Welcome to Nursery AM 
(Mrs John)
2008-2009
Welcome to our AM Nursery Class Pages , I will try to update the site as often as possible so please add us to your favourites and check the pages regularly so that you can see what your child is doing in my class. Enjoy!
Mrs John
Language and Play at The Twyn School Early Years Unit 
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Updated 16th July 2009
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On Friday 10th July we have a lady from Bookstart coming in to do a parent session. Similar to the Super Shelby sessions it will involve a short talk in the hall then a visit to the classroom to make something with your child. The Booskart lady will read a story to all of the children while you watch and all of the children get to take a fantastic free pack home. Please try your best to come, these sessions are always enjoyed by both children and parents......and me of course!!!!!
Test film 20:30 09/07/09
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A BIG THANK YOU
As the academic year draws to an end i would like to thank all of the children in my class for working so hard and basically being a pleasure to teach. I have many fond memories of all of your children and will look forward to watching them grow through the school.
The next couple of weeks will all be about easing the transition into Reception. If anyone has any concerns about the move please come and see me. Everyone will have the opportunity to meet their new teacher in the next couple of weeks.
Thank you to everyone who has put comments on the guestbook this year, it has been great to receive such positive feedback.
Please click on the picture below to view a video of our Forest School fire session.
Barry Island Trip 26th June 2009
New Development - writing help
So here we are, in our final half-term of Nursery. This has been a fantastic year and it is getting close to the long summer holiday and then our children moving up to Reception!
We have put the Early Years information and films all together in a special place. Have a look...
Welcome to the Summer Term.
Our theme this term is Finding Nemo / At the Seaside
Week Beginning 1st June 2009
This week we will be spending a lot of time outdoors in the sunshine. Please can you ensure your child comes to school wearing sun lotion and with a sun hat to prevent burning. It would be preferrable if your child could wear suitable footwear, open toe sandals, jelly shoes, crocs or flip flops are not suitable for climbing, running or riding tricycles. Unfortunately we have an inset on Monday of this week and we are closed on Thursday, due to the Early Years Unit being used as a polling station. Staff will be working with GAVO to further develop the outdoor environment.
Week Beginning 11th May 2009
This week we held our last Super Shelby Workshop. Parents were invited in to make a puppet with their child.
Thank you for the unbelieveable support we received. I hope you agree that it was great to come in and work with your child. The singing was beautiful and all of the children performed well. I hope you enjoy using your cd and book at home....... and your puppets of course!
Week beginning 27th April 2009
This week we held our 'Boat Race.' We had so much fun! We did not have enough puff to blow our boats across the pool, so we cheated and used fans! All of the children's boats made it across but some required more support than others!
Thank you to all of the parents who made boats with their children. It was an amazing event, both the staff and children will never forget it!
Week beginning 20th April 2009
This week we will be introducing our new topic. We will be turning our Shoe Shop into an Under the Sea theme based on the childrens ideas and work. As a home task, please can you help your child to make and decorate a boat with a simple sail. We will be using the boats to investigae the concepts of propulsion as well as floating and sinking. Please can you return the boats to school by Monday 27th April.
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Our Forest School session this week was to make our own paint......with mud and water. The pictures were great!
Spring Term
This terms topic is Abracadabra
Our children will be experiencing a lot of magical things! The stimulus for this topic will come from Jack and the Beanstalk, but will lead onto many fantastic lessons, including dinosaurs, potions and lotions, Cinderella, fire and ice and many more. We will also be celebrating Chinese New Year and the children will be experiencing the Chinese culture and tasting lots of Chinese snacks, yummy! Well it all sounds so exciting i am off to prepare for it! Week Beginning 30th March 2009 This week we have been making Easter nests, yummy! We also had an egg rolling contest. Congratulaions to Bailey Williams, whose egg rolled the furthest. On Friday we paraded in our beautiful Easter bonnets, look how gorgeous we all are! April 3rd - Our Easter Bonnet Parade The Egg Rolling Competition - 2nd April 2009 . Making Chocolate Nests 1st April 2009 Week Beginning 23rd March 2009 Over the next two weeks we will be participating in Easter activities. We will be counting eggs, pattern making, decorating chicks and a whole lot more. We will even be having a special visitor into class - a lamb called Mary! Next week we will be holding our Egg rolling contest and Easter bonnet parade so plenty of work to be done at home! Week Beginning 9th March 2009 This week is a bit of a secret! We are doing some great things in preparation for 22nd March! On Friday we will be wearing crazy hair for comic relief. This week we are learning a lot of Welsh. We will be learning Pwy wyt ti? .....ydw i, animal names and simple greetings. On Monday we will be performing a small Eisteddfod with the Reception classes. We will be singing Dawns a bysiau and Clap clap un dau tri. For snack we will be having Welsh cakes, bara brith, cawl and Caerphilly cheese and crackers. Week Beginning 23rd Febrary 2009 This week our theme is tortoises. Mrs Isaac