Author: Miss Taylor

Happy New Year!

Welcome back! It has been so nice to see the children this week. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas break and managed to have some well earned rest. Thank you so much for the Christmas cards, well wishes and gifts Miss Rowson and I received before Christmas.

This week we have looked at the story ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ and the children have enjoyed a range of activities around this including small world tray, puzzles and yoga.

This week we went up to the Library for the first time. We will go to the library every Wednesday to take out a new book. The previous book needs to be returned to school in order to take a new one out.

In phonics this week we looked at the phoneme ‘m’. We found lots of things in our classroom beginning with this sound including magnet, milk and mirror.

Other photos this week:

Reading Morning

Thank you to everyone who came to Reading morning today. Reading morning will be every Friday 8:45 – 9:00 unless we are going to an assembly – I will let you know in advance.

Big Garden Birdwatch

I have signed up for Nursery to take part in the Big Garden Birdwatch happening at the end of January. We will take part in some of the activities including making binoculars, going on a bird hunt in the school grounds and making bird feeders.

Please could all children bring in 2 toilet roll tubes so that they are able to make a pair of binoculars in Nursery.

We will complete these activities week commencing 22nd January.

Book bags

It would be helpful if a small key ring was attached to the handle so the children can identify their own book bag at home time.

Important Dates:

Monday 15th January 2024 – Deadline for online Reception applications.

INSET day – Monday 29th January 2024.

February Half term – 19th – 23rd February.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Taylor

This week the children performed their Christmas Nativity ‘A Miracle in Town’. The children have worked really hard over the past months to learn the songs and the actions. The children sat beautifully during the performance and were delighted to see their families in the audience. Thank you so much for all your support.

This week we continued our work on our book The Snowman. We listened to the music Walking in the Air by Howard Blake. We danced and created movements in response to the music we heard using pieces of tinsel.

We have also been making our own snowmen using playdough..

Important Dates

Monday 18th December – Grandparents Christmas Carols and Tea – 09:30 – 10:30 AM

Term finishes 13:30 on Thursday 21st December

Spring term starts on Monday 8th January 2024.

Reading morning begins Friday 12th January. Please come into Nursery to read a book with your child 8:40 – 09:00AM.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Taylor

On Wednesday morning Mrs Ruffell visited our classroom to talk to us about her religion, Judaism. Mrs Ruffell told us about how she celebrates Shabbat. Mrs Ruffell kindly bought in some different artefacts for us to look at including a cup, candles and Hebrew Bible. Mrs Ruffell told us what a Kippah is and the children were able to wear one if they wanted to.

In RSE this week we looked in mirrors and talked about what we could see, we also thought about how we are the same and different from our friends. We used the mirrors to draw self portraits.

The children have been enjoying puzzles this week and the shopping game has been rather popular

We met with Jamie this week to go on a cosmic yoga adventure, this week we met Pedro the Penguin which linked nicely to our phonics this week – initial sound ‘p’.

In maths this week we have been looking at subitising the number 2, subitising means knowing there is an amount of something without having to count. We played games including find 2 pom poms and help teddy cross the path by only landing on 2.

Other photos from this week

Important Dates:

Friday 1st December – Dressing of the tree advent assembly – 09:05 AM parents welcome

Saturday 2nd December – Christmas Fayre – 12:30 – 15:30

Wednesday 13th December – EYFS Christmas Performance 10:00AM

Friday 15th December – Christmas Jumper Day

Monday 18th December – Grandparents Christmas Carols and Tea – 09:30AM

Term finishes at 13:30 on Thursday 21st December.

Have a lovely weeked

Miss Taylor

We started our week by wearing odd socks as part of Anti Bullying week, here we all are in our odd socks.

This week we looked at the initial sound ‘t’. We looked at objects beginning with this sound such as tiger, tomato, tractor, timer, train and toast and a tyrannosaurus rex. Can you find anything in your house beginning with ‘t’?

In maths this week we have been looking at the number 1 and tried to make number 1 happy by giving him just one thing, number 1 is not happy if he has more than 1. The children have got a ‘happy number one’ and a ‘sad number ‘ in their bag to play with and explore at home.

