This week’s Topic Book was Elmer and Wilbur by David McKee for the Pink and Green Chicks. The children thoroughly enjoyed listening to the story of Elmer and Wilbur helping Rose find her herd. In the story, Grandpa Eldo asks Elmer and Wilbur to help a young elephant find her way home. They are very surprised to discover that she is pink – no wonder she is called Rose! However, an even bigger surprise awaits them when they reach her herd, as every single elephant is pink too.

The Fledglings have been looking at the work of Vincent Van Gogh this week and focusing on still life paintings. The children here focused on selecting and mixing the right colours to achieve the desired effects in their work and it was great to see their enthusiasm and care for the work they are creating.  We also enjoyed a wonderful trip to the Secret Garden at Finton House and we loved using the Mud Kitchen equipment in our play to make muffins and cakes. We then took this

This week at 345 the Chicks have been exploring two different Topic Stories. The Green and Pink Chicks have been reading Penguin by Polly Dunbar all about a little boy named Ben who gets a new Penguin but Ben struggles with his emotions when Penguin doesn’t do everything that Ben wants him too. The Chicks talked about how Ben was feeling and even took photos of their own happy, sad and angry faces.  The Orange and Purple Chicks were focusing on our Classroom Principles using

The Fledglings approached our Artists Topic with enthusiasm as we looked at the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldi. They loved looking at the details in his paintings and seeing which types of fruit and vegetables they could identify before using printed pictures to create their own fruit and vegetable portraits. It was so much fun and the children were very creative with their ideas. We are looking forward to sharing these with our families during our Art Exhibition. Bark rubbing w

This week the Chicks were engaged in a lot of fun activities related to our Topic Story The Three Little Pigs . They constructed houses out of different materials, collected lots of sticks on the common and counted the sticks and the bricks. In other activities they sequenced the pictures of the story, retold the story using the story spoons and enjoyed the messy play where the children constructed houses out of the shaving foam, foam bricks, straw and little sticks.  Our Art

This week the Fledglings have explored the Topic Book Max and his Magnificent Mistake, which focused on how we can learn from our mistakes and foster a growth mindset. The children throughly enjoyed the story and loved making kites for our art display.  We were excited to welcome Mr Alex back for our Music lesson and learn some new songs. One of our favourites this week included actions which involved body percussion which strengthened our coordination and bilateral integrat

The Orange Chicks had a fantastic week filled with busy learning, creativity, and fun! Throughout the week, the children explored a wide range of activities that supported their development across all areas of learning. Our new starters have been settling in very well and it has been lovely to see the existing children make them feel at home as they joined the nursery, sharing their toys and showing them where to hang their coats.  At the Round Table and messy tray, the child

It was lovely to welcome the Chicks back into Nursery after the Christmas break and to welcome our new starters to the classroom. The children enjoyed being back and exploring a variety of activities that were set out for them. They particularly enjoyed playing with the diggers in the sand, helping Bob the Builder tidy up the builder’s yard. The children also worked collaboratively with the Magnatiles, constructing some wonderful creations such as houses, towers, garages, and

It was lovely to welcome the Fledglings back after the Christmas Holidays and the children were very excited to be back seeing their friends and teachers. Although it was a short week we managed to squeeze a lot of learning in. We began by introducing our Person of Interest, Louis Braille, for this term. We will learn about his life and the contributions he made. The children were fascinated when we introduced the concept of the Braille code and we can't wait to discover more

This week was full of magical Christmas activities. In the 'Elf Workshop' the children wrapped the presents and practiced their cutting skills with the children scissors. The highlight of the week however was definitely the Christmas Concert which was a huge success after the children practicing so hard. The parents and the teachers are so proud of all the Chicks. On Tuesday the Art Folders went home full of beautiful pieces of art the children created during this term. On Fr

This week, the children enjoyed a rich variety of learning experiences both indoors and outdoors. They developed their communication and language skills through story building, retelling familiar tales and acting out the Nativity using props and characters. The children also explored early literacy through drawing and mark-making. Their fine motor skills were strengthened through activities such as cutting and mashing avocado, spreading shaving foam on 2D shapes, stacking Uni

The Fledglings have enjoyed a busy week exploring the Topic Story ‘ Petal and Nettle and the Best Birthday Ever ’.  We throughly enjoyed this story and the children were able to see what went wrong. They loved pointing out what Petal had done wrong and offered suggestions for what she should have done instead. The theme was included in their Free Play and we refined our fine motor skills as we made cakes with the playdough.  We began introducing digraphs in our Phonics Focus

