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Nursery Rhyme Week
It has been a wonderfully busy start to the half-term in Nursery, with the children settling back into their routines and enjoying lots of exciting learning opportunities.
They began the term by taking part in Nursery Rhyme Week, which gave the children plenty of chances to explore activities based on this year’s chosen rhymes. There was such a buzz of creativity throughout the week! Some of the highlights included making playdough pies inspired by Sing a Song of Sixpence, and using the puppets they made to act out Humpty Dumpty and Two Little Dickie Birds. It was wonderful to see the children so engaged, singing with enthusiasm and using their imaginations in their play
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Squiggle Whilst you wiggle
The children have started our handwriting programme, Wiggle Me into a Squiggle, which supports early writing through fun movement activities. The sessions focus on developing large muscle movements and coordination — an important foundation for confident mark-making and handwriting skills later on.
Nursery Library Books
The Nursery Library was also launched, which has been a great success. The children were so excited to select their first book to take home and it’s been lovely to see their enthusiasm continue as they return and choose new stories to share with their families.
Mutlicultural week
Multicultural week in Nursery has been amazing, inspired by the wonderful book All Are Welcome. The story encouraged the children to explore and appreciate the rich diversity within Nursery and the wider world. They have listened to rhymes in a range of languages spoken by the children in Nursery. Everyone enjoyed hearing familiar songs and discovering new sounds and rhythms from different cultures. The children also spent time learning about their own cultural backgrounds, creating colourful flags to represent their families and countries of origin.
As part of celebrating what makes each of us unique, the children explored similarities and differences in how we look — including skin colour. Using a selection of skin tone paints, they mixed and matched shades to create handprints that showed how beautifully diverse their class community is.
The children’s senses were also engaged as they explored the amazing smells of various spices used in cooking around the world. They enjoyed guessing what each spice might be and talking about the foods their families make at home.
It has been a joyful and enriching week, full of learning, discovery, and appreciation of the wonderful diversity that makes our Nursery community so special.
Owl babies
The children have had a wonderful time exploring the Nursery environment and are becoming more familiar with our daily routines and rules. We've focused on the delightful story "Owl Babies," where the children enjoyed listening and joining in with the repeated refrain, "I want my mummy." They have also had fun retelling the story using props, as well as painting and collaging their own owls and creating their own versions of the story and hunting in the garden for pictures from the story.
Through the topic Marvellous Me, the children took a moment to look carefully into a mirror, discussing their facial features such as skin colour, eye colour, and hair colour, before creating their own self-portraits. What a fantastic start to our time together at Hazelwood!
Welcome, Apple and Cherry class
It has been a busy couple of weeks in the Nursery and we are absolutely delighted to have welcomed Cherry Class (Full time) and Apple Class (Part time) to our Hazelwood Community. All of the children are settling in remarkably well and have shown fantastic progress in their confidence as they come into Nursery each morning. They are forming positive relationships with our dedicated staff and starting to make new friends here at Hazelwood.
Nursery Stay and Play!
Our Nursery Children had their stay and play sessions with their parents this week and they had so much fun! It was wonderful to see our youngest children exploring the learning environment with so much enthusiasm. We can't wait for you to start!
