Category: Nursery Blog

We have had a very busy week, this week. We have learnt all about the festival of Diwali and watched the story of Rama and Sita. We had lots of fun on Math’s day playing number and shape games and singing number rhymes. We learnt about Poppy day and had a minutes silence to remember and thank all the soldiers and we have had a fun filled Pudsey day for Children in Need.

Activities to support learning

Number Rhymes using fingers or props.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-counting-songs/zn67kmn

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/lets-celebrate-diwali

Well done to everyone who took part in our Pumpkin competition, they were amazing!! The judges had a really hard time picking winners as they were all so good.

Congratulations to Zakariya H for his winning witch pumpkin and also to Emelia N and Isla W as runners up.

This week we have been learning about Bonfire Night, why we celebrate it and how to keep ourselves safe. We have explored different ways of using paint to create firework work pictures including splash painting, using cotton buds and using spray bottles. We have read the story called Sparks in the sky (Twinkl) and made chocolate sparkles – they were delicious.

Over the last 2 weeks we have been learning about Autumn and exploring the changes in the environment at this time of year. Here are some of the activities we have done.

Meeting the chickens

Pumpkin Scooping

Our theme for the next few weeks in Nursery will be Autumn. We are looking at the changes in the environment and talking about what we see. We are reading the story Leaf Man and talking about all the different coloured leaves we see during Autumn time. We will be doing different Autumn crafts using leaves and going on an Autumn walk to our Forest School area looking for signs of Autumn.

If you are out on walks over the next few weeks please feel free to collect any Autumn objects you may find and bring them in to Nursery to share with the other children.

Hello everyone and welcome to Coundon Primary School Nursery.

We are so pleased with how all the children have settled into Nursery so far, they have been amazing, well done.

As parents are unable to come into Nursery at present we have taken some photos of how we look inside. Once we have all our photo consent forms back we will start uploading photos of our activities each week.

Nursery children will receive a door step visit by a member of Nursery staff in the week beginning 2nd September. Dates and Times have previously been shared with you.

Induction sessions will begin on Tuesday 8th September. The children will either be visiting Tuesday and Thursday 8.30- 10.30 or 1.30 – 3.30 or Wednesday and Friday 8.30-10.30 or 1.30 – 3.30. All times can be confirmed during your doorstep visits.

After their Induction period the children will be returning on Monday September 14th. There will be a staggered entry in 10-minute intervals. Your child will enter via the Nursery gate at 8.30 am, they will need to queue at 1m distance and will be met by Mrs Jones who will escort them to their new classroom. Unfortunately, the guidelines state that parents are still not allowed onto school site and if you are bringing your child to school, will need to say goodbye at the school entrance and leave them in the capable hands of the school staff. For safety can I please request that you do not gather at the school gate to hold discussions with other parents. (I do know this is tempting when you have not seen some of your friends for long periods of time but the safety of the children and staff is paramount) At the end of day your child will exit from the Nursery gate by the school office at 11.30am. This arrangement will apply every day until further notice.  

Welcome to Coundon Primary School Nursery

We are sorry we have not been able to meet any of you yet. We have added a little bit of information about us all to introduce ourselves.

We are really excited about meeting you all. Miss Jones will be calling you over the next couple of weeks to arrange a doorstop home visit and your settling in sessions in September.

If you have any questions in the meantime you can contact us on [email protected]