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Minster Nursery and Infant School, Croydon
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A warm and caring nursery and infants school, proud to be in #Croydon and to be part of the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education MAT

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Year 2 produced some great work in maths exploring grouping as repeated addition and multiplication. Some of the Year 2 pupils have also helped to tidy our playground!

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Year 2 Maths: Grouping – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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February 9, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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Year 1 continue to explore different senses. This week Year 1 have looked at sound and what happens the further you move away.

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Year 1 exploring “senses” – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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February 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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What a busy week in reception! Children have been using numicon to represent the “part, part whole model”.

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Reception: Using Numicon – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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February 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Nursery have had an exciting week learning all about the people who help us, their responsibilities and the vehicles they use. Wrens and Robins sound of the week was ‘d’ and Owlets had fun creating shadows with torchers.

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Nursery Learning: People who help us! – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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February 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Welcome to Minster Infants Newsround and our January edition. In this months news, the children tell us about a recent trip to the Croydon Mosque, the book “Bear under the stairs” and lastly, pilot, Bessie Coleman.

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Minster Infants Newsround – January 2026 – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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January 22, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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The children have been reading the classic childrens book “The Bear under the Stairs”.

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Year 2 reading “Bear under the Stairs – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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January 22, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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In history, Year 1 have started a new topic “How have toys changed?” to help them understand, Miss Cooper brought in some of the toys she used to play with when she was a child. Year 1 had great fun seeing them!

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Year 1 learn about toys – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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January 22, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Reception have had a very busy week. The children loved making their own aliens, creating repeating patterns and using their knowledge of phonics to write sentences.

Children also reflected on the Bible story of “The Prodigal Son”, they acted it out so well.

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Reception making aliens! – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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January 22, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Nursery continue to love their learning. This week the children especially enjoyed playing with the “Moon Sand”.

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Nursery News – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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January 22, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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A huge congratulations to our amazingly gifted and talented Junior children who now have the great honour of being named the Champions of Croydon at Sportshall Athletics!

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Minster are the Champions! – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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January 15, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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On Tuesday, the whole school gathered together at the Minster Church to celebrate being part of a community.

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Minster Church Gathering – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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December 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Year 2 have been enjoying reading for pleasure this week. We love reading at the Minster School!

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Year 2 Reading Fun! – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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December 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Nursery had a wonderful finish to the term with a lovely Christmas party. They really enjoyed it. Thank you to all the parents for the donations and support this term.

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Nursery Christmas party – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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December 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Nursery had a brilliant week. The children’s nativity was a success and everyone had a lovely day on Christmas jumper day. Thank you to all the parents for coming in to see your children!

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Nativity & Christmas jumper day – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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December 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Reception had a brilliant time at their first ever Christmas Dinner in the big hall! The children continue to work collaboratively – just look at the castle they made!

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Reception Christmas Dinner – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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December 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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This week, Year 1 watched ‘The three bears pantomime coding adventure’ to help them develop their understanding of coding. The children had great fun listening and joining in!

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Year 1 Pantomime – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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December 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Year 2 have been using their art skills to create some amazing Christmas cards!

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Year 2 Christmas Cards – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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December 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Reception continue to enjoy their learning! The children have been creating repeating patterns, writing their names and exploring light and dark.

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Reception creating repeating patterns – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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December 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Year 2 have been having a fantastic time thinking about exploring and going on adventures around the world inspired by the book, ‘Dear Earth’.

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Year 2 have been travelling the globe! – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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This week year 1 have started a new book called Billy and the beast and this week we had a “beast” come into our classroom and eat our fruit and knock a couple of pencils. Year 1 made wanted posters to find the beast.

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Year 1 reading Billy & the Beast! – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Nursery have continued to engage in more winter learning and work extremely hard in all learning activities. The children have pushed themselves immensely in maths, strengthening their subitising skills.

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Nursery Learning Fun! – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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December 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Year 2 have been doing some beautiful handwriting using their new English books with handwriting guidelines. We have attached some of their work below. Please click on the thumbnails for a larger view.

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Year 2 handwriting – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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In nursery we’ve had such a fun and busy week. In relation to the story ‘‘bear snores on’, nursery children have been focusing on winter learning, such as weather changes and hibernation. This has sparked the beginning of the festive season.

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Nursery Learning: ‘bear snores on’ – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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November 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Nursery have had a wonderfully busy and imaginative week. The children explored two favourite stories, ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘We’re Going On A Bear Hunt’. These classic tales inspired lots of movement, language and sensory play.

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Nursery explore classic stories – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Welcome to another edition of Newsround from our Year 2 reporting team. Today we hear about some fabulous events coming up this month and early December so be sure to have your diary at the ready to make a note of those all important dates.

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Minster Infants Newsround November 2025 – The Minster Nursery and Infants School
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November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM