Our Nursery children have been discovering animals that live in icy places! Using magnifying jars and pictures, they looked closely to spot who might be hiding inside. 👀✨

We also used our rainbow sense fans to help the children talk about what they could see, feel, and hear as they explored the animals — encouraging rich language and sensory learning. 🌈🔍

Our Nursery children have been using pictures, books and their imaginations to learn all about Polar animals. They chose an animal, talked about what they know, and then drew their own wonderful illustrations!

Arctic Animals

The nursery children have been using pictures from our story Arctic Animals to build their own “who doing what” sentences. This activity helped them practise early sentence structure, strengthen their vocabulary and develop their understanding of the actions different Arctic animals can do.

They looked carefully at each picture, then used their own pictures to build the sentence on their shape coding boards. They then practised naming the pictures and reading their sentences aloud with growing confidence.

This activity supported:

Early reading skills

Speaking and listening

Vocabulary building

Understanding the world

A wonderful way to bring our Arctic learning and literacy skills together!

Last week our nursery provision has been filled with exciting Arctic-themed activities for the children to explore. From playdough modelling to small world play, the children had many opportunities to use their imagination, develop language and build their understanding of animals that live in cold places.💙❄️

Dear families

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High Hazels Herald - 1st December 2025

Many thanks

Dear families!

We’re excited to share that our children are having a blast during playtime, and the OPAL project is really taking off! This week, we’re on the lookout for any old musical instruments, wellies, and sandbox toys you no longer use. If you've got any spare items lying around, we’d be absolutely thrilled to give them a new life in our play sessions!

Also, don’t forget to check out some fun snapshots of the kids enjoying their lunchtime activities from last week!

Thank you so much for your ongoing support!

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Just a little reminder that we have an inset day coming up on

**Friday, 28th November**!

School will be closed to all pupils🎈

We'll be back in action on **Monday, 1st December** bright and early at **8am** for breakfast club and **8:40am** for learning 😊

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High Hazels Herald - 24th November 2025

Many thanks

Dear Parent / Carer,

As part of our topic on ‘It’s Getting cold Outside’ and ‘Autumn’, we will be looking at nocturnal and woodland animals. 

On Thursday 4^th December we have invited the Wise Owl Falconry to visit us with a range of birds including owls to support our understanding of their way of life. To help us fund this visit we are asking for £4.00 to be payable via the app which will include a photo of your child with a bird.

The company and the school have put a detailed risk assessment to ensure all safety measures are in place and in line with government guidelines.

 In the meantime, why not visit their website with your child at

 https://www.wise-owl.co.uk/  and discuss different birds of prey?

Thank you in advance for your support.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Hibbert

Dear families!

We’re excited to share that our children are having a blast during playtime, and the OPAL project is really taking off! This week, we’re on the lookout for any old musical instruments, wellies, and kitchen utensils you no longer use. If you've got any spare items lying around, we’d be absolutely thrilled to give them a new life in our play sessions!

Also, don’t forget to check out some fun snapshots of the kids enjoying their lunchtime activities from last week! 📸

Thank you so much for your ongoing support! 💖

#OPALPlaytime #CommunityLove #PlaytimeFun