Alfreton Nursery School

We are delighted to share news of a brand new research project which we are delivering in collaboration with the University of Derby. This is just one out of a new bank of training courses which are being advertised this term.

Full details of all out training courses can be found on the following site:
Https://bookwhen.com/alfretonteachingschool

If you would like any further information about any of the courses on offer, or would like to discuss individual or setting training needs, including visits to Alfreton Nursery School, please do get in touch.

Kind regards

Katie Cresswell
CPD & IT Manager
Alfreton Nursery School

The Red Team have been celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee in the woodland. We made red, white and blue Jubilee bunting to hang from our trees, we made beautiful crowns from goose grass and natural foraged treasures. We enjoyed sharing a celebration cake and went on a mini beast hunt. We have had a fabulous time. ⭐️🇬🇧👑⭐️🇬🇧👑⭐️🇬🇧👑

This week at Forest School we have been celebrating the Queens Jubilee 🔴⚪️🔵🇬🇧👸🏼 We went on a hunt for faces of the Queen which were hiding in the woodland. Then we looked for natural materials to decorate our own woodland crown, some children used goose grass for their crowns. At snack time we enjoyed scones with butter and jam with some juicy strawberries 🇬🇧

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Earth Elves 🧝‍♀️ Forest Schools had a lovely time painting butterflies 🦋 to celebrate the Queens Jubilee. The paint colours they used were red ,white and blue. Amazing.
Some of the other Elves 🧝‍♂️ set some squash seeds which were donated. 🇬🇧😊

The Red team have continued to explore digger dog, they dug for bones, and then used their bones to make digger dog some dinner in the mud pie kitchen. We enjoyed drawing under the trees and had fun playing, planting, climbing and exploring. ⭐️🌳⭐️🌳⭐️🌳

This week at Forest School the children have been really busy creating skeletons using sticks and natural materials on the forest floor. This was inspired from our story of the week “digger dog”. We have tested ourselves this week by climbing the trees, doing some big digging in the mud pie kitchen, watered our allotment beds and also learnt the safety rules and how to be sensible when we have our tools out. Well done Blue Team 👏🏼😊🌳🌿🪴

Earth Elves 🧝‍♀️ forest schools had an amazing time digging in the mud pie kitchen area and making potions. They also enjoyed looking at the pond , we saw lots of tadpoles, a newt and nymph. Fabulous Elves 😀

The Red Team have explored the story Digger Dog. We focused on 2 sounds( phonemes) d for digger dog, digging and diggers, and p for planting and potatoes. We also found dddd daffodils that needed dead heading and ddd dandelion clocks that just had to be blown to disperse the seeds !!! We challenged ourselves to jump high from the jumping station and to climb up into the climbing tree. Eddie the therapy dog also came to visit, he likes digging too …. We have had a fabulous time. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

Our first week back at Forest School was full of fun. We were inspired by our book of the week “Digger Dog”. We have done lots of digging and planting lots of flowers and vegetables in our allotment beds. The children have enjoyed exploring the woodland, climbing, creating dog food for digger dog in the mud pie kitchen and the children have enjoyed using magnifying glasses looking for mini-beasts. Well done Blue Team 👏🏼🌳🌿🪴🌸🫑🥕🧅🥔

Earth Elves 🧝‍♀️ forest schools had a wonderful time exploring and looking at the dandelion flowers and clocks. Some of the Elves painted dandelion clock pictures, dandelion crowns and we also collected dandelion clocks to make a wish jar. What a fantastic time we had.😊

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