Fine motor Christmas tree

We used our strong hands to place ‘baubles’ on the Christmas tree 🎄

Art Week

Our first art week activity: sketching shoes! Our driver text this half term is The Elves and the Shoemaker, so we decided to try sketching our shoes, just like a shoemaker would when they were designing them. We looked closely at the details and shapes we could see.

Big cook, little cook

Big cook, little cook focussed on a particular skill this week – we have been learning how to spread! It’s a lot harder than you think!

Book reviews

Children have really enjoyed completing their first book review in school with our helper Gill. We have started to bring these home this week, and if we bring them back into school, we will get a sticker! A polite reminder that our book bags are due in on Thursdays.

More repeating patterns

We further consolidated our learning about patterns, and printed some using cotton reels. This proved trickier than we thought, as we had to really concentrate on which reel we were picking up. Some children then even recreated their own patterns in provision independently!

Repeating patterns

In maths, after learning all about number two, we are now learning about patterns that have two attributes. We now know that for a pattern to work, the attributes have to take turns! We made a pattern on our carpet of girls and boys, and then consolidated in small groups making a threading pattern, which doubled up as an excellent work out for our fingers!

Exploring different textures

We had the choice of different ingredients, and we explored how they felt, smelt (and even tasted!) in our tuff tray.

Build up bear

We built our ‘build up bear’ section of our story: The Elves and the Shoemaker! We orally rehearsed this part of our story together, putting some actions to it 🤩

Cold walk

Even though winter isn’t quite here, the children noticed the weather is starting to change. They also noticed that on their walk to school today, the ground was “sparkly” so we went to investigate! The colder weather is changing how our environment looks and we had lots of fun exploring. We found that the water in the tray had frozen! So we chipped away and broke some off to hold.

Number 2

We have been learning about number 2: recognising the numeral, subitising when there are two objects and the composition of number two. The children had a challenge – go and find two objects. They didn’t need to match, but they needed two. The children quickly made a link and realised that they had two hands – if they had one object in each hand, they had completed the challenge!

Banana muffins

This week, we made banana muffins! We carefully weighed out the ingredients…but mashing the bananas was definitely our favourite bit! They really were delicious 😋

Mark making

The children were so excited to get the magic mat out! All we need is water, and the marks appear like magic!

WellComm games – pronouns

One of our games this week focussed on pronouns. The children are getting really good at using pronouns accurately. This game also focussed on lots of verbs.

Story dough

The children always enjoy story dough, but this morning they got a little shock at how cold the dough was! We always have to warm it up with our song, but it needed a little extra warming this time! The children were busy making a cheesy wolf 😅😎

Children in Need 2025

We have had a lovely start to Pudsey day! We have done some PE with Joe Wicks and Pudsey, and have enjoyed some printing – Pudsey’s eye patch was missing its spots!

Big cook, little cook

We enjoyed making our own sausage rolls in our cooking session this week. We had to carefully roll the pastry around the sausage, then brush them with milk! This was trickier than it looks, and some of them kept tricking us by unrolling themselves! We then enjoyed them at snack time (some children enjoyed some delicious meat free rolls too 🥰)

Meeting number 2!

This week, we met a new number…number 2! We are learning to subitise, which means recognising when there are two objects without needing to count them!

Library Visit

We had a lovely time visiting our library! We enjoyed finding our own stories and looking at them together with our friends 🥰

Remembrance Day

Nursery paid our respects to the brave soldiers today at 11am. We made our own poppies using our handprints, and talked about what the poppies represented. We will remember them ❤️

Baking cherry scones

We’ve made cherry scones! We carefully followed the steps on the recipe, and we are now patiently waiting for them to cook. Sorry to our families if children come home covered in flour! But we had so much fun.

Visiting the park

We got our larger muscles working today, working on our balance and coordination. Some things felt a little scary, so we are learning to take some risks, assessing each risk as we go.

Number 1

We have been learning about number 1! He likes all things 1, and guess what his favourite number is…number 1! We made a party plate for him, but he only wanted 1 of each food.

