Category: Our Classes

Dear Nursery, I can’t believe the time is gone so quickly. Well you know what they say – time flies when you are having fun. It’s been an amazing, fun, creative, exciting school year. It’s been a privilege and honour to have you all in my class. I want to thank each child for all the warmth, the memories and the learning that we have shared this school year.

To the parents, I say THANK YOU for allowing me to be your child’s class teacher. It has been a wonderful and rewarding year for me.

To my pupils, I say THANK YOU! For when I teach I also learn. This past year we have all grown together.
As you continue through life never forget to keep learning, keep having fun and smile. Always strive to be the best that you can be! I am so proud of you all!!!

Here are some pictures of our Sports Day. The children had a lot of fun exploring different activities like climbing frame, egg and spoon race, throwing and sack race. At the end we had a well deserved rest and an ice lolly:

Thank you for the wonderful gifts! Me, Mrs O’Connor and Mr Reid really appreciate your generosity and kindness! Thank you for your kind words and heartfelt wishes!

Please check your child’s Tapestry for more graduating photos!

Have an amazing summer!
All the best!
Mrs Solakova

Ahoy pirates! What a lovely week we’ve had in Nursery! We sailed the seas and the oceans dressed up as pirates, went under the water and swam with rainbow fish and did yoga with the octopus. I am sure you are excited to learn even more!

This week we’ve been reading the story ‘Rainbow fish’:

The rainbow fish left us a little note: ‘Dear children, I need your help. I haven’t been feeling well over the last few days and and now my scales (which are usually bright and colourful) have all turned white. Could you give me some new colourful scales?’. Of course the children were very helpful and gave her new colourful scales. Then they replied to Rainbow fish and posted the letters. And guess what… he came and visited us in Nursery.

In Letters and sounds we were blending and fishing at the same time… it was so much fun and the children loved the activity.

In Religious education we continued talking about the world and how we need to look after the world. We looked at a picture of a little Ethiopian girl collecting water. The children learned that one of the wonderful things we praise God for is water, precious gift from God and we need to use it well and not waste it. We talked about all the different ways we use water at home. Then we wrote a prayer, thanking God for the oceans, seas, animals, the day and the night.

Thank you God for bats, the moon…. stars….the lights twinkling,
Thank you for lights, for torches, so we can see in the dark,
Thank you God for the whole world… and the water…. for trees and tigers,
For animals and cows and mud and rivers to splash in,
Thank you for the sky and for the rainbow and kites,
Thank you for the clouds, thank you for the birds,
Dear God, thank you for the sea, thank you for the ocean and fish.

Amen

What a lovely prayer Nursery. Fantastic work!

Then we went on an adventure and sailed God’s oceans in a pirate ship. We had pirates building the ship, pirates decorating the flag even pirates on bikes:

In Maths we were arranging the numbers from 1 to 10 in the correct order and we counted 1 pirate, 2 compasses, 3 ships, 4 parrots… Great learning everyone!

This week after a long wait the vegetable garden was ready for harvesting. The children must be really proud of themselves, they did an amazing job looking after the vegetables. I really hope that you enjoyed the peas, onions and garlic.

Have a fun filled weekend!
Mrs Solakova

Hello Nursery!
This week we talked about God’s wonderful world, how to keep it clean and look after it. We started the week reading the Creation story and making story map to help us remember what God did each day and how he rested on the last day. We watched a short video too and that led to interesting discussions about Adam and Eve, why is God resting on the 7th day and so much more:

Our creative table was busier then ever as we were making collages representing God’s world. God made the sea and God made the land and us… have a look yourself:

The children really enjoyed exploring the beach and the jungle and that linked well with the current topic.

In Letters and sounds we started to read simple words like ‘sit’, ‘pin’ etc and played really fun board game. Great reading nursery! You are little super stars!

We talked about different ways of keeping God’s world a good place for everyone and did a recycling activity. That also helped us to think about materials and their properties:

As usual we were very busy in the mornings doing our funky fingers activities. This week we counted, transferred water from one bowl to another using pipettes, cutting and name writing:

Relationship and health education:

Through an interactive story where children have to help Freddy Teddy stay safe in various situations, children explored different ways they can stay safe outside, inside and inside themselves too. All this is underpinned by the religious teaching that we are created and loved by God, with bodies and minds that He wants us to keep safe.
The children learned about safe and unsafe situation indoor and outdoor, including online and that they can ask for help from their special people.

Have a fun filled weekend!
Mrs Solakova

What a lovely week we’ve had here at nursery! Delicious and healthy too! Full of stories, singing, dancing, creating and so much more!

The story of the week was ‘Handa’s surprise’ and everyone was surprised how surprised was Handa at the end of the story. Handa puts seven delicious fruit in a basket to take to her friend, Akeyo. But as she walks, carrying the basket on her head, various African animals steal her fruit. When she shares her basket with Akeyo, it’s Handa who gets the biggest surprise. The book really opened up great discussions about how people in Africa live, about friendships and surprises! Maybe you can have a go at home too:

During CIL the children explored different activities like cutting a fruit salad, making fruit with a scented playdough, painting a basket with real fruit….

Our water tray turned into a science station and the children were predicting if the fruit will flow or sink. They were super good explaining why do they think the apple will flow and banana sink… we talked about light and heavy! Great thinking nursery!

Our snack table was packed with delicious fruit too. Every day we tried different fruit from Handa’s basket, pineapple, mango, passion fruit, avocado, orange. Everyone’s favourite was definitely the mango! We might do some mango smoothies next week!

We enjoyed the lovely weather by having our PE lesson on the playing fields. We played lots of games, but the most popular one was the Washing machine one! We also practiced how to line up one behind the other.

This week the children spent an hour with Mrs. Palmer, exploring reception classroom. Mrs. Palmer was absolutely amazed how well behaved and polite the children were. Well done Nursery! You made me very proud!

Have a lovely weekend everyone and remember to check your child’s tapestry account on Sunday morning! There is a little surprise for someone special!!!

Mrs. Solakova