First Weeks of Nursery

What a wonderful week we have had in nursery.  The children have now really settled into their new classroom and are becoming familiar with the expectations of the environment and the school.  We have been modelling how to use the different areas in the classroom so the children can get the best out of the activities we offer. 

We have introduced the children to the inspirational person behind our class name, Tanni Grey-Thompson.  Tanni was born in 1969 in Cardiff.  She was born with spina bifida which affects a baby’s backbone meaning it will not grow normally.  Her parents were determined to make her as independent as possible with different sports.  She was inspired to take up athletics after watching the London wheelchair marathon.  By the age of 15, she was racing for Wales in the junior championships.  Tanni went on to win 11 Paralympic gold medals. 

Using Tanni’s inspirational story, we have been creating some lovely ‘wheel’ paintings by dipping the wheels of toy vehicles into paint and ‘wheeling’ them across paper.  The children have also made their own salt dough and then crafted and painted salt dough Paralympic medals.

We have been singing lots of lovely nursery rhymes and nursery songs and a special favourite has been Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes!  We also had a special guest teacher, Mrs Higo, teach a music lesson to the nursery children. 

We have been looking very closely at our faces this week and have been creating our own faces using a variety of resources such as conkers, shells and beads.  First, we looked at our faces in a mirror and then used the materials to make our own faces.  We even added speech bubbles to describe our faces.  We continued this theme during our snack and made fruit faces on pancakes!  Take a look at our amazing creative faces below, as well as some of the fantastic activities the children have been up to.