Nursery: Gallery
Easter Bonnet Parade, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 11:15am
Our Early Years and KS1 Easter Bonnet Parade was truly special and very cute, thanks to the creativity and effort of both the children and the parents. The bonnets were fantastic, and we’re grateful to all the parents who attended and supported the parade. The children had a wonderful time and sang beautifully, making it a morning to remember!
World Book Day in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 2:33pm
We had an amazing day celebrating World Book Day. We all dressed up as a book character, including the teachers - who were characters from ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers. We started off our day with an assembly, where Mr Whelan read us another story by Oliver Jeffers called ‘Stuck’, in this story a boy throws things into a tree. We made our own tree outside using sticks and then put different things into the tree just like the boy in Stuck.
World Book Day 2025 - Everyone's Costumes!, by Mr Wood
Date: 8th Mar 2025 @ 4:37pm
Our school was filled with colour and creativity as staff and pupils dressed up as their favourite book characters for World Book Day! From classic literary heroes to modern favourites, the variety of costumes was truly impressive. Everyone put in a fantastic effort, bringing beloved stories to life with enthusiasm and imagination.
Click below to take a look at the wonderful photos capturing the magic of the day – a testament to our love of reading and storytelling! 📚✨
World Book Day 2025, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 3:38pm
The children had a fantastic World Book Day, inspired by the works of author Oliver Jeffers. They created some outstanding pieces of work based on Jeffers' book Stuck, and we couldn't help but wonder if Floyd, the character from the story, had visited our school after seeing what happened to our tree outside. Additionally, all the children arrived in school dressed in fantastic outfits, celebrating their love for books and creativity.
Porridge Making in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 3:40pm
Our book this week is 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears', we followed the recipe and made some porridge. We used the microwave to heat it up and added some honey. It was delicious!
Children's Mental Health Week in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 4:02pm
We had fun last week thinking about how to keep ourselves healthy, mentally. We watched a clip of the Disney movie 'Inside Out' where Riley makes up imaginary lands of things that are important to her. We made our own lands using the small world resources in nursery. The children made lands of chocolate, football, broccoli and strawberries. We also did lots of mindful activities like yoga, breathing exercises and meditation for children. It was a very relaxing week!
Learning about the Creation Story in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 4:18pm
We have been learning about how God created our amazing world. We have been making the wonderful animals that God created and helping to look after our amazing world by doing a litter pick and cleaning up our classroom.
Recycling session with Rochdale Council, by Miss Healey
Date: 22nd Jan 2025 @ 11:25am
Today we had a fantastic visitor! Nigel Goulding from Rochdale Borough Council came in to speak to Year 5 all about recycling and what we can do for the planet! We had so much fun and learnt many things about our waste and what happens to it after we're done with it. We learnt all about the small steps we can take to make our Earth happy and healthy again :)
Afternoon Nursery Nativity Play, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 20th Dec 2024 @ 3:07pm
Here is our wonderful Nativity play, enjoy!
Morning Nursery Nativity Show 2024, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 20th Dec 2024 @ 2:22pm
Here is our wonderful Nativity show, enjoy!
Our Walk to the Post Box in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 6th Dec 2024 @ 3:02pm
We wrote a letter to Father Christmas and then walked to the post box to send it too him. We are hoping to get a reply from him!
Wellbeing Ambassadors, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 2:31pm
Today, our new Wellbeing Ambassadors went to their initial training session at Littleborough Sports Centre to find out all about what it takes to be a Wellbeing Ambassador. We tried lots of different activities to support our Wellbeing and Mental Health with various teams from Rochdale such as Your Trust and The School Nursing Team. We also learnt about the 5 ways to wellbeing which are: 'BE ACTIVE', 'GIVE', 'CONNECT', 'TAKE NOTICE' and 'KEEP LEARNING'. The children represented our school brilliantly and are looking forward to starting their new roles in school after Christmas!
STEM Week in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 28th Nov 2024 @ 4:16pm
This week at school it has been STEM week. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The whole school had a challenge to help Father Christmas deliver his presents on Christmas Eve. In nursery we had to design and make a ramp for his sleigh. We made a ramp using the wooden blocks and planks and then tested lots of different materials that could be used for the ramp. We found that the shiny foil made Father Christmas’ sleigh go really fast and the Duplo board, made his sleigh crash! We had lots of fun, here are some photos of the things we did.
