This week our youngest pupils in Nursery explored the beloved tale of “The Rainbow Fish,” focusing on the importance of sharing and kindness. The children were captivated by the fish’s journey and how sharing his beautiful scales brought him true happiness. As our activity, they decorated their own fish, talking about their favourite colours and thinking about how they can share with their friends.

Building on our discussion of ‘Five Minutes’ Peace’, we decided to create our own recorders, following Lester’s example in the story. We developed our fine motor skills by peeling stickers and carefully applying them to cardboard tubes. The activity was really enjoyable, and we had the opportunity to demonstrate our new recorders to Mrs Hastilow, Head of Music who was very impressed.

This week in Bumblebees preschool class we have been learning about the book ‘Five Minutes Peace’. We have been talking about how sometimes it’s nice to have some quiet time and relax. The task today was to bath the babies because we all find a bath very relaxing just like ‘Mrs Large’ in the story.

Our lower nursery children have been exploring emotions and colours through the story The Colour Monster! Inspired by the book, the children have been getting hands-on with paint to create their very own colourful monsters. We talked about how each colour can show a different feeling — like blue for sadness, yellow for happiness, and green for calm — and the children loved experimenting with mixing colours to see what new shades they could make. There were lots of smiles and giggles as we used our hands to paint, discovering how colours can blend just like our feelings sometimes. 

This week in Bumblebees preschool class, we have been focusing on developing fine motor skills through a hands-on activity. The children have been using tweezers to place red and green pom-poms onto the coloured tubes representing ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar.’ Great work!

In Bumblebees pre-school class, the children have been practising matching quantities to numerals. In alignment with our summer theme, they engaged in an activity where they used finger painting to create colourful ice creams on cones.

In Butterflies and Caterpillars, the nursery children had fun stamping their cups to look like ice cubes, then added lime slices and a straw to finish their drinks. It was a great hands-on activity that encouraged creativity!