LITTLE LANCING
Little Lancing It’s been a busy time at nursery with numbers on roll continuing to climb steadily. We now have some 120 children on roll with more preparing to join us in 2022. The new school year began with transitions; Pre-School welcomed children moving up from Investigators for their final year at Little Lancing and some of our older Explorers children moved up to Investigators. The Explorers Room Nest is now firmly embedded into nursery life and there were lots of new babies joining us too. The nursery has been buzzing with autumnal activities. Our youngest children in Explorers made marks in scented playdough with fresh fruit slices and developed their fine motor skills as they played with their ‘pumpkin tray’ with added
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dry spaghetti! The Investigators children decorated pumpkins and brought in natural objects collected whilst at home for everyone to share and explore together. The Pre-School children were excited to collect apples from our very own trees in the nursery garden and then tried out apple bobbing. In the art corner, they created their own abstract representations of pumpkins with watercolour paint. Children across the nursery made the most of the mild Autumn sunshine to undertake some seasonal jobs in our garden, clearing up leaves and collecting
our pumpkins and fruit and vegetable peelings for composting, as part of our Eco School initiative. They also quietly searched our fairy garden and pond to see if there were any new little visitors! Indoors, it’s been lovely to see many of our younger children live up to their Explorers name by trying out new things and the Investigators begin to engage in role play with their peers, reflecting real life experiences. The PreSchool children started their ‘school readiness’ programme, working together in small groups. They learnt about Road Safety, creating
