Croeso i'r Meithrin
Welcome to Nursery
Summer Term 2022
Our topic this term is 'We're Going on a Holiday.' We are busy learning about ways to travel on holiday, what we need to take with us and what we can see in different places.
Photographs of our activities will be shared via your child's Hwb account.
Our topic this term is 'We're Going on a Holiday.' We are busy learning about ways to travel on holiday, what we need to take with us and what we can see in different places.
Photographs of our activities will be shared via your child's Hwb account.
Spring Term 2022
We have been busy with our topic 'Home Sweet Home' this term.
Photographs of our activities will be shared via your child's Hwb account.
We have been busy with our topic 'Home Sweet Home' this term.
Photographs of our activities will be shared via your child's Hwb account.
Autumn Term 2021
Teacher: Mrs Gaisford
LSA: Mrs Earey
We have been busy learning about bears and other animals as part of our 'Wonderful Woodland' this term.
Photographs of our activities will be shared via your child's Hwb account.
Teacher: Mrs Gaisford
LSA: Mrs Earey
We have been busy learning about bears and other animals as part of our 'Wonderful Woodland' this term.
Photographs of our activities will be shared via your child's Hwb account.
Croeso i'r Meithrin
Welcome to Nursery
Mrs Goodfield-Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Mrs Goodfield - Dydd Llun, Dydd Mawrth, Dydd Mercher
Mrs Kumar -Thursday and Friday
Mrs Goodfield - Dydd Iau & Dydd Gwener
Welcome to Nursery
Mrs Goodfield-Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Mrs Goodfield - Dydd Llun, Dydd Mawrth, Dydd Mercher
Mrs Kumar -Thursday and Friday
Mrs Goodfield - Dydd Iau & Dydd Gwener
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We went on a hunt with our own snails to find different shells for them. We talked about what we had found. Hard and soft shells. Rough and smooth shells. Hot and cold shells. We were fantastic at describing our new shells.
We have caterpillars in our class. We enjoying watching them grow bigger and bigger. Mrs Earey brought in a real large butterfly for us to look at, while we waited for our butterflies to come out of their chrysalids.
Aethon ni i chwilio ar minibeasts!
We went on a minibeast hunt this week. We thoroughly enjoyed it. We found spiders, ants, snails, slugs and worms.
We went on a minibeast hunt this week. We thoroughly enjoyed it. We found spiders, ants, snails, slugs and worms.
Planting begonias.
World Book Day 2021
Vale 4 March
Rydyn ni wedi ymarfer neidio, taflu a sgipio yn y meithrin.
We have been enjoying completing sportng activities linked to the Vale 4 March competition. We have been hula hooping, using skipping ropes for jumping, catching and throwing and developing our balancing skills too! We've had great fun!
Rydyn ni wedi ymarfer neidio, taflu a sgipio yn y meithrin.
We have been enjoying completing sportng activities linked to the Vale 4 March competition. We have been hula hooping, using skipping ropes for jumping, catching and throwing and developing our balancing skills too! We've had great fun!
Gwanwyn 2021 - Spring 2021
Rydyn ni wedi cael hwyl a sbri yn y meithrin! We've had lots of fun in nursery so far.
Rydyn ni wedi cael hwyl a sbri yn y meithrin! We've had lots of fun in nursery so far.
Gwanwyn 1 - Spring 1
Nursery work. Videos are also available on Hwb. Gwaith i'r meithrin. Mae fideos ar Hwb hefyd.
Nursery work. Videos are also available on Hwb. Gwaith i'r meithrin. Mae fideos ar Hwb hefyd.
Week beginning 8th February 2021
This week we are learning all about Chinese New Year. All of the activities and videos are below. We look forward to seeing you online during our meeting on Wednesday.
This week we are learning all about Chinese New Year. All of the activities and videos are below. We look forward to seeing you online during our meeting on Wednesday.
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Week beginning 1st February 2021
'Rosie's Walk' is our book of the week this week. There are activities and videos below to help your learning.
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Week beginning 25th January 2021
Our book of the week is Hickory, Dickory Dog. We have lots of lovely activities and videos for you which can be found below.
