Nursery

Well done to everyone at St Mary’s School. We have begun our journey to improving our grounds with a superb gardening extravaganza.  The plants we have begun to plant our beginning to leaf or flower as spring has sprung. Congratulations to everyone as not only have we achieved RHS Level One Gardening Award but we […]

Mrs Smith and Miss Loy have decided on a new uniform for the staff!!!

Recipe for worm shapes Take some sand and mix it with paint, take a brush and make wiggles in the mixture. Now you have wonderful worm shapes! Nursery have loved this week’s topic all about worms and they made brilliant worm shapes and prints.

Some of the ‘Girl’s Science Club’ members have been enjoying identifying the birds that have moved in to the nest boxes around school. We put them up last week and they have been quickly resided in! Thank you to the parents that donated them; they will provide hours of entertainment! We look forward to watching […]

To end Science week in Nursery we made cheese. Jessica’s Mum came into school to show us how they make their cheese at Whin Yeats Farm. We felt the curds and whey, we put the cheese into the moulds and finally we got to taste the cheese with crackers. We all now know that cheese […]

We have noticed that we have a sparrow starting to build a nest in the bird box on the Nursery shed. We decided it would be a good idea to make some bird feeders to encourage the birds into the garden area and hopefully lay some eggs in the bird box. We threaded “cheerios” onto […]

We have been celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight by holding a big brew, we made cups and coffees for our visitors and Year 6 pupils helped sell fairly traded products. In worship time we looked at the trade of cocoa and bananas and encouraged children to discuss issues  relating to fair trade with adults at home. Thank […]

On Forest Schools’ Friday we made a stick bridge in the woods. The Nursery children had to find sticks which would fit between the gap. We used mathematical language to describe our sticks – “This stick is too long”, “My stick is too short it won’t stay on the bridge”. Nursery children were very proud […]

In Nursery and Reception we have been working together in groups to build dens. The children had to work out how to fix the tarpaulins to the trees, they had to think about how to make the floor comfortable and finally they tried to make sure there were not any holes in their dens. The […]

Last week we celebrated the Chinese New Year – the year of the rooster. We had a go at writing the Chinese characters for numbers 1-10 using black paint on large pieces of paper. We ended the week with a celebration with YR; we did a dragon dance, played musical instruments and ate sweet and […]