Cygnet Class

Welcome to the Cygnets and Ducklings preschool class, part of @WatersidePA.

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We will be holding nursery visits for children who are due to start nursery in September 2025. Please sign up below. *Limited spaces remaining for 2025*
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Visit our website to be added to our waiting list.🙂

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Nursery have been updating our garden resources this week and we have been enjoying the sun with lots of fun activities. ☀️😀 @WatersidePA

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Nursery have enjoyed making chocolate Easter nests this morning. We had to melt the chocolate, mix in rice crispies and our favourite part was crushing the mini eggs! @WatersidePA

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Nursery have been busy making Easter cards. We made chicks using forks in the paint and tried really hard to write our names inside. @WatersidePA 🐣🐣🐥

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Nursery grew their own cress seeds. We have been watering it everyday and watching it grow. Today we have cut it and tasted it. We thought it tasted delicious and said words such as, “sour”, “spicy ”. @WatersidePA

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Nursery had a fun time decorating biscuits and making them look like a spider and ladybug. @WatersidePA

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This week we are learning about insects. Today we have created pattern caterpillars using blocks in the paint. We discussed colours and what a pattern looks like. @WatersidePA

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This week we are learning about growing. Today we have discussed how to grow our own cress seeds. We had to put seeds on cotton wool and water it and we will watch it grow over the next week. @WatersidePA

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This week we have been learning about the story called, ‘The tiger who came to tea’. This morning we had our own tea party together, we enjoyed lots of yummy food and drinks. Luckily the tiger didn’t come and eat all our food! @WatersidePA

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This morning we read the story called, ‘Goldilocks and the three bears”. We discussed characters and phrases from the story and then made our own porridge. We had to mix the oats with milk or water and some of us tried it with jam. @WatersidePA

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This week we have been learning about Lunar New Year. This afternoon we tried different Chinese foods and even had a go at using chopsticks, it was very tricky! We described the texture, taste and smell of the food and voted to see what was our favourites. @WatersidePA

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Nursery are learning about Winter. This morning we have experimented using the pipettes and coloured water to drop colours on to the cotton wool snow. @WatersidePA

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This week has been very exciting in nursery. We have taken part in lots of fun Christmas activities such as decorating gingerbread, making wreaths and making tree decorations. @WatersidePA 🎄🎄

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Nursery have been raising money for Children In Need. We wore our own clothes, decorated pictures of Pudsey bear and donated money for the charity to help other children. @WatersidePA

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This week we have been learning about Space and Planet Earth. We have had some exciting activities such as foam play, ball rolling in the paint and creating a giant Earth picture. @WatersidePA 🌎

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This week we are learning about fireworks. We have made our own chocolate breadstick sparklers this morning. They tasted delicious! 🎆 @WatersidePA

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This week we are celebrating the festival Diwali. We read a Diwali story and created our own Diva lamps using recycled CDs and craft materials. @WatersidePA 🪔

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Cygnets have been learning about the Gruffalo this week. We made a Gruffalo crumble together. We had to weigh, mix and put the ingredients together. It was so delicious. We talked about key words and characters from the story. @WatersidePA 🍏

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Nursery had a great day raising money for the charity Show Racism The Red Card. We wore red clothes and took part in a painting activity, we had to copy the features of a person recognising everyone’s special features. @WatersidePA

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Thank you to all our grownups who came to our reading cafe this morning. We enjoyed sharing stories together. @WatersidePA 📕📖📚