Christmas Stay and Play 

This week in Nursery we enjoyed our 'Christmas Stay and Play'. The children had so much fun, and it was wonderful to see so many of you in Nursery! Thanks to all who joined us and made our Stay and Play so fun and magical - we hope you all had lots of festive fun! 

 

 

 

 

Stick Man 

Stick Man was the book of our week. We went searching for a range of sticks and explored floating and sinking. We used sticks to create marks, compared stick lengths, explored ice paints and made a wonderful large stick creation using a range of materials. 

 

 

 

Owl Babies 

The children loved exploring the story of 'Owl Babies'. The children engaged in lots of play supporting their learning through playdough owls, owl number hunts, natural tuff trays, drawing owls, fine motor activities, comparing day and night, exploring with paint, making chocolate owl nest cakes and learning new vocabulary: nocturnal, hunting, swoop, beak, nest, owlets. 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to Nursery 2025! 

Hi, my name is Miss Cook and I will be your children's new teacher this year in Nursery!

This week has been wonderful meeting and getting to know all of your lovely little ones! The children have settled in so well and have had lots of fun playing and exploring our new nursery environment, seeing familiar faces and making new friends! 

 

Autumn 1 - All about me!

The children are enjoying learning all about themselves, their feelings, their families and their amazing senses - we even got to make and taste our own toast YUM! 

Exploring colour! 

The children have been exploring colour, matching and sorting at nursery through a range of different activities such as free painting, sensory trays, water play, mark making, colour jumping and colour hunts! 

Week 5 

This week we have focused on Health and Self Care routines in nursery - learning and understanding why it is important to wash our hands and brush our teeth. We have used interactive activities to support our learning - we drew germs on our hands and watched as the soap and water washed them away - the children loved this - give it a try at home!  

Sort it out! 

We have been focusing on sorting by a single attribute! The children sorted natural items such as sticks and leaves, and then we went on a shape hunt around the field looking for the shapes that someone had left behind! We were excellent at sorting and knew lots of our shape names! 

Outdoor Drumming 

Following the Letters and Sounds Phase 1 programme Nursery have been learning about environmental sounds. We engaged in listening walks and outdoor drumming using sticks – the children really loved these activities! The children explored the outdoor area drumming on a range of different objects and listening for the sounds. The children were able to distinguish between loud and quiet sounds very well. 

Leaves, Leaves, Leaves 

This week we have ceantred our learning around the book 'Leaf Man' and the changes in Autumn. We have explored different leaves - looking at the shapes, colours and types of leaves. 

Thank you to everyone who has brought in some leaves from your Autumn challenge - the chidlren have loved creating with these in a range of different ways! 

Squiggle whilst you Wiggle 

We have really been enjoying Squiggle whilst you Wiggle this term. This is a programme made to support and develop children's fine motor skills ready for early writing! The children follow a set guide of movements which support the lines and circles in our letters.. we have mastered 'Move 1: up and down' and will be ready for the next move in Autumn 2! 

 

 

Pick a Pumpkin - Halloween 

This week we have been reading the book 'Pick a Pumpkin'. The children explored the hill and we found our very own pumpkins - we spoke about all the different shapes, sizes and colours of the pumpkins we discovered and then we opened them up to see what was inside. The children enjoyed using tools to scoop out the seeds (some were even brave enough to stick thier hands in!) and described the flesh as 'sticky, slimey, wet and gooey'. 

We have had a lovely week in Nursery celebrating Halloween - we dressed up, explored sesnory trays, read stories, made and decorated biscuits! 

Autism Awareness 

All things blue! We read a story called 'together we can', made a hand print wreath and spoke about what makes us 'unique' to celebrate Autism Awareness. 

We're going on a Bear Hunt 

I hope you all had a wonderful half term and enjoyed with your families. This week we have been reading 'We're going on a Bear Hunt' and the children have shown amazing engagement with the story. We went on a Big Walk where we walked the story and found the bear hiding in his cave, made bear plates, completed a story map and had lots of fun in our Bear Hunt tuff tray retelling the story with props! 

Fireworks 

This week we have celebrated Bonfire Night - we spoke to the children about how to keep safe on Bonfire Night and spoke about the lovely fireworks we see lighting up our sky. We created firework painting pictures, made firework patterns with fine motor sticks and explored tuff trays. 

Remembrance Day 

The Gruffalo 

This week in Nursery we have all enjoyed 'The Gruffalo'. We went on an adventure to find the characters from the story and sequenced their order, investigated our sensory trays, played in the Gruffalos cave and made the Gruffalo out of playdough. 

 

Size! 

We have focused on size this week – sizes of objects in our environment, sorting items based on size and organising natural objects based on size! 

Children in Need 

Inter-Faith Week 

To celebrate Inter-Faith Week Nursery looked at the beautiful Islamic prayer mats on Tuesday, danced to Hindi Bhangra music on Wednesday, looked at Jewish artifacts on Thursday and played eye-spy with The Big Frieze on Friday.