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Welcome to our website

14th January 2014Mr s Tester

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome you and your child to Clervaux Nursery School website. We are a 39 place Local Authority Maintained Nursery School, staffed by Qualified Teachers, Nursery Nurses and Support Staff, all of whom have many years experience. We aim to provide a safe, stimulating and caring environment, both indoors and out, which promotes learning through play. We are currently developing our Forest School area and employ two qualified Forest School Leaders.

I hope that our website will give you a good understanding of what happens in our school, but if you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Jenny Parker

Executive Head Teacher

Mini Beasts

25th May 2022Mrs J Parker

There has been a great deal of interest in mini beasts in the Snug! From spotting ants and snails in our garden to a bug hunt in forest school where we saw bees and a ladybird. We also bought some caterpillars so the children could watch the transformation process. We now have butterflies which we are releasing in the garden. The children have been fascinated watching the changes.

Blue Group Bug Hunters

25th May 2022Mrs J Parker

Blue group have shown a big interest in mini-beasts, loving investigating them outside using the magnifying glasses. One of our parents was kind enough to donate a wormery and the children have loved making a safe home for them and collecting worms to go inside. The Hungry Caterpillar story has been popular and learning about the life cycle and how they turn into butterflies. Look at some of our beautiful butterfly symmetry paintings we made. We also tasted the food that the hungry caterpillar ate and made a tally chart to see what we liked and what we didn’t. To extend their interest of bugs Mrs Wood brought in Sid her Giant African Snail from home and the children have been learning how to care for it, chopping up fruit for it to eat and we even had a hold! We thought its shell felt hard and its body was slimy! Some of the children drew Sid the snail and made play dough models of him.

Mental Health Activities

24th May 2022Mrs J Parker

Children’s Mental Health Week 2022

The theme this year was loneliness so I asked Red Group how you can stop feeling lonely. They said they would play with their friends and help them if they were sad and alone. We planned activities to support this and had great fun carrying them out! We did peer massage, which proved very popular, if a little tickly! The children asked each other’s permission before they touched their backs. We played a range of classical music for the children to listen to while they were painting and asked them how it made them feel. The children then painted to express their feelings. Everyone was included in a team- building task in our Forest School; the children were set a challenge to work together to make an obstacle course with planks, logs and tyres. It didn’t take them long and there was a lot of negotiation took place in order for them to reach their goal! We have been talking about farms and farm animals recently in Nursery so I asked the children in Red Group if they could work together to make a large farm for all our animals. Each child contributed their own enclosures until we had built a fantastic farm for the children to work with. Great team work!

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Chicks in the Snug

17th March 2022M Dixon

Week Beginning 14^th March 2022

Our eggs have hatched this week… The snug children were so egg-cited to see them!!

Mrs Fulton carefully held a chick while the children took turns to stoke them.

One of our children drew an egg with a chick inside it.

This week in the Snug

16th March 2022M Dixon

We have had a busy week in the Snug this week. The children have been enjoying exploring the mud kitchen, filling, emptying and mixing mud and water.

We also visited the Living eggs we have had delivered to nursery. We are looking forward to meeting the chicks as they hatch!

Fun in the Snug

4th March 2022M Dixon

Week Beginning 28^th February 2022.

This week the Snug have had lots of fun making pancakes!! We mixed flour, egg and milk into a bowl then Mrs Fulton put the mixture into a pan… when it was ready she flipped it! We tried a pancake with Jam on and a pancake with Golden Syrup – yum yum! We had a pancake race and at work time practised our flipping skills in the home corner using plates and sponge