Nursery
2024-2025
Welcome to Nursery!
At Minet Infant and Nursery School, we believe the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is a crucial foundation for children's development and future learning. We have worked hard to create and continuously refine a curriculum that fosters each child's growth, ensuring that both indoor and outdoor learning environments are carefully set up to encourage exploration, creativity, and learning through play. These rich, engaging spaces help children develop key skills, build confidence, and ignite a lifelong love for learning from an early age.
Below you will find useful documents relating to our learning and a weekly blog to show you what the children have been up to that week.
Who is in Nursery?
Teacher - Miss Kyriacou
Teacher - Mrs Hamam
Nursery Nurse - Mrs Darwish
Nursery Nurse - Ms Escrader
Nursery Nurse - Mrs Pantoll
Nursery Nurse - Mrs VanCuylenberg
A-Z Weekend Challenges
Nursery Curriculum Overview 2024-2025
Half Termly Topic Webs
2024-2025
13.09.24
Hello and welcome to Nursery!
The Nursery Team are so happy to see some familiar faces this week as well as meeting some new ones too!
We have had an excellent week of settling in and completing lots of fun activities. The children learnt how to play sensibly in our classroom indoor and outdoor areas. They also spent time tidying up the resources independently as this is a key part of our learning at Minet.
2023-2024
Weekly Blog
So, here we are, approaching the penultimate Friday of Term 6 and the end of the school year. I can't quite believe we're here after a fantastic year of learning! And what a record you have of their learning with all the weekly blogs and photos which you can visit and revisit at your leisure. The children have all coped marvellously talking about moving to Reception and those that will be coming back to nursery and will not see some of their friends that are moving. We have spent time in PSHE discussing changes which we hope has also helped those who are moving house. They asked questions and walked around to get a feel for their new learning space. This week, the children had the fantastic time in the school disco and they all loved playing on the bouncy castle. All that remains is to say a huge thank you to our wonderful parents/carers for helping with anything we needed in nursery and for all your support. Have a super summer! The Nursery Team
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Our Nursery children had a picnic today with families, along with the teachers, played a variety of games and enjoyed each other's delicious delicacies in the great weather. Thank you to all who came along.
The nursery children had a fantastic day on sports day. They took part in a carousel of activities which allowed them to showcase different skills that they have learnt this year. These skills include balancing, throwing, running and jumping. Thank you to all our parent/carers that have attended to support the children.
This week, some of our nursery children visited Cassiobury Park Paddling Pools as part of their Hey, Water Hook!
This week children in nursery were very excited to watch some of the seeds they have planted in the winter have produced strawberries and tomatoes.
For World Environment Day Nursery have been learning to recycle. "if we don't recycle, litter makes our environment look ugly and can harm sea creatures." Nursery children also learned about the importance of using reusable water bottles.
Congratulations to many of our nursery children for their 100% attendance. Nursery children received, certificates, weekly stickers and prizes. Excellent attendance at school is important to allow your child to fulfil their potential and for them to have the best possible start in life. Below are just some of the reasons why it is so important children attend school: To learn To have fun and make new friends To understand responsibility To experience new things in life To develop awareness of other cultures, religion, ethnicity and gender
This week nursery celebrated international day by learning about each other’s national dress, flags and cultures. Thank you to the parents that have performed a traditional dance to the nursery children, who enjoyed the performance.
What a lovely visit from the farm Nursery had this week as part of their Farm Topic Hook. Children saw lots of different animals, learnt about their offspring, held some guinea pigs, rabbits and chicks and even had a go at feeding some lambs and a donkey. Nursery children behaved fantastically around the animals and the nursery team were very proud!
Thank you to all the parents/carers that have attended our nursery book fair and we hope you enjoy reading with your children.
Children in nursery got a large container, washed it together, filled it up with water and watched the ducklings swim inside it!
What an Egg-citing news!!! Our baby ducklings have hatched! This week the children in nursey were introduced to five duckling eggs and every day the children came to see them to check if any eggs were hutched. We are now the proud carers of four beautiful ducklings. The work starts here! feeding, watering, cleaning. We can't wait!!
The nursery children were having fun looking for mini Easter eggs as a reward for good attendance. They got to take home a real chocolate egg! Nursery children also took home their Easter homework project.
Thank you to all our parents/carers that came for our ‘Family Friday’ in Nursery. The children sat very well in their key groups for their phonics’ session and we hope you enjoyed the workshop.
What a busy week we had in nursery this week! The children in nursery went to visit the Life Bus and learnt about dental care. We also celebrated Red Nose Day at school. Thank you to our families who donated to a worthy cause. Children and staff in nursery all came dresses in red.
Yesterday we all looked fantastic for world book day in ‘Nursery’, we had lots of colourful characters around and shared books with our parents/carers.
What a great start to our 'Transport' topic! We have started to read our new topic book, ‘The Train Ride by June Crebbin’ and discussed the different type of transports that children use to travel to nursery. Staff in nursery has also shared their favourite transport to work!
WOW! Everyone had so much fun in the first Family Friday of the year in nursery and it has been lovely to see so many families in school this week. The staff and the children have enjoyed sharing our ‘Talk 4 Writing Story Maps’ Can you guess which story we have been reading from the story map?
The children in Nursery visited Sainsbury’s this week to buy porridge and different ingredients that they would like to have in their porridge. They also decided that it was not too hot or too cold but it was just right, so they ate it all up just like Goldilocks!
This week, nursery had a focus in mark making, using cornflower, drawing wiggly lines and writing their first name!
Our new topic in Nursery is “Teddies” Children had lots of fun and brought in their teddies to nursery. The nursery children were able to talk about their teddies and also describe some of their features.
Welcome back & Happy New Year! We are delighted to welcome all of our Nursery children back into School this week, particularly those who are beginning their school journey for the first time.
What a busy week we had this week! Nursery children decorated their Christmas tree and enjoyed using different painting styles.
This week, we have introduced pumpkins to nursery ready for Halloween. Children in nursery had fun scooping out the insides and were able to explore its texture as well as sharing their experiences with each other.
Children in nursery are enjoying their mark making experiences which will contribute towards early drawing and writing.
Children in nursery had a creepy visitor this week! All children were fascinated about the spider and looked after it and observed its features. The children were also able to sing to the spider our nursery rhyme ‘Incy Wincy Spider’
First week of Nursery! We’ve been very busy learning each other’s names, making rules for our classroom, and learning our daily routines.
Today was one of the nursery children’s birthday and the children made her a birthday party in the mud kitchen.
It has been a busy exciting week for our last group of children in nursery and thety have been learning from their peers in their provision areas by copying each other.
Nursery 2022-2023
2021-2022