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Our Class Learning Journal

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2025

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Week beginning Monday 17th February 2025

We made it! Our first full-time half term is complete! 

We've been trying our best to learn our welsh song and poem ready for our Eisteddfod on Thursday 6th March. If you want to practise at home the words and music are on our Eisteddfod Page. 

Click here to start singing!

We made a start on our Eisteddfod art, we are exploring the art of drawing and painting still life to produce our Daffodil pieces and using charcoal to draw Gelert the Brave after hearing the historical welsh story of Prince Llewellyn's Dog!

As we come to the end of Branch 3, we've been recapping the stories of Jesus' life we've explored, from birth to miracles! 

A REMINDER THAT OUR HALF TERM DT TASK IS DUE IN ON

MONDAY 3RD MARCH FOR JUDGING FOR THE EISTEDDFOD

Week beginning Monday 10th February 2025

Continuing our exploration of Jack and the Beanstalk this week,

but this time, it isn't just an ordinary beanstalk, it's full of jelly beans!

We made decorated our own jelly beans and thought about the colours we used to represent the flavours we chose. 

We've been using jelly beans to measure Jack, the Giant, and the Beanstalk and using comparative language to talk about their size.

We put our author and illustrator hats on to retell the story of Jack and the Jelly Beanstalk. We worked very hard drawing the pictures and answering the question, 'What comes next?'

To end the week, we made cards, gingerbread hearts and decorated bags for the people we love to celebrate Valentines' day!

Week beginning Monday 3rd February 2025

Starting the week acknowledging the Feast Day of the Presentation of the Lord. We heard the story of Simeon and Anna at the Temple. We mad glasses of salvation and drew and water-coloured Temples.

We were excited to explore our new traditional tale this week,

Jack and the Beanstalk. We started the week planting our own beans in our homemade green houses. We wrapped them up cosy in cotton wool with lots and water and tucked them snug into a bag to put on the window so that the light can help them grow.

We are excited to find out water happens!

We painted predictions of what we thought our beans would look like when they are fully grown, we hope they look very similar to the beanstalk that grew in Jack's garden.

Counting magic beans identifying amounts and recording them!

We've BEAN very busy in the continuous provision this week, counting, threading, popping, moulding!

Week beginning Monday 27th January 2025

Week beginning 20th January 2025

Week Beginning Monday 13th January 2025

Exploring our next traditional tale, Red Riding Hood this week. We listened to Miss Davies read the story and then she asked us a question, 

'Who is a character in the story?'.

We are learning all about stories, skill building so that we can't create our own this term, so it is very important for us to learn what to include. We learned that characters are the people in the stories, so we spent the morning drawing the different characters we met along the pages. 

We followed the wolf tracks around the yard to help with our developing number recognition and counting. 

We made some delicious cupcakes for Red to take to Grandma in her basket, and thought about how we could melt the chocolate to decorate our cupcakes? what would happen to the chocolate in the microwave? 

We've been exploring money, as we used 1p's to buy our cupcakes from the cupcake shop!

Ending the week fully immersed in a Now > Press > Play session, acting as the different characters of the traditional tale we heard this week. Miss Davies was very scared by all our sneaky wolf faces!

Week beginning 6th January 2025

Welcome back! A new year with new adventures to be had! 

We've come together FULL-TIME this week to kick start 2025 and we've loved every minute of it! Miss Davies keeps telling us how proud she is this week because we've embraced our new day-to-day Nursery life and taken to it like ducks to water, and nobody has had a nap either!

(not even Miss Davies and Mrs Maguire)

We started the week celebrating Epiphany, we enjoyed hearing the story of the Magi, listening to We Three Kings and seeing the story through Godly Play. We celebrated by making Epiphany crowns and wearing them to our collective worship. 

We've taken advantage of the little flurry of snow at the weekend and used it to help us explore temperature this week. We've been busy sorting hot and cold objects, exploring ice and building snowmen in our continuous provision with 2D shapes and playdough. We did get some unexpected visitors, Queen Elsa and Princess Anna, who left us a letter to apologise for freezing our role play! ​​​​​​​

We heard our first tale of our new topic, Hansel and Gretel! We've been busy ordering, recognising and show number 1-10, designing our own Gingerbread houses and using the blocks in the outdoor provision to build and decorate a Gingerbread house.

Thursday is the new Friday, as we end the week with an inset day. We've been listening to the stories from Jesus' life this week. We've heard the story of The Magi, Jesus welcomes the children and Feeding the 5000. We talked about which was our favourite as part of our Wonder Wall question this week after exploring the Feeding of the 5000 through making and sharing bread and talking about which food we would bring on a picnic with Jesus. 

