Visitors

The Nursery have had quite a few visitors this term, some new friends, and some old ones from the past. Anu, our Indian friend, often comes to school to tell the children about her culture.

She came into school to take a school assembly and then took the children outside to draw festive Rangoli patterns on the playground. Everyone loved having their hands painted with henna patterns.

 

It was a very special day when a new little baby came to visit his brother in the Nursery. The children were fascinated to see how small he was and enjoyed sneaking a little cuddle.

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The New building is proving a great hit with everyone in the school. At the moment, the Nursery children enjoy all the equipment in the mornings with the older children getting the chance to enjoy everything later in the day. It is all very exciting!

The children have been enjoying cooking in their new kitchen. They collected apples from the orchard and everyone had the chance to make an apple crumble.

 Everyone is enjoying playing with toys in the new Home Corner.

 Children from the Nursery and Reception classes play together in the sandpit.

 At Snack Time Nursery children sit and eat together. They had great fun making their own snack mats.

Exciting New Changes for  Dunannie Nursery

In September 2006 we opened our new wonderfully equipped Nursery for our youngest children, thanks to the imaginative renovation of our Dutch barn. The interior is well equipped with skilfully crafted furniture from Community Play Things, a company known for designing and making superb quality children’s furniture. The light, airy spaces inside allow for multi-purpose playing, role play and creative activities. Outside there are sandpits, gardens, areas for bikes and access to the orchard.

Bluebell woods

Carpets of bluebells welcomed the Nursery as they went for a woodland walk. They used their senses to smell the beautiful flowers and looked at all the wonderful colours as they ate their snack.  One question kept cropping up.  Why are some bluebells white?

Visit to Hilliers garden Centre

Children in Dunannie’s Nursery Class are surrounded by nature both inside and outside the classroom with their current topic on growth. The children’s gardens are now well on the way to producing a flourishing array of beautiful flowers and the classroom Is full of a variety of vegetables. As part of their topic, Chris, Carol and Tracy from Hilliers Garden Centre, warmly welcomed the Nursery, and gave them a practical demonstration all about planting. Each child learnt the value of plants and having purchased their seeds, they learnt how to plant them correctly.

Lamb visit to Bedales

The Nursery had a lovely visit to see baby lambs at the Black Barn in Bedales.  Twin lambs had been born just three hours before we arrived.  The children were able to stroke the most recent babies and then we went to look at the sheep in the field.  Peter Coates told us about some triplet lambs that were being bottle fed.

The children enjoyed walking through Dunhurst, looking at sculptures and pet rabbits on the way!