St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Carle Class Nursery
Welcome to Carle Class Nursery!
Class teacher - Miss Runeckles
Nursery nurse - Miss Wilkins
Nursery nurse - Ms Harii
PPA teacher - Mrs Kelly
Hours
We offer flexible hours in our 3 and 4 year old room, and are open at 8:30am until 3:30pm. We offer 30 hour full time places for 3 and 4 year olds from 9am-3pm with the option to extend from 8:30am-3:30pm.
We also offer 15 hour places across Monday to Friday which have to be taken as either 5 morning sessions from 8:30am-11:30am or 5 afternoon sessions from 12:30pm-3:30pm.
We accept 30 hour childcare codes. Please obtain your code from the website www.childcarechoices.gov.uk.
For further information, please contact 01322 665212.
A Day in the Life for Carle Class
Developing gross motor skills are very important, as children need to master these skills to help them to write and form letters. These muscles are developed by encouraging the children to take part in physical activities, such as climbing, balancing, dancing and crawling.
In nursery we do lots of 'Funky Finger' activities, this helps the children with their fine motor skills. These activities help the children to develop the muscles in their fingers, which will help the children develop their writing skills.
Our Learning Boards
Term 6 - Water
We welcome you all back to our exciting final term! Our topic is water, and our books we will be looking at are Bog Baby by Jeanne Wills, and Tiddler by Julia Donaldson. We have our challenge week where we will be completing different activities, and will be flying to Africa with our friends in Reception! We will also be celebrating all of our achievements this year at our graduation!
Important dates:
Teddy bears picnic - 16th June
Challenge week - 16th - 20th June
Flying to Africa - 18th July
Graduation - 22nd July (times to follow)
We created coral reefs for under the sea!
We had a wonderful water day!
Day 5. How many pom poms can we collect in a minute?
Water challenge
Day 4 - Sand. Who can fill the bowl up the quickest?
Collecting the most loom bands in a minute
Colour sorting
Day 3 - Stacking cups
Standing jump - Tomasz jumped the furthest!
How many beads can we thread in a minute?
Day 2 - We saw how many blocks we could stack before it fell. Uras got our top score of 15!
Javelin, discus and shotput!
Challenge week has arrived! Day 1 - High jump
Floating or sinking
Marbles - Jan has got our top score of 16 marbles in 1 minute!
Teddy Bears Picnic - we had the best time!
We created our own Bog babies and their home using different materials!
We loved taking care of our bog babies and showing them our garden!
Term 5 - Creatures Big and Small
We welcome you back to a new term! Over the next 5 weeks we will be looking at creatures big and small, including minibeasts and their habitats. The books we will be exploring are 'What the Ladybird Heard' and 'The Gruffalo' by Julia Donaldson. We will also be exploring rhyming words, spotting them and suggest words of our own. We will also be enjoying the sunshine and exploring the water and sand outside.
Celebrating VE Day! We enjoyed playing lots of games
Look at our ladybirds we made!
We have started planting in our allotment. We are taking care of our plants and have learned they need sun and water to grow!
Term 4 - Growing
Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely half term. This term, we are looking at growing, including life cycles and minibeasts and cultures and experiences in different countries. Our books this term are 'The Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle, Handa's Surprise by Eileen Browne, and Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke.
Happy Easter from the Carle Class!
We enjoyed taking part in challenges and team games on the last day of term!
Balance the bean bag
Egg and spoon race!
Look at our Easter bonnets! Our teachers were so impressed and we loved showing them off in the parade!
Easter has arrived! Decorating our cards
World Down Syndrome Day 2025 - Some of us came in our odd socks, and designed our own pair using different patterns!
We have been looking at Handa's Surprise, and created our own baskets through weaving!
We did our own observational drawings of fruit baskets
We enjoyed World Book Day, coming in our pyjamas, and bringing in our favourite bed time story and teddy!
We have looked at patterns on butterflies, and learnt they are symmetrical!
Term 3 - Dinosaurs
Welcome back to all of our lovely children. We hope you had a wonderful Christmas! Our topic books this term are Cave Baby by Julia Donaldson, and Mad about Dinosaurs by Giles Andreae.
We have begun immersing the children into pre-historic times by learning all about their art, animals and talking about what we see and how we feel about it. Throughout the term we will be learning and exploring different dinosaurs, their features and where they lived.
We explored different prepositions with the dinosaur to the cave!
Drawing our own patterns from Cave Baby!
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Making our own dinosaurs out of playdough!
We loved doing ballet today!
We had our own cave in the classroom! We created our own cave markings using patterns and shapes.
Creating our own fossils! We have learnt fossils can be footprints, bones or teeth!
We have become paleontologists, exploring fossils and did some excavation!
We have enjoyed exploring patterns and drawing in the sand!
