Nursery Round - up Nursery News From Mrs Donna Kershaw - Highgrove Nursery Manager
Highgrove have been focusing on Children ’ s Mental Health week this week, with some lovely activities across the nursery including yoga, mindfulness sessions, discussions and activities about feelings, as well as a relaxing spa afternoon for the Puddleducks children! Puddleducks' focus book this week has been the ‘ Worry Monster ’ which has been a great topic of discussion across the whole week, supporting children to develop their understanding of feelings and how we can
manage them. Tiggywinkles room has been looking at jungle animals this week. They have been listening to jungle sounds, testing their balancing skills with some jungle yoga and enjoying stomping around the garden pretending to be different jungle animals.
Cottontails children have enjoyed their new song board this week. This board allows them to independently choose a song during music time that an adult will sing. The children also enjoyed the slightly warmer weather towards the end of this week in the garden. Lots of fun was had rolling the balls and hoops as well as practising their filling and pouring skills in the sand tray with the buckets and spades.
Nursery School News From Miss Lizzie Hayes - Head of Nursery School
The Nursery School children have been very active this week in their P.E. session and Forest School activities. They enjoyed playing games such as ‘ cat and mouse ’, using scarves for mouse tails which had to be caught by the cats. They also played a ‘ cups and saucers ’ game where they had to turn over discs whilst a second team turned them back again. The session finished with an action card game where they picked a card and everyone had to try to copy the action on it.
In Forest School, the children explored the beautifully detailed creations that this weeks ’ frost had made on the fence and made frost angels on the grass only to find that on the way back they had somehow disappeared! Our forest school walk then took us down to the playing fields where the children practised their long distance running and found some leaf debris which they threw into the air on the count of three to make a ‘ leaf shower ’. They also used the leaves to thread them onto new shoots that were growing on the tree trunks. On the way back, they stopped off at the adventure playground on the Upper to practise their core balance and climbing skills before returning back to Nursery School just in time for lunch.
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