Welcome to Nursery

Our Nursery teacher is Mrs Fletcher and our support assistants are Miss Bramwell and Miss Rahman.
Our time in Nursery will be spent helping your child become inquisitive, engaged and enthusiastic in their learning.
We will work hard on developing friendships and language skills through carefully planned play-based activities inside and outside.

Our curriculum covers all areas of the EYFS and is based around books to foster a love of reading and writing and to develop interests in a range of topics.

Information for parents
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Nursery Chatter

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We have been busy creating trains. ๐Ÿš‚

24-04-2025
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Lots of Easter fun today ๐Ÿฃ

04-04-2025
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It has been a busy day celebrating Eid ๐Ÿฅณ we have drawn henna hands, made party hats, played games and enjoyed dancing together.

03-04-2025
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We have been looking at signs of spring and have been learning the different parts of the daffodils.

28-03-2025
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Here we are finding the baby spring animals to match to their mothers. We learnt new animal names and discussed the animal features. ๐Ÿฅ ๐Ÿด ๐Ÿท ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ„

24-03-2025
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We sequenced our story and had lots of fun joining in with the repeated refrain. ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿท ๐Ÿท ๐Ÿท ๐Ÿบ

21-03-2025
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Ready to launch our shape rocket ๐Ÿš€ 5 4 3 2 1 Blast off!

21-03-2025
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Iโ€™ll huff and Iโ€™ll puff and Iโ€™ll blow your house down! ๐Ÿท ๐Ÿท ๐Ÿท ๐Ÿบ We have been busy designing and building houses for the three little pigs today.

17-03-2025
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Run run as fast as you can, you canโ€™t catch me Iโ€™m the Gingerbread man.

14-03-2025
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Crazy Hair day! What wonderful creative hairstyles we have in Nursery. Thank you for the chocolate donations so far. We will be wearing home clothes next week and taking chocolate donations for our Bingo night.

14-03-2025
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Mark making in different ways to support our story The Gingerbread Man. ๐Ÿ“–

13-03-2025
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The Gingerbread Man

11-03-2025

Today we have made our very own Gingerbread Man โ€ฆโ€ฆ. Run run as fast as you can ๐Ÿƒ

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We are balancing in different ways to move around the obstacle course.

10-03-2025
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World book day! ๐Ÿ“• ๐Ÿ“–

06-03-2025
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Sharing a book together. ๐Ÿ“• ๐Ÿ“–

05-03-2025
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Itโ€™s been a busy day celebrating World Book Day in Nursery. ๐Ÿถ ๐Ÿ“–

04-03-2025
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Today we have been reading Mr Wolfโ€™s Pancakes. We have drawn Mr Wolf and made pancakes just like his recipe! ๐Ÿฅž

03-03-2025
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We have been busy making teddy bear bread. ๐Ÿป it was very tasty! ๐Ÿ˜‹

28-02-2025
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Porridge making !

27-02-2025

Today we have had lots of fun making our very own porridge after reading our new book Goldilocks and the Three Bears. ๐Ÿป

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Teddy bear bread !

26-02-2025

Today we have been making teddy bear bread using chocolate spread, bananas and raisins after reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

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Thank you for joining us in Nursery this afternoon, it is always lovely to have you in class.

13-02-2025
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Thank you so much for coming to play with us this afternoon and helping us understand the Zones of Regulation.

11-02-2025
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Working out outside! My muscles are so strong ๐Ÿ’ช

06-02-2025
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Itโ€™s been a busy week celebrating Lunar New Year. ๐Ÿ‰ ๐Ÿ

31-01-2025
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Wow! How lucky are we to experience the Chinese Dragon workshop this afternoon. ๐Ÿ‰

28-01-2025
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Re-enacting the story of the great race. ๐Ÿฏ ๐Ÿ‚ ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ€ ๐Ÿต ๐Ÿ‰ ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ÿถ

28-01-2025
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We have been busy celebrating Luna New Year. ๐Ÿ‰ ๐Ÿฎ

27-01-2025

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We have been mark making the skunk and elephant from our book. ๐ŸŽจ ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿฆจ

23-01-2025
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We have been busy getting to the beat with Skunka and Tanka. ๐Ÿช˜ ๐Ÿฅ

23-01-2025
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We are getting down to the beat with our new book. ๐Ÿ“• ๐Ÿฅ ๐ŸŽต

20-01-2025
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The Animal Boogie

17-01-2025

We have used the play dough and wooden sticks to make enclosureโ€™s for the animals from our new story.

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The Animal Boogie

13-01-2025

Today we have read the story The Animal Boogie and we have been busy creating enclosures for the jungle animals using the play dough.

