Nursery

Welcome to Nursery Class.

2025-2026

Early Years Practioners - Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Garside.  

Take a look at our plan for learning in Autumn.

Week commencing 29th September 2025

Maths this week we are working on matching number shapes and sizes. The children used numicon to help with our matching. As a group we looked at some numicon and talked about the shape discussing if they matched. Then we looked a bit further and started to count the holes in the numicon. The children were quick at noticing that the numicon were sometimes the same in colour but were different in the amount of holes they had.
The children went off in small groups together and used the numicon to make pictures, then asking a friend if they could match the shape to the silhouette on the paper. 
 

RE this week we have been talking about how we are special to our friends. We have also discussed who is special in our lives. Here are some of the things the children shared.
“I’m special cos I share my toys with my brother.”.

”My nana is special cos I get to see her all the time.”

She’s my friend cos she sits and plays with me.”

It was lovely to hear lots of the childrens thoughts of how they are special.
 

Continuing our book ‘A handful of Buttons’ the children have been discussing if they have pets in their families. We shared who had a pet at home and talked about that some people don’t have any pets and some people do. We had lots of fun drawing some pictures of pets that we have or for some of the children pets that they would like to have.

PE this week we have been working on our balancing, and jumping skills. The children were fantastic at using the apparatus to balance and walk along the beam before climbing up and jumping onto the big mat. It was great to see the childrens confidence grow the more they did it during the session. After that they would walk over to the soft obstacle course trying to not fall into the water. 
 

We have had lots of fun in the garden this week making potions in the water area. We used Lemons, oranges and a selection of herbs.
The children have had a great time painting self portraits in the mark making area using a variety of different coloured paints and brushes. 
The rain didn’t stop us having fun this week, we dressed in our waterproofs and did some dancing and splashing in the rain. We loved looking for worms that had come out. We loved comparing the worms with our friends to see who had the longest and shortest.

We have loved decorating biscuits to match the colour of we chose and added a few chocolate buttons on too. 
We all loved becoming a little artist like the artist Kandinsky who frequently used circles in his work. The children enjoyed looking at some of his art work and talking about how he used a lot of circles in his art.  
 

Week beginning 22nd September 2025

Maths this week we have been looking at matching. We have been using buttons this week to help us match. We discussed that we can match buttons by colour, shape, size. As a whole group we played a little game, the colour monster had lost some buttons off his shirt. It was our job to help him find the correct button to place back onto his shirt. 
We have enjoyed building towers matching the lego blocks like the tower that is shown to me on a picture. We discussed what colour is on the bottom, what comes next and what is on the top. 
 

RE this week we are looking at What do I do with my family? As a whole group we discussed who is special to us and the children for example, Mam, Dad, Sister, Brother. The children all took it in turns to talk about who is special to them and what special things they do with their family. It was great to hear the children talk about their families and all the special things they do. 
 

Our book this week is A Handful of Buttons. We have are loving reading the book together as a whole group. We have discussed that we are all different and unique and special. It has been lovely to hear the children talk about what they think is special about themselves. 
The children have been very keen to share who lives in their houses with them and if they have any pets, brothers, or sisters. 
 

We have been so busy this week having so much fun. The children have loved making picture jigsaws of themselves. We have made pizza faces with the ingredients pepperoni, peppers, cheese. Everyone was great labelling their facial features, describing the colour of their eyes and hair. I hope you all enjoyed eating your pizzas when you got home.

outside has been very popular too with the children as they have loved searching for worms in the garden and comparing the size of the worms with their friends worms. We have used a variety of ways to be creative with the paints. We have used spray bottles, paintbrushes, chalks and water to make a foam, and rollers. 
We have been discussing that we are in the season Autumn now and lots are changing on the trees. We talked about Autumn things growing on the trees that we don’t see in Summer and spring. The children loved exploring and looking at some confers, acorns, berries and leaves. Mrs Atkinson found on her walk at the weekend. We loved hearing all about her adventure and how she had brought them for us to have a look at.  

I wonder what adventures we will have next week. 

Week commencing 15th September 2025

This week in nursery we are continuing our focus on Colours. We have been looking at the colours Purple and Green. The children have loved building towers with Purple and Green blocks, we have looked at a variety of shades of Green and Purple. The children went on a colour hunt in nursery to find objects which are Green and Purple. The children really enjoyed taking part in a colour hunt together. There was so many colours around nursery that we identified. 
We have enjoyed singing the song 1 potato, 2 potato this week as part of our maths lesson. 
 

Our book this week we are continuing reading My Family. The children have enjoyed drawing portraits of themselves describing and labelling their eyes, nose, mouth. 
We used a variety of materials such as wool, felt, pens, pencils to make our faces using a paper plate. The children were fantastic at describing the colour of their hair, colour of their eyes, if their hair was short or long. We loved cooking together this week making gingerbread people, the children loved sharing them together at group time as part of their snack. 
 

The children have loved building friendships together as they have explored both indoors and outdoors together. Some children have enjoyed mini beast hunting, we have found lots of worms, spiders and daddy long legs. 
the children have loved painting, making soups in the mud kitchen, playing on the bikes and climbing frames. 
Indoors we have loved dressing up in the music area, dancing and singing on the stage together. We have loved getting creative in the clay, learning new ways we can mould the clay. 
We have enjoyed mixing and learning that mixing two colours together makes a new colour. 
 

As a whole group we have loved taking part in Dough Disco. Dough disco is a exercise for the fingers and hands that is designed to improve early writing and letter formation. 

Week commencing 8th September 2025

We would like to take this opportunity to say a big welcome to the children who have just joined us this term. Also a big welcome to all our children who have returned to us. We hope you have all had a lovely summer with your families and loved ones. 
 

This week we have loved spending time exploring our environment indoors and outdoors, spending time with our friends. The children have loved spending time in the garden painting, playing in the mud kitchen, building in the construction and also exploring the water features. 
Inside the children have enjoyed getting creative in the mark making area with a variety of materials making models and exploring the dough and a selection of new tools. 
A group of children have loved our dressing up area, getting creative with the clothes, hats, scarves and jewellery.

This term we are looking at Families, we have starting to read our book called ‘Family.’ The children have really enjoyed sharing this book together as a group. We have discussed how all families are different, some may be big, some maybe small, some might have pets some might have none. 
 

We have all loved sharing who lives in our house and looking at some photographs of our families. The children then made a drawing of their family. All the children were keen to share who lives in their house with them. 
the children have all made a scotch pancake face with fruit this week. We used strawberries, grapes and blueberries as the eyes, nose and mouth. They were fantastic and delicious. 
 

We have looked at a little maths this week as a group, we are working on colours. The children were fantastic at recognising and labelling the colours Red, Blue and Yellow. We had a little problem in nursery, the colour monster had lost his Red, Blue and Yellow Pom poms somewhere in nursery and couldn’t remember where he put them, our job as a group were to find the coloured Pom poms and place them in the correct groups. The children all blew Mrs Atkinsons and Mrs Garside socks off they all worked really hard and listened very carefully. 
 

We all hope you have had a lovely first week back to Nursery and we look forward to having lots more adventures with you.