Carle Class Nursery

Welcome to Carle Class Nursery!

 

Class teacher - Miss Runeckles

Nursery nurse - Miss Wilkins

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 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!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!!!

Quick! Run back home, shut the door, under the covers..

 

We're not going on a bear hunt again!

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 loved collaging and painting our own bears

We loved painting our self-portraits!

The children have enjoyed a variety of activities in the classroom and outside!

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!! 

Our trip to Africa - 23rd July 2024

Please look at the Donaldson and Murphy class page to see more photos of our Africa trip!

We started off by going through airport security, stamp our passports and board the plane!

We enjoyed doing lots of different activities in Africa, including making our own bracelets, and going on a safari hunt before flying back home.