Looking for your Name?

About our  Wall of Names

When the children first start in Nursery they are asked to bring in a picture of themselves.

Every child's picture and name is added to this special wall.

Everyday at the beginning of the session the children are asked to identify their name on the wall.

As well as recognising each other they are also learning the shape of their own name. 

This activity supports literacy and helps in word recognition and recall

Numeracy in Nursery

Getting Familiar with Numbers

There are so many ways to explore the magic of numbers.  We use a variety of activities to make numbers come alive.

This is a picture of our Nursery  Counting House.  It is a specially dedicated area where children can go and find out about calculating and estimating.

This a display  the children created for our annual Exhibition. 

The strings of pasta wind themselves through a sea of numbers

• By the time the children leave Nursery we expect them to count reliably up to 10 everyday objects
• Begin to relate addition to combining two grops of objects and subtraction to 'taking away'

• Use language such as 'more' or 'less' to compare tow numbers
• Fi nd one more or one less than a number from 1 to 10

Design Technology in Nursery

Exploring Taste, Smell and Texture

These wonderful plaques were made by the children as part of a project on Africa. 

The children begin to learn about their own cultures and beliefs and those of other people.

As part of their Food project during the Spring term the children in nursery have the chance to make pizza. 

Here is a picture of some in the making!

This is a small group of children selecting and cutting up their vegetables for making pizzas.

The children learnt how to handle tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control.

They learnt how to communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings by using a widening range of materials, suitable tools, imaginative , designing and making.

Through this project the children were able to make discriminating choices.
They also had the opportunity to learn about healthy eating and respond to smell and taste. There certainly had lots of new experiences.

Great fun was had by all