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The children are learning to use the child safe scissors to make snips in the playdough for our funky finger activity. The children held the scissors with both hands to make big snips in the dough.

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Making heart biscuits

The children take turns to add some flour butter and sugar into a bowl. They stir all the ingredients together until it formed into a dough. They rolled out the dough and used a heart shaped cutter to cut out the biscuit. The biscuits were then but on a baking tray and put in the oven to bake.

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Making marks in shaving foam.

The children explored the shaving foam. They put their hands in the shaving foam and made marks with their fingers or with brushes.

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Making our own sandwiches

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Wow Tuesday Activties.

The parents came along to make Valentines Day crafts with their children. They made cards, pasta bracelets and make playdough models.

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The children are exploring how the coloured paints change when they are mixed together.

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For art this week, we were using some large brushes in paint to see how the children could make their marks on the paper.

We saw the children use large and small brush strokes. The children were busy mixing the colours together.

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The children are making snack. They add some chocolate to a bowl and when it has melted, they pour some rice krispies into the bowl and mix the ingredients together. They scoop the mixture into cup cases. The tray of krispy cakes are then put in the fridge to cool.

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The parents and children explore the different maths activities that are set out in the room. They explored the different sized animals and objects, they completed puzzles, sorting numbers and building towers with blocks.

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For our curriculum day, we have a maths workshop set up for the parents/carers to do with their children. The activities are what we do with the children while they are at nursery. they include numbers, patterns, size and shapes.

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The children have loved the 5 little speckled frogs number sack. They had great fun splashing frogs in the water, and counting how many frogs were left.

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Write dance

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The children are using child safe scissors to make their snips in the soft dough.

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Our funky finger activity is Hammer Tap Tap. The children have a wooden hammer and a cork board and wooden flat shapes (with a hole in the middle). We gave the children a small tac to push through the hole and they use their hammer to push the tac through the shape.

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Our story this week is 'owl babies'.

The children made clay owls in the wellness wood.

They added googly eyes and feathers onto the clay.

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We set out the soft play for the children to explore. They had lots of fun moving around on the equipment. Jumping on and off, rolling around, sliding and pulling themselves along.

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Kandinsky Art

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The children are making pizza for their snack. They squeeze the puree from the tube onto the muffin base and then spread the puree with the spoon. Then they sprinkle grated cheese on top. The pizzas are then warmed in the oven ready for snack.

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Its funky fingers Friday, we set out activities that strengthen the fine motor skills. The children are pushing pipe cleaners through the holes in the colanders.

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The children make their marks with the paint dabbers on the large paper. They explored different ways to explore the colours, making dots and lines and marks.

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We had a sensory activity in the creative area, shaving foam in a tray. The children explored the foam in different ways, some used spoons and brushes to move about and make marks in the foam and others used their hands to touch the foam.

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The children are making sandwiches for snack, they are learning how to hold their knife and to spread the butter and cheese spread on their piece of bread. They then fold the bread to make their sandwich.

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Our new afternoon children have had a busy first week in Poppy class. They have explored the painting area and playdough, the small world animals and cars, musical instruments and rhymes.

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Our new children have had a busy first week in Poppy class. They have been painting, playing with playdough, playing in the home corner and exploring the small world area.

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The children decorated a Christmas tree, They chose the decorations and added them to the branches on the tree. Using baubles, bells and tinsel, they made the tree look bright and colourful.

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The children are decorating the Christmas trees. The decorations can be moved around, (no glue needed). The children added pompoms, shells and tree decorations to make their tree look special.

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We made some "reindeer soup" with the children at nursery. The children pulled the sprouts off the stalk and peeled the leaves off adding them to a bowl. Then the children chopped up some carrots using child safe knives. We added the carrots to the bowl and then poured water and sprinkled glitter on top. The soup was then mixed together, ready for Santa's reindeer.

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We went to the shop to buy some Chrstmas wrapping paper and some biscuits.

We walked while holding hands with the grown ups. When we got the shop, we chose some wrapping paper and biscuits and gave the shop keeper the money.

When we walked back to nursery, we had a biscuit and drink for our snack.

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We held a talking box workshop for the parents and their children to explore some of the talking boxes that we have made to support the children with their language development. Here are some of the examples of our Talking boxes on display.

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The children were playing on the soft play eqiupment.

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The children really enjoyed exploring the different spices mixed with paints and water! They all took turns to smell the spices such as nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon and even started to do some finger painting too, they loved getting messy!

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The children are making tea in the home corner. Lots of filling and emptying of tea from the tea pot into cups and pots. They were curious to smell the different varieties of fruit tea. It smells nice they said.

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The children are making pizza for snack. They used bread for the pizza base and squeezed some tomato puree from the tube and used a knife to spread the puree over the bread. they then sprinkled grated cheese on top. The pizzas were warmed in the oven until ready.

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The children are making gingerbread biscuits for this weeks cooking activity. They take turns to add and mix the flour, sugar, butter, egg, syrup, ginger and cinnamon together. They roll out the dough and cut out a gingerbread shape with their cookie cutter. The cookies are then put in the oven to bake.

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The children are playing with the cars and trucks in class. They move their cars and trucks along the wooden roads. There are wooden people who want to cross the road and the children find a safe place for them to cross. We talked about road safety.

