Nursery
Welcome To Our Nursery Class
St John's Nursery Class
In our Nursery the teacher is
Mrs Barker
and the Teaching & Learning Assistants are
Miss Barnes & Mrs Bleasdale
We also welcome students from local colleges on work placements.
· The Nursery starts each day at 8.45am. If your child requires morning only sessions (15hrs a week) they should be collected between11.30 and 11.45am.
· The morning session ends at 11.45am (our doors open at 11.30) when those children who stay all day (30hrs) have their Packed Lunches (11.45am-12.15pm) which they bring from home before continuing the day with the afternoon session.
· The Nursery closes each day at 3.15pm. Our doors open from 3.00pm and all children should be collected by 3.15pm
· All Nursery Children receive free milk and a fruit snack each morning and have access to indoor and outdoor provision throughout each session.
· We have access to the school grounds and facilities and also join the rest of the school for important occasions and celebrations and for school masses in church.
· All Nursery sessions are Teacher-led.
Every child will be allocated a Key Worker who will make sure they are always settled, happy and learning. Parents & Carers will be able to contact the Key Worker by email and at morning and afternoon door openings in person.
Other messages can be passed on via office@st-john.lancs.sch.uk OR calling 771146
Last Day Celebrations- We all enjoyed the Party Food. A massive thank you to our Nursery Leavers for donations of cake, crisps and biscuits which were also shared with Reception and Year 1 children. We had the best party and everyone loved it!
Last Day Celebration: What a lovely time we had at our Moving Up Party- we danced to all the children's favourite songs and played Musical Bumps, Musical Statues, Musical Chairs as well as Corners and Pass the Parcel. We cooled off outside with a game of Hide and Seek and Miss Barnes kept the fun going with the bubble machines!
July 2024- Harvest Time! It was so exciting to see what had grown. We found we had grown 39 potatoes in our two potato sacks and the children cheered each one out of the soil!! Our radishes were also fascinating for their different shapes and sizes. We have loved the joy and expectation of our vegetable growing and will definitely be doing more in 2026/2027. (We might even try again with carrots!)
July 2026: Celebrating Achievements: We attended the Pupil of the Year Assembly and Prize Day Assembly... and everyone enjoyed their surprise visit from the Ice Cream Van. What a treat!
July 2026: We talked about the different countries and names for oceans and seas. The children thought the maps and the Leapfrog Globe were fascinating and some children told us about places they had visited on day trips or holidays.
July 2026: Mixing and decorating World Cup Cakes. We used the colours of the flags to decorate our home made cakes. Thanks to our school cooks for baking them in the big ovens for us
June 2026: Sunny summer days in the Outdoor Area..... role play with the Happyland people, water play, catching bubbles and cooling down with the hosepipe! We are lucky to have our shady areas too under the canopy, the parasol and in the sand shed.
June 2026: Writing practice- can you hold your pencil in a tripod grip? Can you write the first letter of your name? Can you write any other letters or numbers? What shapes can you draw?
June 2026: Matching and representing numbers..... can we recognise digits, match objects to numbers, count accurately and adapt and change the objects on the tens frame to match the dice?
June 2026: Outdoor Learning- Den making, mud kitchen and newly decorated cable reel fun!
June 2026- During our visit to church we had a practice at being readers!!
June 2026: We visited church and saw Fr Joseph leading the mass. He shook our hands afterwards and we walked around the church learning about the jobs that people do to help Fr Joseph and the church. We saw the window that has a picture of St John the Baptist. We even went upstairs in the choir loft and had a a great view of the whole church.
Our Visit to Thornton Hall Farm- The drive back to school! �� ����
Our Visit to Thornton Hall Farm- Tube sliding! Thanks to Mrs Bleasdale for catching everyone!
Our Visit to Thornton Hall - Fun on the Big Slides! Well done to Miss Barnes and Mrs Pate who waited at the bottom to keep everyone safe! We also had Mrs Barker and Kyle counting down at the top!
Our Visit to Thornton Hall Farm- Stroking the 20 year old horse Trigger
Our Visit to Thornton Hall Farm- Bottle Feeding the lambs! They were very strong but our children managed beautifully
Our Visit to Thornton Hall Farm- Petting small animals..... a five month old rabbit, a four day old chick and stroking the donkeys
Our Visit to Thornton Hall Farm- Animal Feeding Experts....... Goats, cows, alpacas, llamas and pigs
Our Summer Term Visit to Thornton Hall Farm- we had a fabulous day and we were all so proud of all our Nursery Children
May 2026- Indoor learning is both adult led and independent. We cover seasonal themes, maths shape and number, science is learning about the world and everything we do involves communication and language skills
May 2026- Learning about Pentecost Fire Colours- Red, Orange and Yellow
April 2026: Fun with Friends in the Sunshine �� Please remember to apply suncream each morning before Nursery in this summer term ��
April 2026: Vegetable Update! After spending Easter with Mrs Barker we are delighted that our seedlings are growing- we have repotted the radish, corriander and tomato plants. We now have a mini greenhouse to protect our efforts. We have good shoots in our potato bags but the carrots are looking a bit sad!
