We were very lucky today to have such a wonderful visit from Santa and Mrs Christmas. The children had a story read to them all about the magic of Christmas and saw Mrs Christmas make Santa’s favourite special mince pies 🥧, yummy. We then sang them both ‘Rudolph the red nose reindeer ‘they were very impressed. All the children in nursery will be going home with a little treat from Santa, how lucky are they. Don’t worry if you didn’t come in today Mrs Giordano has kept them very safe ready for you to collect them.

Mighty Oaks have really enjoyed their Halloween party today. We’ve had lots of fun and games, party food and then finished the day off with watching ‘Room on the broom’

We hope you have a lovely half term break and we look forward to seeing you back on the 2nd of November 🍁🕷

As promised here is the evidence of how much fun we’ve had with the messy maths, science and the world around us lessons this week in Mighty Oaks.

The children have been working hard on predicting for maths, guessing how many cups, scoops and syringes it would take to fill different size bottles. While in science we’ve looked at the changes and different outcomes that would happen to a verity of sources. Seeing how one source like water can be changed from a liquid into many forms, for example slime, bubbles, fizzing and a solid.

For our world around us lessons we’ve been looking at worms ready to go into our Wormery. The children used all different ways to catch them from soapy water, digging and turning over stones.

We had some wonderful ideas and thoughts about these three subjects, please see Newdale School Facebook page and your parent shared observations for more videos of this.

Yes it got pretty messy and smelly fast, but never mind it was fantastic fun.😁

Mrs Giordano

Let’s get investigating! How excited are we!?

Learning through sensory play is the best way. Does it matter how dirty you get? Nope! not at Newdale, because here we know that using our senses to explore is the best way to stimulate a child’s mind.

While you may think ” they’re just getting messy or playing” You couldn’t be more wrong. So in our tuff spots this term we are placing a range of resources to support messy maths and science.Already we have extended this to our outside areas, like the mud kitchen and at snack times.

Asking your child a simple question like ” how many cups do you think it will take to fill that container/ pan ?” Will get them thinking and estimating while they play and Bingo stingo you will have a maths answer. Sounds like to much fun hey! Well it is!

I cannot wait to show you the evidence and outcome of science day tomorrow, lots of investing is going to take place 💥 🧪 I take no responsibility for the gooey mess 🙊 but I will say ” that was fun!” Enjoy the stories, Mrs Giordano

The lessons this week are planned around recycling. We’re talking to the children about rubbish and the effects it is having on our planet. We like to call it, `leave no trace’ meaning leave no rubbish behind you and the importance of recycling. We put on our thinking caps and walking boots ready to explore the school area looking for rubbish, remembering what can be recycled along the way. I can happily says Newdaler’s are doing a great job, we hardly saw any 😊 but the little that we did find, we brought back and talked about what goes where. We then buried our fruit leftovers next to some rubbish that will not decompose in the compost to show them how it changes over time.

Get them involved! Letting the children at home to put the rubbish in the correct bins will help them understand more. Then if you wish to do so please share some photos on the evidence me app in parent share. 🌎 ❤️

We have been putting our final touches to our groups model houses today. Listening to their ideas and thoughts was fascinating. They really did put a lot of input into their designs. The Children were able to discuss different homes and houses that they have seen and visited. We’ve had such a fun time doing them and would love to see you taking part in this at home by making your very own model house. This can be from any source of materials you have spare. Then please share your designs by sending them into evidence me, parent share. 🏠

Here in nursery red and purple group have been using the real tools and measuring tapes on our hand made work bench gifted to us by the wonderful Mr Thomas. We had so much fun remembering to keep ourselves and our tools safe. With the pieces the children cut and drilled we are making a model house. We’ve taken the inspiration from the work men that are building houses next to the nursery.

Here we are at the end of what has been a really strange academic year. Despite having an unexpected break at home, the children came happily back to nursery and we have had a fantastic time. They’ve shown a wonderful attitude towards learning and their achievements have been numerous and their smiles have been infectious.

All of us here at Newdale nursery are going to miss them dearly and wish them well in their new journeys. Thank you for all your continued support from home and through out the year.

Nursery took part in the mini Olympics today by using the P.E equipment to make an assault course.

Here at mighty oaks this week it has been jam packed with activities. The children have worked hard on using their phonics knowledge to decode tricky words and finding sounds around nursery, we even took the stepping stones to the forest school and played wood words with them.

Some of the children used their fine motor control to make, explore and play with the play-dough they made different markings using the tools and models.

Then they got to meet Sam and Sally the puppets to talk about their new schools. The children had lots of questions and worries about starting and some great ideas of what it might be like. They made a mind map to show all the different thoughts.