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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This week at nursery, we have focused our "All about Me" topic on feelings and emotions. The children have had a variety of opportunities to learn and recognise different emotions through numerous matching activities, stories, puppet sessions and arts & craft activities. The "Colour Monster" story was read and proved to be a great hit with the children as they could easily identify the different moods and emotions which were matched to a colour in the story. The children quickly linked these colours to our various emotion's activities. We have also focused on harvest festival with a collection at nursery, which parents have kindly donated food items to. The children have enjoyed numerous autumn activities linked to the seasonal changes. Some children got to explore our forest school area this week and collected leaves which we used to create a leaf colour graph. Other children enjoyed malleable activities to make Autumnal bread and clay hedgehogs. They also explored several fine motor activities by using hammers to tap golf tees into pumpkins, as well as scooping out the inside of a pumpkin using spoons and other hand-held tools.
24/10/10 12:19:0110 October
This week, we have focused our "All about me" topic on "My body". The children have learnt about the role of a dentist and the importance of brushing our teeth through discussions and a fun role play tooth brushing activity. We have explored healthy food choices through discussions and the children enjoyed making their own fruit salad by selecting and chopping up their favourite fruits for snack. They also made a healthy pizza for snack on another day, choosing from a variety of vegetable toppings. We have explored the importance of exercise and fresh air by taking part in numerous physical activities, including dance, music movement, moving in a variety of ways outdoors such as jumping, side stepping or tiptoeing, plus the children have not only just run around the playground but have needed to run back into nursery to avoid being caught in the sudden downpours of rain this week! We have enjoyed lots of counting, sorting and number recognition games in our daily provision and have used natural resources in out art area, such as conker rolling. The children have also enjoyed their daily Little Wandles phonic sessions and Rhyme times.
24/10/03 12:30:263 October
This week we have been thinking all about "wonderful me"! The children have been identifying similar and different features of themselves through a variety of activities. The children compared how tall they were during a measuring activity. There were lots of discussions and predictions as to who might be the tallest and shortest child within the setting. We have continued our discussions about ourselves. The children have enjoyed identifying things that they favour such as their favourite fruit, animal, or colour and they have continued to recreate self-portraits using a variety of natural and collage resources. The fruit self-portraits was a very popular activity! We have also thought about where we live and what our house might look like. The children have represented their impressions through collage and shape activities. Through another maths activity, we created a graph with the children to identify and compare each child's eye colour. We then counted to see which was the most dominant colour. Dough disco also proved to be a fun fine motor activity this week, where the children enjoyed a fun activity manipulating play dough in a variety of ways to upbeat music! We also held our very own McMillan coffee morning on Thursday. Thank you to all those parents that contributed cakes or came along and supported the event on the day.
24/09/26 12:20:1826 September