Nursery Catholic Life and Mission
2023-2024
Monday 13th November 2023
This week we have been able to buy poppies for Remembrance Day which goes towards the British Legion charity. Charity is one of our virtue focuses. When the children had bought their poppies and donated their money we spoke about what they represent and then created our own poppy pictures for a display within our classroom.
Monday 16th October 2023
Today we worked together as a team to make God's Wonderful World more beautiful. We had the opportunity to plant some bulbs in the garden outside of Nursery which will hopefully flower next spring.
Monday 9th October 2023
Here are just some of our Nursery children who have kindly donated food to be sent to the Leeds homeless street Aid.
Monday 2nd October 2023
Today as we were having an Autumnal walk the children noticed some symbols that we have been looking at within our R.E topic. We stopped and spoke about a few of them and the children showed good understanding of some of the key symbols of prayer, cross and Jesus.
"Look hands together" Yoel
"It's a cross" Jenson
"This is Jesus" Karen
Tuesday 26th September 2023
During free play, a few children in the Nursery decided to practise dressing our altar.
Tuesday 19th September 2023
Today, we looked at how to dress our altar for the first time!
Monday 30th January 2023
Today, we visited church for the first time as a class. For some of us, this was our first experience at Church. We were able to look around and find things that we had been discussing in class!
”I can see Jesus on the cross” - Paisley
”I can see candles” - Zara
“It’s a green cloth” - Reggie
Friday 3rd February 2023
Today we looked at the virtue kindness. We talked about what it means to be kind to others around us, and how we can show kindness.
“Kindness means when you give someone a cuddle” - Paisley
”Kindness is saying sorry” - Gabby
“Smiling is kind” - Elijah
“Drawing a picture for mummy” - Jenson
”Sharing toys” - Alexander B
Monday 6th February 2023
A week after visiting church, we talked about everything we saw and used our mini church to help us. As a class, we spoke about the priest standing behind the alter, talking to the people.
Wednesday 8th February 2023
Today we had a stay and play where our Mummies & Daddies came in to play with us! We made lots of things for Valentine’s Day and we spoke about the virtue, love and charity.
Tuesday 21st February 2023
Nursery talked about how we change our cloth from green to purple for Lent. We also discussed that purple means waiting. We then finished the day with some yummy pancakes - we even had the choice of different toppings!
Monday 6th March 2023
We started our mini beast topic! Today, we went into our garden to see all the different types of God’s creatures we could find. We found flies, worms and snails!
Tuesday 7th March 2023
We started fundraising for Lent! With reception class, we sold toast to the whole school. Some of our Mummies and Daddies paid for us to have some too.
Wednesday 5th April 2023
Our walk for Lent.
Monday 17th April 2023
Today we finished learning about the Easter story. We talked about how Jesus’ friends and family were happy that Jesus had come back.
Monday 20th April 2023
For Earth Day, we talked about how we can look after God’s planet. We read a story about why it is important to not throw our rubbish into the Sea, as we want to look after our sea animals. We then looked at how we can recycle old boxes into new toys. We became car drivers and robots!
Tuesday 9th May 2023
Today we talked about Spring and how we see God’s world change with the weather. We went into our special garden and we found new flowers and lots of bumblebees and butterflies!
Monday 26th June 2023
Today we read a story about how Jesus was kind to his Disciples, and we talked about what we have done to show kindness to others.
”I played with Esme.” - Reggie
“I shared with Baha with the board pen.” - Paisley
“When Gabby was crying I gave her a hug and made her happy.” - Zara
”I shared with my toys.” - Daniel
“I help the teachers.” - Thomas
“Use my kind hands.” - Elijah
“I shared the trolly with Jenson.” - Imogen
“I didn’t hurt my brother.” - Amelia
“I played with David.” - Baha
“Say sorry.” - Yoab
“I played with my friends.” - Jaycee
“I been nice.” - Jenson
“I wiped Zara’s cheek and said sorry.” - Gabby
“I have played with them.” - Arlo
Monday 10th July 2023
Today we looked at our school mission “To work, to pray, to play in the light of the Lord.” We found hidden photos around out playground and talked about what each photo means. We then put together a big jigsaw that created an image of Jesus.
