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  • Autumn walks

    Published 10/10/23
    The children are visiting the beautiful woodland grounds of Oakfield School this week looking for signs of Autumn. They have experienced hugging trees whilst looking really closely at the shapes of the branches and leaves and the texture of bark. The
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  • Yoga

    Published 17/07/23
    The children have been practicing yoga outside on our new yoga mats. We like to plan in a few minutes of yoga a day as it has so many benefits for young children. It improves their posture, flexibility, strength, balance and co-ordination as well as
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  • Spatial reasoning and creative story telling

    Published 26/06/23
    The children have been taking their creative inspiration from the book Junk DNA by Care Thompson. Junk DNA is a wordless comic created from the arrangement of recycled loose parts including nuts, bolts, old scrap metal items, keys, spanners, spa
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  • Sponsored Sports Challenge

    Published 01/06/23
    The weather was kind to us as the sun shone all day for our Sponsored Sports Challenge. We were so proud of all the children as they enjoyed taking part in their 10 physical challenges and the way in which they supported and congratulated each other.
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  • The King's Coronation

    Published 10/05/23
    The children have been learning about the concept of a coronation so that the celebrations that took place in their home town this weekend were more meaningful to them. We provided a range of activities including role play, stories, bunting making an
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  • Playball

    Published 24/03/23

     

     

     

     

    The Playball team visited The Lawns for a block of sessions recently. They introduced the children to lots of new ball skills, exercises and games to help support them with their co-ordination skills whilst fostering a love of sport. The children participated with great enthusiasm and loved the challenges that coach Mike and Lara set for them. We have noticed this reflected in the children's play as they are now choosing to play with the bats and balls and footballs a lot more which is reinforcing their new skills.

     

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  • Earthsong Multicultural Music Workshop

    Published 17/03/23
    We were fortunate to have a visit from Earthsong Multicultural Music Workshop this month. The workshop is a fully immersive experience for the children where they get to 'go on a journey' around the world whilst exploring world culture t
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  • Multicultural Fortnight

    Published 03/03/23
    Thank you to all the parents who have recently been in to nursery to share their wonderful and diverse range of cultures and traditions with the children. We really are so fortunate to have such supportive families at The Lawns from so many different
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  • PC David visits Nursery

    Published 01/02/23
    We've been very lucky to have welcomed PC David and his colleagues twice to The Lawns Nursery School recently. David is the author of the brilliant set of stories aimed at pre-school children called PC Ben. David read to the children and they wer
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  • January icy weather

    Published 20/01/23
    As the weather has become cold and icy again the children have been exploring the ice again.  Some of the children persevered and showed great determination breaking the ice and rescuing the frozen animals.    
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  • Icy weather

    Published 09/12/22
      As the weather has become cold and icy the children have discovered ice in the waterway.  They have spent a long time using a variety of tools and equipment to explore and investigate the ice.  Some of the children preserved and s
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  • Woodwork

    Published 10/11/22
    At the moment we're working towards one of our curriculum goals involving making things from woodwork. Last month the children practised hammering golf tees in to marrows and pumpkins,now they've progressed to using real nails and wood. The l
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