Homerswood
Primary and Nursery School
‘A pathway to grow, be curious and discover’
Nursery
Welcome to Nursery
We are looking forward to an exciting new term in Nursery. Learning is through play and we will continue to provide a wide range of activities to develop the children's skills and knowledge and to encourage their curiosity and independence.
Learning is planned through exciting topics. This half term our topic is 'Holidays and Under the Sea'. We will learn about different sea creatures, their habitats and all about seas and oceans. We will also be reading lots of stories and singing songs linked to the topic. We also plan from the children’s interests and what they want to learn and find out about. Learning takes place both inside and outside the classroom.
Keep checking the web page to see our exciting news, photos and amazing learning.
The nursery team are Mrs Spillman, Miss Watts and Mrs Clarke.
Class timetable:
Nursery newsletter
Recommended reads:
Nursery Curriculum Plan
Nursery Knowledge and Skills
Summer Term
Enjoying an ice cream on the school field!
Building our physical development by climbing, balancing, pedalling and scooting.
We had a brilliant trip to Woodside Animal Park.
FUDGE morning in nursery.
Picking our own strawberries for snack time, they were delicious!
We had some special visitors in Nursery......ducklings!
Nursery wanted to learn all about fires after the fire alarm practice. We had great fun painting a fire and putting it out!
We have been reading the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and visited the forest area to collect lots of different natural objects to decorate butterfly templates.
Nursery have been learning about how to keep their teeth clean and healthy.
Nursery went on a minibeast hunt and found snails, spiders, bees, centipedes, enormous slugs and many more.
Spring Term
GLAM Morning.
After reading the story 'Oliver's Fruit Salad', we made our own fruit salad by cutting up different fruits into small pieces and then mixing them together in a bowl. It was delicious!
Learning deep sea yoga poses for British Science Week.
Celebrating World Book Day.
This week we planted cress seeds and will watch them grow. We also created a height chart to see who was the shortest and who was the tallest person in Nursery.
We learnt about and celebrated Chinese New Year. We created a dragon's head, performed a dragon dance, tasted Chinese food and used our fine motor skills with tweezers and noodles.
Nursery have been enjoying lots of mark making and practicing their cutting skills.
Making mud soup and mud pies in our outdoor kitchen.
Some of the Nursery children created an obstacle course using different resources. They practised their balancing and it kept them warm in the cold and frosty weather.
We have been reading and painting animals from the story 'Dear Zoo' by Rod Campbell. We've enjoyed learning about the different animals.
Autumn Term
We had so much fun at our Christmas class party!
Nursery have been reading The Three Little Pigs. We have learnt about the different types of material used to build the houses and talked about the different types of homes we live in.
A week of celebrating Diwali, Bonfire Night and Fireworks. We created Rangoli patterns, firework paintings and learnt a new firework song.
We went on a walk to look for signs of Autumn. We found acorns, pine cones, berries and lots of Autumn leaves.
This week we have been learning about hedgehogs and the word 'hibernate'. We created clay hedgehogs, using wooden sticks for the spines.
Nursery have been learning all about Autumn and have painted Autumn trees, made marks with Autumn colours and explored different natural objects.
We have been painting our self portraits and talking about what colour eyes and hair we have. We enjoyed mixing colours!
We went on a listening walk around the school and listened for the different sounds we could hear in our environment.
Our first week in nursery.
Summer Term
We had a brilliant trip to Standalone Farm.
We have had lots of fun exploring the Reception classroom and outdoors area to support the children's transition.
We had doctors, artists, bakers and other professions in nursery for 'Dress as your future self day'.
FUDGE morning in nursery.
Celebrating World Cultural Diversity Day.
We loved our minibeast hunt and searching for different insects and invertebrates. We found spiders, snails, centipedes and lots of other minibeasts.
Nursery have enjoyed developing their gross motor skills in their PE lessons and in the nursery garden.
We have been doing lots of planting in our garden and we also planted beans and are watering them to help them grow.
Nursery have been learning how to keep their teeth clean and healthy.
