Usworth Colliery Nursery School

Thank you to all of our families who came along to our Christmas Fayre yesterday! It was such a lovely day that was enjoyed by all.
Merry Christmas everyone🎄🎅🏻🎄🎅🏻🎄

We are super excited for our Christmas Fayre tomorrow! We have lots on offer including, arts and crafts activities, an amazing raffle, a toy tombola, refreshments, a make your own Christmas biscuit station and Santa will be in his grotto! Ho ho ho 🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻
We hope to see you there! Merry Christmas everyone x

Merry Christmas from the Meadow Class

Today we experimented with paint and Pipettes,

we looked at the effects the paint had on the snow and ice.

Pipettes can be very tricky to use, but we made some beautiful patterns,

we also enjoyed mixing the colours.

We read the story Sam’s Snowflake this week, then the children made a snowflake of their own.

Later in the week the children thought about the main characters in the story, Mammy bear, Daddy bear and Baby bear.

They discussed the fact that the bears were a family and talked about how their family was similar/different to that of the bears.

The children then created a bear family to represent their own family, they used this as their design for their Christmas cards and wrote their name inside.

This process promoted skills in the following areas of learning; Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Listening and Attention, Literacy, Physical Development and Expressive Arts and Design.

We are holding a Christmas fair on Tuesday 20th of December 9.00-11.00.
Everyone is welcome to come along to.

We am looking for some donations for our raffle/tombola,
We would be grateful for any donations 🙏
If you or anyone would like to donate a prize please let me know.
Thank you.

What a magical day at The Polar Express!

The conductors stamped our tickets when we arrived at nursery, we then enjoyed hot chocolate whilst watching The Polar Express movie in our pyjamas.

Christmas has arrived at Usworth Colliery Nursery School!

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What a busy week we have had. Wetlands Group have enjoyed making Christmas pictures and writing letters to Santa.

Once our letters were ready, we walked to the Post Office and spotted lots of Christmas lights on our way.

We waited very patiently in the queue for our stamps, then posted our letters in the big red post box outside.
What an exciting adventure!

What an exciting time we have had this week as the count down to Christmas has begun! We made our Christmas lists for Santa, then took a trip to the post office to buy a stamp so that we could send them him by post. There was a very big queue in the post office but we were super good and waited patiently for the lady to serve us. Once we stamped our envelope we posted our letter in the big red post box outside and we cheered “Merry Christmas!” Back at nursery we made a start on our Christmas decorations in perpetration for fairies night! First on the list of decorations to create was a Christmas bauble for our tree. Later we made some patterned wrapping paper and sang some Christmas songs. Ho ho ho!

This week the Forest Group made their Christmas lists and took a trip out of nursery to the post box to send it off to the North Pole!
We can’t wait to receive our letters back from Santa!

This week we started our Christmas topic by writing our letters to Santa! We used the toy catalogues to choose the toys we wanted, developed our scissor skills by cutting them out and wrote our own names on our lists.
We discussed how we were going to send our letters to Santa, what we needed to do this and where we needed to go…..the post office!
Once we walked to the post office safely, we bought our stamp, wrote Santa’s address on the envelope and posted it in the post box, for the post man to take to Santa!
On our way back to nursery we went on a Christmas window hunt….it got us very excited for Christmas!!

Miss Polly’s Dolly did not want to wear her nappy anymore so the children in the Woodlands class decided that they would teach her how to use the toilet this week. We read the story, No More Nappies by Amanda Gummer to her and showed her how to take off her nappy and use the toilet. We reminded her to flush the chain and to wash her hands after using the toilet, then demonstrated how to do this. Miss Polly’s Dolly was very happy with this and now wears nickers to nursery instead of her nappy. Thank you Woodlands class! here is a link to the story we read in nursery if you would like to listen to it at home, https://youtu.be/fs7zDWsSTQw

What a wonderful day we have had, the children have had a really fun day supporting Children in Need, while enjoying making their own pudsey bear creations, please do remember you can still donate via the provided link up untill 12.00 tonight-https://donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/

https://donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/
Friday 18Th of November 2022
children can come to nursery in spots or stripes to support Children in Need 2022, if you would like to make a donation please do so via the link above.

Our Meadow class children have really enjoyed being outdoors this week, they have enjoyed forest school and a wide range of outdoor games and water play , they love to investigate and explore the natural world around them.

