The toddlers attending our Dewsbury nursery have been really interested in observing the caterpillars and have already noticed and commented that they are growing bigger. The toddlers have used green and red fruits to make their own yummy caterpillar fruit kebab. They also used their fingers to make marks in paint to represent their caterpillars.
This week the toddlers attending the Dewsbury nursery took part in their sports day. They were very competitive and showed determination as they joined in the different races which were egg and spoon race, sack race and bean bag race. They also explored obstacle courses, practising their gross motor skills as they practised climbing, balancing and [...]
The children attending our Dewsbury nursery were introduced to the caterpillars that they will nurture. They have enjoyed the story of the very hungry caterpillar, what he got up to on his travels through the pages and why he felt a little queasy. The enjoyed using red and green paints and felt pens to represent their [...]
The babies attending our Dewsbury nursery are well underway with their preparations for celebrating the Queens Jubilee. They have been busy exploring glue and different textured collage pieces of material and shiny fabric, creating decorations for our planned celebrations.
The babies attending our Dewsbury nursery have been celebrating Eid, exploring many different textures of dough, developing their manipulation, control and strength in their fingers. These are important skills that are required to develop future skills for writing. We celebrated with an Eid lunch of curry, rice and naan bread, followed by a party tea later [...]
This week the children in the toddler and pre-school rooms at Dewsbury have been learning all about Ramadan. The toddlers listened to stories from a book called My First Ramadan, the practitioners introduced lots of cultural to help the children learn all about this celebration. Some of the children enjoyed roleplaying with the tasbeeh and masala, [...]
The children at Dewsbury have been learning about the traditions that different families and religions take part in at Easter widening their knowledge about different cultures within the community and their friends and families that they know. We then had a super fun day of hunting for eggs in the garden using our creative thinking skills [...]
Our Dewsbury Nursery are very proud to announce that they have maintained their 5* rating for Food Hygiene. Congratulations!
The children in the toddler room have been very busy recently! They were ‘making soup’ whilst playing with the corn flour by using language such as ‘we are making orange soup’! They used utensils to stir the mixture and transport in into bowls. This promotes learning in areas such as Maths- volume, measuring and capacity, Language- [...]
The children in the toddler room have been learning about colours! The practitioners wanted to encourage the children’s learning in this area so introduced the colour monster book. They set up activities that encouraged language that included colours as well as setting up an activity that involved children sorting coloured pom-poms into the same coloured cup [...]
