Welcome to our Nursery Unit

Rosetta Nursery is an integral part of our school and is located within the main school building. The Nursery class has an experienced, fully qualified teacher and nursery assistant; and offers full time places for 26 children, from 8.45 a.m. to 1.15 p.m. The Nursery provides a happy, secure environment where children can develop at their own rate through challenging and progressive play. ETI praised the nursery unit for, ‘Providing rich learning opportunities for children in all areas of the pre-school curriculum.’ Children and their families are welcomed into the life of Rosetta Primary School.

The Nursery class also provides opportunities for the children to grow in self-confidence, develop social skills and to communicate effectively. The children enjoy a wide variety of indoor and outdoor play based activities through which they have the opportunity to develop a range of skills and capabilities. The Nursery Unit has an extensive outdoor area, the Woodland and Adventure World enhance the children’s learning.

September 

In September, Nursery have been learning to settle into their new classroom and getting to know their new nursery friends. Nursery are learning to explore the different play areas in the classroom, and they are learning how to share their play space and their toys with their new nursery friends. Nursery have learnt 'Nursery rhyme' songs during our singing time and have been learning to sit on the carpet to listen to a short story. 

Lightbox Colours! 

Nursery have been exploring colours during play; they have been learning colour names, matching and sorting colours. Nursery had lots of fun at our Lightbox area where they explored 'colour mixing' with the colour fans. Nursery enjoyed predicting the colours they would make. 

Baking Fun!

Nursery enjoyed decorating a biscuit with icing and sprinkles. The best part of baking was getting to lick the icing off our fingers! We had to wait for the icing to dry and then got to enjoy them the next day as part of our snack. 

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall...

                                                             October Learning 

In October, Nursery have started thinking about the farm. We have been learning about the animals that live on the farm, and we have been learning about the role of the farmer. Nursery have been exploring the role of the farmer during play, including digging up vegetables 'growing' in the soil. We chopped up vegetables grown on the farm, and we were able to taste them for snack. Nursery have also started staying in school for dinners- their favourite part of school dinners is getting dessert! 

Our Pumpkin Patch Day! 

Nursery really enjoyed visiting the Pumpkin Patch! During the morning, they measured how many pumpkins tall they were, with Nursery being either 4 or 5 pumpkins tall. They enjoyed choosing a pumpkin from the patch, and discovered the bigger pumpkins were heavy! Nursery enjoyed filling up wheelbarrows with the pumpkins but discovered that the wheelbarrow was harder to push when there were more pumpkins added. Lifting all the pumpkins was tiring work for Nursery, so they enjoyed hearing the story "Ten Little Pumpkins" to finish our day off. 

Halloween Fun! 

Nursery have been learning about Halloween through the stories "Room on the Broom" and "Meg and Mog". We have investigated pumpkins and made a tasty "witches hat" treat which we got to enjoy while watching "Room on the Broom". 

November Learning 

In November, Nursery have started their new topic "Transport". We are learning about the different ways to travel and the different vehicles that can be used. Nursery have been learning about the different types of transport vehicles during play. They also completed a "traffic watch" and observed the different vehicles travelling around Rosetta. 

Nursery have been exploring vehicles that travel on the roads, tracks, sky and sea. Nursery have really enjoyed playing at a variety of small world areas where they can explore how vehicles travel and where they are travelling too. We learnt that police cars, fire engines and ambulances travel very fast to get to emergencies but that construction vehicles travel slowly. 

Traffic Watch 

Nursery participated in a "traffic watch" to help make real world links to our transport topic. Nursery observed the different vehicles that were driving on the roads around Rosetta. We saw different sizes and colours of cars, bicycles and vans. We even seen some buses driving past our school and the bus drivers beeped their horns at us! Nursery could also seen and hear an aeroplane flying in the sky; we wondered where the aeroplane was travelling too.