Our core text this fortnight is ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. We will be reading alternative versions of the story and looking at similarities and differences. There will be opportunities for cooking different kinds of porridge, acting out the story and using lots of mathematical language.

The blue sky today meant the children could see all the aeroplanes flying over nursery. There was great excitement. They counted planes as they flew overhead, using binoculars to get a closer look. They recorded the number of planes they saw. There was so much conversation & lots of new…

The children explored magnetic letters. They recognised special letters and letters they shared with friends. They arranged letters into words, explaining what they had written. “That’s my letter G” “What letter is this?” “Letter O” “Look. It’s my name” “It says papa” “abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz”

We had a special visit from the Education Outreach Team at Southwark Veolia. They read ‘Munch and the Funny Tummy’, a story about a recycling vehicle called Munch that is fed the wrong kind of recycling and things go wrong! Luckily the recycling crew helped Munch and he was back…

Today was Christmas lunch day. A very special day when the children and all the staff eat together. The table was set beautifully. We had turkey, vegetarian wellington, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, vegetables and gravy. The children loved pulling their crackers and wearing their party hats.

We had our end of term sing-along today. Children, families and staff all sang Christmas songs together. As well as singing a song in Yoruba we sang in Spanish and Arabic too. Afterwards we enjoyed German spiced biscuits and mulled apple juice, hook a bauble and making eco-Christmas decorations.

We had two special visitors today. Santa 1 and Santa 2. The children were so thrilled to see Santa they showed him their toys in the nursery before he even got to the grotto. As well as meeting the children in the grotto, Santa had a game of football and…