The Fledglings had a great week back after half term. Our Topic Story was ‘Little Red’ a retelling of a traditional tale and the children loved exploring different elements of constructing, retelling and acting out the story. One of the highlights was during our Outdoor Learning Day where the children took turns to use the costumes and pretended to be the different characters as well as adding their own elements and combining stories.  In the classroom we have been developin

This week at 345 the Chicks have been looking at shape. Our Topic Story, ‘We Love Each Other’ by Yusuke Yonezu used two of an animal to make a shape, for example, two birds together created a heart. The Chicks were really engaged in the story and while making their shape collages in Art they enjoyed naming the different shapes.  We have used our Fine Motor Skills to chop playdough during Free Play and vegetables during our cooking lesson. We have also been working together an

This week we have enjoyed learning about the celebration of Diwali. Our Topic Story Shubh Diwali explained some of the traditions and customs people who celebrate Diwali follow and why this celebration is important. We took inspiration from their Rangolis in Art as we used colourful shapes to create our own patterns.  The highlight of the week however was our visit to the Secret Garden at Finton House. We enjoyed the bus journey, recalling the safety precautions from previou

This week we have loved looking at journeys and counting as we have explored our Topic Story ‘ The Hundred Decker Bus ’. This story follows a bus as it veers off its usual route and collects passengers and decks as it travels around the world. The children were fascinated by this story and it was regularly requested throughout the morning.  We enjoyed pretending to take a bus journey together in our Role Play Area which was set up as a bus with steering wheels, cuddly toy pas

This week the children showed great interest in our Topic Story ' Wheels ' by Sally Suttton . We used the theme of vehicles to inform our activities during the week and everyone enjoyed creating vehicles out of egg boxes. We had diggers, tractors and event racing cars! The children even added wooden wheels so that the vehicles moved. We continued our learning outside the classroom by embarking on a vehicle hunt where we saw a bus, a taxi and the highlight of the day was the r

Our week began by welcoming our Grandparents in for part of the morning. We enjoyed showing them around the classroom and enjoyed taking part in activities together. We drew pictures of each other, had a tea party and kept our fingers busy and supple as we manipulated the play dough and enjoyed the climbing apparatus in the Outdoor Learning Environment. At the end of the morning some of our Grandparents read our grandparent themed Topic Stories and we sang a few of our favour

This week we celebrated World Porridge Day and so we chose the Topic Story ‘The Magic Porridge Pot’ retold by Alan MacDonald to introduce the celebration. The children enjoyed listening to the story during our Outdoor Learning Walk where we used our safe zone to sit beautifully together. The Chicks loved repeating the magic words to start and stop the porridge pot. We incorporated the story into our learning, using props to retell the story and even made our own porridge. The

This week the Fledglings have been preparing for the Harvest Festival and our Bring Grandparents to School Day. Our Topic Stories were ‘ My Grandpa is Amazing ’ and ' My Grandma is Wonderful ’, celebrating all that we love about our grandparents. We also read the book ‘ Welcome to our World’ where we looked at the different ways Harvest is celebrated around the world.  We loved welcoming our families in to celebrate the Harvest Festival and the children were wonderful as the

The Chicks have had a very busy week at 345 Wandsworth. This week was all about healthy eating, learning about different fruits and vegetables, and exploring how they grow. The children enjoyed a variety of activities inspired by our Topic Story From the Garden  by Michael Dahl. The Chicks were fully immersed in hands-on learning through exciting, sensory-rich, and imaginative activities, all centred around gardens, vegetables, and seasonal changes. Children built social skil

This week the Chicks' Topic story was the classic fairytale ’The Ugly Duckling’ by Campbells first stories. The story is about a little bird who is teased and rejected because he looks different from the other ducklings. Feeling sad and alone, he goes on a journey in search of belonging. Over time, he grows and changes, eventually discovering that he is not a duck at all, but a beautiful swan. The story teaches important lessons about acceptance, self discovery, and how our

This week the Chicks topic story was ‘ Go, Go, Pirate Boat ’ and ‘ Rumble, Rumble Dinosaur ’ and the children had great fun singing the...

The Fledglings had a fantastic start to the year and it has been lovely to see everyone embracing their groups, forming new friendships...