Pendle nursery

A wet and exciting morning, planting and growing.
Collecting water, splashing in puddles

🐛 Bug Hunting in the Rain
Rain brings out unique creatures like worms, snails, and slugs, making it the perfect time for scientific discovery.Understanding the World (The Natural World): Children investigate living things, notice changes in their environment, and learn to handle creatures with care.
Mathematics (Numerical Patterns): Counting legs, sorting bugs by size, and comparing the shapes of snail shells.
Communication and Language: Learning new descriptive vocabulary like slimy, segmented, mollusc, and sheltered.
🧪 Rainy Potion MakingMuddy puddles and rainwater provide the ultimate sensory base for outdoor mixing, measuring, and brewing
Physical Development (Fine Motor Skills): Pouring rainwater, squeezing squishy berries, crushing leaves, and stirring thick mud mixtures builds hand strength.
Expressive Arts and Design (Being Imaginative and Expressive): Roleplaying as wizards, scientists, or chefs while experimenting with different textures, colours, and natural materials.
Mathematics (Measure): Using terms like full, empty, heavy, and volume while collecting rain in different containers.🪵 Tree Swing FunSwinging in the rain introduces element-based sensory feedback, such as feeling the wind and raindrops on the face while moving.
Physical Development (Gross Motor Skills): Developing core stability, spatial awareness, balance, and coordination by pumping legs to swing.Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Managing Self): Assessing risks on a wet seat, building confidence, and learning physical boundaries.
Understanding the World (The Natural World): Experiencing forces first-hand, such as gravity, momentum, and the resistance of the wind.

Please can all holiday club parents please have a look for a purple next jacket possibly taken home by mistake.
Thank you

⭐️ message from station house dentist ⭐️
We are pleased to let you know that our dental practice is currently accepting new NHS child patients.

We understand the importance of maintaining good oral health from an early age and would be grateful if you could share this information with parents and carers within your school/nursery community.

We are welcoming children of all ages for NHS dental care, including routine check-ups, preventive advice, and any necessary treatment. Regular dental visits can help children develop healthy habits and prevent dental problems in the future.

Parents and carers who would like to register their child can contact us directly using the details below:

Practice Name: Station House Dental Care
Telephone:01282965286
Email: [email protected]
Address: Fern Lea Ave, Barnoldswick,BB18 5DW

We would appreciate any assistance in helping local families access NHS dental care for their children.

Thank you for your time and support.

Lina Ivanova , BDM

Kind regards,

The Team @ Station House Dental Care

Hands-on exploring and discovering start right in the nursery.
Babies and toddlers learn best by using their senses to explore the world around them. Turning a nursery into a safe space for adventure helps them grow, think, and learn.
Dynamic Discovery Areas and Sensory Stations: Filling low tables with safe items like large smooth stones, fabric scraps, natural materials and crinkly paper.
Texture table : a mixture of sensory items, bumpy cardboard, ice, metal objects and soft materials jumbled together to explore.
Exploring colour: a hands-on science lab where children independently test ideas. By combining liquids, lights, or materials, children develop critical thinking as they discover how new colours are made

Very exciting day at nursery today 🥰 the children have loved watching the tadpoles grow and seeing the caterpillars change into butterfly’s.

World bee day.

🪵 Forest School Tool ActionsTree Clumping: Children using saws, palm drills, and mallets to cut, drill, and secure branches into micro-habitats or shelters.Transporting: Children use wheelbarrows, tarps, and ropes to haul logs and heavy brush across uneven terrain. Using letter stamps to mark the wood we have found
Exploring: Children use magnifying glasses, peelers, and trowels to strip bark, dig roots, and investigate micro-beasts.🗺️ EYFS Learning BenefitsPhysical DevelopmentGross Motor: Pulling tarps and pushing wheelbarrows builds core strength and balance.Fine Motor: Using drills, saws, hammers and letter stamps refines hand-eye coordination and pencil-grip muscles.Personal, Social, and Emotional Development (PSED)Risk Management: Handling real tools teaches self-regulation and spatial safety boundaries.Resilience & Confidence: Completing heavy physical tasks creates high self-esteem.Teamwork: Moving large logs forces children to communicate, share loads, and cooperate.Communication and LanguageContextual Vocabulary: Introduces heavy-use action and science words (leverage, friction, decay).Instructional Speech: Promotes clear peer-to-peer safety commands ("stop", "heavy", "pull").Understanding the World & MathEco-Science: Exploring root clumps teaches life cycles, habitats, and material textures.Applied Math: Moving logs introduces spatial awareness, weight estimation, and volume comparisons

🐏 Understanding the WorldThe Natural World: Observed wildlife (deer, sheep, lambs)and spring plants (hawthorn, rowan blossom), demonstrating curiosity about living things and seasonal changes.People & Communities: Crossed and sheltered under a canal bridge, identifying man-made features and learning about their local environment.🏃 Physical DevelopmentGross Motor Skills: Navigated uneven terrain and climbed the bridge, developing balance, spatial awareness, and core strength.💬 Communication & LanguageSpeaking & Vocabulary: Named specific flora/fauna and shared discoveries, expanding descriptive vocabulary and conversation skills.🤝 Personal, Social & Emotional DevelopmentManaging Self: Followed safety boundaries near water and adapted to weather by sheltering under the bridge.