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The children are role playing in the home corner, pretending to be vets. There are lots of animals to care for. One child said "Oh no, he has a poorly head. It's cracked". The children put plasters and bandages on the animals to make them better.

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For our story this week we have the Dear Zoo story. The children take turns to lift the flap to reveal the animals that are hiding. They matched the animal with the animal on the carpet. They named the animal and made the animal noises.

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For group time, the children are watching an attention activity. For this we used some bicarbonate of soda, food colouring, and white vinegar. As soon as the vinegar was added to the bicarbonate of soda and food colouring, the ingredients fizzed and the colour filled the area. The children said "wow" "look big" "volcano" "red, yellow, green".

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We celebrated Diwali at nursery with different activities and invited the parents to come and join us. We tried some special foods. We made rangoli patterns with rice. We made special firework paintings and diva lamps to celebrate the festival of light.

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The children are moving the dough in their hands to music. They follow the instructions from adult to roll the dough, press the dough with their fingers, squeeze the dough and pat the dough. this exercise focuses on strengthening their hands and fingers.

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The children are making firework pictures. Using clear glue with glue sticks, they then sprinkle some glitter onto the paper. The children talk about the fireworks they have seen, and the big firework went pop and bang.

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In the mud kitchen the children helped to chop the herbs and vegetables. They carefully used their plastic knife to chop them.

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The children have been busy exploring the shaving foam in the mud kitchen. They used their senses to explore the texture of the foam and made their marks in the foam using their fingers.

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In the mud kitchen the children made their very own ice cream sundaes 🍨. They used shaving foam, leaves, petals and sprinkles. Look at their amazing creations!!

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The children are making pizza for snack.

They are adding tomato puree onto the muffin bases and sprinkle grated cheese on top. The pizzas are then warmed in the oven. The children then eat their yummy pizza at snack time.

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Curriculum day literacy and funky finger activities.

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Curriculum Day with literacy and funky finger activities.

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Our parents joined in with the funky finger activities in class. We had write dance, playdough, cutting up vegetables, picking up pom poms with tweezers, threading pasta to make bracelets. We also had books and props and finished with a small group time singing our favourite rhymes.

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The animals from Ark farm came to the nursery and the children went in small groups to see them. The children were able to feed and stroke the rabbit and guinea pigs and tortoise. The children loved the dog and the dog loved all the attention. The children also saw a hedgehog and felt the prickly spikes on its back.

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In the afternoon session, we also added some food colouring to the bicarbonate of soda and white vinegar. The mixture fizzed up and poured over the pumpkin.

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We have explored the pumpkins with the children and are doing a science experiment. We added some bicarbonate of soda and white vinegar to the pumpkin and the mixture started to fizz and bubble up and over the top of the pumpkin like a volcano erupting.

" wow volcano" said a child. " it smelly" said another child.

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The children painted their marks onto tin foil. Making swirly patterns in blue, yellow and white coloured paint.

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Van Gogh. One starry night.

The children painted their marks onto canvas boards. Mixing the blue, yellow and white colours together. Making different marks and patterns.

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The children were busy making marks with mud, using paint brushes.

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The children were busy using the child safe scissors to cut snips in the playdough.

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The children were learning ways to cut the playdough with child safe scissors.

They made snips in the dough.

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The children were busy using their fine motor skills to pull off the sticky tape off the table. They pulled off the leaves and loose parts from the tape and stuck the tape back on the table.

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The children felt the soft clay. They squashed a shape using there hands. Then pushed sticks in the clay for the legs. "Spider!" they said. They then added some eyes to their clay spiders.

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The children were busy rolling the conkers in the paint. They tipped the tray from side to side and watched the conkers roll along the paper making marks in the paint.

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Sign 4 Learning is a unique initiative that successfully uses signs taken from British Sign Language to support the understanding and use of new vocabulary in hearing children. It was written and trialled in Luton and has been showcased in National publications and National and European conferences, with training delivered both nationally and internationally.

The children learn simple signs to support their use of emotional language and be able to understand and name how they are feeling.

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Talking boxes

Is an intervention support EAL children and those children who would benefit from speech and language support.

We have been doing talking boxes at nursery for several years and the format has proved successful these groups aim to support children to learn English in a planned and progressive way.

The groups are held twice a week with both 2-3’s and 3-4’s joining together, with a maximum of six children in each group. The sessions run for five weeks each half term.

During this group we sing a Hello song, introduce activities, introduce book and character, have an attention activity, read the story and have another activity (related to key words), reward sticker and say Goodbye.

The programme is the same for both age groups the books and activities are simple this is because we are teaching the children the basic words.

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From the 4th November 2025 we will be holding a short half hour session each Tuesday within nursery. Where parents can come in to do a activity with their child.

Time Morning children 10.45 - 11.15

Afternoon children - 12.30 -1.00

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Sign 4 Learning is a unique initiative that successfully uses signs taken from British Sign Language to support the understanding and use of new vocabulary in hearing children. It was written and trialled in Luton and has been showcased in National publications and National and European conferences, with training delivered both nationally and internationally.

The children learn simple signs to support their use of emotional language and be able to understand and name how they are feeling.