Welcome to our Nursery Unit
Rosetta Nursery is an integral part of our school and is located within the main school building. The Nursery class has an experienced, fully qualified teacher and nursery assistant; and offers full time places for 26 children, from 8.45 a.m. to 1.15 p.m. The Nursery provides a happy, secure environment where children can develop at their own rate through challenging and progressive play. ETI praised the nursery unit for, ‘Providing rich learning opportunities for children in all areas of the pre-school curriculum.’ Children and their families are welcomed into the life of Rosetta Primary School.
The Nursery class also provides opportunities for the children to grow in self-confidence, develop social skills and to communicate effectively. The children enjoy a wide variety of indoor and outdoor play based activities through which they have the opportunity to develop a range of skills and capabilities. The Nursery Unit has an extensive outdoor area, the Woodland and Adventure World enhance the children’s learning.
September
In September, Nursery have been learning to settle into their new classroom and getting to know their new nursery friends. Nursery are learning to explore the different play areas in the classroom, and they are learning how to share their play space and their toys with their new nursery friends. Nursery have learnt 'Nursery rhyme' songs during our singing time and have been learning to sit on the carpet to listen to a short story.
Lightbox Colours!
Nursery have been exploring colours during play; they have been learning colour names, matching and sorting colours. Nursery had lots of fun at our Lightbox area where they explored 'colour mixing' with the colour fans. Nursery enjoyed predicting the colours they would make.
Baking Fun!
Nursery enjoyed decorating a biscuit with icing and sprinkles. The best part of baking was getting to lick the icing off our fingers! We had to wait for the icing to dry and then got to enjoy them the next day as part of our snack.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall...
October Learning
In October, Nursery have started thinking about the farm. We have been learning about the animals that live on the farm, and we have been learning about the role of the farmer. Nursery have been exploring the role of the farmer during play, including digging up vegetables 'growing' in the soil. We chopped up vegetables grown on the farm, and we were able to taste them for snack. Nursery have also started staying in school for dinners- their favourite part of school dinners is getting dessert!
Our Pumpkin Patch Day!
Nursery really enjoyed visiting the Pumpkin Patch! During the morning, they measured how many pumpkins tall they were, with Nursery being either 4 or 5 pumpkins tall. They enjoyed choosing a pumpkin from the patch, and discovered the bigger pumpkins were heavy! Nursery enjoyed filling up wheelbarrows with the pumpkins but discovered that the wheelbarrow was harder to push when there were more pumpkins added. Lifting all the pumpkins was tiring work for Nursery, so they enjoyed hearing the story "Ten Little Pumpkins" to finish our day off.
Halloween Fun!
Nursery have been learning about Halloween through the stories "Room on the Broom" and "Meg and Mog". We have investigated pumpkins and made a tasty "witches hat" treat which we got to enjoy while watching "Room on the Broom".
November Learning
In November, Nursery have started their new topic "Transport". We are learning about the different ways to travel and the different vehicles that can be used. Nursery have been learning about the different types of transport vehicles during play. They also completed a "traffic watch" and observed the different vehicles travelling around Rosetta.
Nursery have been exploring vehicles that travel on the roads, tracks, sky and sea. Nursery have really enjoyed playing at a variety of small world areas where they can explore how vehicles travel and where they are travelling too. We learnt that police cars, fire engines and ambulances travel very fast to get to emergencies but that construction vehicles travel slowly. Nursery have been learning about trains and how they need to drive on train tracks; Nursery helped to painted and built the "Rosetta Express" which they were then able to travel on and take on the roles of the train driver and passengers.
Nursery have been thinking about travelling on and under the sea. We have been learning how boats sail on top of the water and submarines travel under the water. Nursery thought travelling by submarines was best so they could see the different sea creatures that swim in the ocean.
Nursery have explored air travel, and enjoyed making their aeroplanes fly on 'holidays' to hot or cold countries, that have 'beaches, hotels and swimming pools'.
