Sunflowers Class Page

Welcome to Sunflowers!

We are a school based nursery who take children from 2.5 Years to 4 Years.

Hannah Hardinge leads our setting.

Liz Pearson, Lizzie Miller and Fran Barnett are our nursery practitioners.

Autumn term 2023

During harvest festival time we were grateful of the food we receive and made an apple crumble

Getting creative with the paints and learning about mixing colours

Exploring a variety of sensory play

Developing strong fingers while learning about shapes in the playdough.

The children have been developing their scissor skills

Examining, comparing and planting beans just like in our story 'Jack and the Beanstalk'

Observing and mark making the local castle. We think we even saw a giant in there. Fee fi fo fum.

Eating the delicious soup we made.

Lots of team work and muscle building games.

Building 3D structures using marshmallows and cocktail sticks. Design, testing and problem solving.

Team work and physical strength to move this massive log.

Story time with friends. Revisiting favourite stories such as The Tiger who came to tea.

Maths challenges; using the blocks to calculate how tall, long, short an object is.

Following instructions, cutting, mixing, heating and eating vegetable soup.

Letter recognition and mark making.

Road safety on the way down to the Pavilion.

Drinking squash and eating cakes at the Oakey Dokey café, like in the story The Tiger who came to tea.

Physical exercise, safety recognition and having fun at the park.

Just some of the many activities the Sunflower children have been involved in this half term, using their creative and problem solving skills and developing friendship and kindness skills along the way.

Here are just a few of the amazing activities the children have been exploring already this half term, developing their skills through the Characteristics of Effective Learning.

Some quiet time in the book corner while independently reading.

Pretend play, using toys provisions of items familiar to us from our home life.

Extending play by using the water wall to wash the construction vehicles.

Friendship building through technical mark making.

Learning how to use wood working tools safely, while creating a master piece.

Mark making animals, using provisions from our core text.

Friendship building, exercise, fresh air and lots of fun.

A team work challenge of making a pirate boat. The children independently extended it by adding a sail and "a walk the plank to jump off"

Exploring colour mixing by paint blending and creating "a rainbow"

An active rhyme of 5 little speckled frogs.

Embedding the rhymes through play.

Problem solving through small world play.

We enjoy reading, learning new stories, hearing new and exciting words and learn stories with actions to retell our families. This often develops into our own story telling or puppet shows. Our Year 5 buddies read weekly with us and we visit the school library.

Each week Sunflower children visit Forest School. The children learn how to stay safe, take risks and notice changes in the environment around them.

Spring 2 saw a wide variety of activities such as oral hygiene, group games, creative junk modelling and Chromatography.

As always the children got stuck in to all of these activities displaying their amazing 'can do attitude' and a love of learning. We have also really seen how the older children are supporting the younger children with tasks such as putting on coats, helping with the soap and taps when washing hands and with sharing. Well done.