Bonfire Night

This week, we have been learning about Bonfire Night. We watched videos of fireworks and used our voices and bodies to copy their movements and sounds. Then we had fun making our own fireworks picture! The children enjoyed splattering glue and sprinkling glitter, making their fireworks sparkle!

DT Week/Black History Month

Our designer/inventor that we have been learning about is Lonnie Johnson. He invented the nerf gun! We talked about what an inventor is, and how inventors turn their ideas into something real and amazing. We learned a little about Lonnie Johnson, and talked about nerf guns.

DT Week – looking at structures

We spent some time looking at structures in our outdoor area. We looked at the kind of materials that had been used, and how they had been connected together to make them strong. We even had a quick turn on some of the equipment!

Black History Month

We used play dough to create faces, and then used pipe cleaners and google eyes to make a smiley face. We talked about how all our faces are different – different colour hair, different colour skin, different colour eyes too! We read a beautiful book called The Colours of Us.

DT Week – cutting skills

As our final scissor control activity, we made snips in different kinds of pasta!

Baking gingerbread men

This half term, we have been using The Gingerbread Man as our vehicle text – we have even learnt how to retell it from start to finish! To mark the end of this text, we have baked our own gingerbread men! Mrs Sefton was careful to watch the oven the whole time to make sure they didn’t run away…as we know, they are quite fast!

Making spooky gloop!

We have had so much fun making our own spooky gloop this morning (and made lots of mess in the process – sorry Mrs Clovis!). We used spoons, scoops and ladles of different sizes to scoop the cornflour out onto the tray. Then we used spoons to pour the orange water onto it and watched it change from powder to liquid! The children may be coming home messier than usual, but they have had so much fun 😍

DT Week – cutting skills

As part of DT week, we have been developing our cutting skills. We made snips in both paper and card, talking about how much trickier it is to cut the card than the paper. We made sure our hands were in the right place.

DT Week – building walls

We had so much fun building different walls in our garden. We found that if we stagger the bricks, it makes the wall so much stronger!

Sorting by size

The children are getting really good at sorting, and today we had to sort by size! We started by talking about the sizes we could see – both big and small, but today there was also another option…medium sized!

Stay and Learn – DT week/maths

Thank you to all our families that were able to attend our stay and learn today! The children always enjoy welcoming you into our classroom. Our stay and learn today was all about DT week – the children had to think really carefully about the resources available to them and design and build a trap for the gingerbread man! We had to think about the sizes of the boxes, and choose things that were the right size for our model – some things were too big, some things were too small. We talked about the materials we could use to connect them – wet glue, glue sticks, cello tape, strong wide brown tape, masking tape or even string! Lots of opportunities for discussion and new vocabulary. Thanks again to all our families – we can’t wait to invite you in again soon!

Maths Party Day 🥳

We are having a brilliant day celebrating maths party day 🎉 we started our morning off with some number songs – our dance moves were just as amazing as our counting! We then got on board the maths train, and made a pattern. We talked about the different colours taking turns to make sure the pattern was correct.

Pumpkin soup 🎃

The children have really enjoyed learning more about autumn and Halloween 🎃 👻 This week, we have read the story Pumpkin Soup, and then made our very own! We helped Mrs Sefton hollow out the pumpkin, and then she carefully carved a spooky face into it. We then weighed and chopped the potatoes and pumpkin and Mrs Sefton cooked it before blending it into a delicious soup 😋

Autumn colour drop

We built an autumn tree using sticks and branches, and then created our own autumnal leaves by dropping different colours onto our cotton pad leaves! The children made links to our autumn walk, and discussed the different colours we could use. We found it tricky to draw the coloured water up into the pipettes but with some practise, we did it!

Sensory play

We really enjoyed exploring this tuff tray…even if it did make our hands very red 😅 we used some amazing vocabulary to describe it such as slimy, wet, cold, gooey, squishy, sticky and sloppy!

