Nursery

Welcome To Nursery

Here you will find information for your child, what we have been learning and how you can support them at home.

This half term we are learning....

curriculum map summer 1.pdf

Messages

Doors are open 8.30am-8.40am and from 3.15pm.

This Weeks Westroyd Learner Award goes to....

Jacob Barling for coming back to Nursery this week with a huge smile, being kind to the new Nursery children and starting to explore other areas.

Sienna Winter for beginning to join in and gaining confidence at carpet time sessions and for her super tidying up.

Home Learning

Here you will find links to support your child at home. If you have any questions please speak to a member of the Nursery Team.

Home Learning Ideas

Nursery Rhyme pack

Summer 1

Week 1

We have had a fun week back in Nursery sharing all our exciting Easter Holiday News.

We have welcomed our new Nursery children who have been doing their settling in visits.

We have been singing lots of nursery rhymes and have done really well spotting the rhyming words throughout.

Poppy - "this is a square with 4 sides"

Otis - "I like dinosaurs"

Niamh - "look at this wiggly worm"

Spring 2

Week 6

What a very egg-citing week we have had in nursery celebrating Easter, we have enjoyed making Easter buns, Easter cards and learning all about the festival of Easter.

As well in maths this week we have been learning about heavy and light and using the weighing scales.

It was lovely to see so many parents at our maths open session on Tuesday morning, the children really enjoyed all the activities.

Matilda told us - "Jesus came back to life and that's what hot cross buns are"

Finlay - "I'm making an Easter egg in the playdough"

Genevieve - "I found my egg under the table"

Spring 2

Week 5

It feels as though Spring is coming in Nursery this week, We have really enjoyed spending lots of time in the outdoor environment.

We have had lots of fun bug hunting, planting sunflowers, climbing and exploring the bike track.

Our caterpillars have began to change and are now in their cocoons, we are still keeping a close eye on them and hoping soon they will become butterflies.

Police Officers has become a firm interest too in nursery this week, the children have enjoyed playing with the police small world and also dressing up as police officers and keeping an eye on things around early years!

Olivia - "Spring is coming"

Seb - "look at this worm its moving"

Alfie - "look at this spider, its black"

Spring 2

Week 4

We have had so much excitement in nursery this week with the arrival of our Caterpillars, we have watched and observed them daily and have already noticed how much they have grown, we are wondering what changes we will notice next week.

We have been working on new skills this week creating impressive observational drawings of daffodils, exploring shapes and colour.

We had lots of fun experimenting for national science week observing change and how quickly this can happen.

Bug hunting has been a firm favorite this week, who knew we had so many bugs and insects in our nursery garden!

Harry "I found a slug, snail and spider"

Poppy "First its a caterpillar, then it goes into a cocoon and out pops a beautiful butterfly"

Bonnie - "Our caterpillars are getting fatter and fatter"

Maddox - "its like a volcano and lava"

Spring 2

Week 3

We have done lots of things this week in Nursery but most importantly we have had fun along the way.

We have talked about the importance of healthy teeth and role played Dentists in the home corner.

Some of our Nursery parents have been in to be mystery readers, the children have loved having them here, they have been on a bear hunt and even visited the moon in a cardboard box.

We are starting to feel like Spring is finally coming and the children have enjoyed planting their own beanstalks this week, We are hoping they grow as big as Jaspers Beanstalk!

Nursery had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day, We read so many stories and found different places in Early Years to read them, we made our own book marks and drew pictures of our favorite book characters.

"My seed needs water" Jacob

"It takes a long long long time to grow" Niamh

"its my Daddy reading a story book!" Jamie

"I went to the dentist my teeth are good" Amelie

Spring 2

Week 2

Another fantastic week in Nursery with lots of fun learning going on.

We have enjoyed the stories The Tiny Seed and Jasper's Beanstalk and planting our own seeds in the play dough area.

We have created our own transient art using natural materials inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworth.

Jamie "I have drawn this like Andy"

Elle "I'm using sticks and stones for my picture"

Poppy "I can draw a beanstalk like Jaspers"

Seb - "My art sticks are black and a little bit brown"

Spring 2

Week 1

We have had a flipping good week in Nursery, celebrating Pancake Day and enjoying our story Mr Wolfs Pancakes. We have been making pancakes in the dough area, flipping pancakes outside and serving pancakes in our home corner.

What a lot of fun we have had!

In our phonics this week, we have been listening to lots of different environmental sounds and in math's we have learnt even more about the number 5 using spots and dots!

Bonnie - "2 spots and 3 spots make 5 spots"

Amelie - "1 dot and 4 dots make 5 dots"

Liv - "I had jam and honey on my pancakes"

Jamie - "watch me flip the pancakes"

Spring 1

Week 5

Love is in the air this week in Nursery, we have celebrated valentines by creating our own kindness tree, thinking about things that we are good at, the people we love and the reasons why we love them.