Our book of the week is Hickory, Dickory Dog. We have lots of lovely activities and videos for you which can be found below.
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This is Mrs Goodfield's pet dog called Milo. He is only 15 weeks old so he's still a puppy. He's learning lots of new tricks everyday! We are looking forward to hearing about your pets this week.
Week beginning 18th January 2021
This week all of our activities are based upon the story 'Dear Zoo' by Rod Campbell. Please find the planning and related videos attached below. Remember to upload your photos and videos to Hwb so we can see your super work.
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Week beginning 11th January 2021
This week our learning is based on the book Fox's socks by Julia Donaldson. Please find planning below along with all the resources you will need. Remember to upload your pictures to Hwb so that we can see your super learning.
This week our learning is based on the book Fox's socks by Julia Donaldson. Please find planning below along with all the resources you will need. Remember to upload your pictures to Hwb so that we can see your super learning.
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January 2021
We hope that you all had an enjoyable Christmas. Please find nursery planning for Wednesday 6th January - Friday 8th January attached below. There is also a video of Mrs Kumar reading our class book of the week. The planning and video can also be found in your Hwb accounts. Please upload some pictures and videos of what you have been doing at home. We would love to see your learning and we can comment on anything that you upload. If you need any further support, feel free to send us a message through J2e on Hwb.
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Here are a few suggested ideas for the last two days of term. We would to see any pictures of your activities on Hwb. We hope you all have a super Christmas and we look forward to seeing you again in January.
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Welcome to Nursery 2020 - We've been so busy!
We enjoyed a star number hunt. We put our numbers in order on our washing line.
November 2020
We learnt how to cross the road safely for road safety week.
We learnt how to cross the road safely for road safety week.
We had a great music session with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. We listened to violin music and moved in time to the music as it was being played.
Children in Need 2020
Bonfire fun! We made breadstick sparklers and ate them at snack time with our hot chocolate. We made our own bonfire and and 'toasted' marshmallows. We made fantastic stick sparklers too.
'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' - we loved our sensory trail!
We went on our own bear hunt.
Harvest activities
Always busy!
We have been enjoying our outdoor role play area - Three Bears Cottage.
We have been learning about autumn. We loved collecting leaves and conkers on our autumn walk.
Home Learning
We hope that everyone is well and staying safe at home.
Our planning for Nursery will be shared each week on this class page and also through Hwb. There is a planning document attached below providing some activities and website links. Sometimes there may be a video link attached below that supports the planning. We would really like you to take pictures of some of the activities that you have completed and share them with us through Hwb. Instructions on how to access the shared folders in Hwb and how to upload pictures can be found in the 'Home Learning' section of this website.
Good luck and remember to have lots of fun!
Mrs Goodfield & Mrs Kumar
We hope that everyone is well and staying safe at home.
Our planning for Nursery will be shared each week on this class page and also through Hwb. There is a planning document attached below providing some activities and website links. Sometimes there may be a video link attached below that supports the planning. We would really like you to take pictures of some of the activities that you have completed and share them with us through Hwb. Instructions on how to access the shared folders in Hwb and how to upload pictures can be found in the 'Home Learning' section of this website.
Good luck and remember to have lots of fun!
Mrs Goodfield & Mrs Kumar
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Although the classroom looks a little bit different, we've still got lots of lovely activities for you to do. There are plenty of toys to play with inside and in our outdoor area. You can sit at a table of your own and you can move around the classroom to choose activities too. We're really looking forward to seeing you!
Mrs Goodfield and Mrs Earey will see children in school on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs Kumar and Mrs Earey will see children in school on Thursday and Friday.
See you next week! :)
Mrs Goodfield and Mrs Earey will see children in school on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs Kumar and Mrs Earey will see children in school on Thursday and Friday.
See you next week! :)
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Can you create an obstacle course like the one below? Perhaps you could film it and upload it to hwb for us to see. Remember to tell us what you're doing and use some prepositions like over, under and around.
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We hope that you have all been enjoying your spring hunts. We have loved seeing the pictures of you all and some of you were lucky enough to find tadpoles too! This is what we saw on our daily walk this week! We were so excited!
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Exploring and learning outdoors every day!
