Nursery
Welcome to our Nursery class. Nursery is often a child’s very first experience of school life and marks the beginning of an exciting learning journey. It is a time for settling in, building confidence and discovering the joy of learning through play. We aim to nurture curiosity, inspire imagination and create a love of exploration from the very start.
Through carefully planned play-based experiences, children explore the world around them, develop early communication skills and begin to form meaningful friendships and relationships. We recognise that every child is unique, and we are committed to providing a warm, nurturing, stimulating environment where children feel safe, valued and happy.
Staff In Our Nursery
Nursery class teacher - Miss Jones
Nursery Class Blog
Summer in Nursery
This term, the nursery children have been very busy with lots of exciting learning opportunities. We were very fortunate to have a visit from Catherine West for our official opening of the Nursery. She spent time talking to the children, staff and cut the ribbon to ceremonially announce to the community that we have a new Nursery setting.
Our class themes for this term have been ‘Once upon a Time’ and ‘Journeys’. For summer 1, we enjoyed a range of traditional tales including ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’, ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and ‘The Little Red Hen’. This half term, we have been reading books about transport and journeys. We made a big model of the ‘naughty bus’ from the book with the help of Miss Rose and learnt more about our class champion Floella Benjamin by reading her book ‘Coming to England’.
During International Week, we learnt about Jamaica. We looked at where it is in the world, learnt about the landscape, weather, wildlife, languages spoken, music and food. We listened to poems by the Jamaican poet Valerie Bloom and learnt some Jamaican Patois words. Our role play area was a fruit market stall and we had a food tasting of popular Jamaican food. We were also very lucky to have one of our grannies visit to tell us stories and teach us songs from Jamaica.
Each week we have attended Forest School in Highgate Wood where we’ve enjoyed weekly focused activities, exploring the woodland area, digging clay in the mid kitchen, climbing a rope ladder, swinging on a rope swing or swaying in the hammock. These exciting learning experiences have helped us to develop resilience, confidence and independence. Most importantly, we had lots of fun and thoroughly enjoyed being outside in nature.
For STEAM week, our champion was David Attenborough. We learnt all about his fascinating life and some of the creatures that he has studied. David Attenborough collects fossils so we made fossils out of playdough by imprinting dinosaurs, their footprints and different shells. We also got to see and hold a real ammonite fossil. Using recyclable materials, we each made an animal of our choice and practised grouping animals into insects, birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and fish.
Spring in Nursery
Nursery have enjoyed an incredible first half term filled with building new friendships, exploration and exciting growth opportunities.
Some of the highlights were a visit from London Fire Brigade, learning about Lunar New Year and getting to know each other and our brand-new indoor and outdoor learning spaces. Our topic for this half term was 'People Who Help Us' and our champion was Mary Seacole.
In Phonics, our focus has been syllables while reading the books 'Monkey and Me', 'Kitchen Disco', 'Car, Car, Truck, Jeep' and 'Nature Trail'. In Literacy, we have learnt the songs and rhymes 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star', 'Baa Baa Black Sheep', 'Miss Molly Had a Dolly', 'Wheels on the Bus' and 'Row Your Boat'.
In Maths, we have looked for patterns and made repeated patterns, used positional language, explored and sorted different shapes, counted beyond 10, completed a range of puzzles and sung the songs and rhymes 'Zoom, Zoom, Zoom', 'One Man Went to Mow', '5 Currant Buns', 'Two Little Dicky Birds' and 'Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer'.
We have also learned about the four zones of regulation (blue, green, red and yellow), how we can identify our feelings and what to do to regulate ourselves when our feelings become too big to manage.
