Nursery
Full Time Class Teacher: Mrs Pemberton
Full Time Teaching Assistant: Ms Meade
Teaching Assistant(Monday to Wednesday) : Mrs Simmons
Teaching Assistant (Thursday and Friday: Mrs Kaur
Hello and welcome to Birches Green Nursery. In our Nursery, children thrive on learning through play. Through play children can develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments. It is here they practise new ideas and skills, they take risks, show imagination and solve problems on their own or with others. The role that adults have is crucial. Adults provide time and space and appropriate resources.
All aboard!
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Home Reading
Once your child has a book bag, they will be issued with a reading record and they can choose a book to take a book home each day.
Book bags can be purchased from the school office.
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Everyone had such fun celebrating ‘World Book Day 2018’. We came to school dressed in our pyjamas and brought our favourite teddies and story books. During the day we spent some time enjoying our books whilst drinking hot chocolate and eating yummy biscuits in front of a log fire.
This week has been very busy, we have celebrated, Pancake day, Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year.
We celebrated Pancake day by preparing our very own pancakes. We mixed all the ingredients together then we tasted them with a sprinkle of icing sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice, mmm delicious!
Everyone had great fun on Valentines Day, the children dressed in their beautiful party clothes and showed us their fantastic moves at the disco. They also enjoyed decorating biscuits and making Valentines cards. The PTA did a fantastic job of decorating the hall and they made delicious cakes for everyone to enjoy.
The children started the day by watching the Chinese New Year Story https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/lets-celebrate-chinesenewyearperformance
Then they did lots of activities, such as writing Chinese numbers and letters, using chop sticks to pick up raisins, eating Chinese noodles, creating Chinese dragons and watching Chinese dragon dancing. 🐉 🐲
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The children will be reading and finding out about the Rainbow Fish. These are some of the fun things we will be doing -
- Colourful salt painting
- Icing sugar painting
- Writing about the Rainbow Fish. What happens at the beginning, middle and end?
- Applying coloured salt water to ice using pipettes. What will happen?
- Rainbow Fish maths
You can also read the story at home with your child by following the link below.
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We did it! We helped the Leprechaun find all the colours he needed to help him return home. He was so happy with the Nursery children that he left them a yummy treat to say thank you. Well done everyone! 🍀
Today, the children enjoyed joining in with Children in Need and raising money by dressing up in spots. We did lots of fun activities in Nursery, it was really Spotacular!
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This week we have been talking all about fireworks. We shared our own experiences of fireworks and why we do or do not like them! Some of us love the bright colours and the glittery sparkles in the sky, but some of us also think that fireworks can be too loud!
The children enjoyed watching a Fireman Sam video which explained to us how to stay safe around fireworks.
