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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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12th May 2023
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We hope you enjoyed the last long weekend as much as we did. These weeks are flying by as we now only have two weeks left until we are in our final term!
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Forest School
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Happy and Healthy – planting seeds
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A walk around the Forest School looking for signs of life inspired...
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5th May 2023
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Thank you for coming along to see the children “Celebrate” in the best way we know how, through a dough disco. So many faces, so many unknown faces and their first whole school sing as well - we were so proud of them. I bet you were too.
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Forest School
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Go Global...
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28th April 2023
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The Nursery Newsletter last week will have shared with you important information about the upcoming half term. These blogs will give you a taster of our week-to-week learning so you have a way in for things to talk about.
Two weeks have flown by since our return from the Easter break...
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31st March 2023
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What a busy week from singing on the steps, to our Easter story night. The children have taken it all in their stride and have kept the smiles on their faces throughout. Our final fun-packed week:
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Forest School
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Easter Egg Hunt
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To link to our story of the week, you enjoyed going on...
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24th March 2023
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It was lovely to chat to you all face-to-face on Tuesday and Wednesday – thank you all for coming along and we hope you enjoyed looking at the children’s learning journeys. In the summer term, we will begin to allow the children to access these (with clean hands!!) and they...
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17th March 2023
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Another week has flown by and we can finally feel a change in the air as it is warming up. We have quite a collection of gloves so if you are missing any, please pop down to the cabin balcony and take a look! Once the Spring really kicks in,...
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10th March 2023
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Two weeks of learning to share with you since the last update – hopefully this helps to make sense of the things they are talking about…..
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Forest School
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Spring
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A Spring walk looking for signs of Spring is always a good start to our new topic. Mrs Allen has then been showing us...
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16th February 2023
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Happy half term everyone! We have finished on another week packed with learning – it is hard work being 3 and 4!
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Forest School
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Lifecycles - Human
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Mirrors in the outdoors is always fun. You have enjoyed looking at your own faces now compared to when you were a baby and drawing them...
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10th February 2023
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The children have really enjoyed looking at their own and each other’s baby pictures, thank you for sending them. We will be talking about this lifecycle next week and these resources really help them to gain an understanding of how much they have changed.
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Forest School
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Lifecycles - Butterfly
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Talking about, sharing photos,...
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