We have had a gorgeous afternoon crew session in the garden following our sports day practise. The children were feeling a little hot and bothered so we had fruit, biscuits and juice outside. We sang nursery rhymes and practised our sign language for banana, orange, apple, water, biscuit and please and thank you. The children are excellent at it! Why not try at home following the signs below…

image 1 – biscuit, image 2 – water, image 3 – orange, image 4 – please/thank you, image 5 – banana, image 6 – apple

Israel and Bobby have in Nursery have enjoyed creating honeycomb prints on World Bee Day!

Here are some ways you can help save the bees at home…

Food for bees

Bees need a wide range of plants that flower from spring to autumn to feed from. These include:

• alyssum, cornflower, sunflower, michaelmas daisy and sweet william for nectar in summer
• bluebells, rosemary, geranium and honeysuckle
• ivy and shrub willows for food in early and late parts of the year

Creating shelters for bumblebees

Bumblebees need to find places to nest and hibernate in. You can help by:

• creating patches of bare earth in warm sheltered spaces for nesting sites
• leaving a pile of stones, dead plant stems, fallen leaves and log piles for bumble bees to hibernate in over winter

This week the children have been reading the story of The Gingerbread Man in literacy and expedition learning. We enjoyed XP outdoors by reading the story whist some of our children were actors for the Gingerbread Man, the old man and woman, the cow, the horse and Mr Kershaw was the big bad fox! The other children enjoyed joining in with the repeated phrases throughout “run run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!”

On Wednesday 11th June 3.30 – 4.30 pm NEW to NURSERY parents are invited to attend a meeting with Mrs Hay and Mrs Burton to hear key information and meet some of the Nursery team in readiness for your child starting school nursery for the first time.

All new parents will have been told about this meeting on your home visit. Any questions, please do not hesitate to call us and ask.

Kind regards,

The Nursery Team

Nursery Sports morning is on Wednesday 11th June 9 – 11 am on the school field – weather permitting.

Please make sure your child comes to school with sun cream on, a sun hat and a water bottle. Children may come to school on this day in comfy clothing and trainers.

We hope you can make the event and support your child in their first school sports day.

Mrs Hay & Mrs Burton

This week the children have loved Mr Kershaw’s visit to Nursery. The children had to work as a team and maintain excellent communication skills to hold the pipes in the required position for the water to flow through to the end. At times the pipe fell and water spilled. The children had to think critically and make changes for the water to flow without spilling. It was a big challenge! I was so proud of all of the children and their awesome attitude towards this challenge. No frustration – just team work and a few soggy toes!

The nursery children have been working really hard today to correctly form the letter ‘t’ and ‘a’. They then were challenged to write some CVC words such as ‘cat, mat, pat and sat’ which some children achieved brilliantly! A massive well done for your hard work and for ‘getting smart’ Nursery crew!

The children have been working really hard in phonics today looking at the letter ‘s’. The children have written the grapheme and practised orally blending words which include ‘s’. E.g. s-i-t, s-a-t, s-o-ck. I wonder… Can your child find objects around the house which begin with ‘s’?