Crazy for Christmas! 🌟🎄🌟

Posted on December 16, 2020December 17, 2020 by Mrs Farrington

The children looked fantastic on Monday in their Christmas outfits. They were very brave and we were so proud of them all taking to the big stage for their Christmas performance. They were amazing and used their big voices and all joined in enthusiastically with the songs! We hope you enjoy the show and it brings you all some Christmas joy…

In Nursery, we have all been very excited about Christmas, we have been counting down the days on our advent calendar and taking turns to see what is inside for each day. The children have enjoyed telling us about what they have been doing at home in preparation for Christmas and there seems to have been an invasion of troublesome elves in the area, that have been getting up to mischief in lots of the children’s houses.

We have been helping Santa get ready for the big day, by helping trim his beard, so it doesn’t get too messy!

We have been thinking carefully about making simple repeating patterns, which we have used to decorate our Christmas trees.

At the end of the week we had lots of fun at our party! We played games, danced and ate together. It was great to spend time with our friends.

We learnt that we had had a very special visitor in our school. In the middle of the night when everywhere was quiet and everyone was sleeping Santa had sneaked in to our school! We watched him come in and saw him sitting by the special Christmas tree near Mrs O’Brien’s office! He had left a special trail for us to follow and he had left some big snowy footprints on his way. It was very exciting and after following the magical trail we found that he had left a big sack of presents just for us!

Santa had accidentally left one of his reindeer’s special shoes behind with our presents, we decided that if we popped it in the post on Friday night hopefully it would get back to the North Pole in time for Christmas Eve and Santa’s special journey across the world with his reindeer.

In addition to all of this, we had time for some special ‘Golden Moments’ too! The children have been doing some fantastic talking and remembering their good manners, being brave, doing their good listening, behaving exceptionally, being fantastic friends and working really hard at home making their mummy’s and daddy’s feel proud. Well done all of you!

We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas 🦌🌟🎄🎅🏼🎄🌟🦌 Thank you for our wonderful cards and gifts, they are very much appreciated.

Stay safe and take care,

Mrs Farrington, Mrs Taylor and Miss Knight

We look forward to seeing you all in 2021!

Active Adventures!

Posted on November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 by Mrs Farrington

Last week, Nursery enjoyed an adventure to the little woods. We popped on our wellies and went exploring with our friends.

We climbed, balanced and swung our way around the woods. We hugged some trees and were amazed at how tall they were!

We found interesting shape twigs, big pieces of bark, lots of different leaves and hiding beneath the leaves, lots of pebbles covered with fascinating patterns.

We went on a number hunt, and found all the beautiful autumn leaves. We really enjoyed ourselves and afterwards we enjoyed a little picnic together in the retreat. We can’t wait to go on our next adventure…

This week we got active indoors. We learnt how to find a space and we played the ‘Bean’ game. We were runner beans, jumping beans, broad beans and jelly beans! We had lots of fun being beans!

Look at all our pictures, can you guess what type of beans we are in each one?

As always we have had lots of ‘Golden Moments’ to celebrate too! The children have been working really hard, doing their good thinking and good looking, they have been joining in enthusiastically and have been coming to school with super smiles, making everyone in Nursery feel happy! We are so proud of all our children and their ‘Golden Moments.’

Remember if your child has a special achievement you would like to share with us, or has done something to make you feel proud, you can let us know by emailing… postbox@rushall.walsall.sch.uk or you can pop a special note in their book bag which we can post in our golden box. We look forward to hearing about your ‘Golden Moments’…

Take care and stay safe,

Mrs Farrington, Mrs Taylor and Miss Knight

Pudsey Power!

Posted on November 14, 2020November 14, 2020 by Mrs Farrington

Thank you for all your donations for Pudsey to help ‘Children In Need.’ To start our day we enjoyed dancing with Pudsey, we copied Pudsey’s dance moves and made up some of our own too!

We played guess how many bears were in the jar. We weren’t allowed to count, we had to estimate and have a sensible guess. We had to make sure we did our good looking and good thinking….

Pudsey was hiding in the Nursery garden, so we went on a Pudsey hunt! When we had found all of the Pudsey bears, we tried to put the numbers in order.

Inside Nursery we had to make Pudsey hide.
We had to listen carefully to the positional language, so we could find the right place for Pudsey. He hid under, on, in, behind, in front, next to and in between different objects and people.

We made bears with our dough, chairs for bears with the Lego and lots of lovely pictures of Pudsey too!

In the afternoon, we worked our muscles and exercised with Joe Wicks and Pudsey! It was hard work, but we completed the whole work out!