In RE we are continuing to talk about Baptism. This week we had a go at Baptising a baby in class, the children were very good at it and had a go at saying ‘I Baptise you in the name of the Father, of the Son and the Holy Spirit’.

The children also shared their Baptism items with us

Other photos from this week:

Important Dates:

Friday 24th November – Non Uniform day in exchange for a bottle of alcohol per family for the Christmas Fayre

Friday 1st November – Dressing the tree assembly Advent Assembly 09:05AM – parents welcome

Saturday 2nd December – Christmas Fayre 12 – 3PM

Wednesday 13th December – EYFS Christmas Performance

Friday 15th December – Christmas Jumper Day

Monday 18th December – Grandparents Christmas Carols and Tea – 09:30AM

Term finishes at 1:30PM on Thursday 21st December

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Taylor

This week we had a visit from Richard, the postman for this area who told us all about his job. The children listened really well to what he had to say and we asked him questions like ‘What time do you have to get up?’ and ‘what happens if it snows?’ He told us he drives a postvan that has lots of letters and parcels and told us what he does if he cannot deliver a parcel that cannot fit into a letterbox.

In RE this week we read a lovely story called ‘Welcome to the World’ and talked about what a very exciting time it is when a family welcomes a new baby. We reenacted welcoming a baby in class.

We also created a lovely post to welcome anyone into nursery and to the St Adrians community.

We read the book ‘Ava’s Poppy’ this week and talked about why we wear a poppy at this time of year. The children created their own poppy artwork.

Other photos from this week:

Next week is Anti Bullying week so children are invited to wear odd socks on Monday 13th November.

Friday 17th November is Children in Need – children can wear spots and stripes to school.

Have a lovely weekend and see you next week.

Miss Taylor

Hello Parents/Carers,

This week we started our Little Wandle Sessions and looked at the initial sound ‘s’. In the classroom we looked at things beginning with this sound such as sock, scissors, sellotape, star, stickers and sandwich.

The children were able to explore these objects during the week and discuss them with their friends. Can you find anything in your house beginning with ‘s’?

New Role Play

This week our new role play was open for business, the children can now write their letters and work in the Post Office. It has been a huge hit with the children and they have enjoyed playing in there this week. Next week we have a visit from the Post Man who will tell us all about his job and what he has to do. The children have watched the video below – Journey of a Letter.

In RSE this week the children created some stars to add to our picture of Creation.

Other photos from this week:

In RE we talked about welcoming someone into our family. We talked about how we can welcome Miss Rowson into nursery and into the St Adrian’s Community. The children made welcome cards.

Thank you so much for returning the Autumn Bags, they discussed what they had found with their friends and then made collages.

Important Dates:

Monday 6th November – Individual and Siblings photos

Tuesday 7th November – Post Man visit

Monday 13th November – Wear Odd socks for Anti Bullying Week.

Reception Applications

Reception applications are now open, link below:

https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/schools-and-education/school-admissions/primary-junior-and-middle-schools/primary-junior-and-middle-school-places.aspx

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Taylor

We have had a very busy week, here are some of the things we got up too..

On Monday we started the week with some maths. The children also had the opportunity to play this matching game during learning through play.

On Monday afternoon we learnt about the next day in creation where God made trees, plants and flowers, the children designed their own trees, plants and flowers to add to the collage we are making.

On Wednesday the children went to their first assembly and didn’t they do well? I am so proud of their singing and they sat really well in such a crowded hall where they could see their siblings and growns ups.

Other photos from this week:

All the children have got an Autumn bag to fill up over half term, please go out exploring what is happening outside and bring the bag back by the 1st of November so we can talk about what the children found.

I want to say thank you to all the parents/carers for all their support over the past 7 weeks, the children have done so well and have come so far in the short amount of time they have been here.

I am really looking forward to the next half term. We will be preparing for and learning the words to the songs in our Christmas Nativity, we will write our letters to Santa and take them to the postbox and we will also have a very special Grandparents Christmas carols and tea.

Have a wonderful half term and have a good rest.

Miss Taylor