Nursery
Welcome to Nursery Class.
2025-2026
Early Years Practioners - Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Garside.
Week beginning 16th February 2026
What a magical week we’ve had in nursery!
This week we’ve been exploring the wonderful world of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children loved bringing the story to life with hands-on play! We had great fun pouring and scooping dry porridge oats into big, medium and small bowls — and talked all about how they felt, comparing sizes and describing textures with friends.
Everyone made their very own bear face using paper plates, paint and lots of cutting and sticking — we were super proud of how carefully the children used their scissors! The classroom was full of giggles and creativity as the bears came to life.
Our snack time turned into a porridge party! Some children added a little honey or syrup and gave it a “yum!” others decided they preferred playing with the oats over eating them, which sparked lots of lovely talking about different tastes!
We danced our socks off on the stage with dressing-up and songs, and have also been practising cutting skills in lots of different fun ways.
We were lucky with the weather and loved being outside! Whether zooming around on bikes, taking care of dolls in pushchairs, or exploring with body boards — the smiles were non-stop!
RE
🇨🇳 Lunar New Year Celebrations!
This week we also celebrated Chinese New Year! The children tried yummy vegetable spring rolls, prawn crackers, rice, noodles and even a bit of curry sauce. We explored red rice in our sensory tray using chopsticks — what a challenge that was! We also had fun painting Chinese numerals in the creative area.
✨ The Great Race!
We read The Great Race and the children loved acting out the story with puppets in our very own Lunar Race in the hall — cheering and laughter filled the room! We then watched a real dragon dance video and made our own dragon dance together — it was a brilliant celebration of movement, music and colour.
🔢 Maths
Our focus in maths this week has been number 5! The children enjoyed working together with Numicon pieces to find lots of ways to make 5 — like putting 3 and 2 together to make 5. Such brilliant counting and team work!
Week beginning 12th February 2026
Another busy and exciting week in Nursery!”
We have continued enjoying our story Stick Man. The children have taken part in a variety of Stick Man activities, including making their own stick men. We loved drawing large-scale portraits of Stick Man with our friends. The children have also been developing their fine motor skills as we practised our cutting skills using cabbage leaves. It was wonderful to see the children’s confidence grow during this activity.
In our role play area, we have enjoyed re-enacting everyday situations with our friends. We sat together making and drinking tea, before heading off to the shops with our bags and babies in the pushchairs. The jigsaws have been a big hit too. We started with simple inset puzzles and then moved on to more challenging jigsaws.
We were very lucky to have a visit from Laura, who brought some musical instruments into nursery. We had lots of fun playing the instruments while singing songs together.
RE
This week in RE, we have been learning about the Hindu celebration of Holi, also known as the “Festival of Colour.” This is a two-day celebration. We watched a short video showing children celebrating by throwing colourful powder paint in the streets.After we discussed how this celebration is different from how we celebrate with our families.
Maths
In Maths this week, we have been focusing on the number 5. The children explored the shape pentagon and discussed how many sides it has and how it looks different from other shapes we already know. The children each had a go at making their own pentagon using lollipop sticks, using one-to-one counting as they worked.
PE
In PE this week, the children loved taking part in dancing. We enjoyed showing off our dance moves as we wiggled, jumped, and hopped. We also practised a little yoga to help us relax before heading back to nursery.
Childrens Mental Health Week
This year’s theme for Children’s Mental Health Week is “My Place.”
As part of this, we spent time discussing what “My Place” means to us. We talked about how everyone has a special place where they feel they belong and feel safe. The children watched a short video clip of other children sharing where their special place is, which helped us to think about our own ideas.
We then took turns to share with our friends where we feel safe and where we belong. It was lovely to hear the children speak so confidently about their homes, families, and favourite spaces.
To finish the activity, we created large-scale drawings of our special places. The children took great pride in their artwork, and it was wonderful to see such thoughtful conversations taking place.
6th February 2026
🔢 NSPCC Number Day in Nursery
Today we celebrated NSPCC Number Day as a whole school. Children came to school in their uniform with a top featuring a number, helping to make the day extra fun and full of maths!
In Nursery, the children took part in a range of number-focused activities. In the creative area, they enjoyed painting numbers using paintbrushes and collaging numbers with a variety of materials. The children also created some lovely pictures using felt pens, crayons and pencils, developing their fine motor skills alongside their creativity.
We also explored playdough, where the children challenged themselves to create numbers 1 to 5, then made small and large balls to represent each number. This supported number recognition, counting and early maths vocabulary.
