Mrs Waite, Mrs Codd, Miss Gregson and Miss Collins

Welcome you to Dosbarth Enfys.

Our learning environment is one of a calming easy space that ensures the children feel safe and secure and happy in school.

We aim to ignite a child's natural curiosity to explore the world around them. Instead of directing children and telling them what to do, the curiosity approach is based on child-led learning. Therefore, children make their own choices and figure things out for themselves which leads to enhanced confidence, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. It aims to create children who are 'thinkers and doers' instead of passive learners who simply follow the direction of an adult. By creating active learners, children are more engaged in their environment and have a lot more fun.

Real, authentic, open-ended resources are easily accessible in the classroom and are placed at eye level. They include items that are made from natural materials, such as wood to encourage children to think of their own ideas when it comes to play time. we use loose parts to encourage fine motor control, pattern, making, shape identification, recognising textures, comparing sizes and developing communication.

First day in school fun!! Making friends, exploring our classroom and the playground. Learning all about Marvellous little me and my friends in school.😍

A fantastic squiggle wiggle . For the first time in the nursery class we danced our fingers in playdough disco. Moved our large bodies in the squiggle wiggle dance, before picking up two crayons and creating squiggle wiggle lines up, down and across. This will help us grow strong muscles and fingers to become writers. 🤩🖍🖍

Recognising our names and mark making with meaning to represent our names. 😊

Developing our co-ordination and balance.😊

Recognising and ordering numbers.😊

After listening to the colour monster story, we looked at how the colour monster was feeling and discussed how we were feeling in school. Everyone picked the colour to draw the colour monster for their own feelings. Answering Who, What and Why questions.😍

A big sign language hello from the Nursery class on international languages day👋😀

Looking at our facial features in a mirror and working hard to draw a self portrait.😀

We went on a colour hunt and found everything yellow in our classroom.😆

Using our pointing fingers in foam to copy emotion faces.

 Everyone  was very creative in the nursery class using the loose parts to make a face in the playdough.  We were able to name the features of the faces we made. 😊

Exploring numbers and place value by counting the buttons onto the gingerbread men . placing the matching number of buttons onto the correct numbers one to five.😊

 Building our fine motor skills with playdough disco before learning RWI  the phonic letter M and practicing formation. Great work everyone.😊

We drew around our bodies, naming our body parts. Everyone got creative using paint , crayons, glue and decorations to make the best gingerbread men ever seen out of the body drawings. 😍

Using story characters to act out the gingerbread man story. Repeating the "Run run as fast as you can" rhyme.🤩 

Developing your phonic and listening skills with letters and sounds phase one Syllabification clapping game. Saying everyone's names and clapping out how any syllabus in each name.🤩

Having super fun developing our motor skills with funky fingers, dough disco and squiggle wiggle as we learn to become writers.😍

A rainy day did not stop our outdoor fun. We popped on our wellies and puddle suits to explore all the sounds we could hear in the rain. We heard drip, drip, drip. Splash and sploosh! We noticed the rain water had made a muddy puddles in the garden. They were the best to jump into, turning our wellies muddy😊

Finding all the conkers outdoors. hunting high and low to fill our buckets, counting out how many conkers were found and comparing to our friends. Using mathematical words of more and less.🤗

We found a broken pumpkin in our kitchen, we started to wonder what was inside, what colour would it be. We tried using our hands to pull it open , it didn't work. Mrs Waite fetched knives from the kitchen, we all used our strong fingers and hands to push the knives in and chop the pumpkins open. "Wow there are so many seeds " explained Kyla .We spend the morning cutting into all the pumpkins and comparing their colours inside and size of the seeds inside. We even had a little taste of the pumpkin flesh.🎃

After watching cbeebies remembrance videos everyone pick up a red colour to create a lovely poppy. All the poppies were put together on a wreath to display outside our classroom. Proudly showing our poppies to the grown ups bringing us to school. 😍

Everyone wore their pjs, danced the “Piggle Wiggle” with Puddey and Peppa , enjoyed fun activities all in kindness to raise money for Children in Need.💛❤️

We have had a super fun morning with Looby Lou and Humpty Dumpty.
All the children went on an adventure through stories and songs to help fix Humpty Dumpty. Building the children’s imaginations and problem solving ideas on how to fix a broken Humpty.
Thank you to Sarah from Lobby Lou for leading this super fun interactive story time session.😀

The Nursery class have had a super fun week in the nursery class learning with Humpty Dumpty.
We counted and sorted numbered eggs. Drew and wrote signs to place outside to tell Humpty no! Sitting on walls. We were creative and painted Humpty pictures. Built walls of different sizes for Humpty. Also playing games and jumping like Humpty in PE.😀

What a wonderful time we have had in the Nursery class celebrating Easter.🐣
Dancing in our class disco and singing our favourite songs in the family assembly.
Everyone had a splendid Easter bonnet for the Easter bonnet parade around our community and what a surprise to return to school and find the Easter bunny visiting our school.
We enjoyed dancing and playing sleeping bunnies with the Easter bunny.😃