Welcome To Nursery

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

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

The Special Recognition Awards go to:

Olivia Ikramkhodjaev - for being an all round superstar, she has achieved so much this year in nursery from her name writing, her speech and managing her own feelings, Olivia is a well liked member of nursery, she is so kind and helpful and always has a huge smile on her face! Well Done Olivia!

Maddox Halliday - for making Nursery staff smile daily, Maddox has grown so much this year in Nursery, his confidence has really shone through, he has found his voice and he gives 100% in everything he does! Maddox is kind, helpful and such a lovely friend to others! Well Done Maddox!

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. 

Summer 2 - Week 7

What a lovely final week we have had in Nursery, so much fun had by all!

We had such a fantastic time at the Early Years Beach Party and have celebrated such a fun and wonderful year! 

Here are some of our favourite memories - 

Cleo - "I have loved playing in the home corner"

Harry - "I like to play on the bike tracks with my friend Maddox"

Jamie - "I have made so many models in the workshop"

Poppy - "I sang at christmas for my Mummy and Daddy"

Jacob - "My Daddy run at sports day"

Summer 2 - Week 6

Oh arr Nursery! we have had a fantastic piratey week!

We have read and enjoyed the story 'Pirates love underpants'

we have made our own telescopes and maps and used these to find the treasure!

We have celebrated England winning at football, praticing our own football skills on and off the pitch!

"these pirate boats can float" Molly

"We are finding treasure" Jamie

"I scored a goal" Seb

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Summer 2 - Week 5

Such a fun 'Be Healthy' week in Nursery, we have all had a super active week!

We were so proud of all of the Nursery children who took part in our Sports Day on Wednesday, they tried so hard and Wowed all the Nursery parents with their fantastic skills and 'Can do' attitudes! 

We have enjoyed making yummy fruit kebabs, learning all about road safety, sun safety and self regulation, through lots of group discussions and activities!

Here are the things that Nursery enjoyed about sports day:

Poppy "I liked running in and out of the cones"

Cleo "I just liked everything"

Bonnie "My Mummy came and watched me jump"

Niamh "I threw the bean bags in the hoops"

Summer 2 - Week 4

What lovely weather we have had this week, creating more fun learning opportunities is the glorious sunshine, Nursery have enjoyed lots of water play, exploring tipping, pouring and filling, using lots of different pipes, funnels and containers! 
 

We have enjoyed reading and learning the story Jack and the Flum Flum Tree, this has led to lots of interest in pirates! We have been looking for treasure in the sand pit and exploring the pirate small world tray!

We have looked at and created our own Art work by Joan Miro. Using lines, shapes and lots of colour!

In maths we have been identifying numerals one to five and ordering these!

Matilda - “that’s looks like a snowflake”

Ethan - “I’m using green for my triangle”

Grace - “I have started with 1 and finished with 5”

Bonnie - “ I’ll hide the gold coins, you look for them and put them in the treasure chest”

Summer 2 - Week 3

Its been lovely to see the sunshine this week in Nursery, the children have had some fantastic outdoor learning opportunities! From Bug hunting, water play and lots of imagination play. As we continue to explore different ways to travel, nursery have made trains and other vehicles using the large crates, we have enjoyed making paper planes which involved following the instructions and listening carefully! The best part was testing them out and seeing how well they could fly!

As we have enjoyed celebrating so many birthdays this past couple of weeks, we created our own birthday party in the home corner, the children enjoyed setting it up and creating their own parties.

Ayla Celebrated Eid this week "I have a special pattern on my hand"

Harry and Maddox -  "Dubai is further away on the map than Ibiza"

Jamie - "my plane can fly higher"

Isaac - "I made a train hop on"

Summer 2 - Week 2

This week in Nursery we have enjoyed reading and retelling the story

"The Train Ride", the children have had fun playing with the train tracks and going on their own journeys.

We have celebrated lots of birthdays this week, the children enjoyed sharing their birthday news and photos with the rest of the class.

In Maths we are still enjoying learning our numbers, looking carefully at the number line to see which number comes after. 

Maddox - "For my birthday I got some diggers"

Suraya - "Ive been on a train ride with my mummy"

Genevieve - "number 5 comes after number 4"

Summer 2 - Week 1

Back to a busy fun filled week in Nursery, It's been so lovely to see the children enjoying the outdoor space, they have loved exploring trajectory this week, lots of team work and communication to work out the best way to make those balls travel!