Diwali – Rangoli Patterns

We have been learning about the festival of Diwali! The children independently made some of their own Rangoli patterns on the carpet using our magnetic shapes 🥰

Road Safety/Black History Month

Did you know that traffic lights were invented by Garrett Morgan? Well, Nursery do! Today, we talked about how traffic lights help to keep us and drivers safe on our roads – J even said he is like a superhero for stopping cars from crashing as we talked about traffic lights giving cars each a turn to move safely. We had a talk about how to stay safe on roads when in a car, and how to cross the road safely.

Learning what makes us special

Today, we read a story called ‘Hey you!’ by Dapo Adeola. This is a story about hope and dreams – we can dream anything, and we can be anything. It’s full of positive affirmations which we loved repeating. We talked about all the different attributes that make us special, including our skin colour. #blackhistorymonth

Learning how to match

Following on from colour recognition, we have been learning about how to match. We found out that if two things are the same, they match. We looked at our shoes, and how our shoes match each other, but they may not match our friends shoes; they could be different sizes, colour, shape, pattern, design etc. Even after our lesson, our friends H and B found balls outside that matched by colour!

Making our own sandwiches

This week, we enjoyed building our own sandwiches! We talked about the health and hygiene aspect of handling food, and made sure we thoroughly washed our hands. We carefully spread the butter, then had to choose between chicken or cheese for our filling…and then our favourite bit…time to eat!

Hello Yellow!

On Friday, we enjoyed recognising Hello Yellow day and what it means. First, we made a link with our current maths learning of colour, so we went on a hunt to find things that are yellow! We enjoyed some lovely relaxation afterwards 🥰❤️

Reception 2026 – Open Evening

Learning about Autumn

Following our Autumn walk, we collected lots of Autumn treasure 🍂 we spent some time talking about what we found, and learning new words like conker, acorn and pine cone. We read some beautiful Autumn poems and talked about the rhyming words that we could hear. We then used magnifying glasses to explore our Autumn treasures.

The colour of us

We read ‘The Colour of Us’ today as part of our PSHE lesson, which linked really well with our learning of Black History Month. We spent some time looking at our own face in the mirror and talking about what we could see. We talked about the ‘skin colour rainbow’ in the book and added our own hands to the rainbow. Did you know that every persons skin colour is unique to them?! That’s part of what makes us special 🥰

Space Week

This week is Space Week! So we spent some time reading the story ‘Look Up’, about a little girl who loves all things space. We used our binoculars and telescopes to “look up” just like she did. We talked about some of the things we might see in Space, and talked about some of the people that had been to space in real life. Did you know, Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to travel into space?! #blackhistorymonth #spaceweek

Learning about Autumn

We went for a lovely walk around our school grounds to look at the signs of Autumn. We noticed how the leaves are changing colour and starting to fall. We even had a little shake of a branch and watching some loose leaves fall! We used an information book to help us identify some things that we had found.

Making cheese scones

We carefully measured and weighed out the ingredients and made our own scone. We had to wait a while for them to cook and cool, before enjoying our scone for our snack!

Build up bear

We have been building the story of The Gingerbread Man.

Tracing maps

We’ve loved dancing to the tracing map videos! Activities like this help us to cross our midline. Our scarves looked amazing waving around the classroom too!

Making marks in foam

Sorry about the mess…we were too busy building our muscles and making different marks in the foam!

Making snips with scissors

In our strong hands carousel, we used scissors to make snips in some of the leaves we collected from the garden. The children noticed that the leaves were a bit trickier to cut than the paper, and we chatted about how the leaves felt different to the paper.

Watching how water travels

When tidying up, we noticed that the water was travelling down the gulley into the grid! We could see all the tiny pieces of dirt and dust travelling quickly towards the grid – it was fascinating to watch. We noticed there was a blockage in the drain, and H said “if we get it out, the water will go faster!” So we used some tools, removed the blockage and…H was right! It did move faster!

