St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Learning for Life"Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." (Luke 18:16)Our associated values are: Thankfulness, Respect, Honesty, Love and Resilience
Children learn in many different ways, this is known as the 'Characteristics of Effective Learning'.
Have a look at our outside area
Please look at our video resource page for a video to look around our garden.
Come and Play in our Early Years Foundation Stage
Lots of our activities are set up using tuff trays, here are some examples of ones we have used.
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.
We are having a new nursery built and we have enjoyed watching the builders and playing in our construction area.
The inside of our new nursery is coming along nicely
We are fantastic builders in Nursery
We are becoming expert builders in Nursery
Nahum and Kalli are really good at mixing the cement
Take a look at our video resource page to see Orla's expert building skills
This term we are hoping to grow fruit and vegetables in our garden and hoping the weather is kind to us and the grass will grow in our new areas.
We are reading 'What The Ladybird Heard' and 'The Gruffalo' both by our favourite author Julia Donaldson.
Nursery has also been getting ready to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee by making cakes from playdough, making crown and flags and learning a song to sing with the whole school on our celecbration day.
Jubilee Day ! We enjoyed our day playing party games, dancing and singing along to our Jubilee song, 'Here's To The Queen'
'Here's To The Queen'
'Here's To The Queen' Afternoon children
Making flags to wave on Friday
Making our lovely crowns, we had to use our fine motor skills to stick the crowns on
Making cakes for the Queen using playdough
We really enjoyed volleyball today
Look how much we enjoyed volleyball, we had an elephant race
We had animal races
Today we have lots of fun playing in our new sand pit it's so big we can play with lots of things and reception can play with us as well.
We have had lots of fun building farms, acting out our story and playing in the garden
We used the falling blossom to make potions
We used our listening ears to hear sounds in our enviroment
We painted in the style of Yayoi Kusama, using spots and dots
We have been enjoying the story 'The Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle and 'Handa's Surprise' by Eileen Browne'. We have learnt about the life cycle of a butterfly, how to eat healthily and lots of different mini beasts.
Please look on the video resource page for a video about our trip to Africa.
We really enjoyed learning Bollywood dancing today.
Morning children enjoying their dancing
Morning children
Fabulous Lola and Oscar
We were fantastic at dancing !
Our lovely afternoon children enjoying Bollywood dancing
Lovely Isla-Blue from our 2 year old room really enjoyed the dancing
Our afternoon children
We had a really fun time
Today was World Book Day, we came to Nursery dressed in our pyjamas and listened to lots of different stories.
Spring Term 1
This term we are learning about Dinosaurs. The first book we are reading is 'Cave Baby' written by our favourite author Julia Donaldson.
Today was the last day of term and we had a 'Growth Day', we have listened to different music, taken part in volley ball and painted in the style of Wassily Kandinsky.
Volley Ball
More volley ball
Volley Ball games
Morning Volley Ball
Afternoon children
Afternoon children volley ball
Afternoon volley ball games
We have had lots of fun today it was Maths Day, we have learnt about odd and even numbers.
We painted like Cavemen using leaves, twigs and grass as paint brushes.
This term we are learning about Traditional Stories. The books we are reading are 'The Enormous Turnip', 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' and 'The Three Little Pigs'.
We really enjoyed our Christmas dinner wearing our Christmas jumpers
We had a lovely relaxing pamper day
Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Nursery
We have been learning about numbers that make 5. These are our numbers bonds to 5
We have a been having a go at really tricky maths this week. We had to work out if a number was bigger than or smaller than a given number. We were fantastic at it.
We all pretended to be Goldilocks, we made porridge and added different flavours to it and then decided which was the best flavour.
To celebrate Diwali this year we talked about and did symmetrical painting and we made Diva Lamps
We made a poppy using red handprints for Remembrance Sunday.
Our finished poppy
We enjoyed making firework pictures using a cardboard tube
Today we made vegetable soup. This is what we used to make our soup.
Chopping the vegetables
Then we put the chopped vegetables and the stock into the soup maker to cook.
This term we are learning about prepositions. One of the books we are reading is 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' by Michael Rosen. We have also been looking at Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins.
We made fabulous Bear Hunt maps.
Have a look on the video resource page for a video of our Bear Hunt.
We have been on a Bear Hunt today, searching for bears in our garden
Going through the grass
Through the water
Stumble trip, stumble trip
It was cold through the snow
We found a cave
The afternoon children went through the water
Through the forest
We needed hats and scarves for the snow
We found a cave
We made it safely back home
Today we took part in Bollywood Dancing, we were fantastic !
Bollywood dancing
Morning children dancing
Morning children
Morning children
Morning children
Morning children
Afternoon children
Afternoon children
Afternoon children
Afternoon children
Afternoon childen
Afternoon children
Today was the grand opening of our Pizza Shop. We really enjoyed serving pizzas to our friends.
We enjoyed making 'Rainbow Toast' this week, we used food colouring and milk to paint our bread then we toasted it.
Today we made pizzas in preparation of the grand opening of our 'Pizza Shop' on Friday 17th September 2021. These are the things we used to make our pizzas.