Poppy - "I love my friends Harry and Seb and my toys and my home"

Isaac - "I am good at watching paw patrol"

Elle - "I love Magpies and I wish I was a bird"

Harry - " I love writing"

We have also celebrated Lunar New Year this week in nursery, we really enjoyed making our dragon and performing our dragon dance!

We have continued our counting and have now moved on to learn all about the number 5.

We loved seeing lots of parents in nursery on Wednesday morning for our open session, the children enjoyed doing all the activities with their Mummy and Daddy's.

Spring 1

Week 4

Another week of busy learning in Nursery, recapping the number 4 and finding out that 4 can be composed in a number of different ways!

We have still been enjoying reading the three little pigs and doing a fantastic job at re telling the story with our talk for writing actions, we drew the 3 little pigs houses using a number of different shapes.

We have been using our listening ears too this week and listening to different instrumental sounds, does a drum sound the same when played quietly or loudly?

We are also fine artists in Nursery, we have been sculpting dough to create the 7 magic mountains and learning all about art by Ugo Rondinone.

"I can see all the colours" Isaac

"they look like people" Amelie

" I still have 4, I am 4" Matilda

Spring 1

Week 3

A whole lot of fun we have had in Nursery this week, Our new nursery starters are settled in and learning our daily routine.

We have carried on with our super counting and maths work and have now been learning all about the number 4.

Did you know a square and a rectangle both have 4 sides? We know this in nursery!

We have been focusing on our mark making too, practicing drawing crosses and snowflakes.

The big bad wolf and a little pig came to visit us, we asked them lots of questions.

Molly asked "why did you blow the pigs house down?"

Connie "I drew this snowflake"

Jamie "I found number four numicon"

Ethan "I made a cross, look"

Spring 1

Week 2

A cold and icy week in Nursery, We have had lots of fun exploring the ice and cold weather. Our poem this week has been "Let's put on our mittens" which we have certainly needed to do when playing outside.

We have worked together in small groups to build the houses for the 3 little pigs, a house of straw, a house of sticks and a house of bricks, even after lots of huffing and puffing we could not blow these houses down!!

This story has been a focus in Nursery this week we have created our own story map and acted out the story, using our talk for writing actions!

Genevieve - " Little pig, Little pig, let me come in"

Amelie - "not by the hair of my chinny chin chin"

Poppy - " I have drawn a number 3 and the three pigs"

Spring 1

Week 1

How lovely to see everyone back at Nursery this week after the Christmas break, some new nursery faces too which has been exciting!

What a wonderful learning week it has been, its been a Cold week which has provided nursery with lots of Wintery learning opportunities, we have been talking about the cold weather and exploring the outside area looking for signs of winter.

We have focused on the number 3 also this week, counting, singing, drawing and reading all about it.

what fun we've had sharing our Christmas holiday news, Nursery have done lots of things at home with their families over half term.

Ethan "I have enjoyed playing with the dinosaurs at Nursery"

Molly - "I am putting three bean bags in the hoop"

Jamie - "Its winter its windy and cold"

Autumn 2

Week 7

Lots of Christmas Fun and Games this week in Nursery, to Celebrate all our hard work we had our Nursery Christmas party, the children wowed us with their fantastic dance moves and amazing party wear, we had a special visit too from the Man in Red!

We have enjoyed getting busy Christmas crafting and exploring Christmas sensory play too this week.

To get Nursery and Reception parents in the Christmas spirit we performed some lovely Christmas songs.

Also this week we have welcomed our New Children who start nursery in January, they have enjoyed stay and play visits to see what fun we have in Nursery.

Olivia told Santa "I want toys please"

Amelie - "Look at my dancing I can spin around"

Molly - "I'm hanging this snowman on my Christmas tree at home"

Sienna and Ethan enjoyed playing and exploring the Play dough table.

Autumn 2

Week 6

This week has been all about our Early Years Nativity and what a wonderful Nativity it was, we were so proud of our Nursery children on such a wonderful performance, they sang their hearts out.

It was so lovely to see so many Parents and family members watching with pride.

We also performed for key stage 1 and they were so impressed!

Amelie - "my mummy came to watch me sing"

Poppy - "I liked been a star"

Maddox - "I sang lots"

Suraya - "I liked my big brother watching me"

Autumn 2

Week 5

A very Busy festive week in Nursery, We Started our week off talking about Advent, We had a Visit from Gareth he's from our local church in Farsley, we enjoyed showing Gareth our Reef we had made and Christmas things we had been making at home, he was very impressed.

We have been exploring color and printing and talking about and looking at art work by the artist Andy Warhol.

Nursery have had lots of fun continuing to read Stick man this week, learning key phrases from the story, making our own stick men and even thinking of ways we could free stickman when we found him frozen and covered in frost.

Olivia - "Stick Man Stick Man"

Jacob - "look Stick Man in the ice"

Poppy - "I'm making hand prints, they are the same and all black"

Elle - "We need tinsel on our tree"

Autumn 2

Week 4

What a Wonderful Frosty Week in Nursery, We have began reading and learning key phrases from the story 'Stick Man'.