Lest We Forget

"Poppies" on CBeebies - Children's Remembrance Day 2 Minutes' Silence Alternative

https://youtu.be/wOT5CDnYHEs

"Poppies" on CBeebies - Children's Remembrance Day 2 Minutes' Silence Alternative Instead of 2 minutes' silence, CBBC and CBeebies broadcast this 2 minute animation called "Poppies", showing war from the animals' points of view. Beautiful...

What a wonderful time the children have had exploring bonfire night and Diwali, the festival of light. They have built bonfires, have explored fireworks and have learnt about firework safety. They have dressed in Indian clothes, danced to Indian music, explored colour, shape and size in Rangoli patterns and have created their own Mehndi patterns. They have looked at light and dark, have created their own dark spaces to hide in and have made their very own Diva lamps with salt dough and shiny loose parts. Phew, what a busy few weeks! ✨

🚨Monday 21st November - Friday 25th November 9:30-2:30🚨

Starting on the Monday we are offering a 5 day course offering an introduction to SEND or additional support to those wanting to learn more about it or dealing with it in daily life.

Times are perfect to fit around school runs.

This training would look great on any CV and could even be beneficial in personal life.

If you or anyone you know are interested please MESSAGE us with your name and number and I will pass to the training provider.

This is a FREE FUNDED course and upon completion you will receive a voucher for attending.

🎃👻We had a great time in nursery at our Halloween party, dancing and enjoying our party food 🎃
we would love to see how you spent Halloween, leave a picture comment below and let us see what spooky things you got up to for Halloween 🎃

We look forward to welcoming everyone back after a half term break tomorrow, reminder that tomorrow is our Halloween party and children are welcome to attend in fancy dress 🎃🎃

Fantastic opportunity for any parents interested!

EDEN training are joining us again for another course!

Upon completing this course they will pay for your CSCS card and the course will prepare you for this, alongside gaining English and maths!

Absolutely great opportunity and all qualifications that look great on a CV. Message us or Eden direct with your name and number and we will ensure you are given a call to discuss and enrol!

9:30-2:30, Monday-Friday 💚

We have a few remaining spaces in our two year old provision for mornings or afternoons to start in January.
For further information and to arrange a visit please contact the school office on 0191 4167700 😃

Exploring Autumn
In nursery we have been exploring autumn and discovering all the season has to offer! This has been an exciting and fascinating time for our children and has been a great way to start the school year.
It has been fantastic to see the children making links between their learning in school and the outside world and we have loved seeing the children bringing in their own autumn items that they have collected on their journey to school.
Why don't you check out some of the autumn themed books we have been reading in school such as 'Wow said the owl' and 'owl babies'.

World Mental Health Day 2022 - Wellbeing Info

World Mental Health Day 2022 - Wellbeing Info The theme of World Mental Health Day 2022, set by the World Federation for Mental Health, is 'Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global prior

World Mental Health Day 2022 - Wellbeing Info

World Mental Health Day 2022 - Wellbeing Info The theme of World Mental Health Day 2022, set by the World Federation for Mental Health, is 'Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global prior

day in nursery

Today in nursery we took part in activities which promote positive mental health.
The children have enjoyed giving their peers pizza massages, taking part in yoga and having open discussions about our feelings and what makes us happy 😊

There has been lots of smiles in nursery and we will continue to promote positive mental health throughout the year.

If you or your child are struggling with mental health difficulties please do not hesitate to speak to our well-being champion Miss Guthrie who may be able to support or sign post you to services available 💛

Thanks to funding from Sunderland City Council we are happy to be offering our centre as a venue for “Warm Spaces”.

During the hours listed below you can access our venue, where possible please contact ahead to ensure availability as we do only have a set amount of food/drinks/resources.

Nursery will be closed on Monday 19th September for the bank holiday for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth ll

Photos from Sunderland Autism Outreach Team's post

As we begin the summer holidays and end the school year we would like to thank all of our families for a wonderful year.
Every child who has passed through our nursery has made fantastic memories with each other and staff.
It is a pleasure to be part of your childs journey and to watch them grow over their time In nursery.
We look forward to seeing our returners in September and hope you all have a wonderful summer.
Thankyou for your continued support,
The nursery team 💚