Thank you to Sarah from The Children's Cancer Fund NI for visiting Nursery and telling us all about keeping safe in the sun. We now all know how to Slip, Slop and Slap! Thank you!
Special thanks to our parents and staff who made such a positive contribution to our Nursery Diversity Day! The children enjoyed trying new foods, singing new songs, hearing stories from other cultures and finding out about customs and festivals from around the world! What a busy day!
For information about activities, topics and special events, please see our June Newsletter here.
To mark the start of our work on transition to P1, the Nursery children visited Knockbreda Primary School for an energetic PE session in the school hall. Over the last year, the children have been working on their fundamental movement skills at Nursery and this was put to good work during our busy PE session! Well done Knockbreda Nursery!
Sincere thanks to our Chairman Mr McNeill for leading this PE session.
The children from Knockbreda Nursery School enjoyed the opportunity to meet with their friends from Knockbreda Primary School and St Bernard's Primary School to share weather stories and to play outside together. Another successful partnership event!
Our May Newsletter is here with our news, information on our topics, important calendar dates and events for this month. Our pupils are going to be very busy in Knockbreda Nursery!
The children at Knockbreda Nursery School thoroughly enjoyed meeting with their friends from the Shared Partnership programme (St Bernard's Primary School and Knockbreda Primary School) to take part in a pupil-led shared story session at Knockbreda Primary School. This event was a wonderful opportunity for the P5 children to share their excellent reading skills and for the children involved in the partnership to meet and play together outdoors.
The children at Knockbreda Nursery School enjoyed a visit from Belfast City Council and the Recycle Rat! The children were keen to learn all about recycling and how they too can help to look after the environment!
Welcome back to all of our pupils. We hope you all enjoyed the Easter break! Our April Newsletter is attached here with details of all the exciting events and interesting topics planned for the new term.
The children at Knockbreda Nursery School thoroughly enjoyed our end of term Easter celebrations! Great fun was had searching for eggs during our final Forest School session!
We hope you have a very Happy Easter! School will re-open on Tuesday 10 April at 8.30am.
Thank you to all the parents and carers who joined us on World Book Day to share stories at Nursery! The children thoroughly enjoyed the story sharing sessions and were keen to talk about their favourite books!
At Knockbreda Nursery School we are fortunate to enjoy three outdoor spaces and we make full use of these each day, whatever the weather! Each week we have a full morning of 'Forest School' when we enjoy 'forest free play' in the Sensory Garden. In addition to exploratory play, there are teacher led activities at our Forest School and these have involved lighting a campfire, creating a bug hotel and planting a herb garden!
Due to continuing adverse weather conditions, Knockbreda Nursery School will be closed on Friday 2 March 2018.
Due to the extreme weather conditions, Knockbreda Nursery School will be closed today.
Staff hope to reschedule all World Book Day events for Thursday 15 March 2018.
We have lots of interesting and exciting activities planned for March! For more details and other important school information, please see our March Newsletter here.
For information about our topics and activities in February, please find our Newsletter here.
The children at Knockbreda enjoyed a healthy living experience when they had a yoga session with Aisling at Nursery! They enjoyed learning lots of yoga poses!
The children at Knockbreda thoroughly enjoyed Mr Hullabaloo's Winter Wonderland show! With the appearance of lots of well known fairy tale characters and even some audience participation, a great time was had by all!
The children at Knockbreda Nursery School enjoyed a visit from the PSNI. They learnt all about road safety and how best to keep safe when they are out and about. Thank you to the PSNI officers who took the time to visit our school.
The children at Knockbreda Nursery School certainly made the most of the snow today! Great fun was had by all, with plenty of snow available to build a snowman!
