Celebrating World Book Day with photos of our book collections and our favourite books.
We have been learning about animals from hot and cold places and made some tigers, giraffes, zebras, elephants , polar bears and snakes.
After listening to the story Whatever Next, we decided to have a Moon Picnic, just like Baby Bear.
Out on a birdwatching walk.
Our Big Bedtime Read Pyjama Day.
We love to plant and we are very pleased to see our daffodil shoots poking through the soil.
Having fun in the snow while learning about freezing and melting.
Learning through our Space Topic.
Fostering an interest in books is so important. This year we enjoyed listening to lots of Christmas stories.
All dressed up for our Nursery Nativity.
Getting ready for Christmas is fun!
The Daily Mile Santa Run
Lots of creativity inspired by hedgehogs 🦔
Little gardeners planting Daffodil bulbs
Learning through our Down on the Farm topic.
Odd Socks Day made us think about how we are all unique.
Off to Nursery Rhyme Land with Jo Jingles
An Autumn walk in the school grounds
Pumpkin time!
Dressing Up Day.
First days in Nursery for the class of 2021/22
Our Wildflower garden is looking very colourful.
Arrival and pick-up arrangements for 2021
Due to Covid, parents will not be able to enter the Nursery building. You can access the Nursery by walking up the side of the Nursery Unit through the large gates.
Parents must wait until a member of staff opens the gate, and must socially distance from each other, and take turns entering the Nursery outdoor area. Hand sanitiser is available.
On your child's first day, Nursery consent forms, reply slips and All About Me Books should be left in the box provided. Wellie boots, kitchen roll, tissues and drawstring bags should be left on the unit outside.
Mrs Castles or Mrs Keery will meet each child at the door as they enter from the outdoor area.
At home time parents should wait outside the Nursery gate. A member of staff will bring the children outside to be picked up.
We are staggering the pick-up times to give staff time to help get the children ready for home in groups and to enable parents to social distance while waiting. All parents have been given a time.
Starting Nursery
If you are starting Donacloney Nursery this is where you will find out all about it.
If your child is starting Nursery this year please take time to share this section of our Nursery class page with your child. It will help them become familiar with the staff, areas of play and activities on offer.
The Nursery teacher is Mrs Castles and the Nursery Assistant is Mrs Keery.
Mrs Castles and Mrs Keery will play with you and help you to learn new things.
You will do self-registration and hang your coat up on your own coat peg. You can keep your wellie boots in Nursery and you will need them when you play outside.
You can play at our different play areas.
When you are hungry you can wash your hands and have a healthy snack. You can have milk or water to drink at Nursery.
You can use the bathroom whenever you need to and there are little toilets and sinks which are easy for you to use.
You can choose to go out to play. There are so many things to do outside!
Mrs Castles reads a story in the Quiet Room after tidy up time. It is fun doing rhymes and songs too.
Everyone sits together at Dinner Time.
We have lots of special events throughout the year
Everyone has fun when Jo Jingles visits.
We learn new songs, play instruments and move to the music.
We visit the Book Fair when it comes to school each year. It is a great place to listen to a story.
World Book Day
World Book Day is an opportunity to foster an interest in and enjoyment of books.
We learn about baby animals and parents sometimes bring in baby animals from home or the farm.
Happy Healthy Kids
Children at Donacloney Nursery have lots of opportunity for physical, energetic play.
Paul Evans comes for football coaching sessions.
The Oxford Island Outreach Programme
We learn about Minibeasts.
We learn about Birds.
Debbie Doolittle's Wildlife
At Nursery we learn about animals which live in the wild. Debbie brings some of her animals which she rescues and looks after.
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