Exploring, Balancing and Taking Turns in Elm and Beech Rooms
Children in Elm Room have been enjoying lots of opportunities to explore, create and develop their physical and social skills through play. Mark-making has been a big part of their learning, with children experimenting with pens, dry-wipe boards, chalk, and paint....
A Fantastic Start to the Year in Oak Class
Oak Class at St Philip's Marsh Nursery School has had an amazing start to the new nursery school year. Children have been busy getting to know their new key people, rekindling old friendships and making new ones. The focus this term has been on settling in, building...
Easter, Eid and Lots of Celebration: St Philip’s Marsh Term 4
Term 4 at St Philip's Marsh Nursery School has been a truly joyful one, packed with celebrations, creativity and some very important learning about the world around us! Easter brought a wonderful focus on pattern, with the children decorating eggs and making collages...
Celebrating Lunar New Year in Oak Class
Oak Class at St Philip's Marsh Nursery School has been exploring the wonderful celebration of Lunar New Year, learning about how it is marked in different places across the world. It has been a brilliant opportunity for the children to discover new traditions, broaden...
Builders at Work: Beech Class Gets Constructing at St Philip’s Marsh
Beech Class at St Philip's Marsh Nursery School has caught the building bug, and we have been following their lead with some exciting changes to the classroom! It all started with the bricks, with children building towers, giggling as they tumbled down, creating...
Getting Back to Nature: Exploring Natural Resources in Fir Class
Children in Fir Class at St Philip's Marsh Nursery School have been getting wonderfully hands-on with the natural world, exploring what nature has to offer both inside and out. Outside, children have been investigating puddles and mud, scooping, pouring and examining...
Colour, Light and Fireworks in Fir Class
Fir Class has been having a wonderful time exploring colour and light, with fireworks as their inspiration. Children have been experimenting with bold, bright painting on a large scale, discovering how vivid colours really pop against black paper — just like fireworks...
St Philip’s Marsh Fir Class Explores Mark-Making
Fir Class has been exploring various mark-making examples this week, experimenting with a range of different media from paint to chalk, and even mud and water! This diverse exploration helps children understand that marks can be made in many ways, whilst they discover...
St Philip’s Marsh Fir Class Explores Construction
Fir Class has been exploring various construction examples this week, working on both large-scale and small-scale projects. The children have been working independently or together, either coming up with their own ideas or collaborating to bring shared visions to...
St Philip’s Marsh Nursery School Term Review and Christmas Celebrations
This term the children have been exploring mark making using big and small movements, developing both gross and fine motor control through varied mark-making experiences. There has been wonderful engagement with role play, particularly caring for babies, which helps...