On the 18th of July, Tweenies hosted a blue party to celebrate the colour blue and end of term with lots of different fun and learning activities around the children’s interest! The children enjoyed building towers using blue magnetic blocks, using shape cutters and playdough, some sensory fun with blue shredded paper and Read more…
Throughout nursery, as part of our curriculum we celebrated King Charles Coronation in May 2023.Tweenies carried out several different activities around the celebration including creating Crowns, Golden carnage collage, United Kingdom flags, bunting and a royal picnic outdoors!The nursery held a grand party to celebrate the King Charles’ coronation… Children and staff Read more…
In preparation for school we have been very busy in the pre school rooms. We have been looking at our self help skills, trying to put on and fasten our coats, putting on our shoes and dressing ourselves. We also support children with toilet training and ensuring we wash our Read more…
Our theme throughout nursery this term has been lifecycles. We have done a variety of activities to support our learning around this theme. Each room in nursery had caterpillars to look after and watch grow into butterflies. We had discussions and did lots of activities about the lifecycle of a Read more…
This term we have had lots of family learning events going on around nursery. In the baby room, parents and carers were invited to come into nursery to take part in ice play with herbs and small world play with their child. In bumblebees parents and carers joined their children Read more…
Each year at First Class we hold a Graduation Ceremony for our Pre-school children that are leaving for school. Running up to Graduation we ensure that all the children have a picture taken with a cap and gown, we add this picture to the children’s certificate and learning journal. These Read more…
Why Birkbees visit the local library. Reading itself is essential to a child’s success, but the role of libraries in a child’s development is also very important. Some people question how libraries impact children when technology is so readily available. The children at Birkbees are taken on a weekly rota to the Read more…