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We have been exploring the ice today and thinking of different ways to help it melt. Some suggestions were โ€œput it in the sunshineโ€ โ€œput hot water on itโ€ it was lots of fun and we learnt lots of new vocab rescuing the animals and describing the ice.

10-01-2025
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Can we beat the timer to put on our winter accessories? We were determined to make sure the gloves were on properly!

10-01-2025
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We have been working out how to rescue the animals from the ice. ๐ŸงŠ โ€œwe need a hammer to hit itโ€ โ€œwe need to melt itโ€ were some suggestions.

07-01-2025
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We had so much fun exploring the snow on our first day back to school.

07-01-2025
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Christmas pattern stamping

13-12-2024

Today the children have enjoyed making patterns using the paint and Christmas stamps ๐ŸŽ„

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Itโ€™s been a day a day full of fun and parties ๐Ÿฅณ

11-12-2024
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We have been busy making repeating patterns today.

10-12-2024
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The Twinkly Nativity

04-12-2024

Thank you so much to all parents and families for coming to watch The Twinky Nativity performed this morning by Nursery A and RLMc. We hope you enjoyed watching all of our wonderful children here in Smithdown Early Years.

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Itโ€™s beginning to look like Christmasโ€ฆ

02-12-2024
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This week we have been busy reading the book Stickman and then created our own stickman.

29-11-2024
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Thank you to everyone that joined us this afternoon.

22-11-2024
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5 currant buns in the bakers shop.

22-11-2024
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Thank you for joining us for our Nursery Rhyme stay and learn.

19-11-2024
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We have been busy baking 5 currant buns this morning as part of World Nursery Rhyme Week.

19-11-2024
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Fun in the snow this morning โ„๏ธ

19-11-2024
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How lovely to see these two sharing our class book together. ๐Ÿฆ‰ ๐Ÿ“–

18-11-2024
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We have had so busy all day raising money for Children in Need.

15-11-2024
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This afternoonโ€™s owl visit

13-11-2024

This afternoon we had some special visitors Flint and Matilda the owls. We have been reading the Owl Babies and we were very excited to meet some real life owls.

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This morningโ€™s owl visit

13-11-2024

This morning we had some special visitors Flint and Matilda the owls. We have been reading the Owl Babies and we so excited to meet some real life owls.

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Children in need

12-11-2024

Today the children have had lots of fun dressing up for children in need. We have been making spotty biscuits and Pudsey bear party hats. ๐Ÿฅณ

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Starting our Children in Need campaign in Nursery. ๐Ÿป

12-11-2024

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We have been busy making poppy art and poppy biscuits today to mark Remembrance Day.

08-11-2024
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Marking Remembrance Day with poppy biscuits and poppy art.

07-11-2024
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We have been using new describing words whilst manipulating firework gloop. ๐ŸŽ†

04-11-2024
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We have been creating our faces using Autumn natureโ€ฆ

25-10-2024
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We have been learning about Diwali and are manipulating salt dough into our own diya lamps. ๐Ÿช”

24-10-2024
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Itโ€™s been a day full of Autumn learning. ๐Ÿ‚ ๐Ÿ

21-10-2024
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Exploring loud and quiet sounds like the girl in our story. ๐ŸŽถ

18-10-2024
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We have a new teacher in class today!

18-10-2024
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Working hard together to build the tallest towers.

14-10-2024
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Thank you to everyone that joined us this afternoon, it was lovely to see you all in Nursery playing and sharing the space together.

11-10-2024
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We have made our own jars to help us stay calm.

11-10-2024
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Thank you to everyone who joined us this afternoon in Nursery.

08-10-2024
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Large mark making in the afternoon sun.โ˜€๏ธ

07-10-2024
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Dinosaur Roar! We have been exploring different activities with dinosaurs after reading our new book. We have been strengthening our muscles by rescuing the dinosaurs, printing with their feet and making our own dinosaurs with the dough.

30-09-2024
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The most important job! Making tea and learning new vocabulary โ˜•๏ธ

27-09-2024
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Time to say goodbye ๐Ÿ‘‹

09-07-2024

Thank you for joining us this morning for our celebrations ๐ŸŽ‰

We are lucky to have been able to share this year with your children and hope you all come back to say hello.

We finished the day with a party lunch and party games this afternoon. โ˜บ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜Š

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Spanish day ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ

09-07-2024

We had lots of fun celebrating Spanish day, making Spanish flags and doing Spanish dancing ๐Ÿ’ƒ

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Nursery Picnic

05-07-2024

Thank you too everyone for joining us for our picnic and all of our delicious food ๐Ÿฅ˜

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Picnic Time ๐Ÿงบ

03-07-2024

It was so lovely to see you all at our picnic and thank you for all the delicious food. ๐Ÿ˜‹

keep those hearts topped up with love and we hope they help you all as you move onto new classes in September. โค๏ธ

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Challenge time

24-06-2024

We set the children a range of challenges to see if the children could ย complete the challenge before the timer ends.

