EYFS – Nursery

Nursery pupils have been working extremely hard with their parents over the half-term holiday to design these fabulous 3D models of the Three Little Pigs houses. Pupils thought very carefully about the structure and materials they would need to use to make the house sturdy and strong against the wrath of the big bad wolf!    

As part of Fairtrade week, Nursery learnt about the journey of the cocoa bean and used Fairtrade chocolate to make rice crispies chocolate cakes for the Fairtrade bake sale. 

We’ve had some new arrivals in nursery…the ducklings have finally hatched! We’ve observed that ducklings have waterproof feathers to keep them warm and dry and webbed feet to keep them afloat. ​

Nursery has enjoyed designing mosaics of the following minibeasts; bee, butterfly, ladybird and dragonfly. We used recycled materials from home to create our designs – come and have a look at our amazing creations in the playground!

Nursery had many exciting visitors to our school this morning. We met the following animals from Animal Magic; Scooby the White Face Scoop Owl, Bobby the Blue Macaw, Plush Lop Bunnies, Funky Haired Guinea Pigs, Mushu the Bearded Dragon, Sally the Royal Python, Arnie the Armadillo and Travis the Cane Toad. 

To mark the start of Spring six of our eggs have hatched! We have been enjoying looking after the chicks, feeding them and giving them lots of cuddles. There has been many discussions about the chicken life cycle and how they change and grow over time. Once they are two weeks old the chicks will be returning to live on …

Week beginning 14th November 2016 Nursery was super excited to meet Lucy and Luna from the DLR as part of Work Week! They taught us how to stay safe when using the train and the role of the different people who work inside Canning Town station. We then role played being a ticket inspector, a …

( 14th November 2016) Nursery has two special visitors, Mr White and his cat Trixie. Mr White told us how his wife Mrs White found Trixie outside in the carpark when she was a kitten. He also taught us how to look after cats. Did you know that cats use their tongue to clean their …

Many parents and careers attended our Stay and Play session in the morning and in the afternoon. Our Speech and Language therapist, Natalie Scanlon was on hand, along with the nursery staff to offer support, hints and tips for parent with their child’s language development. Many of our parents have mastered the ACI approach by the end …

We have been learning to use the light box independently, we can now turn the box on and off as well as adjusting the brightness all by our self! We then built an obstacle course inside our classroom to have a car race. Our adults taught us how to use the remote control to help …