the fun they have had. Well done!
- This half term the children have particularly enjoyed Learning all about Harvest and Autumn, they have listened to the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’ where they got to taste different types of bread and also bake their own bread roll.
Other highlights include:
- Making a Scarecrow for the Scarecrow festival at St Peter’s Church.
- Forest school where they have learnt about safety around the ‘Fire Circle’ and talked about the different rules and routines. The children learnt how to leave the fire circle safely and also the calling sound used for the children to listen out for when exploring, this indicates a return to the circle.
- Celebrated ‘Dot Day’ the children enjoyed making their own mark using a variety of different media for example paint, crayons, chalk and pencils and were very proud to display their work in our art gallery.
- Sharing Autumn treasures with their friends and talking about the differences happening to the world around them.
- Our Stay and Play sessions, the children have enjoyed showing parents and carers around their classroom and the areas they like to play in.
- Going on our first school trip by visiting the Young Explorers forest group at Laurels wood.
Have a lovely half term break.
Reminders for next half term:
- PE will continue on a Monday please can your child come to school wearing trainers on this day only.
Date: 2nd Sep 2024 @ 5:03pm
Welcome to the Nursery blog for the academic year 2024-2025
Please see our Curriculum Map https://www.trinitystpeters.org/page/year-group-overviews/48700 for an overview of what the children will be learning this half term.
Our virtual classroom can also be found here. The Virtual classroom includes links to a variety of quality websites, apps and resources to support the children's learning.
The Successful Start PowerPoint is also attached. This includes information that all parents should read.
Reminders for this half term:
PE is on a Monday - please ensure children come to school wearing their uniform as usual and their own velcro trainers on this day only
Date: 10th Jul 2024 @ 4:01pm
Wow, what a super end to what has been a truly amazing year!!
On Wednesday, we went to St Peter’s Church for our final ‘WOW’ service of the year. The Reception children lead the service, as it is the last time they will attend WOW before they move on to Year 1! The children talked about their memories of Foundation stage and the fantastic memories they have. Thank you, Caroline and Anne for all your hard work over the year; we really do appreciate all your help and support.
Please also find attached our ‘Successful Start’ PowerPoint there you will find any useful information you may need for starting Nursery or moving to Reception in September.
We would like to say we have had a truly amazing year and are incredibly proud of all the children in Nursery. A big thank you also for all your kind gifts and support this year, we hope you enjoy a well-deserved summer break and look forward to seeing everyone in September.
Mrs Molloy, Mrs Bevin and the Nursery Team
Date: 8th Jul 2024 @ 4:49pm
Date: 3rd Jul 2024 @ 9:39am
What a fabulous week!
We have enjoyed re-capping phonics sounds already learnt and then learning the new sound ‘c’. For Maths we have enjoyed exploring shape and recapping the similarities and differences between squares and rectangles and exploring the properties of circles and triangles. The children then enjoyed creating pictures using the different shapes.
This week the children enjoyed setting up a hair-dressers, they spent time washing and styling hair for friends and staff alike. There was great fun had and the children have suggested a pamper day, which we will be busy planning over the next few days.
Continuing with our theme ‘Toys’ the children have spent some time exploring old and new toys. The children spent some time exploring old toys and then using their observational skills they enjoyed paining, drawing or collaging their own pictures.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Bevin, Mrs Molloy and the Nursery team
Reminders:
Please send into school a clearly labelled sun hat and sun cream
Wednesday 17th July – Final WOW Service of the year – 2pm @ St Peter’s Church
Friday 19th July – School finish for the Summer 1pm
Date: 24th Jun 2024 @ 3:55pm
What a fabulous week we have had, enjoying the sunshine!
It was so lovely this week when we were able to welcome parents to school to watch the children’s sports day! Nursery enjoyed every minute demonstrating their running and jumping skills, we also enjoyed an ice lolly when we returned to class.
We have enjoyed re-capping phonics sounds already learnt and then learning the new sound ‘o’. For Maths we have continued to explore number to 5, we have had to add numbers to five asking ‘How many altogether’ and also ordering numbers to five identifying when there was a number missing and what number this was!
The children who will be moving to Reception in September have begun their transition and spent time in the Reception with their new teacher Miss Dalley. They enjoyed exploring the classroom and spending time with their new teacher.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Bevin, Mrs Molloy and the Nursery team
Reminders:
Please send into school a clearly labelled sun hat and sun cream
Wednesday 17th July – Final WOW Service of the year – 2pm @ St Peter’s Church
Friday 19th July – School finish for the Summer 1pm
Date: 18th Jun 2024 @ 2:54pm
What a fabulous week
We enjoyed our WOW service where Caroline talked to the children all about Prayer We were also lucky to have Godly Play this week where Caroline talked to the children all about Prayer some more following on from the WOW service. Thank you for all your hard work and support.
This week, the children have enjoyed practicing for their Sport’s day next week. They have been practicing the following races - Egg and Spoon, Hurdles, Sack and Flat race. We will continue to practice over the next week and are looking forward to Sport’s day next week.
We have enjoyed re-capping phonics sounds already learnt and then learning the new sound ‘g’. For Maths we have enjoyed exploring number to 5, we have had to identify missing numbers on a number track and then also be able to recognise numbers that come ‘before’ a give number.
Our next theme is all about toys and we were very excited when on Tuesday ‘Fuzzy’ the teddy bear left us a secret note and a challenge to find clues around the classroom, when we found all of the pieces and solved the problem we discovered there was a picture with lots of hidden toys that we had to find. We also looked at pictures of toys within the classroom and discussed why we liked the toys and what material the different toys were made from! What a fabulous week and we are looking forward to exploring this theme more over the next few weeks
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Bevin, Mrs Molloy and the Nursery team
Reminders:
Please send into school a clearly labelled sun hat and sun cream
Wednesday 26th June – Sports Day
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 8:07pm
What another amazing week we have had in Nursery, the weeks really are flying by.
In Forest school this week, the children spent some time remembering our Forest school rules, calling sound and sitting circle. The Children were then set the challenge to make a mud face with water and mud and find different nature items in the Forest School area to add to their mud face
We have enjoyed re-capping phonics sounds already learnt and then learning the new sound ‘p’. For Maths the children have continued to use their counting skills and number tracks to find which number comes after a given number, up to 5. Super counting and problem solving.
We really enjoyed our trip to Windmill Farm where the children spent time exploring the farm and the different animals that lived there. They were able to feed the lambs as well as seeing goats and alpacas. The train ride was a firm favourite for all, as we enjoyed spotting the different animals. What a fabulous day out with lots of fun, laughter and memories made.
We hope all the Dads have a fabulous Father’s day and manage to put their feet up and enjoy the football!
Mrs Bevin, Mrs Molloy and the Nursery team
Reminders:
Please send into school a clearly labelled sun hat and sun cream
Wednesday 19th June – WOW service 2pm @ St Peter’s Church
Wednesday 26th June – Sports day