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Happy Friday everyone the next few weeks, our concept will be a lovely of books. This is essential for literacy skills ,...
06/03/2026

Happy Friday everyone the next few weeks, our concept will be a lovely of books. This is essential for literacy skills , communication, personal social emotional development.

We roared into the week with The tiger who came to tea.🐅 ☕

The children used their expressive skills to make tiger masks , can you guess whose behind the mask ☺️. We also looked at the tiges marking and created black and white stripes. This tied in with maths , physical skills as hand eye co- ordination was needed.

On the tough spot the children could revenact the story , using props such as a tea pot , bowls , cut outs of the key characters.

Over in the water tray cups and tea pots were used, sparking conversations of do you drink tea at home?

We debated in the play dough area , what would be the best food to feed a tiger that came to our houses. Lots of suggestions of sausages , chicken nuggets , toast and pizza , this gave the children the chance to share their own ideas , while using conversation skills with each other. 🍝🍲.

World book day was fab , lots of lovely costumes, that tied in so well with concept for the love of books.📚📚

Story of the week

The tiger who came to tea

Learning links

Communication, language - use sentences of up to 6 words

Personal social emotional development - play with one or more children

Literacy - understand that print has meaning

Physical development - use a comfortable grip

What a wonderful week of learning through play .

Have a lovely weekend

The busy bees Team 🐝

What an incredible week we have had in Busy Bees! This week we have been focusing on travel and holidays. We've had so m...
13/06/2025

What an incredible week we have had in Busy Bees! This week we have been focusing on travel and holidays. We've had so much fun talking about each child's past experiences and where they are going on holiday this year. In order to really demonstrate the process of going through an airport we transformed the room into our very own Handsworth Airline✈️

Each child was suited and booted with their very own passport, boarding pass and bag. This experience showed the children just what to expect when they go to the airport and how to walk through correctly. The staff got into character and loved it just as much as the children! Our destination of choice was Mexico🇲🇽

After the children had been checked in, dropped their bags off and been through security they took their seats on the plane where the airline staff demonstrated the safety measures and protocols on what to do in the case of an emergency. The children also enjoyed a complementary snack courtesy of handsworth airlines to give them a little taste of what to expect when reaching Mexico. This activity has been incredible and has really helped the children to develop their knowledge of the world around them holistically. Large scale role play such as this helps us with our cultural capital as this activity can be so important for opening up conversations and showing children what to expect if they haven't been to an airport before.

Activities around the room have focused on this same topic as we have created an airport tuff spot among a cultural game within maths. This week has been a blast! Next week we with be exploring fantasy and focusing more on transitions to help us with moving into school.
See you next week Busy Bees🐝

Baby Butterflies ❤️💙 Play and stay 🥰 Fathers Day Theme 🥰
13/06/2025

Baby Butterflies ❤️💙

Play and stay

🥰 Fathers Day Theme 🥰

We would like to wish all of our families a very happy Eid Mubarak . We hope you have a great time celebrating with your...
05/06/2025

We would like to wish all of our families a very happy Eid Mubarak . We hope you have a great time celebrating with your families🌙

From all the staff at Handsworth Community Nursery ⭐

Baby Butterflies spontaneous activities ❤️💙Meeting Buster the tortoise 🐢 Feeling cold wobbly jelly 🤪Blowing a mixture of...
03/06/2025

Baby Butterflies spontaneous activities ❤️💙

Meeting Buster the tortoise 🐢

Feeling cold wobbly jelly 🤪

Blowing a mixture of different items 🎈🪶

Feeling and smelling scented play dough 🤧

Outside singing time 🎶

Smelling, tasting and feeling different scented foods 🍊🍋

We can't wait to see what spontaneous activities we can do in the last term before we break up for the summer holiday 😁

Groovy Grasshopper's 🦗Next term we are looking at transport 🚂 🚗 In the construction area we have a car garage. 🚗 We will...
02/06/2025

Groovy Grasshopper's 🦗

Next term we are looking at transport 🚂 🚗

In the construction area we have a car garage. 🚗 We will be looking at prepositions such as under, next to,I front and behind, encouraging the children to use these during their imaginative play.

