Welcome to the Pufflings (Nursery)

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Miss Braodhurst is the Nursery Teacher and looks after all of the Early Years Centre.

In the Nursery, activities and learning experiences are set up to support ways in which young children learn best: learning by doing, hands-on, trial and error, play, sensory exploration, and having positive role models to watch and imitate. Our children learn best in a child-focused environment where they can explore on their own with activities that interest them. They have a wealth of opportunities where they can be actively engaged in learning and have a voice to act on ideas and objects in their environment. Different children learn in a variety of ways and at different rates. With interactive teacher support, encouragement, and positive attitudes, it is our aim for our children to learn at their highest ability.  

Children in our Nursery are active builders of knowledge, and are encouraged to be researchers. Many of the classroom educational experiences take the form of projects, using open-ended materials where children have opportunities to actively participate, explore, engineer and ask questions. We place a very strong emphasis on the social development of children as part of a community and their relationships to other children, their families and adults in the setting. Our morning consists of a short, adult-led focus task which could be maths, language or topic based. Our child-initiated time is very important to us as this is when children explore and develop their learning with the adults in the setting. We call this our Rainbow Time and our learning environment can be in the classrooms or in our purpose-built, secure garden.

Class: Pufflings & Sunshines

Topic: Toys & Teddies

Literacy & Communication & Language:Puppets, role-play areas, daily letters and sounds time. Talk Boost intervention. Daily mark making and fine motor activities; tracing name cards, copying name cards writing labels. Our shared texts: Just like Jasper, I love you blue kangaroo, Can’t you sleep little bear, Toys Galore, Goldilocks and the three bears, Where’s my Teddy? We’re going on a bear hunt. 

Mathematics: Number and counting rhymes, make a teddy using 2D shapes, talking about more, fewer or the same. Using 3D shapes to make homes/castles for the toys. 

Understanding the World: Looking at similarities, differences and change in toys. Looking at toys and talking about why things happen and how they work. Comparing different bears and looking at them in their natural habitats. Dressing the bear according to the weather. 

Expressive Arts and Design: Familiar songs and rhymes, movement in response to music. Mixing colours to make brown. Creating teddy bear masks, shape bears and binoculars for our bear hunt. 

Physical Education: Inside fine motor activities: scissors, threading, drawing, painting and mark making activities. Outside: bikes, scooters, balls, obstacle courses. Hall time: dancing, movement, throwing and catching. 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development: independence, sharing, playing with others, recognising similarities and differences, talking about feelings and needs.

You can contact Miss Broadhurst at:

pufflings@martinwilson.shropshire.sch.uk