St Peter's Church of England Primary School

Cromwell Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7SG

0113 2934411

liz.holliday@stpeterscofe.org.uk

Nursery

Pancakes
After sharing the story of Mr Wolf's Pancakes, we ate our own pancakes and chose delicious toppings like chocolate and syrup. We also had fun taking part in pancake races!

Aquarium Visit

We saw starfish, mussels and crabs when we had a visit from the Aquarium! 

Forest School

Our first session of learning in Gipton Woods! The rain didn't stop us from having an amazing adventure!
We saw woodlice in an old log from a tree and saw how some tree trunks had fallen down! Some tree trunks looked like dragons and elephants! We were careful not to touch prickly and spiky leaves and bushes like holly and brambles! We heard lots of birds tweeting in the trees!

The Gingerbread Man

We have been enjoying the story of the Gingerbread Man and made our own gingerbread men and decorated them with raisins!

Polar animals

We left our polar animals  outdoors in water and we were excited to see how the water had turned to ice like in the North and South Pole! We saw as it dripped and turned back to water in our warm classroom and hands!

A brilliant Christmas in Nursery

Can you guess who we are?

A very special visitor came to Nursery!

Wow! We have been such good boys and girls that Santa came to visit us. He brought everyone a present.

A visit from our PCSO

Nursery children enjoyed a brilliant visit from Chris our local PCSO. He brought the police van to show them. They had lots of fun!

Christmas story pictures

Nursery children have been drawing some Christmas story pictures using Purple Mash. Can you see who they've drawn?

Bonfire Night & Diwali

The children in Nursery have been doing lots of activities around Bonfire Night and Diwali. They made 3D fireworks and 2D rockets and used oil pastels to draw fireworks. The children loved making Chapaptis with dough and even made their own Diya lights!

A great start to nursery!

We have been very  busy in nursery getting to know our new friends. We have settled in BRILLIANTLY and we are having lots of fun playing and learning together. 

Outdoor Stage

We have done some lovely singing and performing on our outdoor stage - what superstars!

Mark Making

We have been practising our drawing and writing skills.

Cocoons

The children loved looking at the cocoons, waiting for the butterflies to hatch out.

Forest School

The children are having a fabulous time learning all about nature and some really useful outdoor skills.

Planting and growing

The children in nursery have been busy planting beans, peas and sunflowers. They are very excited to watch them grow.

King's Coronation Celebrations

We had lots of fun celebrating the King's Coronation.

The farm came to visit

We had a brilliant day with a visit from farmer Ian and his animals. 

Chicks

We watched chicks hatch out of their eggs and enjoyed holding them very carefully.

Learning today - Friday 10th March

Enjoy the snow today and talk about how it feels and that snow is icy water that will melt back into water! Discuss how we need to wrap up warm as snow is very cold! Be careful on the slippery ice and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Look on Evidence Me for what we were doing yesterday - can you draw some more pictures of people and say the names of the different parts of the body.

Love from

Mrs Donno xxx

Our people pictures!

Nursery have been practising drawing pictures of people. They listened carefully to Mrs Donno's instructions and had a go themselves. They are trying hard to write their names too. 

Rock Pool Experience

The children were so excited to be up close to all the sea creatures from British Rock Pools. We looked at star fish, a hermit crab, anemones and mussels. We learnt lots of interesting facts about all the sea creatures and even got to touch some of them!

Chinese New Year

To celebrate the Chinese New Year, the children have made Chinese dragons with moving parts, using scissors, single hole punches, pipe cleaners and split pins! We compared Chinese to English writing and used black paint and pens to copy it! We used red paper as red is a lucky colour.

Nursery Newsletter January 23

Our First Forest School Trip

We had a fabulous time on our first forest school trip. We learnt all about keeping safe in the woods, we played hide and seek, explored our environment, found lots of natural materials, listened to the sounds of nature and enjoyed hot chocolate and biscuits - we can't wait until next time!

Nursery Bakers

We have been very busy bakers in Nursery lately, we have baked Christmas cakes, mince pies and Hambasha Bread - we listened to instructions really well and all the food was delicious!

Nursery Newsletter - December

Marvellous mark making in Nursery!

Autumn Fun

We have been very busy collecting natural materials then using them to makes faces and pictures. We have also made some super hedgehogs with clay and handprints!