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Fantastic Family Picnic

21-06-2024

A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.

An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.

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Thank you to Mrs Naylor for our wonderful Music Assembly today ๐ŸŽถ ๐ŸŽค

19-06-2024

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Supporting our metal health by doing something that is fun and makes us laugh.

18-06-2024

Banana Boat song.

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100 Star Jumps to complete our daily challenge for Alder Hey.

17-06-2024

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Itโ€™s been a busy day in Nursery! Time to take break in the sunshine โ˜€๏ธ

14-06-2024

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We have been busy placing the correct number of dogs into the dog beds. ๐Ÿถ ๐Ÿ•

14-06-2024

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Weโ€™re Going on a Bear Hunt

23-05-2024

Today we had lots of fun making teddy bear bread , by spreading the chocolate spread and using bananas for the ears and raisins for the eyes. ย  .

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What a joy to see these two retelling our story from last week. ?

21-05-2024

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Were Going on a Bear Hunt

20-05-2024

Today we have made some teddy bear bread using chocolate spread , bananas and raisins.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us this afternoon for stay and learn.

17-05-2024

we enjoyed sharing our activities and rhymes with you all and look forward to seeing you next time. โ˜บ๏ธ

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We have been busy talking about and sorting healthy and unhealthy foods. ????????

17-05-2024

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The very Hungry Caterpillar ?

16-05-2024

We are munching our way threw one apple, two pears, three plums, four strawberries and five oranges ?

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It has been a busy after at stay and learn. Thank you for everyone who joined us. โ˜บ๏ธ

14-05-2024

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Look at our slide!

14-05-2024

We have worked hard to build this slide and have used our muscles to balance as we climb up and down it.

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar ?

13-05-2024

Today we have enjoyed making fruit kebabs after listening to our new story.

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Spider hunting in the sunshine ?๏ธ?

10-05-2024

We have been learning about spiders this week and have been looking at similarities and differences.

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We have been very busy retelling our story this afternoon. ?๏ธ

10-05-2024

We have learnt all the Makaton signs for the animals in our story and then used them to retell the story.

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Itโ€™s been a busy day using our fine motor skills to thread webs for the spiders and using our subitising skills to count spiders! ?๏ธ?๏ธ

09-05-2024

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Enjoying the water with spiders and numicon. ?๏ธ

07-05-2024

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Thank you to all our families who joined us for stay and learn this morning. ?

03-05-2024

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Nursery Stay and Learn

30-04-2024

Today we welcomed parents to stay and learn, we had a lovely morning! This week we have been looking at the book โ€œAaaarggh Spiderโ€ lots of our activities had a spidery theme. ?๏ธ

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We have been busy baking cakes and making hats ready to celebrate Maisieโ€™s Birthday ?

26-04-2024

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Look at these two working at their laptops in the sunshine. ? ?

23-04-2024

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Today we have baked cakes to help celebrate Maisieโ€™s Birthday ?

23-04-2024

Maisie Mouse in our story is having a birthday! ? ? ?

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Itโ€™s been a busy and messy morning expanding our vocabulary using gloop. ?

19-04-2024

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We have been busy sharing how we celebrated Eid. ?

18-04-2024

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EYFS Nativity

12-12-2023

Thanks so much to all parents and families for coming to see our Nativity performance today.
Our next performance will be on Thursday 14th at 1.30pm.

Many Thanks.?

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EYFS Nativity

12-12-2023

Thanks so much to all parents who attended our Nativity performance today.

Our next performance will be on Thursday 14th at 1.30pm.

Many Thanks

 

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Today we have read I Like Trains!

20-11-2023

We have printed trains with blocks and made marks to represent train track, trains and signals.

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We had lots of Pudsey fun on Friday whilst raising money for charity.

20-11-2023

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Thank you to all our parents who joined us today to help us celebrate World Nursery Rhyme week. We had lots of fun sharing our rhymes and activities with you all.

14-11-2023

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We have been busy learning about Diwali the festival of light. We have moulded dough into Diya lamps. Made marks to create Rangoli patterns and wrote our names in our cards we have decorated.

