Knockbreda Nursery School will be holding an Open Afternoon on Wednesday 18th January 2023 between 2.00-3.30pm for children due to start in September 2023. Everyone is welcome to come and meet our staff and see around our lovely school.
St Bernard's Preschool visit
We were delighted to meet our friends from St Bernard’s Preschool as part of our Shared Education Partnership program.
The children enjoyed our range of play resources and a delicious snack!
This visit marks the beginning of a year full of meet-ups and planned activities with our partnership schools.
Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day
On Friday 9th December we all wore something festive to raise money for Save the Children. We learnt about UNICEF’S rights of a child and how we can help each other in our school and community.
Children in Need
We enjoyed raising money for Children In Need with different activities throughout the day. Thank you to everyone who supported us in raising £124.25!
December Newsletter
Please find our December Newsletter with information about our fun, festive activities here.
Halloween Family Fun Night and Halloween Activities
We have had lots of fun learning about Autumn and showing our families what we do in Nursery. Thank you to everybody who came to our Family drop in night. It was lovely to see you all! Special thanks to The Friendly Balloon Company for decorating our school!🎈🎈
November Newsletter
You will find information and important dates in our November Newsletter here.
Settling in at Knockbreda Nursery School
We have been very busy these past few weeks learning our new routines, making friends and having fun!
Action of Happiness - Optimistic October
This months calendar from Action for Happiness is here. The focus this month is Optimistic October.
October Newsletter
Please find a copy of our October Newsletter here for information of this month’s topics, activities and visitors alongside information about our school.
Shared Education
We are delighted to have secured funding to recommence our Shared Partnership with Knockbreda Primary School, St Bernard's Primary School and St Bernard’s Pre-School for the 2022-2023 Academic Year.
During this year, we will aim to meet twice per term to enjoy activities with a focus on effective early mathematical development, including best practice in Nursery-Primary transition.
Red Apples Celebration
Good luck for P1 Red Apples!
Green Apples Celebration
Good Luck for P1 Green Apples!
Ship Ahoy! Topic
We have very much enjoyed our ‘Ship Ahoy!’ Topic. We have learnt all about pirates, treasure maps, mermaids, ships and much much more!
Green Apples
Red Apples
Hats and Shades day
Our Hats and Shades day was to learn all about how to be safe in the sun! We raised £55 for the Cancer Fund for Children. Well Done everyone!
Green Apples
Red Apples
Exploris
To complement our ‘At the Beach’ Topic and ‘Ship Ahoy’ Topic Exploris came with their touch tank! We had lots of fun learning about all the different sea creatures and how to keep the sea clean and look after the animals.
Green Apples
Red Apples
Party Animals NI
To finish of our ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Topic we had a visit from Party Animals NI. David brought lots of animals to show us including an African Millipede, Hissing Cockroaches, a snake, a bearded dragon and a chinchilla!
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Red Apples
All Creatures Great and Small! Topic
In this topic we have loved watching our caterpillars grow into butterflies! 🐛🦋 We have been very good at looking after them and giving them everything they need before they fly away. We have also enjoyed fining our own insects in the environment, including lots of snails, ladybirds and spiders! 🐌🐞🕷
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Red Apples
Recycling Rat visit
♻ On Tuesday we had an exciting visit from Mr Rat’s Recycling Show. Here we learnt all about what we can and can’t recycle, which bin to use and how to keep places clean and litter free! We enjoyed the story very much! ♻
Green Apples
Red Apples
Sports Cool
Over the last 10 weeks we have been very lucky to have a weekly Sports Cool lesson with Coach Gary. He has taught us lots of fundamental skills, yoga and even golf! We have thoroughly enjoyed these lessons!
