The Gates Primary SchoolNursery - Penguins: Blog items
Date: 3rd Dec 2020 @ 11:44am
We have been very busy this week. We have been on a shape scavenger hunt as a class, we have been making and hanging our decorations on the tree and in the corridor too. There has even been a special visitor in class! An Elf from Father Christmas. We will keep you updated with any mischief he gets up to!
Date: 27th Nov 2020 @ 1:58pm
Well done to our Rainbow Challenge winners this week! Lots of children have worked very hard to complete their Autumn Challenges this week. They loved painting Autumn leaves and practising our fine motor skills by making pasta bracelets.
Well done to our Staff of the Week! He has had beautiful manners - always saying please and thank you. He has also been very kind to his friends and teachers and offering to help them.
Well done to our Physical Activity Challenge Winner! She had 100% effort this week in our Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes game.
Well done to our House Point winner! He collected the most house points this week by working hard, listening well and tidying up our classroom
Well done to our Reading Challenge winner! Well done for reading 5 times this week.
Date: 26th Nov 2020 @ 8:10am
We had a special visitor in Nursery this week. One of the Healthy Family Practitioners from the Bolton Healthy Families Team came into school to talk to us about staying safe and how to wash our hands. We sang a special song, we talked about how to wash our hands and then 3 volunteers used special gel on their hands. After a few minutes we then looked under a UV light to see how clean their hands were. We learned that thoroughly drying hands is very important too. We loved the song so much at we will listen to it before lunch each day as a reminder of how to stay clean and safe!
Date: 24th Nov 2020 @ 4:57pm
We’ve done lots of outdoor learning so far this week. The children jumped out the sounds from words during their outdoor phonics lesson. In the outdoor classroom, a group of children built castles to hide dinosaurs in. Inside, the children have been working together in the shapes area, they have been playing with the letter cutters in the playdough and identifying letters for their name and their friend’s names. They have also been playing well with the Underwater Counting game demonstrating great resilience, social skills and recognising numbers and counting while they play! A fantastic start to our week!
Date: 20th Nov 2020 @ 2:28pm
Weekly Achievements
Well done to our Star of the Week! This little boy tries so hard in everything he does. He pushes himself out of his comfort zone everyday and makes us smile with pride due to all his wonderful achievements. (There have been so many!)
Well done to our house point winner. Again, there were so many house points were given out this week to all the children, they have had another fantastic week!
Our book challenge winner is someone who is always trying so hard at home and in school and has been in the prize draw every week because she has been on green and read 5x a week since her first book. We reallly hope that you enjoy your book.
Lots of children have been completing their rainbow challenges and growing their brains! Well done. Please see the pictures attached.
Keep up this amazing effort Nursery. We are so incredibly proud.
Mrs Mort, Mrs Farrington and Mrs Lenagan
Nursery- outdoor learning and Diwali
Date: 18th Nov 2020 @ 2:54pm
This week in Nursery we have been learning all about the Diwali story and celebrations. The children have enjoyed hearing the story, looking at special items, making Mehndi hand patterns and also practising their writing skills by making each other Diwali cards. Outdoor learning has included scavenger hunts using numbered pots. The children were challenged to recognise the number on the pot and find that amount of natural items. What a great start to the week!
Nursery- Children in Need and Awards
Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 1:24pm
We have had a busy day in Nursery today. We have been raising money and having fun with all our Pudsey activities for Children in Need. We have celebrated our children on green level on the reading challenge this week and a special well done goes to our book prize winner who is doing so well listening and enjoying his stories. Our Star of the Week is an excellent role model who gives 100% to everything he does and is an amazing role model to his peers. We have lot of children who receieved Rainbow Challenge awards aswell as week. Keep up the good work Nursery, you make us proud everyday!
Date: 10th Nov 2020 @ 4:39pm
We have had some incredible work uploaded to our Evidence Me app. Keep up the amazing work Nursery!
Nursery- Remembrance activities
Date: 10th Nov 2020 @ 2:31pm
In Nursery, we have been learning all about poppies and their significance. We took photographs of the children’s hands and then printed a poppy shape using paint and an apple. Linking this to our literacy work, we tried to write the first few sounds in the word ‘poppy’. Some children could hear the initial sound and some could hear the second sounds too. We made a display with the message ‘Peace is in our hands’. In the afternoon, lots of children continued to create poppies and use the enhanced areas such as play dough to continue their learning. Well done Nursery, you have shown great maturity, respect and have work extremely hard.
