Kirkley Nursery& Centre of Excellence

We have had a really busy first week back after our Easter holidays. The children in the Owl room have started our new book "we're going on a bear hunt" the children have been retelling the story with our tough tray. During our phonic session this week we introduced the children to the sound "s" the children have taken part in "silly soup" sessions when each child takes out an item from the bag which begins with an s they then have to say what it is with emphasis on the "sssss"sound. We were very fortunate to have been donated an amazing woodwork bench and tools for our role play area, the children have loved exploring this resource pretending to go around fixing things. The children have been practicing their fine motor skills with the pegs and peg boards, making some beautiful patterns with the pegs. We also reopened our grass area and the children were able to use our new slide and climbing apparatus which they were very excited about.

This week we had our Squirrels return after their Easter Break. All of our children have settled back into the nursery routine with ease and we have had a lot of smiles and laughter On Monday we started our new core text ' Oh Dear' and have been exploring activities surrounding the farm and animals who live on the farm. This week the outside environment was extra exciting. The grass has been opened and our new climbing apparatus has been built. The children loved learning how to climb with care and had fun coming down the slide! We have been enjoying the lovely sunshine! Very positive first week of the Summer Term

Welcome back Hedgehogs! We have had a lovely first week after the Easter holidays all together and have started to look at our new core text, 'Oh Dear!' The Hedgehogs have been very creative this week, painting pictures of the animals from the story, completing puzzles, feeding the animals a variety of cereals as well as all of them all being keen to read the book! It has been lovely to see how even after only reading the story for a week, how many of the Hedgehogs have already progressed with their language development and recognising the patterns seen in the story. We are proud of them all everyday!

The Hedgehog's, Squirrels and Owls have had a busy Easter holidays! We were very busy taking part in lots of different activities in the lead up to Easter. We made biscuits, cakes and went on lots of Easter egg hunts outside in the garden! This week we have been outside in the garden enjoying the sunshine! We hope you all had a lovely Easter and we look forward to welcome all the children back on Monday 13th April for the start of the Summer Term

We have had a lovely week in our Owl room. The children have been painting Daffodils and learning about the different parts of daffodils such as the stem and the petals. The children have been making Easter bunny collages and using felt pens to decorate them. We had playdough in our Easter tough tray with flowers, carrots and egg shaped biscuits cutters which the children made "Easter cake". The children have really enjoyed completing a selection of puzzles working together to help each other showing great collaboration. We also had fun playing basketball and balancing on the beams in the garden. We hope you have a lovely Easter holidays!

This week, the Hedgehogs have enjoyed their last week of reading 'That's not my Bunny!' We have made some chocolate cornflake cakes, our own cotton wool bunnies, been on an Easter egg hunt in the garden as well as exploring in our sensory tuff tray filled with shredded paper, bunnies, Easter eggs and paint! As well as of course, lots of 'sleeping bunnies' singing and dancing! To those of our Hedgehogs who are term time only, wishing you all a lovely Easter break!

The Squirrels have had a busy few weeks! We have been exploring our core text ' That's not my Bunny', whilst incorporating lots of Easter crafts! This has included different types of matching games, fine motor activities, sensory trays, and lots of messy activities This term has been filled with bugs and germs, however our children have shown us how resilient they are. We are so proud of them all From all of us in the Squirrels Class, we wish you all a very fun filled Easter and we look forward to welcoming you back on Monday 13th April 2026 For those who are in during the Easter holidays, we will see you next week for lots of Easter activities

We have had a very busy week in our Owl room. The children have been practicing their literacy skills recognising letters from the letter stones and attempted to copy the letters in sand. They have also been tracing numbers with wipe clean markers. On St Patrick's day the children made green play dough and added lots of gold glitter, they also made shamrock collages. The children have been following patterns and continuing patterns with the compare bears. We also made the "little toy house" from our text Goodnight moon, the children used shapes to arrange them into a house. We finished off the week dressing up in something red for Comic Relief.