Nursery Class News

Immunisations

Posted on Wednesday 20 September 2023 by Nursery Team


Exploring Nursery

Posted on Friday 15 September 2023 by Nursery Team

It was great to see our older children return to Nursery on Monday; they quickly settled back into routines and are already getting to know our new children.


On Monday, we enjoyed welcoming our new families for their ‘Stay and Play’ session. Children were really excited to visit and soon began exploring all of the different areas of provision in Nursery. They all had a great time, in fact, a few children didn’t want to leave!

Following a gradual transition, we’ve enjoyed welcoming new children into Nursery for their first sessions. We’re really pleased with with just how well everyone is settling in and we’re looking forward to getting to know everyone better over the next few weeks.


A few reminders:

  • Please make sure your child has a pair of wellies and a spare set of clothes at Nursery (named and in a drawstring bag). These can stay at Nursery and don’t need to be taken home every day.
  • Please check that your child’s school shoes are clearly NAMED – we have already spotted several pairs of the same design so it makes it much easier to make sure that children wear the right ones!
  • Children also need a water bottle,  filled with water. Please don’t send juice to Nursery. Thank you for your cooperation.

Welcome to Nursery

Posted on Friday 08 September 2023 by Nursery Team

We’ve had a great week meeting some of our new children during their home visits. It was lovely to find out a little bit about you all and we’re looking forward to getting to know you more when we welcome you to Nursery next week.

Nursery is looking fantastic; there are lots of exciting areas to play in and we can’t wait to show you around.  Our Nursery foxes, Ferdie and Fern, are looking forward to having some more friends to play with.  As you can see from the photos, they’ve already been busy testing out some of our toys, playing in the fairy garden and sliding down the slide!

A reminder for children that are returning to Nursery – Remember to check your transition paperwork. The first day back is a transition session and children will have lunch and go home afterwards at 12.30.

Here are a few reminders of some of the things that we talked about at our home visits.

  • Please bring a full change of clothes in a drawstring bag and a pair of wellies that will stay in Nursery. Remember to write your child’s name on EVERYTHING!
  • Children need to bring a water bottled (named) to Nursery. Please put it in your child’s coloured basket in the morning and collect it at the end of the day to be washed.
  • Please return your ‘All about me’ information sheets next week and bring proof of your child’s date of birth, if we didn’t see it at your home visit.

Don’t worry if you’ve forgotten which door to come in; find the path to the Nursery entrance (off Morwick Grove) and there’ll be someone there to greet you and show you where to go.

Have a great weekend and we’ll look forward to seeing you next week.

Learning Journeys

Posted on Thursday 13 July 2023 by Nursery Team

Next week, we’d like to invite you to look at your child’s Learning Journey when you drop your child off at Nursery on Monday, Tuesday or Thursday morning from 9 until 9.30am.

We’re sure the children would love you to see how much progress they’ve made; it’s a great way to end the year and celebrate all of their hard work and learning.

We hope that you’ll be able to stay on one of the mornings, even if it’s just for 5 minutes!

 

Transition to Reception

Posted on Friday 07 July 2023 by Nursery Team

Over the last few weeks, as part of their transition to Reception, our oldest children have enjoyed visiting their new classrooms to play. For their first visit, they visited when the classrooms were empty. They had a look around with a member of Nursery staff and enjoyed a story time. This week, they’ve been visiting with a few friends and getting to know their Reception teachers.

Posted on Friday 30 June 2023 by Nursery Team

Children continue to enjoy our ‘under the water’ theme and this week, we enjoyed listening to ‘Commotion in the Ocean’ and finding out about different sea creatures.

   

We’ve been strengthening our finger muscles in the fiddly fingers area by squeezing pegs and adding them onto some jellyfish to make tentacles.  It was a bit tricky at first and sometimes the pegs snapped but we persevered.

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In maths, we’ve been learning about capacity. We’ve been talking about when something is ‘full’ or ’empty’.

Help at home: Use these words together at home when you’re playing, in the bath or cooking. Is it full or empty? How do you know?  

Not only did we find that one of our tadpoles had turned into a froglet this week, but we also found a tiny frog outside at the bottom of the garden.  We enjoyed watching it hop around for a while and were surprised at how camouflaged it was in the grass.

Seaside photographs

Thank you to everyone that has sent in a seaside photograph so far. It’s not too late if you’d like to email us one photograph of your child at the seaside – we’ll look at them during snack time and talk about our favourite things to do at the seaside.

Story Trail Event

Posted on Tuesday 27 June 2023 by Mrs Latham

As part of the Leeds City of Culture, there is a local story trail event taking place. The flyers are below and pdfs to download.

Why not take part with friends or family in this fun event?

Leeds23 Picnic Flyer 9th July

Leeds 2023 Poster Story 5 The Fox King QR5

LEEDS 2023 Legends of Harewood Forest Map and Answer sheet

We like to move it, move it!

Posted on Friday 23 June 2023 by Nursery Team

We’re always looking for ways to keep active and to keep fit in Nursery. This week, we enjoyed a bit of singing and dancing in the rain!

Children danced to the music, and had to freeze when it stopped. Each time we stopped, we tried a different balance.

In music lessons, we’ve been learning to name some instruments and to play them in time with the beat.

Over the next few weeks, we’re going to be learning about the seaside.  If you’ve visited the coast recently, please email us a photograph and we’ll use them to help children to talk about some of the things that we might see or do when we visit the seaside.  Scholesnursery@spherefederation.org

 

Construction, role play & dancing!

Posted on Friday 16 June 2023 by Nursery Team

We’ve been watching the tadpoles in our tank very closely and this week, we spotted some back legs! Next, we’re hoping to see the front legs grow.

Outside, children have enjoyed lots of role play games; the car wash and garage has been especially popular.

Here are a few other photos to show our learning this week – ranging from working out the best way to join two boxes together to building a vehicle using crates and learning to control a remote-controlled vehicle.

Have you seen our pictures on the Early Years tea towel? If you’d like to support school and help raise funds, they’re £5 each. Check your emails for more details.

Transport

Posted on Friday 09 June 2023 by Nursery Team

Children returned to Nursery happily on Monday and enjoyed telling us  about their holiday adventures. Thank you to everyone that emailed us a half term holiday photograph; children shared them with their friends at snack time and told us about their walks, bike rides and days out.

As children told us about their holidays, we ended up talking about different types of transport, including trains, boats and planes.  During story times, we’ve enjoyed hearing about the adventures of ‘The Little Red Train‘ and watching a song about a magic train ride.

Children loved using the remote controlled cars this week and were able to move them backwards and forwards between the train station and garage.

In maths, we’re learning about night and day and will be moving on to ordering key events in our daily routines next week.

Help at home: Talk to your child about day and night time. What activities do people do in the day and at night?   What do they do in the morning/afternoon/evening?

Reminders

  • Yellow group children – Please make sure you have signed up for a Parent Consultation appointment
  • On sunny days, please ensure your child is wearing suncream in the morning and has a NAMED hat and NAMED waterbottle at Nursery.