Welcome to Nursery!
Welcome to the class page for Nursery
At Stockton Wood, we Lay the Foundations for Life.
Nursery Staff:
Nursery Teacher/EYFS Lead: Mrs Ritchie
Nursery Nurse: Mrs Sefton
Information for Parents
Stockton Wood is a Restorative School. In Nursery, we use emojis to
check-in to share how we are feeling and this helps us to manage our
feelings.
The children will be learning through play and listening to stories by new
authors, exploring the world around them through a range of exciting topics
and learning outdoors. They will also be making new friends and becoming
independent confident learners.
In Nursery, we begin our PSHE journey through SCARF. This teaches us
about how to stay safe, how to care for others, achievements, resilience
and friendships. This underpins our curriculum and supports positive
behaviour. We use kind hands, kind feet, and kind words at all times. We
do Good sitting, Good looking and Good listening.
We recognise that speech and language not only aids communication, but
is also the first step to achieving their very best in their learning and
development. We use WellComm assessment and intervention tools to
support the children in their communication and language development.
Nursery Intake
Children can attend our Nursery from the term following their third birthday.
We have three intakes throughout the year:
- September (for children that have turned 3 on or before 31st August)
- January (for children that have turned 3 on or before 31st December)
- April (for children that have turned 3 on or before 31st March)
Please fill an application form in as soon as possible to secure your child’s
place. Forms can be collected from our school office.
General Reminders
Please take time to encourage and develop your child’s independence at
home. Encourage using the toilet, correct hand washing/drying and also
putting on and taking off their coat.
Having a place in our Nursery does not guarantee a Reception place
here. Reception applications must be made via Liverpool City Council
Admissions.
Nursery Chatter
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! 🍋
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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!
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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 🥰
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Super Kind!
We have a Super Kind friend in our Nursery! ‘I’ brought sweets into school to share with his friends 🥰
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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.
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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 🥰
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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.
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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!
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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 ❤️ 🌷
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Raising money for Alder Hey
Thank you to all our families for supporting us to raise money for Alder Hey 🥰
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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 🪴
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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!
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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 📕
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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 ☺️
