Celebrating Diwali With Kindy & Nursery

A huge welcome back to all our Kindy and Nursery children! We have a very exciting half term ahead, and we’re looking forward to our Bonfire Night celebrations taking place next Friday 13th from 6pm – 7pm.

On Monday, the children came together to celebrate the Hindu festival of light, Diwali, developing their understanding of the wider world through a range of lovely activities. The children enjoyed exploring three different rangoli-inspired activities: a craft table where they could colour, stick and design their own patterns; decorating a large rangoli pattern with colourful rice; and creating patterns by sorting different coloured pasta. They also loved using diva lights to complete their beautiful creations. They worked wonderfully together and particularly enjoyed watching My First Festivals as part of their Diwali learning.

The Kindy children have continued their learning journey through a mixture of play-based activities and structured carpet sessions. Our sound of the week is ‘i’, a bouncy sound introduced using the image of an insect, and our number of the week is 4. Our book of the week is Neon Leon. The children have also been getting creative, designing the most beautiful firework pictures using lolly sticks, glitter, paint and stickers.

In Nursery, our book of the week is It’s Diwali and our number of the week is 8. The children have been learning all about the festival of light and have enjoyed making their own colourful rangoli patterns as part of this exciting topic.