Wickersley Nursery Ltd

🏖️🐚 Baby Room Beach Week! 🌊☀️

Our little beach explorers had a splashing time this week! 🥰🏖️

We created our very own seaside sensory tray, complete with soft sand, blue silky “sea,” shells, sea creatures and a bucket and spade. 🐚🦀🐠🪣

Our babies loved getting stuck in! They scooped, filled, emptied and poured the sand, developing their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination along the way. They also enjoyed discovering all the different textures — from the grainy sand and bumpy shells to the silky sea! 👋✨

Of course, no trip to the seaside would be complete without some singing! 🎶🌊 We enjoyed “I Had a Tiny Turtle” and “A Sailor Went to Sea”, with lots of little hands copying the actions and plenty of smiles along the way! 🐢⚓️💙

🌟 This links to our curriculum by:

🏖️ Exploring sensory play and different textures
🪣 Developing an understanding of filling, emptying and pouring
🎶 Showing a love for familiar songs and rhymes, joining in with actions and recognising favourite tunes
🐚 Encouraging babbling, sounds and the use of single words
👋 Developing fine motor skills, coordination and curiosity through hands-on exploration

What a wonderful little day at the seaside! ☀️🏖️🐚🌊

🦖🦕 Dinosaur Week! 👣💚

As part of Dinosaur Week, our Rising Twos had a roarsome time making dinosaur footprints in playdough! 🦖

The children chose their favourite dinosaurs and watched excitedly as they stomped, stomped, stomped through the playdough, leaving their footprints behind. 👣 They used words and sounds such as “Stomp, stomp!”, “Rawr!” and “Dinosaur!” while playing alongside their friends and taking turns. 🥰

🌟 This links to our curriculum by:

🦕 Exploring sensory play and making marks
🗣️ Using words and sounds to express themselves
🤝 Playing alongside others and developing turn-taking
👣 Developing coordination and fine motor skills

What a ROARSOME Dinosaur Week! 🦖💚👣

👑🏴‍☠️ Princess & Pirate Week! ✨

As part of our Princess and Pirate Week, our little princes and princesses got creative with magical potions and sparkly playdough! 🧪🌸👑

The children explored flowers, sparkling water, pipettes, tweezers and magnifying glasses to create their very own princess potions. 🌺✨ They then used pink glitter playdough to make princess cakes, pizzas and magical creations! 🎂💖

There was lots of imaginary play, creativity, sharing, chatting and exploring as the children brought their ideas to life. 🥰

🌟 This links to our curriculum by:

🌺 Exploring the natural world and noticing differences in flowers, colours, smells and textures
💬 Developing communication and confidence as children shared ideas and talked with friends
🤝 Supporting positive relationships, sharing and turn-taking
🖐️ Developing fine motor skills through squeezing, rolling, pulling and manipulating resources
🧚‍♀️ Encouraging imagination, creativity and sensory exploration

A truly magical day in our preschool! 👑🏴‍☠️✨

🚀✨ Space-Themed Water Play in Toddlers! 🌟💧

Today, our toddlers enjoyed a fun space-themed water play activity, exploring glitter, foil stars and water using scoops and containers. They poured, counted, scooped and investigated different textures while using their imaginations! 🌌

The children also practised early maths by counting stars and comparing who had more and fewer, helping to build confidence with numbers through play.

EYFS Links:
🔢 Mathematics – Counting, comparing quantities and one-to-one correspondence.
💬 Communication & Language – Using mathematical vocabulary and talking about their discoveries.
🌍 Understanding the World – Exploring different materials and investigating how they behave.
✋ Physical Development – Developing fine motor skills through pouring, scooping and transferring.
🎨 Expressive Arts & Design – Using imagination and exploring sensory materials.

🫧🦁 Sensory Fun in Babies! 💙💚

Today, our babies explored a colourful sensory tuff tray with bubbly foam, discovering land and water animals through touch, play and exploration. They enjoyed squishing the foam, moving the animals around and learning where different animals live! 🌍🐢

This activity encouraged curiosity, early language, sensory exploration and fine motor development while supporting children to play alongside their friends.

EYFS Links:
💬 Communication & Language – Naming animals and encouraging babbling and single words.
🌍 Understanding the World – Learning about animals and their habitats.
✋ Physical Development – Developing fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination through sensory play.
💛 Personal, Social & Emotional Development – Playing alongside others and exploring with confidence.
🎨 Expressive Arts & Design – Making marks and exploring different textures.

💛🌈 Exploring Emotions in Rising Twos! 🧸

Today, we explored feelings through colourful emotion teddies, sensory play, music and dancing! The children learned about being happy, sad, angry and loved, matched emotions to facial expressions, and discovered where their hearts are by listening to their own “bu bum, bu bum!” ❤️

These activities help children begin to recognise and talk about emotions while building confidence, communication and self-awareness.

EYFS Links:
💛 Personal, Social & Emotional Development – Understanding and expressing feelings.
💬 Communication & Language – Developing new vocabulary and talking about emotions.
🎵 Expressive Arts & Design – Exploring movement, music and self-expression.

🌟 Little Adventures Start Here at Wickersley Nursery! 🌟
🌳 Limited places available for children aged 3 months to 5 years!
Looking for a nursery where every day is filled with fun, laughter, learning and adventure? At Wickersley Nursery, we're Active in Mind, Body and Heart, helping little ones grow in confidence while they play, explore and discover the world around them.
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🎨 Exciting indoor & outdoor activities
🌱 A safe, nurturing environment
💛 Giving every child the very best start in life
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🎓 What a wonderful afternoon celebrating our amazing Pre-School graduates at Wickersley Nursery! 🎓

A huge thank you to all of our families for joining us to celebrate this special milestone. It was lovely to see so many proud smiles as the children marked the end of their nursery journey.

We are incredibly proud of every single child. They have grown in confidence, kindness and independence, and we know they are ready for their exciting next adventure at school.

A big thank you also goes to our fantastic team, whose care, dedication and hard work have helped our children thrive every step of the way.

Congratulations to all of our graduates – we will miss you all and wish you every success and happiness as you start your next chapter! ❤️🎓

✨ Messy hands, busy minds! ✨

Today our toddlers had a fantastic time exploring mark making in flour! 🤍 Using their fingers, hands and different tools, they created lines, circles, patterns and their own wonderful creations before adding water to see what happened.

This fun sensory activity encouraged the children to explore different textures, notice how the flour changed, and introduced lots of exciting new words such as soft, powdery, wet, sticky, smooth, dry, mix, pour and squishy. As they chatted about what they could see and feel, they were building their communication and language skills while having lots of messy fun!

Learning through play is the best kind of learning, especially when there’s a little bit of mess involved! 💛