We have began our topic of Adventures this week, talking lots about what an adventure is, Nursery had some fantastic ideas of what and where adventures could be.

Matilda - "its mean exploring somewhere new"

Genevieve - "its finding new friends"

Elle - "finding something in my imagination"

Liv - "going to the woods"

In Maths we have been looking at different number pairs that make 3, 4 and 5.

We have enjoyed learning the poem Pitter Patter, using different props and instruments!

Summer 1 - Week 6

Another week of fun in Nursery, its been a busy week too with lots going on,

we welcomed parents into Nursery on Monday for our Physical Development open session, it was great to see so many faces!

The Children were very excited on Tuesday as we had a special visit in Early Years from a local Police Officer, he told us all about how to keep safe and how he has a special job to keep us and our community safe, we asked Dean lots of questions, he was very impressed.

The arrival of some tadpoles has been fascinating for Nursery this week, we have really enjoyed watching them and looking for changes. 

We have enjoyed reading the story 'A Squash and a Squeeze' and singing the song '5 little speckled frogs'.

Cleo "I think the tadpoles will become frogs"

Otis "that tadpole big and small"

Jamie asked "Do you have a police van?"

Bonnie "we are making popcorn"

Summer 1 - Week 5

A very exciting week in Nursery, we all really enjoyed the Animal Experience, Nursery were so brave and held snakes, spiders and much more! When we did our Class vote the Rabbit was the firm favorite.

We have continued exploring shapes and have enjoyed reading the story Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy!

Arthur - "That is a big spider"

Genevieve - "it tickles and feels funny"

Jamie - "it was a kind spider"

Alfie - "I think rabbits eat carrots and noodles"

Summer 1 - Week 4

Another week full of sunshine and smiles in Nursery, the children have really embraced this weeks story of Monkey Puzzle, where a friendly butterfly helps a baby monkey find his mum!

We have been learning all about the shapes Circles, Rectangles and triangles, we have had fun creating pictures using these shapes and also spotting them in our Nursery learning environment!

The children have enjoyed looking at different art work inspired by Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian.

Using our listening ears we have been identifying objects that begin with the sound 'M'.

Outside we have enjoyed performing on the stage 'Nursery have talent!'

Olivia "look Mrs Hart Shape"

Ethan "this is a triangle"

Cleo "when I grow up I want to be a rock star"

Bonnie - " mouse starts with 'M' "

Summer 1 - Week 3

What a fantastic week we have had in nursery in the lovely long awaited sunshine, We have made the most of the weather and spent lots of time in the outside area, working on lots of skills such as climbing, using the bikes and scooters and throwing and catching.

Our new children are continuing to make friends, get used to the new nursery environment and learn our routines, they are doing a fantastic job!

We continue to learn the story Dear Zoo and can now now confidently re tell the story using our talk for writing actions!

In math's we have been learning to use the words more and fewer, we have done lots of different activities to help us understand what these words mean.

Olivia shows us her fantastic balancing skills!

Cleo "I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet, the elephant was too big, I sent him back"

Harry "that hoop has more and that one has fewer"

Summer 1 - Week 2

 Another fantastic week in Nursery, we have enjoyed the story Dear Zoo, Nursery have done a great job at retelling the story using the actions!

In maths we have been using positional language to find Spot the dog.

we have been practising our scissors skills and have really impressed with our can do attitude!

Jamie - "Spot is behind the box"

Genevieve - "Look at the circle I can cut"

Jacob - "Send the snake back, its scary"

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

Autumn 1

Week 4

We have had a wonderful week in nursery, learning our new nursery routines.

we have been exploring the colours red, blue and yellow and reading the story 'The colour monster'

"my jumper is red" Harry

"me like yellow, this yellow" Jamie

"I feel happy, I like nursery" Liv

"the red is cross, this is my cross face" Maddox

we have also enjoyed trying new things this week in nursery,

"I not played in the play dough yet, but I did today" Amelie

"me do it now" Jacob Proudly told us.

" We can build this obstacle together" Molly

Autumn 1 

Week 1-3

We are really proud of all the Nursery children on their settling in visits,

it has been lovely getting to know you all.

"I liked to Paint" Poppy

"I played in the Sand with Niamh" Genevieve

"I like everywhere at Nursery" Liv

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