Kirkley Nursery& Centre of Excellence

All 3 rooms have had another lovely week here at Kirkley! Some activities we have completed this week have had a focus towards time travelling! We have researched into dinosaurs, freezing them in the water, completed Roman Mosaic pictures and also created our very own time capsules! As well as these, we have spent time enjoying the sunshine and completing many bug hunts in the garden, looking after as many ladybirds as we could possibly find! Have a lovely weekend everybody

This week the Hedgehogs, Squirrels and Owls have been very busy making bread rolls, cupcakes, fruit kebabs and pizza! We have been learning how to follow step by step instructions whilst focusing on developing our fine motor skills.

On behalf of all the Owl room we would like to say a big thank you for all our end of year gifts. We would also like to thank each and everyone of you who joined us for our graduation celebration on Friday. It was lovely to see you all and see all our Owl children receiving their certificates. It has been a wonderful year, and Katie, Louise, Leanne, and Liv are going to miss all our children moving up to big school. Have a wonderful Summer and for some of you, see you in September!

Over the past week, we have been making the most of our last full days together before some of our Hedgehogs finish for the summer holidays or move up to Squirrels! We have had lots of fun together, getting messy with our ice cream creation using shaving foam and sand, painting with the ducks, making music and singing along to many songs as well as exploring with the ice and making the most of the warm weather! From all of us in the Hedgehog room, we thank you all for a lovely academic year, we hope you have had the best time and have made some lovely memories! We wish you all a lovely summer!

It's been a lovely week in the Owl room. We have been doing lots of seaside themed activities including a tough tray, making crabs and a mermaid for our wall display. Outside the children have been looking at ladybirds being very gentle when they have had them landed on them. We also had a little baby bird that had to be rescued that the children got to have a close look at.

This week the Squirrels have been continuing exploring the story 'Way down deep in the deep blue sea' We have created jellyfish using paper plates, paint and glue, used sponges to decorate our shark and seahorse and explored ocean themed frozen jelly Next week is the last full week of term. We break up for the summer holidays on Tuesday 22nd July

This week, the Hedgehogs have continued looking at our Toddle Waddle story! We have implemented into our activities some of the animals we can find, specifically the ducks! We watched them zoom down the ramps, explored with them in the blue rice, representing the lake as well as looking at the variety of shapes/sizes of them all. We also froze some sea creatures and watched the ice melt in the sun as well as trying to break them free ourselves! The hedgehogs have enjoyed naming the animals as well as making the sounds and some of the hedgehogs have even started recognising the rhyming patterns seen in the story! What a lovely week hedgehogs

This week, Hedgehogs have continued looking at their story, 'Toddle Waddle! The Hedgehogs have enjoyed looking at the different pictures in this story, particularly the animals, naming and making the noises as they point. This week, we have made our own puff paint ice creams, developing our colour recognition and feeling the textures of the shaving foam. The Hedgehogs have also explored in their own beach set up that we made in the garden, digging in the sand, playing in the water and finding animals to place in the sand and water that we have seen in our story, as well as making our own ice cream shop, which the Hedgehogs thoroughly enjoyed! This week, some of our Hedgehogs have also completed some more transitions to the Squirrel room and they have all done so well, the feedback has been amazing! We are so proud of you all

This week the Squirrels have been exploring our new core text 'Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea'. We painted bubble wrap blue to make our sea for our display! We also mixed together shaving foam and blue food colouring to make our own version of the sea! Alongside the ocean theme, the Squirrels have been practicing brushing teeth using the giant teeth set! This week we had our final room transitions. All children settled fanatically into their new rooms and it has been amazing to see such happy faces