13-11-2023

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Nursery creative area

18-10-2023

We have had lots of fun in the creative area

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Super balancing outdoors

18-10-2023

Super balancing outdoors #smithdowneyfs

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Lots of team work with the blocks

18-10-2023

Lots of team work with the blocks #smithdowneyfs

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Dancing and freezing to the beat in music today…

18-10-2023

We had lots of fun in music this morning dancing and freezing to the beat. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmusic @ResonateHub

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Itโ€™s been a busy afternoon looking at big and small…

18-10-2023

Itโ€™s been a busy afternoon looking at big and small. We worked hard sorting acorns. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmaths @MasterTheCurric

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Today we made our own leaf man…

18-10-2023

Today we have read The Leaf Man and made marks to represent the different places he passed in the wind. We then made our own leaf man. #smithdowneyfs

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Using Autumn nature to create our faces

18-10-2023

We have been busy using Autumn nature to create our faces. #smithdowneyfs

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Itโ€™s been a busy morning learning dances to Disney classics

18-10-2023

Itโ€™s been a busy morning learning dances to Disney classics. I just canโ€™t wait to be king! ? ? our roarโ€™s are amazing! #smithdowneyfs

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looking at ourselves as babies and talking about our families

18-10-2023

Today we have been looking at ourselves as babies and talking about our families. #smithdowneyfs

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Represent our feelings with colours

18-10-2023

We have been busy filling our jars with colours to sort and represent our feelings. #smithdowneyfs

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Music with Mrs Naylor ???

18-10-2023

Music with Mrs Naylor ???

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Music with Mrs Naylor

18-10-2023

Music with Mrs Naylorโ€™s scarfs today ???

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Making rainbows in Nursery today

18-10-2023

It has been a busy day sorting colours and making rainbows in Nursery today. #smithdowneyfs

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We have been using the colour monsters from our new book

18-10-2023

We have been using the colour monsters from our new book to match the monsters and investigate five frames. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmaths #smithdownreaders

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Recognising our emotions…

18-10-2023

Recognising our emotions and placing how we feel on the zones of regulation board. #smithdowneyfs

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Itโ€™s a busy morning at the zoo today!

18-10-2023

Itโ€™s a busy morning at the zoo today! Preparing food for the animals and learning new vocabulary from our story. #smithdowneyfs

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The story box brought us lots of animals from the zoo…

18-10-2023

The story box brought us lots of animals from the zoo. We enjoyed guessing which one was behind the door. We then went on an animal hunt and painted our favourite animal. #smithdowneyfs

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Playing with the dinosaurs, balls and friends are what we enjoy the most. ?

18-10-2023

Counting how many children are in school today and then drawing what we like doing in school. Playing with the dinosaurs, balls and friends are what we enjoy the most. ? #smithdowneyfs #attendancematters

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Early years learning about different colours

18-10-2023

Today we have been looking and learning about different colours. #smithdowneyfs

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We have been busy today learning Incy Wincy rhyme…

18-10-2023

We have been busy today learning Incy Wincy rhyme and using our motor skills to manipulate dough into spiders. ?๏ธ #smithdowneyfs

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Nursery – music ?

18-10-2023

Movement and music ? @SmithdownPr @sendco_s

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Fun with foam today

18-10-2023

Fun with foam โœ‹? @SmithdownPr @sendco_s

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Early years music

18-10-2023

Movement with music @SmithdownPr @sendco_s

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Today has been all about Incy Windy Spider ?๏ธ

18-10-2023

Today has been all about Incy Windy Spider ?๏ธ we learnt the rhyme, used our hands to paint spiders and manipulated dough to create Incy Wincy. #smithdowneyfs

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Itโ€™s been a busy afternoon in Nursery!

18-10-2023

Itโ€™s been a busy afternoon in Nursery! We have been singing the wheels on the bus song and making marks to represent the different choruses of the rhyme. ? #smithdowneyfs

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Making lots of new friends in Nursery…

18-10-2023

It has been a busy day making lots of new friends in Nursery. ?#smithdowneyfs

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This afternoon we have been singing the wheels on the bus…

18-10-2023

This afternoon we have been singing the wheels on the bus and then made marks to represent the bus. #smithdowneyfs

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Making our own mindfulness jar to help us breath

18-10-2023

We have been practising breathing and relaxing exercises and then made our own mindfulness jar to help us breath. #smithdowneyfs

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Dough disco

18-10-2023

Strengthening our muscles with some dough disco. #smithdowneyfs

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Our first full day in Nursery today

18-10-2023

We have been so busy playing and learning on our first full day in Nursery today. I am so proud of our fantastic superstars. #smithdowneyfs

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We have had lots of fun in the sun today welcoming our friends back for another busy year in Nursery

18-10-2023

We have had lots of fun in the sun today welcoming our friends back for another busy year in Nursery. We look forward to making lots of new friends over the next few weeks. ?โ˜€๏ธ #smithdowneyfs

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