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Forest School Activity
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Teddy Bears
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We have had a fun teddy bear themed this week as you have enjoyed dancing and singing with Mrs Allen on the patio to “Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear”. You also enjoyed exploring the picnic equipment as you set up picnics all over the outdoor area. The highlight...
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5th July 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Farms
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As we joined Forest School, we all enjoyed a sing song at the fire circle with Old McDonald. Mrs Allen then enjoyed creating a farm with you in the tuft tray on the patio – it was a very popular play choice this week. Towards the end of...
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28th June 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Throwing and Catching
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We enjoyed a whole class ball game of throwing and catching. You remembered the skills needed to make a good thrower and the hands you need to be a good catcher. During your own Play and Explore time, the sand in the hot sun was very...
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21st June 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Clean Up
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Mrs Allen has taken you to a different part of Forest School this week and you have worked hard at sprucing up the outdoor area! The mud has been washed from the pots and pans, the sand toys have been swept down and the patio has had...
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14th June 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Sailing Boats
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Mrs Allen has enjoyed teaching you all about knots this week as you have been tying string around sticks of the same size to create a raft for the fairies. Developing these fine motor movements outdoors will improve your handwriting indoors next year.
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Rhyme Time
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Jack and Jill
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A final...
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24th May 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Balancing quoits and throwing beanbags
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We propose some new Olympic events this year. A race down the track with a quoit balanced on your head. If we can manage this as we travel up, across and over logs, I am sure professional athletes could manage it too. Forget the...
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17th May 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Faces
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The mirrors made a return outdoors as you used them to look at your own face and have a go at creating these with salt dough. You took it in turns to prepare with Mrs Allen and then manipulated to create some wonderful shapes.
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Rhyme Time
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One Two Buckle my...
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10th May 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Frogs
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It was good to see a return of our speckled frog song as you joined from Forest School. You have also enjoyed creating your own lifecycle with Miss Veillet. However the highlight of the week has to be the warmer weather and keeping those waterproofs in the boot...
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3rd May 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Butterflies
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Our caterpillars have arrived! Mrs Allen has been sharing how to care for them in the first week as we watch them eat and eat and eat every day whilst getting fatter and fatter and fatter. Outdoors you have enjoyed being a caterpillar at the Ugly Bug Ball...
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26th April 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Hammers
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You have been revisiting an old song from our early nursery days – “Johnny Hammers” with Mrs Allen. She enjoyed teaching you how to use the tool the hammer as you have been hammering nails into a block of wood. It is always lovely to see you take...
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19th April 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Spring
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We all enjoyed our Spring walk around the school grounds as we spotted the signs of Spring. We returned to the Forest School and have been enjoying making flowers with our natural materials. This week we have enjoyed printing flowers with forks and weaving flowers with wool.
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Rhyme Time
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Down...
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15th March 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Pirate Ships
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The weather has been a little kinder to us this week as we have enjoyed building pirate ships on the patio to sail the high seas. You enjoyed jumping off and using magnifying glasses to collect treasure planted around Forest School
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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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