Welcome To Nursery 

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Our Class Learning Journal

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Week beginning Monday 11th November 2024

We remembered the fallen together on Friday 9th November as our inset day was Monday 11th November. We listened to 'The Last Post', whilst taking part in a two minute silence and watched CBeebies 'Poppy' animation. Our Home Task for Mondays inset day was to create a poppy using red materials, pens, paint etc. they we can display in our classroom. Thank you for all your poppies, they are beautiful!

We joined the force this week as we looked at the next job around our 'People who help us' theme. PC Elliot and PC Seb came to visit us from the British Transport Police. We learned a lot about how they help us when we are travelling by train, RED LIGHT STOP! but also told us a little bit about being a Police Officer and making sure everybody is safe and following the law. We also learned a little bit about finger printing, finding out our identities and how they tell us apart from each other. Our favourite part was meeting Charlie the Police Car, whose sirens were really loud! Thank you for coming to visit us!

Ending the week with some Pudsey fun for Children in Need! We wore our SPOTTIEST clothes and used our number recognition to 4 to help colour Pudsey in the correct colours!

Week beginning Monday 4th November 2024

Coming into the new half term with a BANG! We've been looking at fireworks ahead of our PTFA Nightlife Event. We've made our own chalk firework pictures in the provision and glitter rockets. We loved looking at all the bright colours in the sky and were surprised by how many different loud noises they made!

We've been embracing our Healthy Schools Policy with our new snack time initiative. We've are enjoying have a choice of which fruit and vegetables to eat and are becoming very responsible and independent when pouring either our milk or water and washing up and drying our dishes ready for the next person to use. 

We have started looking at our new theme for this half term,

'People who help us!'. Kimberly and the Team at Design to Smile came to talk to us with Chewy. They helped us make choices about food and drinks that were good for our teeth, reminded us we need to brush twice a day for two minutes and Chewy even let us practice our brushing technique on his pearly whites, which we've continued to practice in our continuous provision.

Week beginning Monday 21st October 2024

In a dark, dark town there was a dark, dark street
and in the dark, dark street there was a dark, dark school,
and in the dark, dark school there was a  dark, dark classroom
and in the dark, dark classroom... 29 skeletons were learning!

We've gone all Funny Bones this week learning about the body. We've been singing Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes and labelling parts of our body in real time. 

There's been a lot of autumnal provision in our classroom this half term to help us grow into confident, independent learners and continue to develop the strength of our fine motor skills ready for mark making and writing. 

As we come to the end of Black History Month, we heard the story of Martin Luther King Jr. We talked about how important his dream is and what we can do to make sure his message of fairness is shared. We talked about how different our own dreams are now, and decorated stars with our dreams on. 

To celebrate the end of our first term together at St Michaels we headed on down to the Monster Mash to celebrate. We made pumpkins with 2D shape faces and looked for rats and creepy crawlies in the slime.

Week beginning Monday 14th October 2024

We've begun to explore parts of our body, starting with our senses!

We made our own Mr Potato heads by answering 'What do I use to ...?' questions and adding senses to his body. Then explored using our own sense to talk about some wibbly wobbly jelly that Miss Davies made.

We've spent a lot of collective worship time talking about Our Mother, Mary throughout the month of October and during our prayers we are learning and beginning to say Hail Mary. This week we looked at the Rosary and how we might use it to pray. 

Ending the week, Showing Racism the Red Card. We have listened to a lot of stories already this month exploring the theme of equality and how important it is to treat people with kindness and fairly. We heard the story of Rosa Parks again and made our own 'Equal Bus'.

Week beginning Monday 7th October 2024

Continuing to explore our theme, 'Marvellous Me!' in Nursery. We've been looking at the initial letter of our names, rainbow writing the letter and developing our grip and control when making marks. 

We've been exploring the number 1 in our maths this week whilst making toast. We had to collect 1 plate and 1 piece of bread. Then put 1 piece of bread into the toaster. We waited patiently for the toast to POP then put the toast onto 1 plate and used 1 knife to butter it. What a delicious way to learn about the number 1!

Week beginning 30th September 2024

A busy Vision Week in Nursery exploring what is means to go to a Catholic school, celebrating our school saint, St Michael and looking at our Jesuit Virtues. We finished the week celebrating with our family and friends and a performance of 'Who made the twinkling stars?'

We met our Year 6 buddies who we know are going to be fantastic role models for us this year. We enjoyed exploring the classroom and learning together. We look forward to our next meet up!

We had our first photographs taken at St Michaels and we were very interest and amazed at how the camera took our pictures and then they magically appeared on the screen! the lady from colorfoto was very kind and let us help her!

We've been continuing to strengthen our hands and fingers with pumpkins in the Finger Gym, hammering in golf tees and then pulling them out! we're getting very strong and independent! 

In our Maths, we have started skills building. We've been working hard to sort by colour and match colours using manipulatives.

Our RE sent us looking for people who work at St Michaels and what their jobs were. We met Mrs Taylor, Mrs Rossiter, Mr Rossiter, Ms Wise, Mrs Liffen and Mr Payne. We were lucky to catch the Milk Men on their delivery too!​​​​​​​

Week beginning 23rd September 2024

Making sure we help our hands and fingers get strong and ready for mark making in the Playdough with some rolling and squeezing and in the Finger Gym with some threading this week.

Practicing using our listening ears this week, especially during PE, as we played 'Miss Davies says...' and musical statues. We needed to pay special attention to the instructions Miss Davies gave and when the music stopped. We had some fantastic dance moves too!

Welcoming Autumn into our classroom, as we explore changing seasons.

We've been singing along to old MacPumpkin and working hard to harvest pumpkins from the patch and sell them at our pumpkin stall. 

Following our collective worship this week, we went exploring around the school grounds looking for God's creations. We found lots of beautiful things and even brought some vegetables back to the classroom for tasting! 

Week beginning 16th September 2024

A very colourful first week as a full Nursery class! We've been making friends, exploring the classroom and trying our best to follow

the St Michaels Way!

We met Oscar the Everywhere Bear and listened to the story about how he likes to go on adventures, Miss Davies told us that every week, somebody will be able to take Oscar home for a weekend adventure with us too!

We helped Elmer find the colours of the rainbow and explored which colours make a new colour when we mix them together after hearing Mixed by Agree Chung and Mix it up! by Herve Tullet.

In our first Collective Worship, Nursery listened to the story, from Genesis, of Creation. We reflected on all the beautiful things God made and gave thanks to Him for gifting them to us. 

We know that God is the greatest artist!

The start of your Nursery Era!

From Wednesday 4th September, we begin to welcome our new Nursery children and their families into St Michaels.

By Monday 16th September we will be a full class. Please check back after this date for an insight into a day in the life in Nursery and find out what we've been up to.

Miss Davies.