We have begun exploring fossils, what they are, and cleaning them to explore healthy choices!
Exploring and painting snow!
Term 2 - Fairytale stories
We hope you all had a lovely half term. This term, we are looking at fairytale stories, which include The Enormous Turnip, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and the Three Little Pigs. We are also approaching that time of year again, Christmas!! We will be enjoying lots of arts and crafts to make our own decorations!
Christmas has arrived in nursery!! 
Merry Christmas from the Carle Class!
We really enjoyed our Christmas breakfast/lunch!
Helping our reindeer
Father Christmas emailed us!! He told us one of his reindeer were poorly and he needed our help to make him feel better. We thought of lots of ideas and wrote our own checklists before preparing his area to stay.
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The reindeer stayed the night! Father Christmas told us he was feeling much better and he thanked us so much for helping!
Creating food bags for the reindeer!
Decorating biscuits for the bake sale!
Check out some of our Christmas jumpers!
Decorating our Christmas tree!
We did an experiment in nursery where we explored if certain objects moved if we huffed and puffed. We marked down if they did or not!
We loved reading and exploring the Three Little Pigs. We used straws to huff and puff for our paintings!
We enjoyed exploring our artist this term - Guiseppe Archimboldo and used vegetables to create our own face!
We really enjoyed taste testing different porridge flavours! Overall, apple was our favourite!
In maths, we enjoyed pouring oats into different containers to explore capacity!
It snowed in nursery!
15th November - Children in Need
We thoroughly enjoyed different activities to show our support for Pudsey. He even came to visit us in nursery!! We decorated our own biscuits with spots, and added our own spots to Pudsey.
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Look at our wonderful bear faces we created with natural resources!
The wheels on the bus go round and round!
We created our own Rangoli patterns to celebrate Diwali, the festival of light!
We have looked at The Enormous Turnip in our maths learning. We have been pulling objects to test whether if they are heavy or light!
Term 1 - Prepositions
Welcome back to our children from the last academic year, and welcome to our new children who have joined Carle class! The children have had a fantastic start with our first topic 'All About Me'. We looked at similarities and differences we had between each other and our families, and dived into lots of painting for our self-portraits and trees.
This term, we will also be looking at 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' by Michael Rosen, and Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins.
We sadly say goodbye to our wonderful Mrs Kelly. We thank her for everything and wish her all the best in her new adventure!
Wear it pink day 2024! We enjoyed coming into school wearing pink, and counting pink spots for our maths learning!
We have begun looking at Rosie's walk. We have discussed the route Rosie went on, and spoken about farms and different animals. We have created fact sheets to show all our knowledge!
We created our own haystacks using different materials!
We have made amazing story maps to retell the story of We're Going on a Bear Hunt!
We're going on a bear hunt!
We're going on a bear hunt, we're going to catch a big one, what a beautiful day, we're not scared!
Uh oh! Grass. Long wavy grass. We can't go over it, we can't go under it. Oh no! We've got to go through it!
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Uh oh! A river. A deep cold river. We can't go over it, we can't go under it. Oh no! We've got to go through it!
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Uh oh! Mud. Thick oozy mud. We can't go over it, we can't go under it. Oh no! We've got to go through it!
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Uh oh! A forest. A big dark forest. We can't go over it, we can't go under it. Oh no! We've got to go through it!
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Uh oh! A snowstorm. A swirling, whirling snowstorm. We can't go over it, we can't go under it. Oh no! We've got to go through it!
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Uh oh! A cave. A narrow, gloomy cave. We can't go over it, we can't go under it. Oh no! We've got to go through it! Tip toe, tip toe...
What's that? One shiny wet nose, two big furry ears, two big goggly eyes...
It's a bear!!!
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Quick! Run back home, shut the door, under the covers..
We're not going on a bear hunt again!
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We used sensory trays to retell the story of we're going on a bear hunt. We also used them to describe the texture and how it felt!
Our artist this term is Andy Warhol. We have explored vibrant colours and painted in his style.
In our math's learning, we have been sorting objects into groups to help us compare on what makes them the same or different.
We enjoyed ballet!
We loved painting our self-portraits!
The children have enjoyed a variety of activities in the classroom and outside!
Our all about me trees!
We have been developing our phonological awareness by focusing on sounds.
Graduation 2024
To all of our superstars in Carle class,
We cannot believe this year has come to an end, but we are so immensely proud of every single one of you. You have worked your socks off and persevered with every challenge we have given you, and we are so impressed with the progress you have all made. On behalf of myself, Mrs Kelly and Mrs Deal, we hope you have a wonderful summer, and we wish all the best for the children moving up to Reception, you are going to smash it!!
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Our trip to Africa - 23rd July 2024
Please look at the Donaldson and Murphy class page to see more photos of our Africa trip!
