We hope you all enjoyed your Easter nest cakes. Have a lovely rest during the holidays and we will see you in two weeks. 🐣
25-03-2026
Nursery
Welcome to Nursery
A very warm welcome to Nursery. We strive to provide an extremely positive environment and first experience of school for your child and highly value our parental and carer partnerships with you.
In Nursery we support the children at the beginning of their school journey here at Smithdown. The children develop key play and communication skills including sharing, turn taking and forming friendships. We focus on enhancing the children’s vocabulary through a wide variety of books, rhymes and stories, along with developing key mathematical skills through number songs, counting and practical activities involving shape and measure. We share a wide range of books over the year to promote an enjoyment of reading and early writing. We promote each area of the EYFS curriculum through a wide variety of activities both indoors and outdoors throughout the day and our curriculum is designed to encourage creativity and independence. We also enrich the children’s real-life experiences through trips and visits throughout the year. We actively encourage and value our parental partnerships by inviting you to join us for stay and learn sessions, outdoor activities and workshops during the year.
Information for Parents
The class teacher is Miss McFarlane and support assistant staff are
Miss Bramwell, Miss Rahman, Mrs Rogers and Miss Senas.
Sharing Books at Home
Over the year, the children will have the opportunity to choose a book from Nursery to take home and share. These will be sent home in a school bag.
Useful Links
BBC Nursery Rhymes and Counting Songs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/articles/zhwdgwx
Please click here for an overview of this term’s learning.
Nursery Chatter
Thank you to everyone for joining us for stay and learn. We really enjoyed sharing our maths learning with you 😊
25-03-2026
World Book Day
05-03-2026
Today we had lots of fun celebrating world book day dressing up in our pyjamas and home clothes. We also enjoyed sharing stories together.
We had a lovely day in our pyjamas celebrating World Book Day. We loved sharing your books together 📕
04-03-2026
We are learning about Luna new year and have painted our good luck message and created lanterns by ripping paper.
10-02-2026
I went to the shop and I bought………
03-02-2026
This afternoon we had lots of fun playing a memory game called we went to the shop. The children learnt new words such as cauliflower and cabbage and could recall the order the food was bought.
We have been learning the names of fruits and how to describe them. We then used the fruits to make faces.
22-01-2026
Developing our physical skills with our family. It was lovely to see so many of you sharing the skills with your children. 🍌 🍊
22-01-2026
This week is all about bananas and gorillas from our new story book. Today we have been mark making gorillas and making banana puppets. We used lots of fine motor skills by wrapping wool around the banana.
20-01-2026
Thank you for everyone who joined us today at our session promoting physical development. Your children were brilliant at chopping the bananas and fruits to make their banana split.
20-01-2026
Learning new vocabulary whilst conducting our lava experiment.
16-01-2026
We had lots of fun watching our lava experiment we learnt some new words such as lava, erupting and volcano.
It has been a busy morning building this morning we named this structure Our Future Building!
09-01-2026
We have been developing our fine motor skills and mark making to make The Big Dipper constellation after looking at them in our new book.
09-01-2026
Exploring the ice outside
06-01-2026
Today we had lots of fun playing outside in the snow and ice.
Father Christmas
17-12-2025
Today we had a surprise visit from Father Christmas and enjoyed receiving a gift.
Fruit kebab
16-12-2025
Today the children had lots of fun making fruit kebabs out of various fruits.
Thank you so much to everwho joined us to watch the fabulous singing from our Nursery children. 🎶 🎵 🎄
10-12-2025
It’s Christmas !
01-12-2025
Today the children have enjoyed decorating the classroom and the Christmas tree 🌲
It has been a busy day booking cakes for Maisie’s Birthday Party 🎂 We have learnt the names of the ingredients and measured them out before mixing them together.
28-11-2025
We have been busy building an obstacle course and strengthening our core muscle and balance by walking across them.
24-11-2025
Thank you to everyone who joined us for stay and learn this afternoon. We hope you enjoyed the session and I look forward to hearing about the books you are sharing.
14-11-2025
We have had lots of fun raising money for children in need. Lots of dancing with Pudsey and we made our own Pudsey hats.
14-11-2025
We have started World Nursery Rhyme week by learning 2 little dickie birds and singing Humpty Dumpty.
10-11-2025
