Pride Month it is a great opportunity to teach children from an early age about similarities and differences and the world around them. Additionally, it is a perfect time for children to begin to explore and develop their own self-confidence and self-awareness. In...
In Nursery the children looked at the famous artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He was a famous artist who would often use fruit and vegetables to make pictures and painting. The children used the fruit and veg they brought in for World Book Day to create their own pictures.
We used the primary colours and mixed them to make secondary colours and painted our clay pots with them. We spoke about the war, and cool colours and the emotions we attached to different colours.
We enjoyed using clay and the techniques we have learned to sculpt our clay pots using our hands and a variety of tools. We made the clay into thumb pots.
Over the past few weeks the children have been learning about surrealism, magic realism and abstract art through the artist Joan Miro. They have studied a variety of paintings and sculptures, and discussed their ideas and opinions on his artwork. They then went on to...
This week we have learning all about Chinese New Year. and learning about new cultures and celebrations. We have listened to stories including Peppa Pig's Chinese New Year, went on a dragon hunt, made lanterns and enjoyed a Chinese banquet.
We enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year. We cleaned ready for the new year, made lanterns, did some dragon dancing and set up our own Chinese restaurant. We even wrote our name in Chinese writing. What a super time we had!
We used play dough to practice different techniques we could use to model the clay with such as twisting, imprinting, rolling and shaping.
Nursery children have took part in RSPB Bird Watching Week. We have listened to lots of stories, sang 2 Little Dickie Birds. We made bird feeders to feed the birds in our nursery garden, practising threading skills placing Cheerios onto pipe cleaners. To observe the...
One of our nursery children was lucky enough to see a real rocket launch and shared it with us all on our online learning journal Tapestry. This inspired us to play all things rockets🚀 We listened to different stories including Roaring Rockets, Whatever Next...
