Millbank Primary School
Growing Together To Be Our Best
Nursery
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Please help us to learn our number rhymes and to form the numbers correctly.
Practise makes perfect.
Start at the top and down we run, 1, 1, 1.
Around and back on the railroad track, 2, 2, 2.
Around the tree, around the tree 3, 3, 3.
Down and over and down some more, 4, 4, 4.
Down and around and a flag on high, 5, 5, 5.
We would like to say a Big Welcome to all our Nursery boys and girls that have joined us this year.
Morning Nursery
Afternoon Nursery
SEPTEMBER 2016
Let's go to the 'Dough Disco'
We squash it, squeeze it, pull it and roll it.
This helps us with our coordination and our brain power.
Dough Disco AM
Dough Disco PM
The World's Largest Lesson
Reduse, Reuse, Recycle.
We have been learning all about how to reduse, reuse and recycle, which helps us to look after our planet.
What a catchy song.
We are very good at sorting these things.
Welsh
With the help of Fflic and Fflac our welsh speaking puppets we have been learning to ask and answer
Pwy wyt ti?
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PM
Millbank Garage
Our new Millbank Garage is now open.
We are exploring and having lots of fun.
October 2016
We have been looking at the story of
The Rainbow Fish
You can watch the story on the link below or why not lend the book from your local library and read together.
Our class goldfish finally have their names.
Millie and Bank.
Names were pulled out of a hat.
We had a fun day when we dressed up as "who we wanted to be when we were grown up" (Morning Nursery)
We have had lots of fun and learning opportunities while playing the fishing games.
(Afternoon Nursery)
Our very first
Stars of the week.
November 2016
Stars of the week.
We have been cleaning our teeth in school and learning all about how to keep our teeth clean and healthy.
We had a visit from Design to smile who talked to us about our teeth and how to take care of our lovely smile.
Look at our colourful Bonfire pictures.
We have been working very hard to learn our 2D shapes. circle, square, triangle, rectangle.
Please help us by looking for these shapes at home.
We went on a walk to Trelai park to look for signs of Autumn and to collect Autumn leaves.
We made leaf crowns with the crispy leaves.
We have been learning about Remembrance Day and we made some lovely poppies.
Star of the week.
This week we have been doing lots of work on repeating patterns. Why not have a go at home and try a pattern of 2, 3 or even 4 colours.
We have been learning all about the number 2.
How to recognise and form the number correctly and how to count out 2 of everything.
We made magic number 2 potions.
We have been learning about what makes a good friend and we have made a 'Friendship Potion'
This week we had a Spotty Day for
Children in Need.
We decorated cakes with smarties.
Stars of the week
This week we have been working hard to learn and form the number 2 correctly.
We are also learning the 'm' sound. Please have a little go at home finding things that start with this letter and have a little practise forming the 'm' correctly.
We have some new and exciting role play areas in our classroom.
We enjoy singing and working together.
It's lots of fun.
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December 2016
We have been learning all about the meaning of Christmas.
We have had a very busy December in the Nursery.
We have made some lovely Christmas craft.
We went to visit Santa and we then had a Christmas party with lots of food and games.
We are now fully trained elves.
This year our Christmas Concert was......
"A Snowman at Sunset"
We wish you all a very
Merry Christmas
and
A Happy New Year.
Welcome back to the Spring term in school.
January 2017
We have had fun with the penguins in our new play area
We can look at our lovely books in the igloo.
Our new Doll House. What Fun
We have been revising the sound and formation of the letter 'm'
We have been learning to name the parts of the body.
We have been learning the names of parts of the face in welsh.
We are doing so well with our welsh in Nursery.
Da iawn pawb.
Pwy wyt ti?
We are learning to ask and answer questions in welsh.
Welcome to our new Nursery boys and girls.
We have all settled in so well.
Outdoor P.E.
Morning Nursery
Morning Nursery
Afternoon Nursery
Afternoon Nursery
Stars of the week.
Welsh speakers of the week.
We have been learning the sound 'a' and how to form the letter.
We have been learning the number 3 and how to form it correctly.
We love to take part in 'Little Big Maths'
We have been practising our scissor control
We have been learning colours in welsh.