It was a fantastic day full of learning, creativity and number fun!
Week commencing 2nd February 2026
This week in nursery we have been enjoying our new story Stick man, it has been a big hit! The children loved reading the story together and joining in with some of the familiar words and phrases.
We talked about how the Stick Man might have been feeling while he was away from his family, sharing lots of thoughtful ideas. We also spotted clues in the pictures to talk about the season and the weather in the story.
one of our favourite activities was making our very own stick Men using mini chocolate rolls and matchmakers. They were lots of fun to make, especially when we ate them as part of our snack.
Creativity has been everywhere this week! The children enjoyed junk modelling, cutting and sticking with a wide range of materials.
The stage area was full of singing, dancing and dressing up with friends, while the construction area was busy with team work building and creating together.
Our art area has been especially busy too, with the children painting their own Stick Men using water paints, we love seeing their wonderful creations!
Maths this week we have been continuing our work on the number 4. We started with a quick recap of last week’s learning by looking closely at the numeral 4 together.
we then explored some shapes and talked about how many sides they have. The children noticed that both squares and rectangles have 4 sides, just like the number we are learning about. Great spotting Nursery.
The children then took part in a fun little job. We had two ladybirds who had lost their spots. The children kindly helped by sticking their spots back on. They were able to chose any number of spots from 1-4.
There was lots of brilliant counting, careful thinking and proud smiles during this activity well done everyone.
we had great fun exploring the number 4 through a super active maths game! Children used a large hoop as a target and took turns throwing three smaller hoops into it. After everyone had a go, we practised one to one counting to see how many hoops landed inside the large hoop.
The children showed fantastic concentration, co-ordination and number skills as they counted, compared their scores and talked about the results with their friends. It was wonderful to see maths come alive through play and movement!
Well done everyone!
RE this week we have been continuing to learn about New Year celebrations around the world. This week we focused on how people celebrate Persian New Year.
we watched a short video clip to see how Persian New Year is celebrated and talked about some of the special foods families enjoy at home during this time. The children enjoyed sharing their thoughts. To finish our RE session, we had a little recap of what we learnt last week, helping us remember and build on our learning.
PE this week we had lots of fun using the obstacle apparatus in the hall. The children loved climbing, balancing and jumping as they moved around the course. We practised our balancing skills and even made some music as we carefully stepped and held on to the musical cushions.
Everyone took turns to have a go, and we loved cheering on our friends. There was lots of smiles, encouragement and proud moments all around.
Week commencing 26th January 2026
This week in nursery, our children have loved retelling the story of the Gruffalo’s child. We explored a variety of Gruffalo and winter themed activities, including collaging our own Gruffalos and cutting and decorating snowflakes.
We also had great fun with our very own penguin ice race! The children really enjoyed building train tracks, working together and problem- solving to assemble the tracks just the way they planned.
To end the week, we had a little go at ice skating with our friends, using shaving foam and freezer food bags on our feet. We had lots of laughter and excitement all around!
Maths this week, we have been working on the number 4. The children have been fantastic at subitising quantities up to four and recognising the numeral 4. They took part in a range o mini games using buttons, which helped develop their counting, number recognition and early problem solving skills.
RE this week, we have been learning about how people in different countries celebrate New Year. We learned about a special celebration called Nowruz, which is a time to celebrate new beginnings, growth and happiness.
We watched a short video showing how a family celebrates Nowruz. Afterwards, we talked together as a group about what we saw and shared our ideas about how the family celebrated.
PE this week, we have loved working on our upper body strength and hand-eye coordination. We did this by working with a friend using a hula hoop while singing Row, Row, your Boat and the Wheels on the bus.
we then worked in pairs, rolling a ball to each other. After that we tried bouncing the ball and throwing it our partner.
we finished the session with some fun dancing before calming our bodies with a little children’s yoga.
Week commencing 19th January 2026
This week in nursery, we have started our new book The Gruffalo’s child. The children have loved exploring the story in lots of creative ways. We collated our own Gruffalos, retold the story using puppets, and created shadows as we played. We also also used playdough to make the Big Bad Mouse and Gruffalos, developing our fine motor skills while having lots of fun.
The children have loved taking part in Helicopter stories this week. Some children told their own stories to staff, which were written down and then enjoyed acting them out with their friends. This was a lovely way to build their confidence, creativity and teamwork.