We have loved playing in the North and South poles. We have taken part in lots of cold weather activities.
Celebrating Chinese New Year
We enjoyed taking part in a dragon dance. We also made and ate a special Chinese stir fry!
Christmas at Nursery
We've had great fun outside, whatever the weather!
Children in Need 2019
We went around the school grounds on an autumn hunt - looking for interesting things to add to our autumn crowns
When I Fall Asleep...
We finished off our topic with a PJ day and making chocolate cookies for our snack.
The children have been really busy exploring our inside and outside areas, and getting used to our class rules.
Teeny Tiny Things (Summer Term 2019)
Through this topic, pupils will learn about:
We will be:
Take a look at some of the activities that we have been enjoying!
Through this topic, pupils will learn about:
- Living things that are tiny - minibeasts
- Small wonders of the natural world
We will be:
- Going on bug hunts
- Listening for ‘Tiny Sounds’
- Using ipads to take pictures and short videos
- Using equipment such as hand lenses and microscopes to observe things closely
- Sharing fiction and non-fiction books about minibeasts.
- Singing songs about minibeasts
Take a look at some of the activities that we have been enjoying!
Scrumptious (Spring Term 2019)
Through this topic, pupils will learn about:
Our role play area has been transformed into a Farm Shop.
Through this topic, pupils will learn about:
- Different types of food
- Foods they like and dislike
- The senses of smell and taste
- Keeping healthy by eating a balanced diet
- Keeping healthy by taking part in physical activity
- Looking after our teeth
- Measures and money through play based contexts
Our role play area has been transformed into a Farm Shop.
We have been reading 'The Giant Jam Sandwich'.
We followed picture instructions to make our own jam sandwiches. They were really tasty!
We followed picture instructions to make our own jam sandwiches. They were really tasty!
We love learning outside!
Dinosaurs!
We are thoroughly enjoying our dinosaur topic. We went on a dinosaur hunt and found some dinosaur eggs! Our eggs hatched and we learnt about the baby dinosaurs that we found inside. We counted how many of our shoes could fit in a T-Rex footprint and measured dinosaurs in our outside area. We enjoyed making dinosaur bones and then searching for bones and fossils in the sand.
Spring Term We have been so busy this term. We took part in Eco day, celebrated St David's Day, Mother's Day, Easter and even played in the snow!
We loved having a visitor from the RNLI!
We enjoyed some dinosaur sports activities when we joined in to help raise money for Sport Relief.
Some photos from our Eisteddfod celebrations. We performed some Welsh songs for the rest of the school then we were excited to welcome our families into our classroom.
We loved our topic Pitter Patter Puddle Play. We enjoyed lots of watery and icy activities. We had an igloo in our classroom. We explored water freezing and melting. We used snow dough to make and decorate icicles. We also loved wrapping up warm and using out outside construction site!
We loved celebrating Chinese New Year
Christmas
We had so much fun at Christmas and we had plenty of jobs to do. We decorated our Christmas tree, made paper chains and decorations. We enjoyed helping the elves by decorating presents and making snowmen from dough. We loved dressing up and playing in our stable role play area.
We had a great Christmas party. We had a present wrapping competition, a snowball throwing contest and a snowman building race. We ate snowmen biscuits that we had decorated ourselves. We danced to Christmas songs and it even snowed a little too!
Marvellous Me!
We have been very busy this half term learning about ourselves. We experimented with our senses by tasting foods, listening to sounds, making shakers, painting with blindfolds, making smelly cocktails and going on a texture hunt. We enjoyed making faces using a range of materials including mud! We have also been looking at items from the past. We really enjoyed using the typewriter in our classroom.
Children in Need
We had great fun supporting Pudsey on Friday. We looked great wearing spotty clothes!
We made Pudsey headbands, counted spots on Pudsey's bandage, dug for buried Pudsey's and 'spotted' sounds on his face. We carefully cut up spotty bandages and coloured in lots of pictures. Some people won prizes for their super colouring.
We made Pudsey headbands, counted spots on Pudsey's bandage, dug for buried Pudsey's and 'spotted' sounds on his face. We carefully cut up spotty bandages and coloured in lots of pictures. Some people won prizes for their super colouring.