In the water tray we have a mini car wash, encouraging the children to use tooth brushes to develop their fine manipulative skills in preparation for pencil control. 💦

In the creative area we are making traffic lights vans talking about road safety. We will be linking the colours accordingly such as red for stop, green for go and amber for get ready.🚦

In the maths area we are playing a transport shape matching game, encouraging shape recognition 🚌

In our tuff spot we have numbered tunnels, supporting number recognition and discussing prepositions, supporting their maths language ➗

In the funky fingers area, we have vehicles and play dough, encouraging the children to mark make 🚗

We have new additions to our outdoor area which allows the children to explore natural resources in our mud kitchen and develop their gross motor skills on our climbing frame and slide 🪜 🌴

At home, please can we ask parents to encourage their child to follow our carpet time rules which are, good sitting, good looking and good listening 👍🏼

We look forward to welcoming our Grasshopper's back before it's transition time for summer 🌞

Happy Friday everyoneOur last week of term has been filled with looking after our environment, looking at ocean pollutio...
23/05/2025

Happy Friday everyone

Our last week of term has been filled with looking after our environment, looking at ocean pollution and how conservation works for endangered animals in our zoos.🦁🦍🦓

The highlight of the week was a visit from Buster the tortoise, children discussed how his shell felt , what did he eat, and where do tortoises come from. 🐢

We also made crabs, jelly fish as our art activities 🪼🦀

At group time , we spoke about pollution especially leaving litter around on the beach , the children articulated their own thoughts and feelings of the effect it could cause to our sealife .🐟🐟

The children took part in litter picking in our own garden, to ensure wildlife wouldn't be affected if they picked anything up from our garden. They also re cycled plastic, food waste and cardboard into tubs , enforcing how we recycle.♻️♻️

Our stories of the week

The life of a plastic bottle

The life of a cardboard box

Lots of learning this week , made fun by exciting activities 😃

Knowledge and understanding of the world.- looking after the world around us

Communication language - sharing thoughts and ideas

Personal,social, emotional development - talking about feelings

Physical development -sensory exploration

We hope you have a lovely half term and can't wait to hear all about what you get up too.

The busy Bees Team

Today we had the great privilege of Sam bringing in her tortoise Buster from home 🐢 All the children loved looking and ...
21/05/2025

Today we had the great privilege of Sam bringing in her tortoise Buster from home 🐢

All the children loved looking and touching the tortoise, we even fed him some vegetables 🥬

We also learnt that Buster will live until he is 100!! Wow that's old. 😯

Thank you Sam 😊

Last week our Baby Butterflies enjoyed a mixture of focused activities with our staff ♥️💙In the Baby Butterflies we will...
19/05/2025

Last week our Baby Butterflies enjoyed a mixture of focused activities with our staff ♥️💙

In the Baby Butterflies we will not be following topics for planning anymore instead we will.....

Babies will be incorporating more spontaneous activities into their daily routine, reflecting more on their curriculum when supporting learning and development milestones.
More attention will be paid to reaching development milestones appropriate for ages and stages of development, working on strengthening fine and gross motor skills, nurturing their curiosity and fostering simple independence skills.

The Groovy Grasshopper's have had another great week, they have loved exploring 'under the sea!'This week the children h...
16/05/2025

The Groovy Grasshopper's have had another great week, they have loved exploring 'under the sea!'

This week the children have spent lots of time outdoors in the sunshine ☀️ The children really enjoyed the spontaneous activity of washing the vehicles outside, we used our gross motor skils and imagination to have our own 'car wash!' 🧽 We also made our own ball shoots, we loved making tracks and ways which the ball could roll, it was great to see the children work together and problem solve 🏀

We have really enjoyed exploring the pirate ship in the tuff tray 🚢 We have enjoyed making marks using our fine motor skills! The children have also really enjoyed dressing up as pirates using their imagination for role play!

The children have particularly enjoyed the octopus game, we have been practicing counting 1-5 before pressing the octopus! 🐙

Next week we will continue to explore 'under the sea', ⛵

The Groovy Grasshopper's Team 🦗

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