We went on a colour hunt to look for-
melyn coch glas gwyrdd
oren du pinc porffor
We had a lovely time celebrating
Chinese New Year
This weeks Welsh speakers of the week and Stars of the week.
We have been learning about mixing 2 primary colours together. What colours can you make from red, yellow and blue?
February 2017
Our letter next week is 's'. please have a practise at home to form the letter correctly and to look for things beginning with this sound.
Internet Safety. We have been learning about how to stay safe while using the internet.
Brush Brush Brush. We have been learning all about how to keep our teeth clean and healthy
Next week we will be looking at the story of Elmer. We will be trying to retell the story. Why not watch the video and have a go at home.
This week we have been writing our names and painting daffodils and leeks ready for the school Eisteddfod.
We have also been learning the song un bys dau bys.
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Have a lovely
Half Term.
Don't forget to go over the letters and numbers we have been learning.
m a s
1 2 3
and practise writing your names forming the letters correctly.
March 2017
St Davids Day
We have been learning all about where we live in Wales
We looked amazing in our Welsh costumes.
Take a look at our fabulous Home tasks. Delightful Daffodils
We had a painting competition.
Well Done to our St David's Day competition winners.
We have been learning all about size.
We have been ordering size, biggest to smallest and tallest to shortest.
Fairtrade Fortnight
We have been learning about Fairtrade and what it means to pay a fair price for the things we buy.
Look for the Fairtrade symbol in the shops.
Making Fairtrade crispie cakes. Mmmmmmmmm DELICIOUS
Our letter for this week has been 'd'
Dinosaurs and ducks are delightful
Do you like our d d d d dinosaurs?
In our books this week we have been ordering Elmer, biggest to smallest
We have also been designing our own Elmer.
We have been learning the number 4. Down and over and down some more, 4 4 4.
We have enjoyed Little Big Maths using the scarves.
Stars of the week
Welsh speakers of the week
This week we had fun with Dough Disco
We made lovely cards for mother's day, printing with our hands and fingers.
We hope all the Mums liked their present. As you can see each present was sealed with a kiss.
We dressed up for Red Nose Day and raised money for the chatity.
Next week we will be looking at the number 5 and the letter t.
Stars of the week
Welsh speakers of the week.
April 2017
We have been learning to recognise the letter 't' and form it correctly. We have made tea in the water tray, painted with tea bags and watched the story The tiger who came to tea
We have been learning to recognise and form the number 5 correctly.
Learning about The Easter Story
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Easter Craft
Easter Bonnets
We met the school guinea pigs Miles and Mr Banks.
Outdoor Fun in April
May 2017
We are having lots of fun in the new 'Beach Hut'
We have been learning to recognise and form the letter 'i' correctly. Look at the lovely work we have done in our Nursery books.
Hall fun and our first visit to the big yard.
Stars of the week
Welsh speakers of the week.
Food and fitness fortnight
Cardiff City Fitness Session. Morning Nursery
Cardiff City Fitness Session. Afternoon Nursery
The Millbank Mile. Morning Nursery
The Millbank Mile. Afternoon Nursery
Staying safe with medicines and other household items.
Design to smile. Learning how to look after our teeth.
Sun Safety. AM
Sun Safety. PM
Fun in the hall. AM
Fun in the hall. PM
We are learning to recognise and write the letter 'n' correctly.
June 2017
We have an exciting new role play area, Our Ice Cream Parlour.
We have been learning all about 'Sun Safety'
Slip on a hat
Slap on a t shirt
Slop on some sun cream
remember your sunglasses and shade
Look at the trendy sunglasses we have designed and made.
Our Eco Project
Reduce Reuse Recycle. Sorting glass, plastic, paper, card.
Using recycled milk bottles in our play areas
Crisp crunch 'Walkers in the park'
We have been looking at what happen to a crisp packet when you have eaten all the crisps.
Crisp packet bunting
Crisp packet sequencing
Crisp packet 'Magic Wands' and 'Windmills'
From our empty crisp packets we have been making Jo Jo bows, keyrings and badges
We are learning to recognise and write the 'p' sound.
We have caterpillars in the Nursery.
We are watching them grow and change into butterflies.
