Marine Academy Primary (MAP), are celebrating World Nursery Rhyme Week. 

World Nursery Rhyme Week is an annual event to encourage teachers and parents to use nursery rhymes to help children develop their language and literacy skills. As well as being fun, rhymes, such as Humpty Dumpty and Five Currant Buns, are excellent teaching tools and play an important role in early childhood development and education. 


The children at MAP have had so much fun engaging in all things rhyme-related.  They've been busy printing stars and singing along to ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’, sailing boats in the water tray to act out ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’, and they even found an ‘Incy Wincy Spider’ hiding in the sandpit! 

They also loved exploring the Old MacDonald farm tuff spot, where they had fun with animal figures and practised their best “E-I-E-I-O!”  The youngest learners in Turtle Class are loving every rhyme-filled moment!

Georgina Reid Headteacher at Marine Academy Primary said:

“Learning nursery rhymes is a fantastic way to help children boost their vocabulary and language development.  Rhymes also develop children’s literacy skills and help improve social, physical and emotional skills.

“Our pupils have had great fun marking World Nursery Rhyme Week and I would like to thank all the children, parents and staff for embracing the week so positively.”

Siobhan Meredith, Executive Director of Education at the Ted Wragg Multi-Academy Trust said:

“It is really lovely that Marine Academy Primary’s youngest learners in their 2 year old Nursery have been celebrating World Nursery Rhyme Week. The activities they have been doing are the foundation on which their future literacy skills will be built and they also help to fuel the imaginative play based learning that helps them develop a love for education.”