Category: Nursery

25 May 22

Last week we held a Stay & Play session in our Nursery (which we call the Monte), for current parents to come in and join their children for the day. Parents had great fun exploring the setting with their children, and meeting other Monte parents.

25 February 22

During their Forest School sessions this week our Nursery (Monte) and Reception (K Group) classes went to meet the St Chris goats and alpacas. They enjoyed finding out all about how the animals are looked after and what they eat.     

11 June 21

It’s been a great week for Forest School this week and we’ve been very grateful for the beautiful apple trees and their shade! Here are our Nursery (Monte) children enjoying their Forest School lesson – they made clay owls, climbed the trees and enjoyed getting to grips with the slackline!    

14 February 20

This week our Early Years children and their families enjoyed a forest school supper. The children were thrilled to see the moon shining brightly overhead. We loved the campfire sausages as well as the vegetable and lentil soup we all helped to make during the morning. The campfire roared as we all listened to Stick…

6 December 19

Well done to all our Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 pupils who took part Baubles!, their Christmas Nativity this week. Baubles! is a sparkly nativity that weaves the traditional Christmas story through a contemporary primary school setting with a good helping of funny songs and a quirky cast of characters! One of our…

20 September 19

This week we made campfire chips in the Nursery (Monte)! The children grew the potatoes in the vegetable garden and we dug them up last Friday. This week scrubbed them, peeled them and cut them into chip shapes. We then fried them on the campfire in Forest School. We shared them and even dipped them…

5 July 19

This week children in the Nursery held a lovely leavers concert for their family members ahead of their transition to Reception.  

5 July 19

On Wednesday we held our annual Teddy Bears’ Picnic in the Early Years Centre for pupils in the Nursery, our Reception class, and their families. A picnic, teddy bear cake and lots of jelly were followed by end of term goodbyes, with a big thank you and goodbye to teacher Coralie who is retiring at…