Autumn Term
We have enjoyed settling back into our school routine after the long summer holidays! We have had some lovely weather and have had great fun in our construction area and mud kitchen.
We went on a bear hunt during our mini topic 'Bears'. We painted and pegged bears. We had teddy bears picnics and used tweezers to pick up teddy bear crisps.
We are currently learning all about 'Marvellous Me'. We have been exploring our senses and measuring our feet in our shoe shop role play area.
We are learning new sounds and how to write them in different ways.
In our maths sessions, we have been making patterns and concentrating on counting and number formation.
We have enjoyed using the outdoors to find autumn objects and use them in our work and play.
Summer Term 2 - Beach
This half term our topic is 'Beach'.
Through this topic, pupils will learn about:
We have enjoyed a range of books about the seaside and singing songs about the beach and Summer. We had a fantastic beach day where we came to school dressed for the beach - the sun even shone for us!
Our outdoor role play area has been transformed into a beach. Inside the classroom we have set up a ‘deconstructed’ role play area. A range of resources and materials to encourage pupils to be creative and imaginative have been added.
Have a look at some of our pictures.
This half term our topic is 'Beach'.
Through this topic, pupils will learn about:
- Keeping safe - at the beach, in the sea and in the sun
- Plants and animals that live on the seashore
- Properties of natural materials found at the seashore including sand, water, rock and driftwood
We have enjoyed a range of books about the seaside and singing songs about the beach and Summer. We had a fantastic beach day where we came to school dressed for the beach - the sun even shone for us!
Our outdoor role play area has been transformed into a beach. Inside the classroom we have set up a ‘deconstructed’ role play area. A range of resources and materials to encourage pupils to be creative and imaginative have been added.
Have a look at some of our pictures.
Summer Term 1 - Teeny Tiny Things
Our topic was - Teeny Tiny Things.
We enjoyed minibeast hunts, minibeast crafts, reading books and learning new songs about bugs. We have thoroughly enjoyed using our outdoor area in the sunshine this half term too. Our puppet theatre was a big success and we were super at retelling traditional stories.
Have a look at some of our pictures below:
Our topic was - Teeny Tiny Things.
We enjoyed minibeast hunts, minibeast crafts, reading books and learning new songs about bugs. We have thoroughly enjoyed using our outdoor area in the sunshine this half term too. Our puppet theatre was a big success and we were super at retelling traditional stories.
Have a look at some of our pictures below:
Spring Term 2 - Scrumptious!
Our topic was Scrumptious.
Through this topic, pupils learnt about:
Our role play area was transformed into a Farm Shop.
Have a look at some of our activities below.
Our topic was Scrumptious.
Through this topic, pupils learnt about:
- Different types of food
- Foods they like and dislike
- The senses of smell and taste
- Keeping healthy by eating a balanced diet
- Keeping healthy by taking part in physical activity
- Looking after our teeth
- Measures and money through play based contexts
- The processes of cooking, melting, freezing and mixing
Our role play area was transformed into a Farm Shop.
Have a look at some of our activities below.
Multicultural Week
We thoroughly enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year. We made our own red envelopes and counted coins to go inside. We made Chinese lanterns, acted out the Chinese New Year story and enjoyed tasting noodles and rice using our chopsticks!
We also read the story 'Handa's Surprise'. We made masks and tasted exotic fruits.
We thoroughly enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year. We made our own red envelopes and counted coins to go inside. We made Chinese lanterns, acted out the Chinese New Year story and enjoyed tasting noodles and rice using our chopsticks!
We also read the story 'Handa's Surprise'. We made masks and tasted exotic fruits.
Spring Term 2017 - Dragon Tales
Through this topic we explored the historical, traditional and fantasy world of castles. Our role play area was transformed into a castle where pupils could explore various castle roles including knights, jesters, kings and queens.
Here are some pictures of our activities from this half term:
Through this topic we explored the historical, traditional and fantasy world of castles. Our role play area was transformed into a castle where pupils could explore various castle roles including knights, jesters, kings and queens.
Here are some pictures of our activities from this half term:
Autumn Term 2016
When I fall Asleep & Glow and Glitter
When I fall Asleep & Glow and Glitter
