Settling into Nursery and learning all about ourselves, our families and Autumn.

This half term we have been welcoming our new Nursery children. They are all settling into Nursery well and are having fun exploring all the things we have to do. We have joined Collective Worship with the main school, Had a walk into the big playground and seen the library bus. We have explored our garden area and had messy fun in the mud kitchen. We have learnt each others names and have started to make friends.

We have started to talk about ourselves, our bodies and how we have grown from a baby to a child. We have also talked about our families. Many of the children shared photos of themselves as a baby so we could talk about how they are different now. We also looked at the children family photos so they could tell us who was important to them and so that we could see how everyone’s family is different.

We measured ourselves to see who was taller and shorter, we measured our feet to see how they differ in size. We have made paper plate and pancake faces. We learnt the names of different parts of our bodies and we enjoyed PE where we have learnt to use and move different parts to music.

We have also noticed that the weather is changing outside as it is becoming Autumn. We have been finding out what this means and how it looks and feels. We have been exploring leaves, conkers and acorns and completing lots of Autumn craft.

A look around our nursery

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The first session of Gardening Club 2014/15 welcomed 17 Year 2 Gardeners (the Year 1 Gardeners start at the beginning of the Spring Term) to a warm and sunny School Garden. After a quick reminder of how to garden safely and of the names and uses of each tool, everyone helped to harvest Runner Beans and to start clearing some of the beds of weeds and old plants and mulching with leaf mold ready for Autumn and Spring planting. Some of the Runner Beans harvested were really long as you can see!!!

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What an exciting day! 10 Year 2 Gardeners, accompanied by Mrs Senior, Mrs Bryant, Mrs Livingstone and Mr Lynn went to the Norfolk Show to harvest our crop of the potatoes as part of the British Potato Council Grow Your Own Potatoes Challenge (we planted the seed potatoes during a visit to the Norfolk Showground back in March). We are pleased to report that we harvested 520g of Rocket Potatoes and 500g of Maris Peer Potatoes coming third overall. We also enjoyed lots of other activities such as milking, chick handling, pedal tractor riding, mint sauce making etc… and the weather was fantastic as you can see!

Another dry session which we made the most of by transplanting the rest of our seedlings. Gardening Club Members then planted a Sunflower Seed to take home and grow with the promise of a prize for the tallest!

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Thankfully, the weather stayed dry again and we managed to transplant all of our Lettuce, Mange Tout, Carrot and Beetroot seedlings (which we planted in modular trays to grow in the Green House earlier in the year) into the Gardening Club beds. We even had a few left over Lettuce plants to pot on and hopefully sell to parents when they have grown a little more!