Welcome to the Cubs Class Page

In the Nursery/Cubs the class teacher is Mrs Smith. Mrs Harris, Miss Booth and Miss Pawley are the assistant teachers/keyworkers and Mrs Clegg is an assistant teacher.

We all enjoy learning through play and spending time together, both indoors and outdoors, as well as learning in keyworker groups:

Mrs Smith and Mrs Harris work with the Lion Cubs

Miss Booth works with the Bear Cubs

Miss Pawley works with the Panda Cubs

We are looking forward to sharing our learning journey with you.

Welcome Booklets - Nursery

Our Inclusion Friendly Setting

Maths Knowledge Organisers

Fine Motor, Mark-Making and Writing Knowledge Organisers

Toilet Training Tips

 Cubs Class 2024-25

Physical Development, Understanding the World, Communication and Language

We have been learning about our natural environment and the creatures that live there. We thoroughly enjoyed a mini beast hunt at Aylestone Meadows.  A big thank you to all the lovely mums and Grandmas that came along and helped us.

Happy Easter everyone

Easter chocolate tasting with Caterlink’s Chef Patrick

Easter Craft Morning

Understanding the World

The life cycle of a hen - enjoying out living eggs and little chicks..

Understanding the World, Physical Development (health).

We enjoyed sharing the story Honda’s Surprise and learnt about fresh fruits and keeping healthy.  We practised our cutting (fine motor development) using a knife to cut the fruits and we made fruit ice lollipops. 
Then we had an ice cream picnic outside.

Some of us made play dough fruit baskets.

Understanding the World

We shared the story ‘The Enormous Turnip’ and we took part in a science experiment learning about the forces push and pull.

Communication and Language/Understanding the World

We shared the story of the Little Red Hen and learnt how to make bread, talking about the ingredients, learning to knead and learning what happens when we baked the dough. Then we ate it at snack time.

We made rainbow bread and toasted it for our snack today.

World Book Day

Thanks to all the families that stayed and read stories to our lovely Cubs, we had a lovely time.

Here we are all dressed up as a word.

Physical Development, Understanding the World, Communication and Language Development

We have all had a fantastic week working towards our Teddy Bears Picnic.  First we shared the story and song, we have drawn bears, made bears with collage and shapes, enjoyed flour play and lots more.

We made our own teddy bear biscuit and teddy bear sandwich and had a super time on Friday playing teddy bear hide and seek, before our picnic.  The sun came out for us too 😀☀️

Understanding the World/Physical Development 

We enjoyed sharing the story Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. We learnt how to use knives safely and made our own bear bread for snack, it was yummy.

Understanding the World - Happy Chinese New Year

Here we are enjoying dragon dancing as part of our topic exploring Chinese New Year. We played the drums setting the beat for the dancing.

We enjoyed noodles at snack time, and during group time we tried picking up marshmallows using chopsticks.

Literacy and Fine Motor Development 
Here we are learning to write our names.  
First we learn to trace our names, then we copy our names. Next we learn to write the first letter by ourselves and then when we are ready, we write our whole name independently.

A Busy Week in the Cubs

It is Winter Time

We have been busy learning all the winter season, exploring the cold weather and all the changes that happen.  Here we are exploring ice, learning new vocabulary as we begin to understand how it melts.

We used our imaginations playing with the small world toys, building igloos and learning how to keep warm in a large igloo.

Some of us enjoyed printing and cutting out snowflakes.

We pretended we had snow and melted the cornflour gloop with our hands, just like we had learnt to do with the ice.

Our Special Visitor

Annual Christmas Nativity Service 

Christmas Decoration Morning 

Christmas Party Time

We all had a great time at our Christmas Party; lots of dancing party games and pass the parcel fun.

Christmas Fun

We all worked so very hard practising for our annual Nativity Play, but unfortunately so many of our lovely Cubs were poorly on the day, so they may be missing from the photographs.

Fine Motor Development - Key Group Time

Here we are practising to write our names. First we learn to trace our names, then copy write them underneath and finally write them all by ourselves.

Fine Motor Development - Key Group Time

Here we are practising to draw an alien, linked to our topic all about space.  We are working to develop our hand strength and control of the chalk/pen, in preparation for early writing.

Understanding the World

Happy Diwali

We began our week listening to the story about Rama and Sita and all made Diva Lamps. We explored Mehndi patterns by drawing patterns on hand prints first.  All children took part in an activity using paints to draw the patterns on hands.  Manpreet came in to visit and decorated Mrs Smith’s hand with Mehndi patterns.  A happy Diwali was had by all.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Understanding the World

Our Great British Tea Party, October 2024

We have been learning all about London, our capital city and the King and Queen.

We ended our lovely half term together with a Great British Tea Party.  We all had a super time playing pass the parcel, musical bumps and enjoyed scones and strawberries ☺️

Key Group Learning Times

October 2024

Understanding the World

We have been learning all about people who help us. We met lots of different adults in school that help us and enjoyed a visit from a Police Community Support Officer.
 

Key Group Learning Times

September 2024

Enjoying early phonics, making and listening to instrumental sounds, learning to keep to a beat.

Key Group Learning Times

September 2024

Here we are enjoying our fine motor development time - manipulating the dough to make happy and sad faces, developing our hand strength in preparation for early mark making and writing.

Enjoying our first few snack times together

September 2024

Child initiated play

September 2024

Here we are busy getting to know each other…..