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It is very busy in our Nursery classes.  On this page you can keep up with everything that is going on, see all the different ways our children learn and have a look at their amazing work.

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  • Nursery: Can you find objects beginning with the 's' phoneme?

    Published 05/11/26
    Over the autumn and winter period, there are lots of celebrations that use lights as part of their celebration, for example, Diwali, bonfire night, Lunar new year and Christmas. If you celebrate any of these celebrations, we would love to see photogr
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  • Nursery: Can you do the up and down squiggle move?

    Published 22/10/26
    This week in Nursery we enjoyed our first Squiggle while you Wiggle session. The children enjoyed making large up and down movements with their flipper flappers before their pens were able to dance up and down on the paper. We have been practising do
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  • Nursery: Can you notice any signs of Autumn?

    Published 15/10/26
    This week in Nursery, we have been learning our first Little Wandle focus nursery rhyme, ‘Round and Round the garden'. The children have learnt what the word round means and we have been exploring drawing circles to go round and round. We h
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  • Nursery: How did the cornflour gloop feel?

    Published 08/10/26
    This week in Nursery, we have been getting to know each other better and making friends. We have played lots of games to learn each other’s names; our favourites were the ‘knock’ game where a friend hides behind a paper door, a
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  • Nursery: Can you practise your Dough Disco moves?

    Published 01/10/26
    This week in Nursery, we have continued to learn all about the Zones of regulation and how they help us to understand and talk about our emotions. We have been focussing on what excited and angry feel like and different things that can make us excite
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  • Nursery: What makes you feel happy?

    Published 25/09/26
    This week in Nursery, we have started to learn all about the Zones of regulation and how they help us to understand and talk about our emotions. We have been focussing on what happy and sad feel like and different things that can make us happy or sad
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  • Nursery: Can you sing our good morning or good afternoon song?

    Published 18/09/26
    This week in Nursery, we have enjoyed learning our good morning song. We are leaning to say hello, good morning and good afternoon using Makaton. Makaton is a language programme that combines signs, symbols and speech to give different options for pe
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  • Nursery: What are you looking forward to in Reception?

    Published 17/07/26
    We have had such a fantastic year in Nursery and we all really enjoyed sharing the end of year celebration with you. We hope you enjoyed hearing all about what the children would like to be when they grow up. We are so proud of everything that the ch
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  • Nursery: What was your favourite early birds activity?

    Published 10/07/26
    This week in Nursery we have been thinking about getting ready for Reception. We have been thinking about the skills we have learnt in Nursery this year including developing our fine motor skills, reading and writing our names (forming the letters co
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  • Nursery: What are you most looking forward to in September?

    Published 03/07/26
    This week in Nursery we have been thinking about transitions. We know that some of our older friends will be moving to Reception soon, either at Dorchester Primary School or a different school. We have been reviewing all of the learning we have done
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  • Nursery: How do we stay safe in the heat?

    Published 26/06/26
    This week in Nursery we have been very hot! We have been learning how to stay safe in the sun. We have been applying lots of sun cream, and we know that it is important to make sure that we do not burn. We have also been taking lots of 'hydration
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  • Nursery: How can you use pushes and pulls to make objects move?

    Published 18/06/26
    This week in Nursery we have been learning all about forces. We have been thinking about pushes and pulls and how they make things move. We have been super scientists and experimented to see how we can use forces to make objects move. We have found o
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