What a wonderful summer term we have had!

As the term ends, we have been looking back and reflecting on what an amazing time we have had at Oxclose Community Nursery School in the summer of 2025.

• In May we celebrated VE Day. The children made flags and sang songs to honour our past heroes whilst learning about the importance of peace and unity
• We also celebrated Children’s Day in May. This year’s theme was ‘Stand up and speak up’ to build a bullying-free generation. Children came into school wearing their favourite outfits and made lots of noise in the garden with a musical parade.
• May also saw us celebrate Mental Health Awareness week and we focussed on how to be a good friend and accessed lots of activities to promote good mental health.
• This term we have been learning about mini beasts and children made their own bug hotels for creepy crawlies to live in. We had some very brave children who went into our shed to collect spiders!
• We also celebrated ‘Alfie’s Day’ – a very special day in Oxclose Nursery School which we hold in memory of a very special little boy. The children got stuck into all kinds of messy play whilst raising funds for CHUF.
• It was the turn of Red Group this term to visit Forest School. They enjoyed their weekly trips out to explore the woods!
• Tiny Tweeties returned with more fun filled sessions of music and dance.
• A popular topic this term has been learning about ‘people who help us’. We even had a visit from police officers and were able to go inside the police van! We also learned about the different roles in hospitals, vets and hairdressers.
• SAFC Foundation of Light came to visit us in June and we had fun football sessions with our parents. Samson the Black Cat even came along for a visit! Lots of budding footballers in the making.
• Everest and Skye our giant African snails returned to nursery this term along with their baby who we named Turbo. The children learned how to handle them correctly and how to prepare their food.
• All of the sunny weather led to us talking about sunflowers and we studied the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. We recreated his famous masterpiece!
• Children learned about road safety and ventured out into the local community to look for safe places to cross the road.
• We had a lovely trip to Herrington Park with our families and had lots of fun and games in the park.
• Techno Tom came to visit us to talk about our theme of recycling. We made lots of recycled boats to sail in our canals.

It has been a wonderful fun filled term!