Obstacle course

Our obstacle course had a pattern today…up, down, up, down! Movements like this help to develop our core muscles and gross motor skills!

Making our own cereal snack!

We were so excited when we found out what our activity was…we could make our own cereal snack! We had to choose which cereal we wanted, and then scoop it into our bowl. We talked about what a full bowl might look like, and aimed to get our bowl about half full. We then had to carefully pour our milk…a couple of small spillages later and we were able to enjoy eating our cereal! We even got to wash our own dishes afterwards!

The colour blue

In maths, we have been learning about colours! Each day, we meet a new colour monster, and they give us a challenge! Blue gave us the challenge to find something blue that we are wearing!

School Council – Community space

Our school council have been busy helping to shape a local woodland space. One of the many things we suggested were animal carvings to make it a welcoming and creative place for the whole community to enjoy!

Remember to look out for them around All Saints Church, as the area is further developed.

School Council – Competition

School council met yesterday to launch a competition to design a logo for the Cradle to Career Project in Speke.

The Cradle to Career Project would appreciate your involvement and there will be a £40 Cineworld voucher for the winning entry (other local schools are also taking part).

Your child will need to hand in their entries to their teacher, by Friday 10th October.

Tapestry

Good morning! We are still experiencing issues with uploading photographs to Chatter. We will keep trying to find a solution, but in the meantime, all accounts have now been set up on Tapestry! So please check Tapestry for updates and photographs 🥰

Happy morning

We are so proud of how the children have settled for their very first full day in Nursery 😍 we have lots of photos of smiley faces to share, but unfortunately we are currently experiencing technical difficulties when sharing photos 😔 we will share them as soon as possible.

Thank You!

What a lovely year we have had! We hope you have an amazing summer making lovely memories! See you in September 🥰

Visiting the park before it gets too hot! 😎

We made a quick dash to the park this morning before it gets too hot later! Poor Mrs Sefton’s heart was in her mouth as we got even braver on the trim trail! We are learning how to stop and assess risk when it feels too tricky or scary.

Making lemon cheesecake pie!

In big cook little cook, we made delicious lemon cheesecake pie! Mrs Sefton made us close our eyes so we could use our sense of smell to guess which fruit we would be using! Nice try Mrs Sefton, you couldn’t trick us! 🍋

Phonics

We played a great game this morning – we looked t a picture and had to listen to the sound we could hear at the beginning of the word, then we had to put the picture on top of the letter it begins with! It was tricky, but we did it so well!

Visiting Reception again!

We crept through Reception classrooms to have a little explore of their outdoor environment on our own. We had lots of fun before our Reception friends came to join us 🥰

Understanding positional language

We are learning about positional language. This game is a great way for us practise! We have to look really careful at the pictures and listen to the position of the objects.

Making wraps!

Yesterday, we made our own wraps at snack time! We named smelt the ingredients first, and talked about whether we had already tried them before. We had the chance to taste each ingredient before deciding whether we would like them on our wrap. And then the fun part…we had to make our wrap! It was trickier than we expected 😉

Reading for pleasure

Every Thursday, we bring our book bags into school and choose a new book to share with our family ❤️

Threading pasta

We are warming our hands up this morning and threading some pasta! A suggested we can tie them to make necklaces! This is great to help make our fingers stronger, especially as some of us will be going to Reception soon!

Aspirations Week

This week we have been thinking about all of the amazing things we can do when we grow up. On Monday, we were able to come to school dressed as something that we think we’d like to be when we are bigger! We had some doctors, nurses, an explorer, police officers, fire fighters…we had such a lovely day talking about the important jobs.

Cloud dough

We have had so much fun making our own cloud dough today! F said it felt like slime! It’s really stretchy, and smells amazing 🤩 it has definitely helped to wake up our hand muscles today!

Transition

Today, we took advantage of our Reception classrooms being empty, and went over to have a little explore and a story in each of the rooms. Not all of our children will be moving up, but it’s lovely for all children to be involved in this ❤️

Making marks, making mess…and making memories!

