Nursery News

Coloured Butterflies and People who help us

March 25, 2019

Pippins class have been making some brightly coloured butterflies to go on the windows and learning all about how caterpillars turn into butterflies! We are hoping to have some pet caterpillars next term too! This week Acorns have been singing Humpty Dumpty and exploring eggs. We watched what happens when we drop an uncooked egg [...]

What are you reading this weekend?

March 25, 2019

What are you reading this weekend, and how important is reading to you? If you stop to think about it for a moment, it rapidly becomes clear how difficult our lives would be if we could not read. All of us read all the time, and most of the time, we are not really conscious [...]

International Day of Happiness

March 21, 2019

Learning and teaching makes us happy! #internationaldayofhappiness #learningisfun #inspiredteaching

Spiders, Dentists and Red Nose Day!

March 18, 2019

Beware all arachnophobes! Pippins have been learning about spiders, and have made some yummy spider biscuits and counted out eight pieces of liquorice for their legs. It was very hard not to eat them! We then used our handprints to make spiders and hung them on a huge spider’s web in the classroom. Acorns have [...]

Pelicans, Kew Gardens, Old Boys and Red Noses!

March 18, 2019

Yet more girls sporting success from the magnificent Under 11 girls netball team last Friday when they were victorious in the Brighton College Pelican Cup netball competition – seeing off all challengers with relative ease. This is good practice for the forthcoming IAPS National Netball finals next Thursday – Good luck! Katie F and Jennifer [...]

‘Miss Polly had a Dolly’

March 11, 2019

This week Pippins class have made some lovely turtles using paper plates and tissue paper. We watched turtles swimming on the computer and enjoyed playing with hair gel and glitter with the fishes in the tuff spot. This week Acorns class have been singing ‘Miss Polly had a dolly’. We have turned our role play [...]

World Book Day

March 8, 2019

A HUGE thank you to all children and parents for the amazing costumes on World Book Day. Nursery to Year 4 welcomed author Tony Bradman in to talk about his books and both children and staff thoroughly enjoyed his visit. In the Prep School we designed some fabulous bunting for the library, using our favourite [...]

‘Transforming young lives’

March 8, 2019

I was lucky enough to attend this incredibly insightful and forward thinking conference at Christ’s Hospital. It began with a thought provoking speech from Jim Gamble (Senior British Police Officer) on the challenge of safeguarding in the digital world. He talked about the importance of teaching young children to have strong passwords – ‘stronger is [...]

Blue Spaghetti

March 4, 2019

This week Pippins class have been under the sea! We enjoyed playing with sea creatures in blue spaghetti and made some sensory fish tanks using water bottles, glitter and food colouring. Acorns class have been making paper plate mice and learning all about the numbers on a clock while singing ‘hickory dickory dock’. We have [...]