Contact Details
- 029 2046 2581
- tremorfanursery@cardiff.gov.uk
Mona Place, Tremorfa, Cardiff, CF24 2TG
Tremorfa
Nursery School
Another busy week at Tremorfa Nursery School! The children have helped to set up their own pumpkin patch in the garden. There are a variety of different pumpkins of different shapes, sizes and colours. The children have been categorising them by size and setting a price for each. Lots of lovely language around size as they widen their vocabulary from big and small. We are supporting the children to use language around money such as pounds and pence. They have also been investigating the pumpkins further as they opened up a pumpkin to discover what was inside. We have set up our class charter for our Rights Respecting School work. Children have agreed that the articles chosen are important and relevant to our nursery. They include recognising that all children have rights, that they all have a right to be safe, they all have a right to be healthy and they all have a right to be listened to. We will send out more information on this within the activity section of Seesaw. In the art studio the children have been looking closely at their features as they do some lovely observational painting. They are beginning to recognise that we all have similarities and differences and they are starting to talk about these as a group. Please take a look at the activities sent out this week. We would really appreciate any family photographs and staff would be happy to print them in school. We will also be exploring One World Week next week. If you would like to share anything about your home traditions we would love you to send some information in. This could be as simple as a traditional recipe, song or story.
We have had another busy week in nursery this week. The children have been listening to the story ‘The Little Red Hen’ and have had a go at baking bread themselves. We have also been tasting different types of bread at snack and group times. Some of the children visited the local bakery and brought back lots of ideas for our own role play bakery. The children have been using their own experiences within their play as they explore buying and selling in the bakery and act out making the different breads. We have continued to learn our autumn songs and explore the autumnal changes in our nursery garden. The interest in colour mixing has continued from last week and the children have enjoyed experimenting with the powder paints in the garden. They have made some beautiful patterns!
This week in nursery the children have extended their interest in cooking and used real life fruits and vegetables in the home corner and muddy kitchen outside. They have loved the opportunity to explore real foods and this has sparked their imagination as they act out making recipes, baking cakes and soups! Lots of mathematical language as they talk about amounts, measuring and number of people they are cooking for. We have also used vegetables to print in the art studio this week. We are consolidating learning and reinforcing the name of vegetables. the children have also enjoyed colour mixing and are beginning to recognise that they can mix colours to make a new one. Forest school sessions have started for the first group of children and this has been a wonderful opportunity for them to experience the natural world around them. We have continued to read our core stories and sing our rhymes. You can find a list of these in the children's area of the website. We are reading The Little Red Hen and hope to do some baking and food tasting next week!
This week in nursery we have continued the interest in food and have started cooking. On Monday some of the children helped to make an apple and blackberry crumble. They developed their mathematical knowledge as they measured and weighed the ingredients and observed cause and effect as they added ingredients and watched as the mixture changed. The children all got to taste the crumble and talk about what they liked/ disliked. Later in the week we also made vegetable soup. We are starting to identify a variety of vegetables and the children are exploring them through sight, touch an smell. The children who helped to make the soup developed their peeling and cutting skills as they chopped the vegetables and added them to the pot. Lots of talk about gardening and what they have for dinner! Everyone got to taste the soup and some had seconds! Some of the children went on a walk to the local library to change our library books. We have returned with a wonderful mix of books to share with our friends! Again we have welcomed new friends this week and are supporting them to settle in. A huge thank you to all the children who have been so kind, caring and helpful.
This week in nursery the interest in spiders has continued. We have set up our own giant spider web with the children using string to thread and weave around the outside shelter posts. They are starting to show great care and concern as they protect the spiders webs. They understand that the spider has taken lots of time to spin the web and we should be respectful to al creatures. There has also been an interest in building works this week and the children have helped to set up a builders yard outside. They are drawing their own architectural plans, working collaboratively and with a purpose. Lots of focus on welcoming new friends and developing social skills such as sharing with others. Some of the children have been on a walk in the local area and picked blackberries. We have started to talk about signs of autumn and harvesting food.
