The children have been working hard to dig up a big area of our nursery garden where we will start growing vegetables. We have seedlings in our little indoor greenhouse just now, staying cosy until the weather gets warmer and they are strong enough to go into the soil….
Keep your eyes peeled for more updates on our vegetables!!
Around half of the children in the afternoon nursery session do not have English as their first language and are currently learning through their every day experiences in the nursery.
Once a week they are supported by Barbara Szumanska, who is our EAL teacher. This week we decided to have story-time in both English and Polish (the most common second language in the class). Mrs England read the story in English, while Barbara repeated the story in Polish.
The children listened intently and were delighted to share the same story in the two different languages!
We have a variety of dual language books in the nursery in Polish, Russian, Lithuanian and many more.
What a lovely treat to share a story in our different languages! 
The children of Riverbank Nursery enjoy a healthy snack every day. They always have a varied selection of fruit and vegetables to choose from, as well as their main snack.
As part of our ‘Looking After Our Amazing Bodies’ topic, we decided to keep a food diary to show what we have been enjoying recently!
As you can see, the children get a wide range of different healthy snacks! If you have any great snack ideas, please chat with a member of the team and we will try to include it in our menus!
Every Thursday this children have fun in the kitchen cooking with Mrs England. They have made everything from cupcakes to macaroni cheese!
Through cooking the children are learning about where food comes from, measurement and numbers, they develop their talking and listening skills, and they get to try out new flavours and food.
The children have been enjoying learning about the world of ‘Frozen’. They have been investigating ice and snow and how it melts. There has been some beautiful winter art to decorate our nursery walls, and we have also been learning about animals we would find in cold places!
Have a look at some of what we have been up to!
On Thursday 11th December, the children of Riverbank Nursery presented ‘A Wriggly Nativity’ to a packed audience of proud Mums, Dads, Grans, Grandas, and brothers and sisters.
They were brilliant and performed all of their songs beautifully! Their teachers were very proud of them all.
