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 'Growing'. We will learn about different living things which grow and planting our own seeds, bulbs and beans so we can watch them grow. 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, Mrs Clarke, Miss Watts, Mrs Derisa and Mrs Harrison
Class timetable:
Spring term nursery newsletter
Recommended reads:
Nursery Curriculum Plan
Nursery Knowledge and Skills
Spring Term
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.
Spring Term
A week learning about Easter and how it's celebrated. We painted eggs, visited St John's church for the Easter service, had an Easter egg hunt and tasted hot cross buns.
We planted our 'chitted' potatoes in a big sack and watered them to help them grow. We also found lots of snails hiding in the sack!
We have been learning about the different parts of a flower and painted our own sunflowers.
Nursery have been so excited to watch the ducklings hatch and grow.
GLAM morning
We had a wonderful World Book Day!
We have been growing cress seeds. We have loved watering them and watching them grow.
Love for Learning Day - Nursery and Year 3 shared their work and learning which they are proud of.
To celebrate Chinese New Year, nursery learnt about traditions, tasted Chinese food, created a Chinese dragon and performed a dragon dance.
We have been doing lots of mark making with chalks in the nursery garden.
We have loved reading Dear Zoo and painting our favourite animals from the story.
We have been reading the story 'Owl Babies' and re-telling the story. We also created owl babies using different materials.
Nursery have loved finding ice in the garden so we froze minibeasts in ice and explored different ways to melt or break the ice to free the minibeats.
Autumn Term
Nursery had a very special visitor!
We had so much fun at our Christmas party!
Nursery have enjoyed riding on the balance bikes, scooters and tricycles to build their gross motor skills.
We have been sharing and talking about our favourite books from home.
We dressed up for Children in Need.
Maths Week 2023.
In nursery, we've learnt about what Remembrance Day is, the significance of poppies and the children enjoyed making stained glass poppies and painting poppies.
This week we have been exploring pumpkins, making pumpkin soup and cutting and size ordering pumpkins.
We decorated biscuits and created faces.
Nursery have been doing lots of mark making using different materials and resources.
We have been learning about Autumn. We painted Autumn leaves on a tree using cotton buds to build our finger strength.
We went for a walk to see the outside of our new classroom and garden area. We enjoyed looking at the digger and trucks!
Nursery dressed up for Rock Star Day
We have been learning about 'ourselves' and body parts. The children have been drawing self-portraits.
We have had a brilliant first week in nursery.