Nursery Autumn Newsletter 2022

September in Nursery

The children have settled really well into Nursery, learning the routines and making new friends - they are all having a fabulous time.

A Day in the Life of St Peter's Nursery

Spring Newsletter

Merry Christmas

The children in nursery have been learning some Christmas song. We hope you enjoy them.

International Week - Africa

Nursery have been learning about the continent of Africa. Here we are dancing along to an Eritrean song called Bisha. 

Nursery Newsletter Autumn 2 

Have a look at what the children will be learning in Nursery. 

Teddy Bear's Picnic

Our favourite nursery rhymes and songs

Nursery Newsletter 1

Find out what the children in nursery will be learning. 

Welcome to our new nursery children

Click on the links for some information about starting nursery.

Welcome letter for children

Welcome letter for parents

Star Moments letter

Star Moments sheet

Evidence Me (Parent Share) information

Nursery Newsletter

Find out what we are learning about in nursery.

Home learning

Good morning Nursery,

Mrs Gray has planned lots of lovely activities for you all. Click on the link below to find out what she would like you to do. We miss you lots - stay safe! 

This will be our last week of home learning and we are looking forward to seeing you all back in nursery on Monday 8th March. 

Love Miss Parry xxx 

3 more sleeps until school starts!!!

Home Learning Week 8

Home Learning Week 7

Home Learning Week 6

Home Learning Week 5

Home Learning Week 4

Home Learning Week 3

Home Learning Week 2 

Home Learning Week 1

Purple Mash Blog Instructions

How to use Purple Mash

Click above for a short clip to show you how to use Purple Mash - thank you to Mrs Vickers for putting it together for us. Please help your child to send messages to their teachers in the blog and upload pictures of their work. We look forward to hearing from you!

Click below for a link to Purple Mash

Santa's Farm

Christmas greetings from nursery!

Purple Mash

Please help your child to log onto Purple Mash to access some online learning activities. The children can also leave messages for Mrs Gray on the blog. She would love to hear from you. Click here for instructions. Log in cards are in the envelopes sent home. 

Click below to log onto Purple Mash. 

Home learning

Letter from Mrs Gray

Activities for week beginning Monday 2nd November

(Please note as nursery is closed for 5 days, we have only sent activities for 1 week)

Important Letter for Parents

International Week

This week in Nursery we have been learning about Africa. We have learnt and danced to two Eritrean songs called Ab Lbey Seferkum and Bisha see the links below.
We have learnt the names of African animals and made some animal masks. We have also eaten some Eritrean bread called Himbasha it was delicious! On international day everyone came to Nursery dressed in traditional clothing. Everyone looked fantastic!

Our amazing new class

The children have settled really well into St Peters Nursery. We are delighted to see how happy and confident your children are. Here are some pictures of the children exploring the activities in nursery with their new friends. What a fantastic start to the year!

Nursery Superheroes!

Nursery have been working hard this week. We have loved seeing what they have been doing on Purple Mash. Well done nursery and especially to this week's superheroes! Click below to see...

Click on the picture for a useful leaflet about Toilet Training

Click on the picture to read Top Tips for starting Nursery

Nursery Superheroes!

Nursery have been working hard this week. We have loved seeing what they have been doing on Purple Mash. Well done nursery and especially to this week's superheroes! Click below to see...

Nursery Superheroes!

Nursery have been working hard this week. We have loved seeing what they have been doing on Purple Mash. Well done nursery and especially to this week's superheroes! Click below to see...

Nursery Superheroes!

Nursery have been working hard this week. We have loved seeing what they have been doing on Purple Mash. Well done nursery and especially to this week's superheroes! Click below to see...

Nursery Superheroes!

Nursery have been working hard this week. We have loved seeing what they have been doing on Purple Mash. Well done nursery and especially to this week's superheroes! Click below to see...

Nursery Superheroes!

Nursery have been working hard this week. We have loved seeing what they have been doing on Purple Mash. Well done nursery and especially to this week's superheroes! Click below to see...

Nursery Superheroes!

Nursery have been working hard this week. We have loved seeing what they have been doing on Purple Mash. Well done nursery and especially to this week's superheroes! Click below to see...

Nursery Superheroes!

Nursery have been working hard this week. We have loved seeing what they have been doing on Purple Mash. Well done nursery and especially to this week's superheroes! Click below to see...

Nursery Superheroes!

