Brilliant beginnings!

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This week has seen another new group of children start in Nursery. They have been brilliant and have settled in really well, joining in with the routines and beginning to make friends; playing and sharing together. We must say another big well done to everyone, coping with starting school. Once again, both the children and their families have been fantastic in supporting us with our new morning routine of saying goodbye at the gate. Again, you have all been amazing!

All the children have been very busy and there have been lots of lovely smiles along the way!
We have been learning to ‘Squiggle Whilst We Wiggle’. Everyday we have been using movement with music to develop our motor skills to help us get ready for writing. We have been doing ‘Circles’, ‘The Hump’, ‘The Under Hump’ and ‘In and Out’. It’s lots of fun and gives us an active start to our day.
Everyone has enjoyed visiting the baby wood pigeons. We have found clues in our Nursery garden that the mummy has been flying around. We remembered that we needed to be really quiet and when we saw the babies we noticed that they have got bigger! We have learnt that the baby wood pigeons are called ‘squabs’ and that it takes 17 days for an egg to hatch. We are looking forward to seeing them again next week and finding out some more wood pigeon facts!

Super starters!

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The children have been fantastic this week and have settled into their new routine brilliantly. The staff in Nursery are all very proud of the children and how well they have coped with starting school and how brave they have been saying goodbye to their families at the gate. A big well done to everyone! As we know it can be just as hard for the families saying their goodbyes! You have all been amazing!

The children have been very busy all week, exploring their new environment and making new friends to share their experiences with.
We have been incredibly lucky this week to have some extra newcomers to our school who we have been visiting regularly. A wood pigeon has made her nest in the ivy on the outside wall of the dining room. When we first visited, the two babies were on their own. We decided that the mummy pigeon must have gone to look for some food. Since then we have seen from our Nursery garden the mummy flying back and forth. At the end of the week we were fortunate enough to see the mummy feeding her babies. We have learnt we mustn’t get too close and we need to be very quiet because we don’t want to scare the babies or their mummy! We are looking forward to visiting them again next week…