Thanks again for all your kind donations, they will be much appreciated by all the young people who benefit from ‘Children In Need.’

Take care and best wishes,

Mrs Farrington, Mrs Taylor and Miss Knight

Happy Halloween!

Posted on November 7, 2020November 7, 2020 by Mrs Farrington

We started this week with some unusual faces! The children came dressed up in both spooky and magical outfits, from witches and vampires to pumpkins, cats and fairies.

The children enjoyed lots of mysterious and magical activities. We had lots of fun helping our hands get stronger, hammering golf tees into pumpkins. We had to be careful of our fingers and had to make sure we were all doing our good looking and good thinking.

We used our ‘pinchy’ fingers to squeeze the tweezers and rescue the dinosaurs from the sticky spider’s web!

We made wands on our creative table and made magical spells and potions in the Witch’s house. We have been very busy all week waving our magic wands, turning both our friends and teachers into all sorts of weird and wonderful things!

We also hunted for the hidden pumpkins around the classroom and enjoyed a witch story with Mrs O’Brien in our first virtual Early Years assembly. In the afternoon we took part in a Halloween yoga session, all about being happy with who you are and understanding that it’s okay to be different.

We have also spent time investigating the pumpkins. The insides were juicy and the seeds were very slippery. We worked hard and managed to pull out lots of the seeds. Next year we will plant them to see if we can grow our very own enormous pumpkins!

What a wonderful week we’ve had!

Thank you for your thoughts and wishes which have been passed on and much appreciated by Mrs Taylor.

Take care and stay safe.

Mrs Farrington, Mrs Taylor and Miss Knight

Fabulous Farmers!

Posted on October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 by Mrs Farrington

The children made us all feel very proud in Nursery last week when they took to the stage for their very first time to perform our songs to celebrate Harvest Festival. They were fantastic and all tried really hard with both their singing and their signing. Well done Nursery! The videos of you are great and I’m sure they will bring lots of smiles to all your families.

Busy Bees!

Posted on October 18, 2020October 24, 2020 by Mrs Farrington

We have been very busy in Nursery. We have been doing lots of activities to help our fingers get stronger, so we are ready to start practising our writing.

Building with the waffle bricks is tricky, we need strong hands to push them together or pull them apart!

We’ve been punching paper, posting sticks with our pinchy fingers, pinching the tweezers to pick up small toys and having lots of fun with our playdough pots – using our hands to squash and roll the playdough into all sorts of wonderful creations! Our fingers are definitely getter stronger everyday!

We went to visit the baby pigeon, but it was gone! The nest was empty, both the babies have now flown away. We learnt that the babies stay in the nest for about 4 weeks until they fly away and that the mummy pigeon can have up to six lots of babies every year! What a lot of babies! We hope she might come back to the nest next time she has babies, so we can watch them grow again, it has been such a wonderful experience to be part of.

We have had lots of Golden Moments, children have been brave, kind, confident and determined. Lots of wonderful qualities for us to celebrate.

Remember if you have a ‘Golden Moment’ that you would like to share with us you can email postbox@rushall.walsall.sch.uk or pop a special note into their book bag that we will post in our special golden box. We look forward to hearing from you and hearing what amazing things your children have been up to, to make you feel proud.

Fantastic Fledglings!

Posted on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 by Mrs Farrington

We have had our final group of Nursery children start this week. It is lovely to have our full class of children in and see how well they are working together and how keen they are to help each other. This year has been so different for our youngest and newest members of the Rushall family, but the children have made us all feel so proud. They have settled straight in and have been working hard as well as having lots of fun playing with their new friends. Well done every one of you! Thanks again also to your families, who continue to support us with our new routines at the start and end of each session. You have all been fantastic!

We have all been very busy again and the children have really enjoyed themselves.

When we visited the baby wood pigeons we had a BIG surprise! There was only one baby in the nest, we decided that the other baby must have flown away. The baby that was left didn’t look fluffy anymore and it was much bigger, almost as big as it’s mummy and daddy! We waved goodbye, as we thought it might fly away too. Maybe we will see them when we are playing in our garden…

To finish our week we had our first ‘Golden Moments’ assembly. The children were all very excited to see whose names had been posted in our special golden box. If you would like to nominate your child for a ‘Golden Moment’ to celebrate a special achievement that has made you feel proud, then you can email your nomination to… postbox@rushall.walsall.sch.uk

Brilliant beginnings!

Posted on September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 by Mrs Farrington

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!

Posted on September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 by Mr Stephens

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!