Date: 6th Nov 2020 @ 3:46pm
Well done to the Rainbow Award Winners this week. You worked very had on your Rainbow CHallenges.
Well done to our House Point winner!
Well done to our Reading Challenge winner for reading 5 times this week
Our Star of the Week winner received their award for working hard on the different challenges and he tried super hard to use different tools to make a firework painting.
Date: 6th Nov 2020 @ 7:49am
We’ve had another great week in nursery. There are some wonderful outcomes from digit dance...just look at those number 7s! We all had our toast to raise money for Tamba who is our sponsored child. We have also been using our new squiggle sticks to practise our gross motor skills ready for writing. What did you enjoy the most?
Date: 2nd Nov 2020 @ 12:10pm
A great start back to school for our Nursery class today! In class have been talking about Bonfire Night and fireworks. The children have made some amazing firework pictures after we talked about our experiences and watched a firework display on the computer. Whilst outdoors, some children noticed some autumn leaves and then lots of children began to make autumn leaf pictures. Can you guess what they are?
Date: 23rd Oct 2020 @ 11:39am
Well done to all our children on green this week. We had 71% of children who read 5 or more times this week which is our best total yet! Could we get over 80% next week?
Well done to Amelia our book prize winner for this week.
Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 9:19pm
We enjoyed our number hunt this week, we have some great detectives in class! We have also been writing numerals in our inside and outside classroom with a special focus on 0 and 1. Continuing with our Halloween theme, we have been building up our muscles, fine motor skills and creative skills with our pumpkin hammer challenge and skeleton making challenge! What was your favourite part of the week?
Date: 19th Oct 2020 @ 1:51pm
We have had a spooky start to our week in Nursery. We have been making shape pictures of witches, we have been collecting numbered eyeballs from our potions and writing the numeral on the board and also trick or treating in the house.
Nursery SMSC and Mental Health
Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 11:51am
We have been worked hard on our Ourselves topic this term, this week we have made butterflies to remind us of activities that make us happy and have good mental health. We have also been thinking of ways to stay healthy and have displayed these on our board in class.
Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 11:39am
Well done to Alex who has won our Reading Challenge book prize this week. He has read 5 times and worked hard on his rhyming activities too which has had a big impact on his work in class. Well done!
Date: 12th Oct 2020 @ 10:53am
We have had a busy morning making silly soup to complete our purple challenge. We are only allowed to put rhyming ingredients in. Haven’t we done well!? What could you make at home?
Nursery Reading Challenge Winner
Date: 9th Oct 2020 @ 12:16pm
Well done to our reading challenge super stars this week. Our school expectation is that we read 5 times a week at least to get on to our green level. Those children who achieve green will get put into a prize draw and the winner receives a book.
Here is our winner this week, well done!
Please record reading on Evidence Me so that your child can get into the prize draw. Who will it be next week?
Date: 7th Oct 2020 @ 1:33pm
We have had another exciting and busy week. We have been making rhyming potions outside (using the dog and frog mixtures together for example), we have been exploring using jelly in the water area, writing what we think our favourite characters might tell us and also learning about keeping healthy and cleaning teeth as part of our challenges. What was your favourite activity so far?
Date: 5th Oct 2020 @ 12:07pm
Spiderman left us some numbers in his web this morning! We enjoyed recognising the numerals and counting the numicon. Some children even matched them together. Well done Nursery!
Date: 29th Sep 2020 @ 11:23am
We have been practising our gross motor and handwriting skills with these super moves that we sing and move to the Dance Monkey song. We even have a lovely mark making wall to celebrate children who have tried hard. Can you spot yours?
This week's rainbow challenges.
Date: 25th Sep 2020 @ 4:34pm
In Nursery, we are getting really good at doing the different challenges. All these children managed to complete all 5 coloured challenges this week and are very pleased with their certificates!
Date: 23rd Sep 2020 @ 10:53pm
We have been focusing on the question ‘What makes us unique?’. To aid our discussions, we have read many books such as We Are All Different, Be You and What I like About Me. We have also made some ‘I am unique’ mirrors and talked about our similarities and differences and celebrated these. We hope you like them!
Date: 23rd Sep 2020 @ 10:39pm
Another wonderful week in Nursery! The children have been completing challenges, making faces in playdough, undertaking obstacle courses, writing, singing and using a Bee Bots!
