Celebrating Thanksgiving, by preparing vegetables and making their own turkey reseparations

The children celebrated the Commonwealth games by taking part in their own sporting events!

The children celebrated the Queens’ platinum Jubilee by participating in a variety of activities including baking, sensory tuff trays and dance parties!

Jupiter children developing their gross motor skills in a variety of ways, whilst exploring their outdoor area.

The children celebrated Easter by participating in a variety of activities including baking, face painting and making Easter bonnets!

The children have learnt about the life cycle of a duck, watching them hatch and helping them grow.

Jupiter children learnt about their emotions through reading ‘The colour monster’ story book. They then created their own characters and used these in a puppet show!

The children have participated in a variety of tuff tray activities to celebrate ‘Winnie the Pooh Day’ and ‘Australia Day’.

Throughout this month the children have been participating in a variety of activities in celebration of Christmas, including messy play activities and arts and crafts.

The children in Mars used their fine motor skills to explore our sensory tuff tray for children in need day.

Children enjoying acting out the story ‘Giraffes can’t dance’.

The children celebrated ‘Talk like a pirate day’ by participating in a variety of exciting role play games and activities

Congratulations to our class of 2021 Graduates

Jupiter created their own interpretations of several famous painting for Children’s Art Day

‘Circles’ by Kandinsky and ‘The Snail’ by Matisse

The children in Jupiter painted detailed pictures of The Queen to celebrate her Birthday

Jupiter have been exploring with colour mixing in the last couple of weeks, enjoying different types of painting.
The children enjoyed painting and mixing colours in Aluminium Foil on a table top, exploring with sponges and then using paper to print their pictures onto.

The children looked after the chick eggs very carefully. Nine hatched and we all had so much fun seeing them grow and caring for them, we were sad to see them leave us to return to the farm.

Easter egg hunt

Pancake Day fun at Beaconsfield

‘The Colour Monster’ written by Anna Llenas, is one of Jupiter’s favourite books when learning about feelings and emotions. Each colour represents a feeling, for example, when he turns yellow it means happiness. The children have enjoyed making their ‘Colour Monster’ out of playdough, choosing which feeling they would like to represent, by matching with the correct coloured resources. 

Fun in the snow

The children in Jupiter had fun collecting different size sticks in the garden to experiment and create 2D shapes on the large paper

Beaconsfield have enjoyed participating in a number of Christmas activities and events

Our Mars children creating bright and colourful firework pictures for Guy Fawkes

Beaconsfield have enjoyed celebrating Halloween by dressing up and participating in a number of spooky activities

Jupiter have been learning to focus on tabletop activities, while exploring with shapes and working on their finer motor skills. They used lollipop sticks to create 2D shapes and then gluing them onto their paper

Jupiter enjoyed collecting the fallen leaves in the garden to create a mirror image of their chosen leaf

Our Mars children exploring the tunnel

The children taking advantage of the great outdoors, exploring in gross-motor activities

To celebrate Chinese New Year, the children used chopsticks to fill up bowls with noodles, and they had a food tasting session.

The children also painted various Chinese symbols using different coloured paint.

Santa Claus came to visit us at nursery.

The children were experimenting with magnets and grouped the objects into categories depending on if they were attracted or rejected by the magnet’ (stick and not stick in the children’s words)

The children in Mars have thoroughly enjoyed making oat cookies and shortbread. They been introduced to weighing, scooping, mixing and patting.

I wonder what they will make next?

The children have enjoyed using their imagination to explore a number of tough tray materials.

Jupiter children have continued to show an interest in baking, here they have made a berry smoothie, it was delicious.

Parents joined us for a  ‘United World School’ fundraising breakfast.

The children in Jupiter enjoyed making their own fruit crumble. They chose several different fruits and measured the ingredients themselves, following the recipe.

Danceathon in aid of our charity United World Schools.

Our revamped ‘Mars’ room for our babies.

We are supporting a local charity called  ‘greenfingers’.

‘greenfingers’ is a charity that helps support children in hospices around the UK. They help create fantastic outdoor spaces for the children.
We invited our grandparents to come for a stay and plant day. We had fun planting different flowers and had a flower sale!

Our Pluto children have become keen gardeners. They enjoyed filling our garden wellington boots with soil, ready for planting. We cannot wait to watch our plants grow!

The children in Jupiter have enjoyed, welcoming a police officer into their nursery environment. They enjoyed looking around the police car and trying on the uniform. The children learnt that Police Officers are here to help protect us and show us the difference between right and wrong.