Welcome to Nursery
Dear parents/carers,
This week children have been busy with Easter activities, making cards, painting candles, making Easter bags and dying Easter eggs.
We learnt about the Orthodox Easter Story and the Annunciation (the announcement of the good news).
During Maths, we practiced addition using Numicon and number blocks. We introduced the mathematical equation of addition; plus and equals sign.
Have a great weekend,
Early Years
Good afternoon parents & carers,
Early Years Team would like to wish all the mums, a very happy Mother’s Day.
During this week, children have been learning about the five senses and sharing their night routines.
We learn a new concept: Sharing Equally. ‘When we have an even number (2,4,6,8 or 10), we share it by saying “1 for you, 1 for me” and everyone needs to have the same quantity at the end’
During RE, children started learning about Easter, and we have learnt about Lazarus and Jesus.
Have a lovely weekend!!
Early Years Team
Hello parents/ carers,
This week’s topic book is ‘Peace at Last’. Children have been exploring houses from the past and present and compared similarities and differences (e.g. in the past people were using buckets of water to wash their clothes were as now people have washing machines).
In maths, we revisit 2D shapes and their properties and introduced more 3D shapes.
We looked around our environment and find many objects with different shapes.
Children learnt about germs and how we need to wash our hand through experiments. We pretend that ground black pepper were the germs and they put soap to keep the germs away.
During RE, we learnt how we show our love to God in his house by lighting a candle in church and saying a prayer: Dear God, I came to light a candle at school today, to show how much I love you, Amen.
Have a lovely weekend,
Early Years Team.
Dear Parents/ Carers,
The children this week have been practising rhyming words e.g. ‘One, two, three, What can you see?’ from our topic book.
In Maths, we have been exploring subtraction using Numicon Shapes and playdough.
During R.E, the children got to fly their own kites for Clean Monday – Greek Orthodox celebration in preparation for Easter.
Have a lovely weekend,
Early Years Team.
Dear Parents,
This week children were introduced to Peepo’s story. Here you will find attached a video of Peepo’s story -> Peepo! – YouTube
During maths, we explored the concept of taking away (subtraction) and children learnt that the numbers become smaller.
We celebrated Shrove Tuesday and children had the opportunity the make their own pancakes following the steps of a recipe.
P.S Please make sure that the children complete the homework independently.
Have a lovely weekend,
Early Years
Dear parents,
This week children have been exploring their 5 senses through different activities.
During R.E, we introduced ‘Buddhism’, and their traditions while also talking about the similarities with Christianity.
Children enjoyed the song ‘Pantosaurus Dinosaur’ and we talked about how important it is to keep our private parts to our self and where to seek help if needed. Here is the song The Pantosaurus Song! | #TalkPANTS | NSPCC – YouTube.
Enjoy your half term and thank you for your continued support,
Early Years Team.
Dear parents,
We would like to thank all the parents who offered to come and share their professions with the children.
Children have been learning about ‘People Who Help Us’, and why everybody is important for our community.
During R.E, we introduced ‘The Three Hierarchs’, and how important they are for the Orthodox Religion.
Children have been practising adding ‘1 more’ to different numbers, and discussing what happens to the Numicon shapes when we add the Numicon shapes number 1.
Have a great weekend. See you on Monday.
Early Years Team.
Happy Lunar New Year!
During this week children have been reading ‘The Great Race’ in order to celebrate the new Lunar Year and discovered different traditions around Lunar New Year.
Children had the chance to practice ordinal and cardinal numbers (order numbers from 1 to 10).
Have a great weekend. See you on Monday.
Early Years Team.
Dear parents,
This week we have been making lists of what do you need in order to prepare a birthday party, based on our book ‘Kipper’s Birthday’.
In Maths, we have been working on our counting in combination with finding the corresponding Numicon shape. We are going to be sending the worksheet with the numbers and the rhymes home; this is for you to keep at home to practice with your little ones.
Children have been exploring different types of foods that they can eat and how each one helps in providing their bodies with vitamins and nutrients. We introduce the idea of 5 fruits and vegetables per day.
Early Years Team
Mrs Low, Mrs Bruno, Mrs Brown, Miss Mc Grath, Miss Panayiotou & Miss Mozo.
Dear parents,
This week we have been making birthday invitations based on the story book cover ‘Kipper’s Birthday’, children signed them.
We have been working on number formation with rhymes. Check your children’s bags to find the worksheet with the rhymes and/or see the image below.
Children have been exploring and discussing about different religions around the World such as Muslim, Buddhism, Hinduism; we pointed the similarities with Christianity.
Early Years Team
Mrs Low, Mrs Bruno, Mrs Brown, Miss Mc Grath, Miss Panayiotou & Miss Mozo.