St Philip's Catholic Primary and Nursery School

Pyjama and Bed/Crazy Hair Day for Zarach

Today in school, we all came in our pyjamas and crazy hair styles to raise money for Zarach; a very important local charity that helps families in need of beds and other similar items. This charity is one that families in our school have reached out to for help before. The donations raised will help many families. Thank you for your continued support!

This Week in Nursery...

We have had some lovely weather in the last couple of weeks so have spent even more time outside. Have a look at what we have been up to!

World Book Day 2025!

Nursery read the story of The Tiger Who Came to Tea on World Book Day. We did lots of tiger themed activities and even had a tea party outside with sandwiches! We loved going into the school hall to show everyone our amazing costumes and let everyone see our too! The school Librarians kindly brought us a special gift; we each got our own Julia Donaldson story book to take home! 

Our latest Spring 2 newsletter is now available to read under the 'Nursery' and 'Class Newsletters' tab above. Thank you!

Story Swap

This year at St Philip's, we are developing our reading for pleasure and as part of this all staff in school swapped classes and read a story to a different group of children. We were very lucky to have Miss Nicholson, Mr Birch and Mrs Shea come into Nursery and read to small groups of us. We can't wait for the next one! Check out the pictures below!

Shrove Tuesday!

Today is Shrove Tuesday and to celebrate we made pancakes! Pancakes and traditionally made on Shrove Tuesday before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. Lent is a special time where we prepare for Easter. We will be learning lots about this in the next few weeks. We really enjoyed making our pancakes and eating them with yummy toppings! A special thanks to Miss Nowell for doing some super flipping!

Children's Mental Health Week

To mark Children's Mental Health week in school, each class was given an emotion to focus on based off the film 'Inside Out'. Nursery had the emotion of 'Joy'. We all dressed in yellow to reflect this emotion and took part in activities all day learning about what this emotion feels like. We thought about what makes us happy and drew pictures to show this. 

The Holy Family

Oh no! Mr Bear has had an accident! He arrived at Nursery today with bandages and plasters on after having a fall. We thought of what we could say and do to make him feel better. We said we could be kind to him, give him a hug and make him a get well soon card. This is part of our RE topic this half term called 'The Holy Family' where we are learning all about how Jesus loves everyone in his family and how we can show that love to everyone in our family too. 

Winter in Nursery

This half term, we have been learning all about winter. We have made out own winter jigsaws and thought about the best clothes to wear in the colder weather. We dressed Mr Bear in lots of appropriate clothes to keep him warm!

Our latest Spring 1 newsletter is now available to read under the 'Nursery' and 'Class Newsletters' tab above. Thank you!

Nursery's Christmas Cracker!

Thank you to all of Nursery's family and friends who came along to watch our Christmas performance. The children did so well and loved practising and performing all of their Christmas songs for you. We hope you enjoyed it!

Christmas in Nursery

We have been doing lots of amazing activities in Nursery to celebrate Christmas! We all helped to put up our class Christmas tree up and paint our postbox so we can send our letters to Santa and post our Christmas cards to our friends. The big man himself came into school so we all got to go and visit him in his grotto! It was so special and he kindly gave us each a present. We also got new Nativity set that was kindly gifted to us by Mrs Everett. We have loved looking at it on our special table and carefully playing with it. We also did some Christmas baking; Christmas tree biscuits, yummy! We loved our party day where we came in our party clothes, played games, had party food and did some dancing in the hall with Reception

Advent in Nursery

We made our class Advent wreath together. We all learnt about why we have an Advent wreath and what this special time of year means. We now know why we use evergreen leaves and why the wreath is in the shape of a circle. Our wreath was blessed by Father Polland. We will light it everyday during our class worships throughout Advent. We will light one more candle in each week of Advent. 

Remembrance Day

On Remembrance Day, we had a special class collective worship to remember all the brave soldiers that fought for us all in the war. We each placed a pebble in the middle of our poppy cloth and had a quiet, reflective moment. We also made our own poppies. 

Fantastic Fireworks!

We have been learning all about Bonfire Night and how it is celebrated. We painted our own firework pictures using marbles to create lots of amazing lines with different colours. We also made our own edible "sparkler" with breadsticks, chocolate and sprinkles!

Autumn in Nursery

We have been exploring all the signs of autumn in and around Nursery. We learnt how we know it is autumn. We looked at a pumpkin and described what it looks, smells and feels like. We then painted pictures of pumpkins and made our own pumpkin patch display! We also went on a leaf hunt outside and did some leaf printing.

God's Wonderful World

We heard the story of creation through a Godly play box. We thought about all the wonderful things that God made and put on Earth. We did our own thank you prayers to God for creating all the animals, plants and people in his world.

The Start of Our Journey...

What a lovely few weeks we have had in Nursery! We have welcomed back some children from last year and also said hello to lots of new friends! Have a look at some of the things we have got up to so far!