St Anne's Catholic Primary School

All the children (new and returning) started back on Wednesday 7th September and are starting to settle in well. We have been working on getting back to our routine and will be learning and remembering our class rules over the next few weeks. I have been struck by how kind the children are being and how they are renewing their old friendships and making new ones. Please see below for some photographs from our first few days!

It has been a wonderful week of getting to know each other again and making new friends too! The weather is still good and the children are beginning to understand their routine and expectations in Nursery. We have had fun mark-making in the class and outdoors. The children have also been practicing their fine motor skills by cutting and pasting for our collage of Rosie (the chicken in our story). In addition to this the children showed off their listening skills for the Creation Story and their fantastic balancing outside this week. 

We followed up from The Creation Story by talking about all the fantastic things that God has created and compared them with some things that are man-made. This is a tricky thing to do but the children tried their best and were very good at sharing their ideas at group time. While the weather is still being kind we were able to take the children to our school field to look at the 'baby' pumpkins, bean plants, herbs and even collected some apples and pears for our snack! The children have been experimenting with the paints and mixing colours to find out what happens and we have finished our Rosie collage for our display!

The children have been practicing their fine and gross motor skills this week. We have helped them practice their scissor skills and they have been using large paint brushes in our outdoor area for 'painting' the chalk board and our outdoor easel. We have also celebrated a birthday and had parents to Stay and Play! Thank you to all who attended. I hope that you can see how well all the children are settling in to our nursery routine. 

We have been using our PE session to reinforce our use of positional language. The children loved crawling through the tunnel, under the bridge and balancing across the benches of our obstacle course. It has been wonderful to see how some of the children are gaining confidence and making progress with their gross motor skills as a result. We have also talked about why we make the sign of the cross when we say our prayers and practiced our fine motor skills by using a tweezers to move and count objects in the Nursery classroom. The windy weather has blown some of our sunflowers over so we explored the head of one and have put it on our windowsill to dry. We talked about how we can use the seeds next year to grow even more flowers! 

The children sequenced our story by using pictures and putting them in order. They have also been practicing their names (recognising them and attempting to write them). We've been thanking God for all he has made for us and looking at autumn leaves. To finish our week we celebrated a birthday. Hopefully he had a fantastic day!

We've had a fantastic week to finish our first half of the Autumn Term! The children have been showing us the Sign of the Cross, making patterns and foxes, looking at pumpkins and meeting our beautiful owl visitors. The lady who brought the owls (Sadie) commented on how well behaved the children were so well done everyone! Please see below for some photographs from the week.