The children absolutely LOVED getting messy today, and practised making marks in the foam. It seemed to get into all sorts of places, including on some of our faces! Our Nursery smelt amazing afterwards 🥰

Super Kind!

We have a Super Kind friend in our Nursery! ‘I’ brought sweets into school to share with his friends 🥰

Sports Day

We had a fantastic morning at our sports day with our wonderful families! We cheered for all of our friends, and are so proud of each other. Even our families enjoyed a race or two…although they are a little bit more competitive than us 😉 thank you for coming everyone 🥰

Well-being yoga

We started our morning with some lovely yoga! It’s trickier than it looks!

Well-being week

We are enjoying our well-being activities this week. Today, we sat in the cool shade to listen to our chosen story for the day. This was a wonderful idea from one of our children ❤️

Big cook, little cook

Mrs Sefton made us smile today…we walked into Nursery and spotted the scales and baking ingredients and we knew straight away it was time for big cook, little cook! We weighed all the ingredients, and carefully mixed them together to make lemon tarts! We enjoyed eating them at snack time.

Watching the crane!

We were so excited when we spotted the crane from our garden! The children used words to describe the size of the crane (huge, gigantic, enormous) and we took turns in talking about what we thought the crane might be doing.

Blossom fun

We noticed that the trees had blossomed over Easter half term! We had so much fun exploring the blossom that had already fallen…and the blossom that was ready to fall 😉

Stay and Learn – Science

Thank you to all our families for joining us for stay and learn! We really enjoyed completing our science experiments with you – making rainbows and potions is so much fun! Thank you for supporting our stay and learn sessions 🥰

Maths – tall and short

We have been learning about tall, short, taller and shorter. We compared beanstalks, and talked about which was the tallest and which was the shortest.

Making daffodils

We have noticed all the wonderful daffodils 🌼 that are starting to grow. In our tuff tray, we had to use different materials to construct our own daffodil!

Happy Mother’s Day!

We hope all of our Mum’s, Grandmothers, Godmothers, Step-Mum’s and all the other motherly figures in our lives had a wonderful Mother’s Day ❤️ 🌷

Raising money for Alder Hey

Thank you to all our families for supporting us to raise money for Alder Hey 🥰

Spring has sprung!

Thursday (20th March) marked the first official day of Spring, and we cannot wait to spend more time in our beautiful garden. We celebrated the first day by planting some beautiful plants in our planter 🪴

Linking letters to sounds

We have been learning pictures sounds for a while, and now we are learning how to link those pictures to letters. The children were so excited when they realised that letter sounds are all around us! Some children found some sounds in our fine motor activity!

Problem Penguin

We are a couple of weeks into our half term, and we have now sequenced our Problem Penguin! Only the Elephant Ending to go and then we will have yet another story under our belts 📕

Science Week

During Science week, we made our own butter! We poured double cream into a jar, and we shook, and shook, and shook some more until…it turned into butter! We then enjoyed our butter on our crackers 🥰

Science week

We are enjoying celebrating Science week! We’ve learnt lots of new things…did you know, if you put double cream into a pot and shake, shake, shake and shake some more…it turns into butter!!! We each made our own butter, then spread it on to some crackers to enjoy for snack. Isn’t science amazing 🤩

Fine motor

The children are enjoying driving the cars on the new and improved road this morning!

Phonics

This morning, Fred chose a special friend to sit with whilst we learnt a new sound…u u umbrella! ☔️

World Book Day

We are dressed in beautiful colours today to celebrate World Book Day! We talked about all the colours we could see on our clothes – our carpet looked like a rainbow today 🌈 we read the Colour Monster book, and spotted the colours from the story on our clothes!

Forest fun

We’ve explored our forest this morning! We played hide and seek behind the trees! We had to be careful not to trip!

Pancake races!

We took turns to race with our pancakes to the gate and back! We cheered for our friends as they balanced the pancakes carefully. We dropped some, but that all adds to the fun 🤩

Tasting pancakes

We tasted some pancakes and some toppings today! They were absolutely delicious 😋 happy Pancake Tuesday!

