Showing an interest in counting

The children have been showing an interest in counting, shapes and numbers.....

Photographs have arrived

Please collect your child's photograph from Nursery

Picnic in the forest.....

This activity was initiated by the children. They made a teddy bears picnic in the role play area. This led to conversations about where the children had been for a picnic, one child said they had been to to park. Helen asked if the children would like to go for a real picnic in the forest.
It was agreed between Helen and the children that they would make their own cheese wraps (children's choice of food) we also took some cupcakes as a treat :)

Intent
- Encourage children to talk about their own home and community life, and to find out about other children’s experiences.
Impact
-Health and Self Care - We all washed our hands before making our picnic.
-Understanding the world - We talked about the importance of looking after the environment by taking all our litter back to nursery to put in the bin.
- Understanding the world- we talked about their own experience of having a picnic with our families.
- Physical - Whilst at the forest we explored all the equipment, there was lots of climbing involved.
- School Readiness - We explored the school grounds and talked about the environment for those children starting in September. 
-Democracy - making decisions together.
-Maths - we found some numbers in the environment.
-Personal, social and emotional - It was lovely to see the older children helping the younger children on the equipment and with recognising numbers in the environment.

Our Team

St Mary's Nursery @ Wensley Fold Children’s Centre has been established for 11 years and we pride ourselves on staff retention, in a sector that has a high staff turnover. 

The staff who have a service longer than 11 years started their career at our sister nursery St Mary’s Nursery @ St Mary’s College.

Staffing from September 2019

POSITION                                NAME                                  LENGTH OF SERVICE
Area Manager                           Tracy Ellett                           16 Years
Manager                                    Lisa Parkinson                     11 Years

Senior of Tweenie Room         Adeema Nabeel                     10  Years
EYP - TR                                 Rukhsar Quereshi                   7 Years
EYP - TR                                 Emma Whittam                       16 Years
EYP - TR                                 Rokayya Mulla                        11 Years


Senior of Pre-school                 Steph Noblett                        16 Years
EYP - PS                                  Wendy Ashton                       11 Years
EYP - PS                                  Helen Lake                            11 Years
EYP - PS                                  Halima Goni                           7 Years

EYP - PS                                  Mariyah Iqbal                         1 Year

EYP - PS                                  Keira Livsey                           1 Year

Lunch cover                            Farat Ahmed                            2 Years

Wednesday - Lets get active

Today we did an obstacle course, this included activities that we had to go up, down, under, over, through, in and out. It was lovely to see so many parents getting involved......