Nursery: Gallery
Our Walk to the Post Box in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 6th Dec 2024 @ 3:02pm
We wrote a letter to Father Christmas and then walked to the post box to send it too him. We are hoping to get a reply from him!
Wellbeing Ambassadors, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 2:31pm
Today, our new Wellbeing Ambassadors went to their initial training session at Littleborough Sports Centre to find out all about what it takes to be a Wellbeing Ambassador. We tried lots of different activities to support our Wellbeing and Mental Health with various teams from Rochdale such as Your Trust and The School Nursing Team. We also learnt about the 5 ways to wellbeing which are: 'BE ACTIVE', 'GIVE', 'CONNECT', 'TAKE NOTICE' and 'KEEP LEARNING'. The children represented our school brilliantly and are looking forward to starting their new roles in school after Christmas!
STEM Week in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 28th Nov 2024 @ 4:16pm
This week at school it has been STEM week. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The whole school had a challenge to help Father Christmas deliver his presents on Christmas Eve. In nursery we had to design and make a ramp for his sleigh. We made a ramp using the wooden blocks and planks and then tested lots of different materials that could be used for the ramp. We found that the shiny foil made Father Christmas’ sleigh go really fast and the Duplo board, made his sleigh crash! We had lots of fun, here are some photos of the things we did.
Exploring the Ice and Snow in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 3:43pm
This week we have been exploring the ice and snow. We made snow angels, made marks in the snow and threw snowballs into the air. We leant new words like frozen, melting and slippery. It has been great fun but also very cold!
Nursery Rhyme Week in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 12:31pm
This week is 'World Nursery Rhyme Week', we have been singing and dancing to our favourite nursery rhymes on our fabulous outside stage. We used different instruments and fancy-dress costumes, we even made up bands and sang together. We named one of our bands 'St Peter's Rocks'.
Learning About Autumn, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 4:10pm
This week we have been learning about the season, Autumn. We have been painting Autumn pictures, making hedgehogs with the playdough and finding the Autumn leaves outside. We then used these leaves to make Autumn pictures.
WOW Church Summer Presentation to the Diocese, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 4:00pm
Our 2 WOW Church members visited St Chad's Church in Middleton to delivered a presentation, alongside our group members from St John's Thornham and Milnrow Parish Primary School, to over 40 diocese representatives. The children explained and showed the diocese the various projects we have worked on this year, set up an environmental challenge for the parishioners to complete and then sung our song, 'Rich Diversity'. Each child represented their school brilliantly and the Dean of Rochdale was so impressed with the way the children conducted themselves during the presentation. The diocese is taking on board the children’s suggestions of a Plastic Policy in every church and we look forward to next year's group where we hope to again make a difference to the environment of our churches in Rochdale.
Learn, Love and Grow Together Day in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 3:52pm
We have had an amazing 'Learn, Love and Grow Together' day at Nursery. We started off with a fabulous assembly by Mrs Brandwood, followed by an exciting magic and puppet show. We also sang nursery rhymes with puppets and took part in a whole class mindfulness session. It really was a fabulous day, enjoyed by all!
Nursery's Visit to the Fireground Museum in Rochdale, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 9th Jul 2024 @ 8:46am
We had an amazing day learning all about the Fire and Rescue service. We got to dress up like real Firefighters, use the hose and sit in a real fire engine!
Nursery's Visit to Cockfield's Farm Park - April 2024, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 3:46pm
We had an amazing trip to Cockfield's Farm, we got to stroke and feed lots of different animals. We made bird feeders and ate our lunch while sitting on real hay bales, just like real farmers! Here is a video of all the lovely things we did, enjoy!
WOW Church Meeting 17.4.24, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 9:18am
Our two WOW (Watch Our World) church representives visited St John's Thornham Church of England Primary School this afternoon for our next WOW meeting. This meeting focused on the local environment and we had a fantastic opportunity to have a visit from a Hedgehog Hospital. Here, the children learnt about the impact humas are having on hedgehogs and how we can better look after our environment for our local wildlife. The children found out a range of facts about hedgehogs and created a 'hedgehog house' (a hibernacula) to support hedgehogs in the area.
Holy Week at Nursery 2024, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 2:29pm
We have had great fun learning all about the Easter story and doing lots of Easter activities. We have made Easter crafts including making Easter cards for our families. We tasted hot cross buns, as we acted out the story of the last supper. We had an Easter bonnet parade, and we ended the week with a special 'Washing of the Feet' service on Maundy Thursday. Mr Whelan and Mr Wood, washed and dried some of the children’s feet, just like Jesus did! We are now all ready for a rest over the Easter holidays. All the nursery staff would like to wish all our children and parents a very ‘Happy Easter’ and hope you all have a lovely break, we look forward to seeing you all on Monday 15th April, ready for another busy term!
Author visit, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 12:21pm
Following on from our wonderful world book day celebrations, we had a real author visit our school. Sean performed an assembly to all the children in which he read one of his own books and then he carried out a workshop with each class to help them become authors themselves. We are so impressed with the writing and illustrations produced by the children.
