Together we learn for life
Together we learn for life
Together we learn for life

Nursery

Acorns Nursery opened at the lower site of Hamsey Green Primary School in September 2020, providing expert care, socialisation and focus on early education. Whole days, or morning and afternoon sessions are available in discussion with the manager, depending on availability. We provide full wrap around care too with a breakfast and an after-school club provided at an additional cost should this be required. Lunchtime sessions can be booked at an additional cost with lunch provided by the parent/carer.

The Nursery is overseen by Mrs Trudy Nicholson, an experienced nursery manager, who is also a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead.

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Due to the recent change in weather, we have linked "cold and ice" to our weekly topic. We have talked about what we need to wear when it's cold and the children have been practising getting their coats, hats, and gloves on independently before going outdoors. The children have explored this topic through different mediums. We have had an ice tuff tray with arctic animals, they participated in ice painting, they created snowmen number lines using rice and cups and they have also enjoyed the tactile experience of playing with home-made fake snow. The light table was used to encourage the children to match the correct numicon shapes to complete the snowman. We even had a snow themed assault course to work on our positional language, as well as our coordination to return the snowballs to the snowman! We have also been working on our imaginative and creative skills with a playpod experience. Playpod has all the components of loose play. We use various materials and resources such as cardboard tubes and boxes, fabrics, ropes, boxes, crates and other miscellaneous items and the children are encouraged to makes, build and create! We had a real assortment of boats, trucks, cars and den creations! Throughout the week, we have also been making our enterprise products to sell at the school fair, alongside our daily Little Wandle Foundations phonic sessions and our Talk For Writing sessions, where the children have been learning "Stickman".
24/12/05 07:07:465 December
This week, we have focused on the topic of "weddings" as part of our festivals and celebrations topic. The children have enjoyed looking at a diverse selection of wedding photos, including those from nursery staff and parents who have kindly shared photos which we looked at during our discussion times. We talked about the different roles people have in a wedding, we explored different types of weddings, such as a church or registry style wedding as well as learning new words linked to this topic, such as bouquet, veil, buttonholes etc. We have also worked on our School Fair prototype for the Dragons Den style pitch on Friday. The children decided to make salt dough snowflake tree decorations, so we have spent the week trialling the best way to make and decorate these, as well as making an excel presentation of what they children did, which will be shown to the rest of the school. Fingers crossed that the nursery wins a prize for their pitch! The children have also had lots of opportunities to work on their turn taking skills as well as their number, counting and shapes skills through lots of board games and team activities such as skittles.
24/11/28 14:12:1828 November
This week, we have had a math focus running throughout the week with lots of different counting, number recognition, sorting, measuring and sequencing activities. We raced cars down a numbered ramp, measured how long our shoes were and how high a tower we could build, explored volume and capacity in the sand area with difference vessels and matched assorted resources to numbers. We have also encouraged the children to think creatively to make a 5-sentence stories, using props, picture prompts or toys during small world play experiences. Throughout the week, the children have had an opportunity to investigate colour mixing. They have explored how to make new colours by mixing primary colours together and they have also explored graduated shading with primary colours by adding white. We also explored colour blending with an experiment using skittles and hot water to observe how the colours blended. We also enjoyed welcoming Mrs Mace, who brought with her the new Director of Education to view the nursery, plus Mrs Jordan on Wednesday, as well as a holding a successful nursery photographer session!
24/11/21 16:22:2021 November