Traffic Watch
Nursery participated in a "traffic watch" to help make real world links to our transport topic. Nursery observed the different vehicles that were driving on the roads around Rosetta. We saw different sizes and colours of cars, bicycles and vans. We even seen some buses driving past our school and the bus drivers beeped their horns at us! Nursery could also seen and hear an aeroplane flying in the sky; we wondered where the aeroplane was travelling too.
"Jump, Jiggle and Jive" visit
Nursery were exhausted after a visit with Rebecca from "Jump, Jiggle and Jive". During the visit we were developing our gross motor skills, such as balancing, throwing and catching skills, core strength and hand eye co-ordination through music and games. We made 'snakes' slither across our toes, had monkeys climbing around the classroom and we even had a sword fight like pirates! Nursery were glad to have a relaxation time at the end of the session to cool down.
Merry Christmas from Nursery!
We were shining stars as we all performed our songs and actions in our Christmas show.
Music Bugs Christmas Visit!
After performing in our Christmas show, Nursery enjoyed a visit with Miss Rachel from "Music Bugs". We had a brilliant time with Miss Rachel; we played a selection of musical instruments, made 5 little elves jump on the bed and we even dressed up as reindeer.
December in Nursery!
Nursery have been exploring how Christmas is celebrated. In December, some cheeky elves visited Nursery and brought us a class advent calendar, to help us count down the number of days until Christmas. Nursery enjoyed opening a new door each day and finding what toy was inside. We were then able to play with these toys at our small world winter scene.
Nursery have been writing Christmas cards, "having a go" at writing their names, and they have been cooking "Christmas dinner" for their friends and family to eat in our role play area. We also had a visit from 'Ellie the Elf' who read us a Christmas story.
Our Christmas elves sent us on a treasure hunt at the end of term; they took our broken balance bikes away to 'fix them'. Nursery used the binoculars they designed to look for the clues and the elves on our treasure hunt. At the end of the treasure hunt, Nursery found new balance bikes! We cannot wait to use them during outdoor play.
January Learning!
In January, Nursery have been thinking about the winter weather, exploring the ice, frost and snow in our playground. We have also been thinking about animals that live in the ice and snow, learning about how they move and survive.
Nursery have also started their big topic "Our Favourite Stories". In January, we have been looking at "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", "The Gingerbread Man", and the "Supertato" story series. Nursery also brought in their favourite toy for "Show and Tell", developing their descriptive language skills. We have also been looking at other festivals from around the world and celebrated Chinese New Year to finish our January learning.
Mr Hullaballoo visit!
To start our new topic "Our Favourite Stories", Nursery had a visit from Mr Hullaballoo. We heard three stories: The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Gingerbread Man and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Nursery's favourite part of the show was when cheeky Goldilocks stuck her tongue out and threw snowballs at them!
February Learning
In February, Nursery have been thinking of fairy tale stories with princes, princesses, Kings, Queens and knights. We also have been thinking of the story "The Three Little Pigs" and made sure to look out for the big bad wolf during outdoor play. We also celebrated Valentine's Day, thinking about the people in our families that we love.
March Learning
In March, we have continued to think about our favourite stories during play, including 'Rainbow Fish', 'The Jolly Postman', 'Elmer', and the Julia Donaldson stories.
Mother's Day Tea Party
Through the story "The Jolly Postman", Nursery explored the different items a postal worker can deliver. We made invitations to invite our mum's to a tea party to celebrate Mother's Day. We walked to the post box to post our invitations and then had to wait patiently for the invitations to arrive at our house. For the tea party, Nursery decorated cupcakes for their mums to eat. We sang a song and made a gift for our mums to say 'thank you' for looking after us.
Party Animals NI visit
Nursery enjoyed a visit with David from "Party Animals NI", who brought a selection of animals for Nursery to see and hold. Nursery enjoyed seeing a variety of different animals and used their senses to talk about what the animals looked like and how the animals felt.