April 2026: Alleluia! We are celebrating all the New Life in the world at the moment and our class artwork reflects the beauty of God's world in Spring!
April 2026: Settling in ......
April 2026: Welcome to our three new starters- they have done wonderfully on their first day at Nursery
�� HAPPY EASTER TO ALL OUR FAMILIES - Thank you for sharing all your news with us! ��
March 2026: Spring Planting & Growing! We are having a go at growing herbs and veggies. We have been chitting potatoes, sowing carrot, tomato, corriander and radish seeds and watching our Daffodils and Hyacinth bulbs flower. Keep your fingers crossed that we can harvest something in a few weeks...Mrs Barker has watched lots of Youtube clips!
March 2026: Our Class Assembly Superstars
Our children were wonderful in our Class Assembly and told everyone about Spring, Lent and how to be kind like Jesus. We are so proud of them.
Lent 2026: We are learning about the symbols and meaning of LENT. We mixed shades of the Lent colour purple to butterflies to symbolise the new life of Spring. It was magical when we unfolded them!
February 2026: We recreated some Winter Olympics events in Nursery... downhill skiing, figure skating, snow boarding. We were inspired by watching some clips on TV and then we made ski jumps and ice rinks and froze our Happy Land people so they could slide. We had so much fun and used so much comparative language and explaining.
February 2026: Igloo challenges.... Teamwork, finger gym and lots of fun!
February 2026: Physical skills this half term are all about developing balance. We made bridges and slopes outdoors and we've been practising squats on two feet (no hands on the floor) and one leg balancing indoors. We are also trying to stand from sitting without pushing up with hands....
February 2026: Making Ice Crowns for role play activities. We painted foil and cut it into ice shards. The fabrics helped us make capes and robes. Would you be a kind or cruel Ice King or Queen?
January 2026: Celebrating the seasons ❄️Winter ❄️
January 2026: Learning all about WINTER! We have read stories, looked at images, played with ice, mixed shades of blues, designed winter mittons and made Winter Art with silhouettes, colour mixing and glitter. Our Nursery class looks like an Ice Palace from The Snow Queen Story!
January 2026: We made bird feeders to care for the animals in our world. The local birds and squirels will enjoy eating the seeds and nuts. Look out for them in the Secret Garden and Church Gardens (of course we had a bit of exercise and fun while we put them up!)
January 2026: Sharing news! Thankyou to all the families who have shared photos of Christmas, farm visits, festive tractor runs, swimming certificates, home baking, building models at home, good news, holidays and specai events. Please keep sending photos for our News Board in class to our dedicated email: NurseryBears@st-john.lancs.sch.uk
January 2026: Welcome to all our New Starters.........we are so glad you have joined us!
December 2025: Father Christmas came to see us all and he brought us a present each! We thought we heard the reindeer on the school roof....
December 2025: We were so proud of all our children for practising and performing our Nativity Story so enthusiastically! Well done to all of them
December 2025: Working together in the outdoor area- coordination, ball skills, balance, planning, negotiation and lots of fun!
December 2025: Advent is the time we wait and get ready for Jesus' birthday. We are making gifts for our families and developing fine motor skills while we make...
December 2025: Frosty weather means getting wrapped up and getting outdoors to investigate what's happened to our water play area.... we found ice and some of the toys were frozen into the ice.
November 2025: Mark Making with a range of tools : pencils, wipboards, felt tips, crayons, chalks. We have mark making available every day in many ways both indoors and outdoors.
November 2025: Maths skills with repeating patterns. We use a variety of resources to practice the concept. After making the patterns one of our group used his cubes to make all the Numberblocks family. His counting was accurate and each tower replicated each character! He thought he was playing but we were delighted with his counting skills!,
November 2025: Creativity and hand strengthening with play dough. We make play dough in class each week and involve the children in choosing the colour and what scent or flavouring we add. We also use herbs to give our senses a natural boost! Using the tools eg rolling pins, cutters, mincers is great for making small hands stronger.
November 2025: Biscuit making using poppy shapes and colours.
November 2025: Forest School Activities- Painting Night Sky firework pictures and making Firework sticks to run and dance with...
November 2025: Forest School Activites- Singing The Firework Song with Hedgehog
November 2025: Forest School Activities- Camp Fire safety and gathering on the log seats ��
November 2025: Forest School exploring