What a lot of fun we have had singing and doing the actions to Head, Shoulders, knees and Toes.

We have been making 2 color repeating patterns in a range of different ways.

Some of the nursery children walked in our parade at Farsley Lights, we made our own lanterns, which looked fantastic!

And we have been busy making Nursery Classroom look all Christmassy! Nursery is beginning to feel festive!

Jamie - "I have made a Christmas Tree at home to put up in nursery"

Molly - "I drew Stick Mans Family, I used Brown, sticks are brown"

Bonnie - "we are pretending we are at the beach"

Niamh - "I made a star for the tree"

Autumn 2

Week 3

A Fantastic Week in Nursery, learning new skills and becoming more confident when trying new things, we love how the Nursery children have embraced these.

We have enjoyed weaving and threading, using new tools in the dough area, drawing circles in a range of ways and perfecting those scissor skills.

We are still enjoying the story Each Peach Pear Plum, We can now re tell this story confidently using our Story maps.

Lots of tea has been made in our Westroyd Cafe this week whilst enjoying learning our poem Cup of tea, some children have even made tea in the Outside Mud Kitchen... Delicious!

All the nursery children whilst making tea - "Here's a cup, And here's a cup, And there's a pot of tea. Pour a cup, And pour a cup, And have a drink with me."

Elle - "I can draw a circle now, I go round and then stop, like this"

Suraya - "I used this extruder in the play dough"

Autumn 2

Week 2

A week of celebrations in Nursery,

We started the week off celebrating odd sock day! we have enjoyed learning about Diwali the festival of light, The children have wowed us with their amazing dancing, we all had so much fun. We made Diva Lamps, Mendhi and Rangoli patterns using lots of different resources.

We have also had lots of fun celebrating World Nursery Rhyme week, reciting and singing a range of Nursery Rhymes.

We have been reading the book Each peach pear plum, using fantastic actions to help us re tell the story.

Molly - "I am wearing Diwali clothes"

Bonnie - "My lamp is one where people might celebrate Diwali"

Genevieve - "we wear odd socks because we are all different"

Niamh - "I made this card for Happy Diwali"

Autumn 2

Week 1

A fun and busy first week back after half term break, its been lovely to see all those smiling faces.

We kicked the week off enjoying bonfire and firework activities, using fine and Gross Motor skills it was so much fun.

We got artistic and a little bit messy whilst making our Poppy reef to remember all the soldiers.

Breezy Weather has been a fitting poem for this week as it certainly has been a little breezy outside, We know as our Wind Socks that we have made blew around in the wind.

Suraya - "fireworks are loud, I watched them through the window"

Grace - " I saw Genevieve at the Bonfire, she had a hat on, it was cold"

Liv - "My Grandma has a poppy, to remember the soldiers"

Niamh - "I want to huddle together like penguins to keep me warm"

Autumn 1

Week 8

A very fun and exciting week in Nursery!

Halloween has been the theme, exploring potions, Pumpkins, witches and Bugs.

We have been Practicing our Scissor skills in a number of different ways.

Mrs Hollingshead and Mrs Hart have been so impressed with Our Counting,

Colour Sorting and size matching.

We have enjoyed singing the Song 5 Current Buns and making these in our play dough area.

On Wednesday Nursery walked in our Welly Walk and did an amazing 12 laps around Early Years Playground.

"Tommy bought a current bun and took it away" Nursery

"you need to add flour too and mix" Harry

"I tried to write family there" Molly

"I can cut this line" Elle

"whoosh she was gone" Jamie

Autumn 1

Week 7

What a busy week in Nursery!

This week we have continued the story of 'Rosie's Walk', What a fantastic job

we have done of re telling the story and learning the actions. We also took the story into our outdoor learning, using our positional language to create our own obstacle courses for Rosie.

Jamie - "use this, Rosie can go round and round and round"

Molly - "Rosie goes through the tunnel"

Bonnie - "we can go on an autumn walk"

Autumn 1

Week 6

Another Fun and exciting week in Nursery!

This week we have really enjoyed reading the story of 'Rosie's Walk' and singing the song '5 little speckled frogs'

We have a new arrival.. Our baby doll, which we have decided to call Daisy, the children are doing a fantastic job of caring for Daisy in our home corner.

We have also enjoyed sorting buttons, using and understanding the words Large, Medium and Small.

Amelie - "this button is big, put it in there"

Jamie - "me make a play dough camper van, will you help?"

Finlay - "this is a picture of me"

Niamh - "I am holding baby Daisy carefully"

Autumn 1

Week 5

A lot of fun had by all in Nursery this week!

Talking about our families and the people that are special to us.

we have done a fantastic job at colour mixing too this week, what fun we have had exploring! Did you know that red and blue make purple and that yellow and blue make green? we now know this in nursery!

"A little bit of red and a tiny bit blue, its purple" Jamie

"Ava lives in my house too with me" Harry

"its not slime, its play dough" Genevieve

" I am doing a experiment" Bonnie

"wow, that makes green" Liv