Hello and welcome to our F1 blog page.
You will be able to see all of the amazing learning and experiences of our nursery children during the year. 
Here are some photographs of our current provision and areas. Our children are already having lots of fun exploring them. 
Keep checking back here regularly for more updates. 
Thank you. 
Mrs Hale, Mrs Lees, Miss Nock & Mrs Gillott. 

 
The F1 children really enjoyed their end of school year teddy bears picnic.
Each child brought a special teddy from home and told us all why it was special to them. We had yummy sandwiches, biscuits and fruit washed down with some juice.
We're very lucky we had lots of shade to be able to enjoy our picnic outside on such a hot day. 

Today we released our beautiful butterflies into the wild. We got them when they were tiny caterpillars and watched them munch and grow bigger everyday. After a while they began to spin a home called a  chrysalis where they rested inside for a week or so. After another few days something amazing happened... the caterpillars had turned into beautiful butterflies! 
All of the children have loved observing this amazing transformation.
​Why don't you ask your child all about it? 

​Thank you to all of the parents who bought a ticket for our Halloween Hamper Raffle, we raised an amazing £91! We will be using this to buy some new resources for our Foundation Stage. Miss Nock, our student from Barnsley College, pulled out a ticket and the lucky winner in FS1 was thrilled with his prize! 

We noticed that our apple tree was bursting with juicy, ripe apples so we helped Miss Reynolds to pick them. We collected them in a basket and then sorted them into good and bad apples. We washed and tried some of the apples, they were very tasty. Some children then worked together with Mrs. Grange to bake an apple pie. Once it cooled down we tried some with our milk and at home time. It was delicious!

We also began to explore different textures and made collage pictures. We talked about how materials felt and looked. Some were squishy, some were smooth, some were hard and some were fury. We chose the ones we liked the feel of for our collage.

​Over the last few weeks we have had lots of fun exploring our new nursery environment and making new friends. Take a look at the photographs below to see what we have been up to. 

We are really looking forward to seeing our F1 children again and excited to meet our new children too. 
Parent/Carer Reminder 
Children that attended Nursery before the holidays and are returning to F1 will return to school on Monday 6th September and will attend morning sessions (Mon-Fri) 8:45am-11:45am. If your child attended F1 for 30 hours before the holidays they too will return on Monday 6th September at 8:45am and will need to be collected from the F2 door at 3:00pm. 

For our new starters - There will be a welcome meeting on Tuesday 7th at 3:30pm.
Your child/ren will then come to our stay and play sessions for the rest of the week. Please see below drop off and pick up times:
Wednesday 8th -  9:00am - 10:30am
Thursday 9th -  8:45am - 10:45am
Friday 10th - 8:45am - 11:15am
From Monday 13th your child/ren will attend the full morning session everyday - 8:45am and will need to be collected at 11:45am. 

Mrs Hale and Mrs Lees have been really busy during the holidays; setting up and creating a fantastic learning environment. They have done a brilliant job and we are sure our children will love exploring all the new resources and areas.  We have added some photos for you to have a sneaky peek before next week. 

Looking forward to seeing you all soon 
EYFS Team