This week we have explored what it means to be healthy. We have talked about different foods and decided if they were 'healthy or unhealthy?'. We talked about food and drink which contain a lot of salt or sugar and agreed we should only have these occasionally. The children selected 'healthy' food to cut out and stick in their 'lunch box' and we played the Orchard Lunch Box Game in small groups. One of the children said "you will feel sick if you eat too many sweeties!" and a

What a great week we have had! Thank you to PC Jennings for coming to talk to us all about your job and for letting us try on your hat and sit in your car! The children haven't stopped talking about it and they learnt so much! Then....we had a visit on Wednesday from Great Yarmouth Green Watch! Many thanks to Shaun and his crew for an amazing experience for our children. We learnt about lots of different pieces of equipment used on the fire truck and got to sit inside. The be

This week, we read the story of 'What the Ladybird Heard' by Julia Donaldson. We acted out the story using stick puppets and played ‘night sounds music’ as we tip-toed around quietly, pretending to be Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len. The children were very interested in the idea of a map and many children chose to draw their own map and hide 'treasure' around nursery! We used a large tin of buttons ('treasure') to decorate the ladybird with 'spots'. We tried to count them and guesse

We have had a busy start to the term, developing our new digging area, planting area 🌱 and vegetable patch 🍅! So far we have planted radishes, courgettes, mini cucumbers, tomatoes, beans and leeks. We have explored different seed types and tried to guess the size of the seed by shaking the sealed seed packet and listening to the sound it made 🤔 Some of the children noticed the strong smell of the compost as well as a more pleasant scent from the tomato plants. We continued