Wow! Nursery children have been working hard and have been sharing their brilliant learning on Purple Mash just like the older children! They have done brilliantly! Each week Mrs Gray will choose some children who have been Superheroes.

Click below to see who is a superhero in nursery this week!

Click above to go to the Purple Mash site

Purple Mash

We are trying to do all that we can to help you and your children to stay in touch with their teachers while schools are closed. They older children in school have been using ‘Purple Mash’ where they can leave messages for their teacher on the ‘Blog’ and the teacher can send them messages or set some learning activities or '2dos'.

Mrs Vickers has kindly set up usernames and passwords for the nursery children. You will receive a text on Monday telling you what they are. Please log in with your child and tell Mrs Gray what you have been doing on the Blog. She would love to hear from you. Those of you with older children in school will be able to help! Click on the instructions below to help you. 

If you don’t receive a text by Wednesday 13th May, please email sarah.parry@stpeterscofe.org.uk to let Miss Parry know.

Purple Mash Blog Instructions

Purple Mash Letter

 

Please read the document below, which will help you work with your child to learn at home.

Meet a Creature visit

The children had a fantastic time meeting Dean the ranger and all of his animals from Meet a Creature. Dean brought a tortoise, snakes, a bearded dragon, a chinchilla, a tarantula, a giant African snail and a gecko to Nursery. Everyone was really excited to stroke and hold the animals some children even had animals on their heads!

Pancake Day Races

Meet a Creature!

Nursery Newsletter

Parent reading sessions

The children enjoyed sharing stories with a grownup. The children loved listening to the stories and talking about the pictures to their adult. Parents and carers are welcome to join us for reading on Fridays at 8:45am and 12:15pm. We look forward to seeing you there!

Nursery Newsletter

Find out about what we will be learning in nursery.

Share a story

Every Friday we would like you to come at the start of the nursery sessions to share a book with your child.

Forest School Week 1

We went on a listening walk around school. We heard an ambulance, birds, a helicopter, crunchy leaves, wind chimes in the prayer garden and traffic. We also made loud and quiet sounds by tapping on different objects with sticks.

Christmas in nursery!

We had lots of fun at Christmas. We even had a very special visit from Santa!

Christmas Songs

Nursery performed lots of lovely songs for their Mums and Dads today. They were dressed up and joined in brilliantly. 

Teddy Bears' Picnic 

For Children in Need, Nursery had a teddy bears' picnic. We made teddy bear biscuits and sang teddy bear songs. All the children brought a special bear to join us at the picnic. We had a lovely day!

Helping your child with phonics

Have a look at some for the games you can play with your child to help develop skills for learning phonics. We will share different aspects of what we are doing regularly. Thank for your help! 

Teddy Bear's Picnic for Children in Need

Nursery newsletter

Find out all about what we are doing at nursery!

International Week 

We had a great time learning about the countries in Africa. We enjoyed visits by some of our parents too. We looked great in our special clothes!

Our Autumn Walk

Nursery went on an autumn walk Look at the pictures to see what they saw. 

Superhero Day!

As part of our superhero topic the children took part in Superhero day. They dressed up as superheroes and took part in a superhero assault course. Everyone looked amazing and had a fantastic day! 

Easter Egg Hunt

The nursery children were so excited to find the eggs the Easter Bunny had left us in our garden. The children looked all around the garden collecting the eggs in a basket. The best part of the day was eating the chocolate eggs - Yummy!

Vets and Pets

The Nursery children have been learning about vets and pets. The children have been learning how to take care of animals and how to make them better when they get poorly. 

Forest Schools

What is Forest Schools?

Forest Schools helps children develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experiences in a woodland or outdoor area.

Some nursery children are currently taking part in Forest School Activities.

Forest Schools Week 1:

We have been on a Listening walk. We heard birds, cars, a drill and even a dog bark!

Forest Schools Week 2:

We explored our outdoor area and collected natural objects such as leaves, stones and sticks. The children were very clever and made fantastic sculptures out of the things they had found.

Forest Schools Week 3:

The children worked together to build a brilliant tent. Afterwards we sat inside the tent and read the story Owl Babies.

Forest Schools Week 4:

This week the children carefully looked around the outdoor area to find mini-beasts. We found a centipede, some worms, some slugs and a few woodlice. A few children were very brave and held the mini-beasts in their hands!