Big cook, little cook

Today we made shortbread biscuits! We weighed the ingredients, and mixed them together. Once they were ready, we let them cool…but they didn’t last much longer than that! 😋

Visit to ‘the park’

We enjoyed visiting the new ‘park’ today! We conquered some fears (because crossing a wobbly bridge is much scarier than it looks sometimes!), and used our core muscles to help us keep our balance. We had 2 children who initially wouldn’t cross the bridge, but with some encouragement, they not only did it with help, but they then did it all by themselves! We create safe opportunities for children to take risk 🥰

Valentine’s hugs

Today, we talked about how Valentine’s Day is all about love and friendship. We talked about all the people we love, and spoke about ways we can express our love to our family and friends. Lots of children suggested hugs, so that’s exactly what we did! How better to spread joy than to paint each other a picture, and give each other a cuddle…then our paintings will match! True friendship ❤️🥰

Stay and Learn

Thank you to all our families who joined us for stay and learn this morning! It was a huge success and the children really love welcoming their families into their classroom. We made our own dough, made some porridge and tasted it just like Goldilocks, cutting and sticking, and fine motor activities. The children really enjoyed it and we hope you did too 🥰

Staying safe, indoors and outdoors

Last week, we talked about how we stay safe both indoors and outdoors. The children were fantastic – they knew straight away that we must follow rules to stay safe. The children were able to confidently talk about the rules we have in nursery to keep our classroom safe and happy, so we moved outside. We looked at the road, and talked about some of the dangers we might come across and how we can keep ourselves safe.

Big Cook, Little Cook

Have a look at our ingredients…what do you think is on the menu today? We had to listen really carefully to Mrs Sefton as she told us the steps of the recipe…

Tubes + cars = FUN 🤩

We’ve made our own car tracks and tunnels with some tubes and boxes today! We balanced the tubes on the furniture and drove our cars down to see how fast they could go! We had to work as a team.

Our link school in Qatar

We were so excited to meet the children in Flamingo class all the way in Qatar! We sang some songs, read a lovely story and made some new friends 🥰 see you again soon Flamingo friends 🦩

Our new sensory hideout!

We are so lucky to have been able to get a beautiful new sensory hideout! We noticed how the colours made beautiful patterns on the floor when the sun shone through 😍 ☀️

Tasting Chinese food

Yesterday, we continued our Chinese New Year Celebrations and tasted some Chinese food! We tasted spring rolls, prawn crackers and rice! We even tried using chopsticks for the first time!

What is safe to go into my body?

Last week, we talked about what was safe to go onto our bodies such as sun cream, soap, plasters. Building on our learning, this week we talked about what is safe to go into our bodies. We talked about medicine and how this is only safe when it is given to us by a trusted grown up. We also looked at vitamins and at first, we thought they were sweets! Vitamins and medicines come in special bottles and tubs with lids that we can’t do to make sure we don’t have too much.

Chinese New Year

This morning, we have started our Chinese New Year Celebrations! We talked about all the special things that are done during this festival, and we found out the red is a special colour: it brings good luck! We used our fine motor skills to thread gold ribbon through our own red envelope and added a special coin 😋

Phonics

This morning, we have been learning another sound…i i insect! We had to work as a team to find the correct sound on the window

Octopus Opener 🐙

We have been familiarising ourselves with our new driver text Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and learning lots of new vocabulary. Today, Octopus Opener helped us to sequence the events from the beginning of the story.

Subitising 3

Did you know…we can now subitise 3! This means, if we see 3 objects together, we no longer need to count them! We know there are 3 objects just by making links and noticing patterns.

Big cook, little cook

This morning, we have made our own sausage rolls! We brushed the milk onto the pastry, and rolled the sausage up! We can’t wait to eat them at snack time!

Nursery Places – April Intake

Is your child turning 3 soon? We only have 1 place available in our morning session! Please visit our school office for more information ☺️