Nursery | Fordbridge Community Primary School

Welcome to Nursery 2021-2022

Achieving Excellence Together

Meet the Nursery Teachers 2021-2022

Meet the Teaching Assistants - Mrs Rooke, Mrs Lander and Miss Allsop

Making caterpillars from egg boxes

Modelling some of the foods from The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Caterpillars and butterfly

Easter crafts

Nursery dressed in yellow and blue in support of Ukraine.

Red Nose Day and nursery children dressed as superheroes

Our Cinderella display and Cinderella coach/carriage

World Book Day

Making cakes for Kipper's Birthday Party

Chinese New Year

Storm kettle

Today we watched Mrs. Lander use a storm kettle to boil water for our hot chocolate which was delicious! 😋

Hot chocolate and cookies.

Nursery Winter Displays

Father Christmas by Lavenders

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Lavenders

Away in a Manger by Lavenders

Father Christmas by Daffodils

Away in a Manger by Daffodils

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Daffodils

Week beginning 15.11.21 - We are learning about The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Mrs Lander and Miss Allsop demonstrating how to play in the cafe roleplay

Fireman Sam

Bonfire S'mores and fun!

Forest School

Exploring spaghetti and pumpkins

Halloween costumes 🎃👹👺👻

Five Currant Buns

Week Beginning 06.07.2020 Theme: Music to my ears

Peppa Pig - Sports Day

Wake and Shake - Bare Necessities

Week Beginning 29.06.2020 Theme: Let the games begin

Brum Song (from the early 2000's)

Week Beginning 22.06.2020 Theme: Brum through the years - Can you think of all the places you can visit in Brum and complete activities linked to there? Here are some ideas for you...

Peppa Pig - Dinosaur Salad

Grandpa Pig picks some vegetables from the garden and Granny Pig makes them into a dinosaur shape

Shane the Chef - Lets get Cooking!

Week Beginning 15.06.2020 Theme: Food Glorious Food

Lots of ideas for our new theme this week-Food Glorious Food

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All The Girls Around The World 🎵Thomas & Friends Sing-a-long

Seven Continents Song

The World's Family

Around the world activity ideas

Week Beginning 8.06.2020 Theme: Around the World

Miss Laura plays and sings the Wibble Wobble Song

The Little Mermaid - Under the Sea

Week Beginning 1.06.2020 Theme: Under the Sea

Homemade Slime - 1/4 cup chia seeds, 1 3/4 cups of water and 4 cups of corn flour

Number Recognition Bingo - Ask someone to call the numbers out for you and colour them in when you find it!

Name Writing - Are you practising writing your name ready for Reception?

DIY Marble Run

Save the dinosaurs from the ice cubes - freeze your dinosaurs over night and enjoy trying to get them out!

We’re Going on a Sound Hunt

Flower letters

Hand moulds - To make these you need 1cup flour, 1cup salt and 1/2cup water

Have a go at completing a car colour survey

Nature Names - Can you use natural resources to make your name?

Wriggle, wriggle little caterpillars 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛

Look how much they have grown!

The tomato plants are growing big now! Updated 21.5.2020

The Slip, Slop, Slap song for sun safety.

The_Slip_Slop_Slap_Song.pdf

Sun safe information

Sun_Safety_Fact_Sheet.pdf

George The Sun Safe Superstar! Read the story all about George and find out how to become a Sun safe superstar too 🌞

1962-George.pdf

These Caterpillars are growing fast! I hope you enjoy watching them grow. I think it's exciting what do you think? 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛 19.5.2020

Tiny little Caterpillars 🐛 They are starting to grow 16.5.2020

My tomato seeds are growing! Have you tried it at home yet? Are your seeds growing too? Why not share them on Twitter so that your teachers can see them.

Miss Laura

My Dog is a Good Dog

Graph Sorting - Fun maths activity for you to try at home 🔢

Solihull sports are doing a virtual sports competition.

It is a great chance for all children to represent the school and to get active. Also, the school could win some prizes and beat other schools.

Virtual School Games All the information you need on one page!

Virtual Challenge - Athletics - Primary - HD.pdf

Gross Motor Number Recognition Game: Can you throw the balls at the numbers and tell a grownup what number it is?

Estimation Jars: Can you estimate how many buttons, Haribo and Lego are in each jar?

Ice cube painting

Dandelion clocks.

This is something Mrs Lander and Mrs Rooke love to do at Forest school 😊 See if you can find a dandelion clock when you go out for your walk or in your garden and share it with us on Twitter or Tapestry. Watch the seeds fly away!

Let Mrs Lander know on Twitter if you spot any of these beauties when you go out for your daily exercise. 🐛🦋

Spring colouring from The Butterfly Conservation. Have fun colouring the picture and post it onto twitter for us to see.

Bombini the Bee

bombini-the-bee-there's-something-in-the-air.pdf

Mark making in sand

Sensory play ideas

VE Day - Why don't you make a model air raid shelter, a tank or make and colour a paper aeroplane. Please add them to our Twitter page so we can see them or put them on Tapestry.

Play your instrument

Miss Laura says you will need a shaker. We have played and sung this one in nursery before.

Rainbow Rock painting

Egg box colour nature hunt

Fun Maths activity ideas

1, 2, 3 Pancake Recipe

Growing tomatoes. I heard that you can grow tomatoes like this, put your tomatoes in the soil and then cover them up, water them and hopefully watch them grow. I will let you know when mine start growing 🤞🌱 Why not try this at home! Mrs. Lander

Fordbridge Anthem

Recipe for play dough, this is how Mrs Rooke makes it in nursery

1 cup of plain flour

1 cup of salt

1 cup of water

2 tablespoons of cooking oil

1 teaspoon of cream of tartar/small sachet

Few drops of food colouring

Mix all the ingredients together and place in a microwave for 2 minutes, mix again and microwave again for 2 minutes.

It should be done now but might need another 10 or 20 seconds in the microwave. It will be very hot so make sure to cool it down, the children love feeling the warm playdough. Enjoy!

This makes quite a bit of playdough but it keeps quite well because of the salt which acts as a preservative. Wrap in clingfilm when not in use to prevent it from drying out.

Cooking with kids: Easiest ever bread recipe

Make the most of time at home and bake your own bread with this super simple recipe, which is perfect for cooking with kids. With 5 simple store cupboard ingredients, you can create delicious fresh loaves when you need them, without leaving the house.

5-10 minutes
500g bread flour (granary, strong wholewheat or white), 7g sachet fast-action dried yeast, 1 tsp salt, 2 tbsp olive oil, 1 tbsp clear honey, a loaf tin

Method:

Remind your child to always wash their hands before you start cooking.

Tip the flour, yeast and salt into a large bowl. Now, your child can mix it all together with their clean fingers.
Help them to fill a jug with 300ml warm water and add the oil and honey. Then they can pour it into the dry ingredients to stir it to make a soft dough.
Sprinkle a little flour onto a surface. Tip out the dough and knead for 5 minutes, until the dough no longer feels sticky. You can sprinkle on a little more flour if you need to.
Oil the loaf tin and put the dough in the tin, pressing it in evenly. Put in a large plastic food bag and leave to rise for 1 hr. Alternatively, place the loaf tin inside a large bowl and pop a tea towel over the top.
Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6.
Make several slashes across the top of the loaf with a sharp knife (keep little hands out of the way for this bit!), then bake for 30-35 mins until the loaf is risen and golden. Tip it out onto a cooling rack and tap the base of the bread to check it is cooked. It should sound hollow.

Baking is science!
This recipe is particularly good because children can touch the ingredients and feel them changing at every stage of the recipe.