has brought in her children's pet tortoises, called Henrietta, Peter and Molly. We will be learning all about their bodies and lifestyle. To accompany this we will be decorating tortoise shells, doing shell writing patterns, counting legs and learning about letter t. And of course we will be tasting and tossing pancakes on Shrove Tuesday; sounds like fun to me! PS Thank you to Joshua and Daniel Isaac who have kindly shared their pets with us for the week. New: Please have click on the 'sms' logo above, you will see sound videos we recorded of your chidren saying the sounds, they are great! Week Beginning 9th February 09 This week our theme is Cinderella. The class have decided they would like our role play area to change to a Shoe shop, so this week we will be making resources for our shop called 'Cinderella's.' As well as this we will be printing the soles of shoes with paint and matching them, measuring feet, designing dresses for Cinderella and suits for the Prince. It is going to a be a week of fun fun fun! PS. If anyone has contacts in a shoe shop and can get me some resouces i would be extremely grateful, a foot measuring guide would be amazing!!!! Week Beginning 2nd February 2009 I have not been able to do Cinderella this week due to the snow so i have now moved that to next week. Thank you to all of the children who managed to get to school on Wednesday, i know it was a bit slippery out there. We had a great time playing out in the snow, please have a look at the photos below! Wednesday 4th Feb 
Today we went out for our first Forest School session and it was amazing. All the children were excited to get on their waterproof suits and wellies.Our session today was about learning the rules of the log circle as well as listening to the wonderful sounds of the outdoors that we take for granted. We also played' 123 where are you?' which was really good fun.
In Nursery we have started to learn some letter sounds. Last week we learnt the sound 'a.' Our home task was to make something out of an apple and the photograph below shows how fantastic they are. You must have all worked really hard on them and i would like to thank you for your support. Have a look with your child to see if you can find your apple.
We decided to have a messy day. We made slime and played with it! We did hand printing, finger painting, and basically anything messy; snow, syrup etc... Washing machines would have busy this weekend!
Learning, Playing, having fun!
Our second Super Shelby Link up session was great. Thank you to all the parents who supported the session and made a wonderful Christmas decoration with your child. I know you will all be pleased that your photos are on the internet!
I have started giving out sound books to the children who are developmentally ready. Please do not worry if your child does not have one yet, I will continually review the children’s progress so that your child will have one when THEY are ready! For those of you whose children have got sound books if you are stuck on the sounds yourself please have a look below. If you click on the letters the sounds can be heard!!
Please can you help your child learn to put on their own coat. Children do have to put their own coats on for outdoor play, if they can’t, they spend a lot of time missing out on some fantastic learning opportunities.
Owl Babies - Week beginning 10/11/08
Over the last week we have been looking at the book ‘Owl Babies’. Just like in the book, we found a poor owl, called Bill outside on the grass, he had fallen out of his nest. The children thoroughly enjoyed making a new nest for him. This lead us on to making collages of Bill and chocolate nests. Yummy!
Over the last two weeks we have been working on the topic ‘Birthdays.’ We made cards, banners, party bags and hats. We had to weigh and wrap presents using the right size paper. There were candles and cakes to count and taste as well as party games to learn. Learning action songs like ‘Superman’ and ‘The Birdie Song’ was great fun! To finish off the topic we held a party for Robbie, which was the best day of my teaching career so far!!!! We had so much fun together, laughing, smiling and dancing. All of the children were amazing, and you should be really proud of them, because I am!
These are the photos from Robbie’s party. We had disco lights and lots of music to dance to. We played musical statues, musical chairs and pass the parcel. Have a look at us all enjoying ourselves.
After all the dancing we needed some party food. We had sandwiches, sausages, chicken nuggets, cheese, crisps, chocolate fingers, party rings, crisps, cakes, mmmmmmm.
December 1st to 19th
Over the next three weeks our work will be based on Christmas. We will be learning songs, making cards, calendars, tree decorations, writing letters to Santa and lots more. We will be holding an Early Years disco soon as well as performing a beautiful carol concert for you to enjoy. This year’s Early Years Christmas disco – 3:30 Monday 8th December (come back to The Early Years Unit for a bop and boogie). Our Christmas Extravaganza (concert) – 9:30/1:00 12th December (wear best clothes). Early Years Puppet show - During the school day 15th December. Early Years Christmas Party – During the school day 16th December (snacks and drinks provided). Last day of Autumn Term – Friday 19th December 2008 (Dates on a Planner) First day of Spring Term – Tuesday 6th January 2009 Reception and Nursery have been making a movie - It is currently being edited in a Hollywood film studio. For now you can view the TRAILER HERE and keep checking our site for the final cut! or low quality version The Twyn School Early Years Reading Film is available for download here. You will need a fast internet connection and the download may take quite a long time to transfer. You might like to right click, 'save target as,' and go for a cup of tea/three course meal while it downloads. It may not work for you and so we will include this on the Christmas Extravaganza DVD - place your orders now(£3). Here is a low quality version.