Nursery News

Mrs Katie Lee, Rossall's new Head of Junior, Infant and Nursery Schools

Mrs Katie Lee

Notes from KML

Have you spotted the Story tellers chair? The children love it; there is a rush to see who can sit on it first at breaks and lunchtimes. This work of art has been sculptured out of a single piece of wood using only a chain saw. The monies raised from the Chapel collection during the 150th Junior School anniversary service have been put towards the purchase. In the fullness of time a small plaque will be fastened to the chair to acknowledge the gift.

 

The cake sale in infants and juniors as you can imagine has been very popular and hopefully successful. The full total of the funds raised will be announced next week. Many thanks to all the mums and dads who donated cakes etc., for this sale.

 

Pre-school and Reception sing at Show and Tell

Show and Tell

How lovely to see our Pre-School Group and Reception Class singing together in "Show and Tell"

Nursery children in Rainbow Room are learning about Autumn and have mad lovely masks in Autumn colours

Rainbow Room
What Have We Been Doing?

RAINBOW children have been learning about "Winter" which has been incorporated in our continuous provision such as snowy play dough, in the malleable area, investigating 'ice' in the water play, mixing paints to create 'cool colours' in the messy area and " Percy the penguin " and " Is it cold outside" stories at circle time. The children have enjoyed designing and making a polar bear and penguin 'home', with Mrs Taylor, using a variety of textured media, natural resources such as wood, water and ice and also adding foam to create snow!!! This made a really exciting reflective environment for the children to explore and encourage imagination and sensory skills. Mrs Davis has introduced the children to a selection of winter vegetables, for vegetable printing, tasting and cutting-this activity promoted colour recognition and physical development. The children also gave excellent examples of descriptive language when explaining the textures and flavours and also linked situations to home life experiences. The vegetable printing pictures are beautiful and will be displayed on our “Healthy eating display". At the present time the Rainbow room is making improvements, each area of continuous provision will be more defined and have more opportunities for learning, as enhancements will be made weekly through the children's individual needs and interests. Child's key-worker group will be displayed and the member of staff responsible for that group, to encourage nursery and home links.

Our Pre-School Nursery  children have been looking at cones, coloured leaves. conkers and berries

Pre-School Group

PRE SCHOOL This week the children have been making colourful paper lanterns to decorate the classroom for Chinese New Year. It is the 'Year of the dragon' and we have also made dragon puppets, look out for them on display in the pre school room next week! We have set up a Chinese Takeaway role play, it is very popular with the children and they are looking forward to trying some Chinese food on Monday.

 
Parent and Toddler Group

Parent and Toddler Group

Some young visitors came with their mums and dads to our Nursery and Infant Hall for the Parent and Toddler Group. Soft play, playing in the ball pool and decorating gingerbread people kept the children very busy, whilst the mums and dads enjoyed a bit of time-out chatting to other parents.

Mario: our new class photographer!

What are we up to in the Nursery?

"Play is the most effective way for a child to learn" - Neil Griffiths.

Our Nursery children have found so many ways to play that we thought it would be nice to share with you some photographs of their recent activities.

Just click on the camera to see more......