Nursery News

Making Bird Feeders

October 6, 2018

Pippins class have been making handprint speckled frogs as our colour theme is green this week! We have also enjoyed learning the speckled frog song! Acorns class have been discussing keeping ourselves clean this week! We have turned our role play area into a bathroom and have been giving babies a bath. We have used [...]

Harvest Festivals – Friday, 12 October

October 6, 2018

Parents are welcome to the Harvest Festival services in the chapel next week. Please could your child bring in something appropriate to be donated to our local homeless charity, Crawley Open House. They love to receive non-perishable items which can be stored for future use, as well as items for the residents such as toothbrushes [...]

The sun has shone inside the classroom as much as outside!

September 29, 2018

The sun has shone inside the classroom as much as outside! We have made lovely yellow suns with lots of different yellow materials and painted our hands to print the sun’s rays. We have also had fun searching for insects in jelly! This week Acorns class have been talking about bedtime …. making little puppet [...]

MacMillan Coffee Morning and Tea Party

September 29, 2018

A huge thank you to Cherry Persad, ex parent, who came back to school to arrange the MacMillan Coffee Morning! And what a success it has been. Thank you to everyone who baked cakes, biscuits, muffins and other yummy items! We will let you know next week how much we raised for this very worthwhile [...]

Houses and Homes

September 21, 2018

Pippins class have been blue all week, and made some very lovely stained glass windows using lots of different shades of blue. Next week we will be looking at the colour yellow and keeping summer alive with some hanging sunshines. Acorns class have been looking at houses and healthy eating this week. We have had [...]

Lockdown

September 21, 2018

On Monday we rehearsed a “Lockdown” procedure that gets everyone inside the nearest building (as opposed to a Fire Drill, which gets everyone outside). We told the children that we may use this “lockdown” procedure in the case of a swarm of bees or a cloud of dense smoke coming from a fire, perhaps at [...]

Sponsored Swim

September 21, 2018

All children should now have received details of the sponsored swim with their individual start times. These can be changed at parents request, although remarkably, I have only had one request so far! I hope children are all busy collecting sponsors. Any parents who wish to take part should let me know. The timetable can [...]

Red, Red, Red and Caterpillars!

September 14, 2018

This week in Pippins we have been painting, gluing, collaging and colouring everything red! Next week we will be learning all about the colour blue and are excited about making some blue whales and water play. Acorns class have had a wonderful time playing with our new garden toys: we are lucky enough to have [...]

Turn off your Engines!

September 14, 2018

Please can we ask parents to turn off their engines whilst they are waiting to collect their children. It has been noted that some parents have their engines on for about 15 minutes which is not necessary. As we embark on our Year of Health & Wellbeing, we all need to be mindful of our [...]