Exploring the Ice and Snow in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 3:43pm
This week we have been exploring the ice and snow. We made snow angels, made marks in the snow and threw snowballs into the air. We leant new words like frozen, melting and slippery. It has been great fun but also very cold!
Nursery Rhyme Week in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 12:31pm
This week is 'World Nursery Rhyme Week', we have been singing and dancing to our favourite nursery rhymes on our fabulous outside stage. We used different instruments and fancy-dress costumes, we even made up bands and sang together. We named one of our bands 'St Peter's Rocks'.
Learning About Autumn, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 4:10pm
This week we have been learning about the season, Autumn. We have been painting Autumn pictures, making hedgehogs with the playdough and finding the Autumn leaves outside. We then used these leaves to make Autumn pictures.
WOW Church Summer Presentation to the Diocese, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 4:00pm
Our 2 WOW Church members visited St Chad's Church in Middleton to delivered a presentation, alongside our group members from St John's Thornham and Milnrow Parish Primary School, to over 40 diocese representatives. The children explained and showed the diocese the various projects we have worked on this year, set up an environmental challenge for the parishioners to complete and then sung our song, 'Rich Diversity'. Each child represented their school brilliantly and the Dean of Rochdale was so impressed with the way the children conducted themselves during the presentation. The diocese is taking on board the children’s suggestions of a Plastic Policy in every church and we look forward to next year's group where we hope to again make a difference to the environment of our churches in Rochdale.
Learn, Love and Grow Together Day in Nursery, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 3:52pm
We have had an amazing 'Learn, Love and Grow Together' day at Nursery. We started off with a fabulous assembly by Mrs Brandwood, followed by an exciting magic and puppet show. We also sang nursery rhymes with puppets and took part in a whole class mindfulness session. It really was a fabulous day, enjoyed by all!
Nursery's Visit to the Fireground Museum in Rochdale, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 9th Jul 2024 @ 8:46am
We had an amazing day learning all about the Fire and Rescue service. We got to dress up like real Firefighters, use the hose and sit in a real fire engine!
Nursery's Visit to Cockfield's Farm Park - April 2024, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 3:46pm
We had an amazing trip to Cockfield's Farm, we got to stroke and feed lots of different animals. We made bird feeders and ate our lunch while sitting on real hay bales, just like real farmers! Here is a video of all the lovely things we did, enjoy!
WOW Church Meeting 17.4.24, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 9:18am
Our two WOW (Watch Our World) church representives visited St John's Thornham Church of England Primary School this afternoon for our next WOW meeting. This meeting focused on the local environment and we had a fantastic opportunity to have a visit from a Hedgehog Hospital. Here, the children learnt about the impact humas are having on hedgehogs and how we can better look after our environment for our local wildlife. The children found out a range of facts about hedgehogs and created a 'hedgehog house' (a hibernacula) to support hedgehogs in the area.
Holy Week at Nursery 2024, by Mrs Andrews
Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 2:29pm
We have had great fun learning all about the Easter story and doing lots of Easter activities. We have made Easter crafts including making Easter cards for our families. We tasted hot cross buns, as we acted out the story of the last supper. We had an Easter bonnet parade, and we ended the week with a special 'Washing of the Feet' service on Maundy Thursday. Mr Whelan and Mr Wood, washed and dried some of the children’s feet, just like Jesus did! We are now all ready for a rest over the Easter holidays. All the nursery staff would like to wish all our children and parents a very ‘Happy Easter’ and hope you all have a lovely break, we look forward to seeing you all on Monday 15th April, ready for another busy term!
Author visit, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 12:21pm
Following on from our wonderful world book day celebrations, we had a real author visit our school. Sean performed an assembly to all the children in which he read one of his own books and then he carried out a workshop with each class to help them become authors themselves. We are so impressed with the writing and illustrations produced by the children.
100% Attendance Certificates, by Miss Hulse
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 9:38am
Well done to all the children to achieved 100% attendance today, for the Spring Term.
World Book Day, by Mr Wood
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 2:18pm
We all had great fun dressing up as book characters on Thursday 7th March. The day got off to a great start with an assembly where everybody showed their costumes off! We were delighted to find that, thanks to the children’s kind donations, we raised over £247 for Book Aid International. This money will help to pay for books in less economically developed countries. Click the link below to have a look at the pictures of all the children in their fantastic costumes - as well as the staff!