The children in Nurture Group have been finding out about Chinese New Year celebrations. They certainly enjoyed eating noodles with chopsticks!
Nurture Groups
January 29, 2012
Welcome to the Year of the Dragon!
The children in Nurture Group have been finding out about Chinese New Year celebrations. They certainly enjoyed eating noodles with chopsticks!
January 15, 2012
Feel the Force! theme in Nurture Group
As part of our theme work in the afternoons, we have been making and testing different types of vehicles. We made carrot cars and balloon powered cars made from sponge. Which do you think will be fastest?
January 5, 2012
Nurture Group Spring Themes
The children who come to the group in the afternoons have begun finding out about our new theme - "Feel the Force". They have been having fun investigating different forces as part of their Science and are going to find out about vehicles used in different places and different periods of history.
The children who come to the group in the mornings have been enjoying the new role play area in the classroom - "The Greengrocers" and also practising their literacy and numeracy skills relating to this.
November 28, 2011
Nurture Group Update
Today both groups visited Gateshead Central Library and enjoyed hearing stories and choosing books.
We have also been busy over the past few weeks making and selling cakes to raise money for two new pet guinea pigs for Nurture Group. Watch this space to find out how we do!
Finally, a big thank you to everyone who came to our assembly on Friday. We enjoyed sharing our work with you!
October 15, 2011
Nurture Group Visit to Bryson's Animal Shelter
Nurture Group have been working hard raising money to sponsor a cat and dog at the shelter. Thank you very much to everyone who bought our cakes and gave us donations. We were able to donate over £50 along with pet food and blankets to help the volunteers with their important work. We are eagerly awaiting photographs and information about the cat and dog the children chose to sponsor. We really enjoyed our visit and would like to say a big thank you to the staff who showed us around.
September 23, 2011
Morning Nurture Group
The children in Morning Nurture Group have been enjoying exploring all the areas in the classroom. They have also been working hard making cakes to sell to raise funds for Bryson's Animal Shelter in Wrekenton. They will be visiting the shelter soon to hand over their donation and to find out about the important work that happens there.
Afternoon Nurture Group
Our new theme in the afternoons is "Keep on Moving". We are finding out about all kinds of movement from how our skeleton works to how explorers use maps to navigate the world.
June 26, 2011
Afternoon Nurture Group Assembly
Thanks to all who came along and watched our assembly. We hope you enjoyed finding out about what we have been up to so far this term.
June 5, 2011
Nurture Sports Day Practice
Morning Nurture Group have been practising skills for our upcoming Sports Day. We hope the weather is as nice as this on the actual day!
May 8, 2011
Nurture Group Grow Their Own
Our new afternoon theme is "Grow Your Own". Here you can see we made a good start this week by planting carrots and lettuce in the courtyard. Do you think Archie, our guinea pig, will like them?
We are going to try to grow some potatoes as well, what shall we make with them?
April 2, 2011
Nurture Group Picnic Time!
We enjoyed a lovely picnic in the courtyard during the recent fine weather. We made sandwiches and cut up some fruit to share. Some of us are going to write recounts about the nice time we had.
March 22, 2011
Handa's Surprise
We have been using the story of Handa's Surprise as part of our activities in Nurture Group. We tasted the seven kinds of fruit Handa wants to take to her friend Akeyo. Which one do you like best?March 13, 2011
Pancakes in Nurture Group
Nurture Group have been celebrating Shrove Tuesday with pancakes. The children tried different toppings and decided which was their favourite.
March 7, 2011
Nurture Group Space Quest!
Afternoon Nurture Group are going on a space quest for theme and science work. We have been finding out about the solar system and the first moon landing. We have been role playing the orbits of the Earth and the Moon.February 6, 2011
Chinese New Year in Nurture Group
In Nurture Group, we have been making lanterns and trying out eating noodles with chopsticks to celebrate the start of the Year of the Rabbit.
January 31, 2011
Nurture Group Makes Porridge
In Nurture Group this week, we have been practising giving and following instructions. We followed both verbal and written instructions to make porridge for snack. Everyone enjoyed choosing different toppings to eat with their porridge.January 24, 2011
Nurture Group Visit to the Bear Factory
We recently visited the Bear Factory in the Metrocentre. We all helped to make a new bear. He is now in our role play area in our class where we will all enjoy playing with him.
January 11, 2011
Three Bears' Kitchen and Café
The theme in the areas in class for Morning Nurture Group is the Three Bears' Kitchen and Cafe. As we can see, the children are enjoying role playing a party using the new area.
November 30, 2010
World Kitchen Update
Since our Tesco visit, we have been working hard on our theme. The children in the afternoon group used some of the foods from Tesco to make a delicious apple crumble and to design and make their own individual fruit smoothies. We have created sketches and computer drawings of some of the foods we are using, as well as finding out about where they come from within the world.
With the morning group, we have been focusing on Traditional Tales. Our favourite so far has been The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We have been looking at different versions of the story, and re-enacting the story using puppets and role play. We are writing about the characters in the story, and thinking about how we could write different endings. We have been using 2D shapes to design a house for the troll, or a new bridge for the goats.
With the morning group, we have been focusing on Traditional Tales. Our favourite so far has been The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We have been looking at different versions of the story, and re-enacting the story using puppets and role play. We are writing about the characters in the story, and thinking about how we could write different endings. We have been using 2D shapes to design a house for the troll, or a new bridge for the goats.
October 11, 2010
World Kitchen
Our theme this term is World Kitchen. We are finding out all about food - from healthy eating and food from other countries to customs and beliefs relating to foods around the world.
We are going to use what we find out to arrange and prepare a special meal to share.
To help us discover where some of our food comes from, we went to our local Tesco's store. We had an interesting time and we even brought back some of the food to taste.
July 10, 2010
Our special visit!
We were lucky to have a visit from Louise, a representative of the Dogs' Trust charity. She brought along her rescue dog, Patch.
Louise and Patch helped us find out the best ways to care for a dog.
March 12, 2010
Morning Nurture Group have been finding out about the work of an animal refuge. We became so interested we have been selling cakes we make to raise funds for Bryson's animal refuge in Wrekenton. We were lucky enough to find out about this important work first hand when we visited them to hand over our donations of food and money. A big thank you to everyone who helped us by buying cakes and donating food. Along with dog and cat food, we were able to make a donation of £20. We are sponsoring a dog called Sasha and a cat called Diamond who live at the refuge.
Afternoon Nurture Group have been working hard on our current theme of Heroes and Villains. We started our work by visiting Gateshead Library where Andy from the children's section there helped us design our own superhero. We have proudly displayed our finished designs in the nurture group classroom.
December 2, 2009
Autumn Term in Nurture Group
In Nurture Group morning session we have been learning about how to care for Archie our guinea pig. We give him food and water and make sure his cage is nice and clean.
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We have been trying out lots of practical activities to help us with our learning. We made porridge for snack and then learnt how to write the instructions.
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June 17, 2009
Library visit
This term afternoon Nurture Group have visited Gateshead Central Library. We enjoyed finding out about Michael Bond and Paddington Bear. Andy read us a story and gave us some activities to do.
December 4, 2008
Nurture Groups - What We've Been Doing
Both Nurture Groups have been working hard so far this year.
As well as our work in class we have been out and about visiting lots of places which have helped us in our literacy , numeracy and topic work. These have included Bill Quay Farm and Saltwell Park to name just two.
December 1, 2008
Mrs Russell - Nurture Group