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2024

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A message from Miss Davies:

Thank you for all your support, kind words and trust this term. My team and I have loved getting to know your children and allowing them to fully emerge themselves into the St Michaels Way and fully embrace the experiences for learning, social and personal interaction and wellbeing on offer to them. Please take the time to rest, make memories and have fun this Christmas return for the return to school on

Monday 6th January 2025! 

Thank you again for all our cards, gifts, kind words and support! We look forward to the next term together and what it has in store for us as we begin to go full-time! 

Merry Christmas, Nadolig Llawen, Feliz Navidad, Ekeresimesi Oma!

Miss Davies and the Nursery team. 

Week beginning 16th December 2024

Phew! We made it! As we come to the end of our first FULL TERM together at St Michaels, We took time to reflect on all that we have learned and achieved already through the St Michaels Way and now there is only one thing left to do..  

CELEBRATE!

We started the day by meeting Miss Davies the Storytelling Elf at Father Christmas' Grotto. We listened to a Christmas story and began our countdown to Christmas when we heard some jingle bells outside. Mrs Rossiter came into the classroom and very excitedly told us that this was somebody here to see us and he had a BIG, GIGANTIC list with him! We wonder who it could be!

In a red, red coat and hair so white,

his eyes sparkled like a starry night.. it was FATHER CHRISTMAS!

He told us that we had all made it onto his Nice list and each of us got to meet him and receive a gift! How fantastic! It wasn't long before Father Christmas had to fly off, so we said Thank you and Goodbye, and he told us that he'd be seeing us ALL again on Christmas Eve! EVEN MISCHIEVOUS MISS DAVIES! After all the excitement we started to feel hungry to we took our seats, put on our party hats and got stuck in to our delicious Christmas breakfast and magic milk! Check out the photos below to see how much fun we had!

After all the excitement this week, we knew our last day would be best spent in pyjamas, we celebrated a birthday, a crazy inflatable Santa came to see us and we jumped on the Polar Express for hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows and chocolate chips cookies! We end the day with a picnic in the classroom, it was too cold outside, and listened to Christmas music together!

Week beginning 9th December 2024

WOW! What a week! We loved performing for all our family and friends this week and we loved sharing all our singing and dancing with you! Miss Davies, Miss Evans and Mrs Williams are incredibly proud of us all and believed in us to share the true meaning of Christmas through the Nativity story so thank you for coming to see us and support us!

See you again next year! 

Week beginning 2nd December 2024

Only a week to go until our first performance in front of the whole school and then parents. Please can all costumes be sent in by Friday 6th December, if you need any support with costumes please speak to Miss Davies asap. We're working very hard to make sure we tell a fantastic story of such an important birth! We think we sound pretty good! What do you think?

Using illustrations and describing to Miss Davies to help write our letters to Father Christmas. We've been thinking about what we would want a present to look like, their size and colour, the more detail the better! 

We are enjoying the wintery provision in the classroom. Strengthening our fine motor skills to make snowmen with cottontails, tweezers and bottles and counting to 6 using schools of hot chocolate!

Week beginning Monday 25th November 2024

Christmas has arrived in Nursery, but as we enjoy the decorations and festive celebrations, we are beginning to explore the true meaning of Christmas and the reason for the season. We made holly leaves from our hands prints and put them together to make an Advent wreath. We looked at the colours of the candles and talked about what they represent and lit the first candle of Hope in preparation for the first Sunday of Advent at the weekend. 

Our prayer provision has been filled with children story telling the Visitation and Jesus' birth and we've been rocking around the Christmas tree to some Christmas carols. 

Week beginning Monday 18th November 2024

A week filled with song, as we start our festive period and begin learning our Nativity to perform in front of all our family and friends. We've been trying our best to follow along with Miss Davies and the beat of the songs, if you want to carry on at home please look on Seesaw  for the lyrics and music. 

Lots of us had our first experience of snow this week, and although it didn't stick or stay for long, we loved seeing the flakes falling outside!

We are still exploring the people who help us and this week we met Kieran, who is a Nurse. We listened to how he helps people in the local community, especially the elderly and what tools and equipment he carries in his special medical box. We tested out some of the equipment, and had a little scare when we couldn't find Miss Davies' heartbeat! Kieran told us that he worked as a Nurse during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Nightingale hospital. He showed us all the protective clothing he had to wear to make sure he stayed safe and well so that he could continue helping people. A big thank you to Kieran for taking the time to come and visit us and to the NHS workers for all that you have done and continue to do to help us and keep us safe. 

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.