It has been wonderful to welcome back the children and hear all about their adventures over the summer holidays. We have started to welcome some new friends to our nursery and they are settling in well. Lots of new faces and places to explore! The garden has already started to show signs of autumn and many of the children have been fascinated by the amount of spiders outside. We have started to read 'The Very Busy Spider' by Eric Carle and this will be one of our core stories this term.
The children have continued their interest in pirates this week and have been using the pirate ship in the garden to support imaginative play. We have enhanced the muddy kitchen and the children have been making dishes for a pirate party! We have added shells, flowers, herbs, lemons, limes and coloured water. We have observed lots of mathematical language as they explore capacity and measure. We have had some very interesting creations! In the art studio this week some of the children have been making boats using the junk modelling. They have been exploring different joining techniques and have been discussing the best materials to ensure the boat floats. For those leaving for reception in September we have started to discuss transitions. We are reading the story ‘The Colour Monster goes to School’ and this has allowed us to open up conversations about how they are feeling about this change. This is a story we will be revising in the remaining weeks of nursery.
We have had a very exciting week in nursery with another visit from pirate Louby Lou! The children have been working collaboratively to create their own pirate ship using various loose parts in the garden such as blocks, wooden planks, chairs and stands. This has involved using communication skills, gross motor skills and creative thinking. From this we have observed lots of pirate role play and children have been exploring the seas, walking the plank and saving mermaids! Some of the children have developed an interest in maps and have designed their own maps to find the hidden treasure. We have been researching what a map is and what they are for. The children have been using their fine motor skills to draw their own maps and then work together to follow the map to the treasure! The children have enjoyed exploring our new beach area and have been taking turns and sharing the small world resources. We have started to read our core readers and have been talking about the summer season.
This week we have had a focus on bees with Bee Day on Thursday 20th May. The children have been learning all about the role of bees, tasted honey, made bee biscuits and have look closely at the features of a bee. They have even made some ‘Save the bees’ signs for our nursery garden. Some of the children have explored making bee hives using the blocks and we have also had sensory playdough using dandelions and lemon to make the yellow colour. The children are still developing their fine motor skills and activities such as playdough are excellent for this as they develop the strength in their hands to manipulate the dough. We have also had a focus on being kind this week. This links in with our Rights Respecting School focus on Article 19- we have a right to be safe and treated kindly. The children have been making suggestions about how we can be kind to friends and family and have been sharing books with a focus on kindness. The large scale art has continued this week as the children added more texture to the piece. They are looking closely at the original piece of art and then adding their own ideas based on this. It has been wonderful to see it all coming together and we can’t wait to share the final piece of art with you! The caterpillars arrived last week and we have been observing their progress each day. The children have shown such care when looking at them and there have been lots of ideas shared about what is happening and what might happen next. Our helicopter story session have sparked an interest in storytelling this week. Some of the children have created their own stories and have even started to make their own books. We have explored vocabulary such as author and illustrator and they have been very proud of their achievements!
We have had a very exciting week in nursery with the arrival of our caterpillars! Lots of discussions about what they were, what they eat and what might happen to them. We will continue to observe the changes each day and encourage the children to make comments and ask questions about what they see. This week we also started a large scale art project making collaborative art pieces based on artists such as Monet. The children have experimented with different ways to paint such as using hands, feet and brushes to splatter the paint. We have also been learning about the celebration of Eid this week. The children have made their own decorations, tasted foods and explored traditions such as Mehndi. We have experienced lots of rain this week and this has meant the children have been putting on and taking off waterproof clothing in the garden. It would be very helpful if you could support the develop of these skills at home by encouraging independence in dressing and undressing. This week was Mental Health Awareness Week and we have been talking to the children about how they can keep not just their body healthy but also their brains. We have discussed different feelings and talked about different ways we can help to stay positive and healthy. We have focussed on laughter and fun this week and the children have had a wonderful time!
Mona Place, Tremorfa, Cardiff, CF24 2TG