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Posted on by Little Birds Nursery
05
Feb

What jobs do Teachers, Midday supervisors and Lollipop people do?

Little Birds were fascinated to find out more information about the role of a teacher, a midday supervisor and lollipop person.

A teacher points to a large interactive screen displaying "Key Group Time" with images of crossing guards, as a group of students watches from the floor.
A classroom of students sits on the floor facing a large screen showing a person using sign language, while a teacher at the front mirrors the hand gesture.

In our nursery, we had set up various activities to imitate a school and had a mini school in the role play area and pretending to be a lollipop person in the outdoors.

They learned about road safety to remember to Stop, Look, Listen, Think and hold hands.

Four young students sit and stand around a small table in a classroom, engaged in a learning activity with colorful cards and books.
A teacher leads a small group of children across a play-area "road" with white markings, while one student assists by holding a striped crossing pole.
Two children outdoors are practicing road safety; one child wears a high-visibility vest and holds a yellow and red crossing pole while gesturing "stop" with their hand.

Little Birds have been very interested in writing for a purpose and making their own road signs.

A young child with dark hair tied back uses a marker to draw circles and lines on a red piece of paper at a wooden classroom table.
A young boy in a blue school jumper looks down intently at a red paper circle he is holding, which has the word "STOP" written on it.

The children painted portraits of the Nursery practitioners and their friends using block paints and fine brushes. Well done, you are artists.

Two young children stand together in a classroom; one child has an arm around the other while they hold up a white sheet of paper with dark paint markings.
A teacher wearing glasses and a blue fleece smiles next to a young student who is proudly holding up a colorful, abstract finger painting.
A young boy wearing a yellow protective art smock smiles as he holds up a painting of a face with brown hair and large ears.
A young girl in a classroom stands in front of a "Creation Station" sign, proudly holding up a landscape-oriented finger painting with abstract brown and pink shapes.

Following the discussion about midday supervisors, we talked about our lunches and favourite food.

We were great at exchanging conversations about healthy and unhealthy food, as well as carrying out different activities to support this.

A young boy in a white polo shirt holds up a "My Healthy Plate" worksheet where he has colored inside the circular plate template with orange crayon.
A young student sits at a wooden table using blue safety scissors to carefully cut out paper character accessories for an art project.
A young girl in a blue jumper holds up a "Build a Vegetable Character" worksheet where she has glued a hat and arms onto a large carrot illustration.

Some stories we looked at this week were:

The cover of a book titled "Jessa the Teacher," depicting an illustrated scene of a teacher holding a book while sitting with a large circle of children on a colorful checkered rug.
A book cover titled "Stop, Wait, Go! The British Edition" by Nancy King, featuring an illustrated crossing guard surrounded by various road signs and symbols.
An illustration of a children's book cover titled "Busy People: Teacher," showing a teacher sitting on a stool reading to a small group of attentive children.

This weeks shape focus was to look for rectangles in the environment and make models using rectangle shaped resources:

Four young children in blue school jumpers stand around a large black tray, collaborating to arrange colorful rectangular building blocks.
A young boy in a blue jumper plays at a table with colorful building blocks and plastic animal figures, including a zebra and a polar bear.
A young girl smiles while holding up a "Squares and Rectangles Pencil Control" worksheet where she has traced and colored in various shapes.
A young girl grins broadly as she displays her completed shape-tracing worksheet, showing squares and rectangles outlined in different colored markers.