St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School

18th May 2025

Through out the week we have been developing our understanding of number through a variety of fun filled activities. The children have enjoyed mark making on a smaller and larger scale, building with different materials, counting up to 20 and even beyond. We love to have fun whilst promoting children's learning further and developing their mathematical development. 

12th May 2025

The children have taken an interest in our planet Earth so this week in nursery we have been learning all about space and the different planets. The children have loved learning about our solar system and did amazing remembering all the planets. We have been creating planets from paper mache, dressing up as astronauts, creating and decorating our own space rockets/ships. The children have been working together using large cardboard boxes to create a big rocket to take us to space, we use tin foil on different objects within our environment as space helmets. The children have fantastic imagination and have enjoyed role playing going to space. At snack time we have been having a picnic on the moon and loved a space themed snack and was pretending to look out for aliens and flying saucers.  Overall, we have had a busy fun filled week in the Mighty Mini's, 5,4,3,2,1, blast off into our next week of learning. 

5th May 2025

Wow what a busy week we have had in the Mighty Mini's, where we have been exploring Europe and have begun to learn some new languages. The children have been learning French with Mrs McKinnon, Portuguese with Mrs Aspinall and German with Mrs Scales. Through these little lessons we have been developing our learning through play and have learnt colours, numbers, hello, bye, thank you and songs in the languages. One of our friends in Mini's Oliwia has been teaching us some Polish and did super well sharing her home language. At snack time we have tried some tradition foods from France, Poland, Germany and Portugal.  Well done Mini's you did amazing learning new languages. 

25th April 2025

What a busy first week back from Easter, we have welcomed some new friends to the Mighty Minis family. We have been exploring both the indoor and outdoor environments, had lots of fun with Phil in our PE sessions and we have been learning lots about dinosaurs. Through our activities we have been developing our fine and gross motor skills, turn taking, listening skills and practising our counting and identifying numerals 1-10. 

The Mighty Mini's have been developing their knowledge and learning about Easter and church. We had the opportunity to go and have a look around our church. The children loved sharing this with their friends and there was lots of learning opportunities to develop our knowledge through seeing the church and talking about what we can see. The children have been talking about Jesus, the cross and some of the children have talked about going to church with their family. We love to explore new environments and build on children's interest and knowledge. 

Mighty Minis Nursery

Our Mini's had a great time doing yoga in our school hall.