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Write Dance
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Beans
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A morning Maths song that...
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8th March 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Spring Fire
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It is that time of term again when Mrs Allen digs out her flint and steel and makes her raft ready for a fire. During the beginning of the week, you enjoyed playing fire circle games around the fire circle to learn how to be safe, and...
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1st March 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Pirate Maps
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Mrs Allen has been teaching you different ways to make pirate maps using chalks, pencils, crayons. You walked your area and decided where your treasure was to be buried with an X on the map. In the afternoon, Miss Barron has had you working as pirates as...
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23rd February 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Pirates
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We have enjoyed creating our own play ideas this week as the Pirate topic took hold. We created a ship with a plank to walk, we used sticks for swords and enjoyed tying the broom to our leg to become a “Peg Leg”. Our Pirate adventures will continue...
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9th February 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Homes
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We continued our Special places topic this week as we have been sharing our home photos and talking about our home. On Thursday, we went on a wet “house hunt” walk to find some friends’ houses on St Catherine’s Road. In Forest School Mrs Allen has been teaching...
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2nd February 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Schools
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With our new topic of Special Places, you have enjoyed creating a special school for all of the soft toy animals in Forest School. Making sure they all had a seat in the classroom and who was going to be the teacher was great to watch.
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Write Dance
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Row...
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26th January 2024
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Forest School Activity
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The Big School Birdwatch
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Mrs Allen has been enjoying sharing her special bird this week as she has hidden her in forest school. You have been exploring how to use the binoculars and the bird books to take part in the Big School Birdwatch. You enjoyed making a bird...
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19th January 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Snowflakes
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We have certainly experienced the Winter weather this week but yet to see any snowflakes so we just made our own. Mrs Allen has been showing you how to weave them with wool on the weaving boards and Mrs Franklin has been “crafting” them with you with cotton...
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12th January 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Ice Shapes
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Mrs Allen has enjoyed hiding objects in ice this week and you have enjoyed working out how to get them out! You also enjoyed rubbing chalks together into an ice tray, waiting for them to freeze and then using for mark making around the Forest School. The...
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22nd December 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Stick Rudolph
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Combining sticks and string and adding ribbon, eyes and a red nose was very effective as you all had the opportunity to create your very own Rudolph for home. We are keeping everything crossed that these survive the Christmas boxes in the years to come!
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Write Dance
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I...
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15th December 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Sleighs
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Father Christmas and his elves have made an appearance in Forest School this week as you enjoyed making the sleigh with the crates. The pipes made excellent reigns for the reindeers and the santa hat finished off the look! Mrs Allen also opened a new resources – the...
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15th December 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Sleighs
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Father Christmas and his elves have made an appearance in Forest School this week as you enjoyed making the sleigh with the crates. The pipes made excellent reigns for the reindeers and the santa hat finished off the look! Mrs Allen also opened a new resources – the...
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8th December 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Decorating and a Fire Circle game
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Mrs Allen has got herself (and you) in to the Christmas spirit following a hugely successful story night on Monday with her Christmas decorations. You have enjoyed weaving tinsel in and out of the sand netting and creating Christmas stars with sticks. ...
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1st December 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Caves
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Mrs Allen showed you this week a completely different way to use the crates and tarpaulin as you created a cave to match the story with your friends. Pegs are already challenging but with gloves on hands thanks to our first cold spell, this was almost impossible. Resilience...
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24th November 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Bears
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This week, Mrs Allen has been showing you how you can role play a story with just sticks. You collected three sticks of different sizes and used these as your story characters of Daddy, Mummy and Baby Bear. All that was left to do was to find...
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17th December 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Poppies and Bear Prints
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In our first week back, you all enjoyed using the crates on the patio to create a poppy shop. You finger painted the pieces of bark with red and black and sold them to your friends. This week, Mrs Allen has been laying down paw...
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17th November 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Poppies and Bear Prints
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In our first week back, you all enjoyed using the crates on the patio to create a poppy shop. You finger painted the pieces of bark with red and black and sold them to your friends. This week, Mrs Allen has been laying down paw...
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20th October 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Scarecrows
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Harry and Betty are all ready to go on show tomorrow as you have all worked hard with Mrs Allen to create the Early Years contribution to the festival. We look forward to seeing lots of you there as you follow the trail to see what characters Blackwell...
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13th October 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Scarecrows
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In preparation for the Blackwell Scarecrow Festival, you have all been working with Mrs Allen to create our very own Nursery story character scarecrow. It was hard to imagine at the beginning of the week that wrapping two sticks in a cross position would end up looking like...
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6th October 2023
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Forest School Activity
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Autumn Art
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As we move into our second topic of the term Autumn, on Monday we ventured out of school on our Autumn walk. We headed over the road to our other Forest School sites and began to look for signs of Autumn. We returned with a collection of...
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29th September 2023
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Nursery News – Friday 29th September 2023
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Forest School
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The Gully
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Finally, the gully is officially……open! This week we have talked about how to stay safe in this area and more importantly for you, how to keep the water flowing. It has been fun to watch...
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22nd September 2023
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Nursery News – Friday 22nd September 2023
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Forest School
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Open new areas
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With the sand and the mud kitchen fully open for business in our first two weeks, we were ready for the crates. Mrs Allen showed you how to transport the red crates safely, how you could stack with...
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21st July 2023
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Forest School
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On the Farm
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Who knew toothbrushes would make such good cleaning tools? You enjoyed cleaning all the farm animals on the patio this week – they look ready for September now. You also enjoyed creating your own object for the Festival parade today – enjoy swinging that around in the...
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14th July 2023
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Forest School
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On the Farm
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Milking the cows was a popular choice this week as you had to fill the rubber gloves with water and squeeze each finger to get it out again. Such a good exercise for those hands!
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Dough Disco
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Old Songs, New Routines
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The “music machine” continues to make the song choice...
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7th July 2023
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Forest School
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On the Farm
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You had fun creating your own farm on the tuff tray with sand, mud and water combined. Those animals had so much fun travelling through all of this. You also enjoyed working as a team to build your own tractor with the crates.
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Dough Disco
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You’re Welcome, Maui
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Poor Evie....
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30th June 2023
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Forest School
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Summer
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Cleaning time! The sponges, cloths and brushes came out this week as the Forest School was given a full “Summer clean”! I think it is time to start contributing to house jobs this weekend.
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Dough Disco
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Old Songs, New Routines
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The “music machine” has continued to choose its favourite songs from the...
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23rd June 2023
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Forest School
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Summer
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Mrs Allen enjoyed showing you how you could use sticks and string to create your own raft. You had to collect enough sticks, lay them flat and then wrap. Did yours float in the gully or sink?
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Dough Disco
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Old Songs, New Routines
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The “music machine” has made the choice this week...
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16th June 2023
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Since our return to school, we have all enjoyed two whole weeks of glorious weather. Thank you for all the hats and cream – we are in a good routine with our longer sunny morning and shorter shady afternoons. Long may it continue for the next five weeks.
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Forest School
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Summer and...
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26th May 2023
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A week of dry, warm weather has meant a week of outdoors. We have all enjoyed heading straight into Play and Explore on arrival and being out until lunch. We hope they have been more tired as a result – they never stop!
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Forest School
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Sports Day preparation
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Our mornings have been mostly...
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19th May 2023
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Finally, the weather is warming up. You may have noticed by their clothes as we have been able to go without the waterproofs in the afternoons! Please ensure you send them in clothes you are happy for them to get a little dirty. On the sunny days, pop a sunhat...
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