100% Attendance Certificates, by Miss Hulse
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 9:38am
Well done to all the children to achieved 100% attendance today, for the Spring Term.
World Book Day, by Mr Wood
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 2:18pm
We all had great fun dressing up as book characters on Thursday 7th March. The day got off to a great start with an assembly where everybody showed their costumes off! We were delighted to find that, thanks to the children’s kind donations, we raised over £247 for Book Aid International. This money will help to pay for books in less economically developed countries. Click the link below to have a look at the pictures of all the children in their fantastic costumes - as well as the staff!
St Peter's Pebbles Playground Assembly, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 2:56pm
St Peter's Playground Pebbles lead a fantastic whole school assembly on Tuesday.
The Pebbles explained how they could support children at playtime and lunchtime who are feeling lonely or who are finding it difficult to join in a game. They explained how they will model and use our Christian Values to help everyone have fun when playing outside on our playground.
In front of the whole school, the Pebbles made their special promise:
A friend to all who need it - for we believe that,
"...if one falls down, his friend can help him up..."
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.
The group then went onto explain the exciting new games they will be leading each lunchtime and introduce some of our new playground equipment.
Well done to our Pebbles! You showed great leadership, teamwork, bravery and friendship as you delivered your assembly. Everyone at St Peter's is very excitied to get outside and play at break and lunchtime!
St Peter's WOW Church Welcomes 'Praise Along' to record a fantastic collective worship song!, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 2:42pm
On Tuesday, St Peter's enjoyed hosting our Spring Term WOW Church Synod Group meeting. This meeting was special as we were delighted to welcome Kelly and her team from ‘Praise Along’ to produce an environmentally based collective worship song. 10 children from St Peter’s were joined by children from St John’s Thornham and Milnrow Parish to sing a beautiful song called, ‘Rich Diversity’. This was a wonderful opportunity for our children and they had a fantastic time singing, performing and recording the song. It was amazing to hear the collective voices of our group sing out about such an important topic with great enthusiasm!
Thanks again to Kelly and her Team from ‘Praise Along’ for this opportunity and for members of our diocese for attending and showing their support. We are looking forward to hearing our song when it is published later this year – watch this space!
Our WOW Church members would also like to share the prayer we said at the beginning of our meeting to show our gratitude for our wonderful world:
Dear God,
We praise you for the beauty of creation, its richness and variety.
The earth is yours, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.
Grant us your grace that we may exercise wise stewardship of this Earth; tread lightly upon it and cherish its resources so that in years to come everyone may enjoy its riches.
Please be with us today as we create this song to help spread the word of how wonderful and diverse your creation is.
Help us to restore and care for this beautiful earth you blessed us with.
Amen
Chinese New Year in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 14th Feb 2024 @ 1:45pm
We have been learning all about the 'Chinese New Year' celebration, also known as the Lunar New Year, 2024 is the year of the dragon! We had fun cooking and tasting noodles, using chopsticks to eat them. We made a dragon and performed a dragon dance. We even had a go at doing some Chinese writing! For our home learning challenge, we had to make a Chinese lantern.
Nursery Exploring the Snow, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 18th Jan 2024 @ 4:17pm
We had great fun exploring and playing in the snow. We made snowballs, snow angels and made marks using sticks. It was so cold, we had to wear our hats, gloves and scarves.
WOW Church Synod, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 9th Jan 2024 @ 3:44pm
Today, Elisia and Hassan represented our school at our half-termly WOW Church meeting held at Milnrow Parish CE School. Here, we discussed the results from our plastic survey sent out to the churches and parishes in Rochdale and came up with an action plan of how we plan to support our churches to become more environmentally friendly places. We also discussed an exciting opportunity to create our own environmentally friendly collective worship song which we are all looking forward to recording at our next meeting!
Christmas Parties in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 2:13pm
We had great fun at our Christmas party. We danced, played games and had some delicious food to eat. We even had a special visitor, Father Christmas came and gave us all a present!
Nursery's Walk to the Post Box, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 8:30am
We went for a walk to the local post box to post a letter to Father Christmas. We also posted some of our teacher's Christmas cards and letters for them! We looked at all the things we could see along the way, some of us even saw our own houses!
The Poppy Appeal, by Miss Mulkeen
Date: 16th Nov 2023 @ 1:12pm
Fruit Salad Making in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 20th Oct 2023 @ 8:31am
We made a delicious fruit salad with blueberries, grapes, peach, apple, pear and kiwi. We had to use a knife to cut the fruit into small pieces, we then enjoyed eating our fruit salad! Yummy
Macmillan Coffee Morning in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 3:41pm
We had a lovely time raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support. We ate delicious biscuits, drank juice and danced, we even had a dance with Mr Whelan. We would also like to say a big thank-you to all the parents that provided all the lovely cakes and biscuits and made a donation.