We have also enjoyed playing with the trains, cars and Lego, using our imagination to build and create. Outdoors the children loved exploring with the bikes, mud kitchen and water play.
We were very lucky to have Laura Visit us, where we sang songs together as she played the Ukulele. The children throughly enjoyed the music and joint in with the actions.
Maths this week, we have continued working on the number 3. The children loved taking part in a number hunt., searching around the room for hidden pictures of three. This was a fun and engaging way to support number recognition.
We also looked closely at the numeral 3 and talked about how it can sometimes look different, but still represent the same number. The children showed great confidence and team work as they participated in the activities.
RE this week we have looked at the ‘The Great Lunar story’. The children took part in their own animal race in the hall, linking the story in a fun and active way. We also learned about how the New Year is celebrated by different cultures around the world.
PE this week, the children participated in a obstacle course that focussed on balancing, walking and jumping. Everyone showed great effort and enthusiasm while developing their physical skills.
Week commencing 9th January 2026
Our children enjoyed a walk to our local Tesco in Hetton this week. Every child was given a name of a fruit for us to buy in Tesco. It was exciting as we collected our fruit placed in the basket and had a go at scanning the fruit independently. After buying our fruit we walked over to the Hetton Centre where we all had a drink of juice before heading back to nursery before home time.
Re this week we have discussed What is Chinese New Year? We watched a short video on some children explaining how they celebrate new year with their families. We watched a traditional Chinese celebration dance with the Dragon. After we all went into the hall and performed our very own dragon dance together.
Maths this week the children have been looking at the number 3. We have looked at how we can make the number three for example 1+ 2 = 3. The children have loved subitising 3. They were so good at shouting 3 when they saw items of three on the cards. We have enjoyed playing a little game of helping the Tiger cross the river. The children worked together to place the tiger on the stepping stone that was the number 3. As this was the only stepping stone he could step on. All the children did fantastic working together on this task.
PE this week we have loved participating in some dancing and yoga. The children were fantastic at showing us their dance moves. Everyone loved participating in yoga. We all had great fun.
Launchpad this week the children have been working on their Receptive Language. A group of children have followed 2 key word instructions through their play. Another group of children have been answering questions about a book we have read giving reposes from “who, what and where” questions.
We have loved baking cakes this week. We made vanilla cupcakes and decorated them with white icing adding a little snowflake on the top for decoration. They were delicious.
Our fake snow made out of cornflour and shaving foam has been great with the children. They loved exploring the texture, finding all the hidden winter animals hiding.
some of the children have loved playing imaginatively with the frozen castle and people. It has been lovely seeing the children getting creative acting out their stories as they played together.
The children have loved collaging and painting creating their own paper plate ice rink. We painting ice first using blue paint then added some cotton wool to make snow. When all of this was dry we added a photo of ourselves ice skating on the rink.
Week beginning 5th January 2026
We have all settled lovely in great in nursery. Our new children have settled great and have made lots of friendships with everyone. Everyone has loved sharing their news of Christmas and the lovely things they have been up to with their families. The snow has been huge for everyone in nursery we have loved exploring together in the garden, building snowmen, digging and rolling making snow angels.
This week we have slowly settled back into nursery. We have loved looking at our book of the week which is, Jack Frost. The children have really shown an interest in this, we have loved making our own creations of Jack Frost using a selection of collage materials. Getting messy is one of our favourite things to do as we explored some fake snow as well as real snow from outside in the tuff spot.
Everyone has loved making some snowmen pictures using cotton wool, stickers, Pom poms and chalk pens.
The children got creative as they made a Jack Frost biscuit for their snack using white icing, edible eyes and raisins.
RE this week we have been looking at New Years Eve. The children were asked if they knew what New Year was. Before watching a short video of the count down for New Year and the fireworks. After we discussed how many people like to make a resolution at New Year, the children then shared what they would like to do as their resolution.
Laura came to visit us on Tuesday she brought her ukulele in for us to listen to and sing with. Laura sang some songs with us and we loved singing along with her. Everyone loved having a go at playing a little tune on her drum as we sang together on the carpet.
Laura will be visiting us every Tuesday for a singing and dancing session in Nursery.
Take a look at our plan for learning in Autumn Two.
We had a great Santa Dash with the children today. Our morning children participated in the dash around school. We dashed around school starting in Nursery, the office, Mrs Hills Office and most of the classrooms. We sang ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas’ along the way making everyone smile.
This afternoon the children participated in a whole school Santa Dash, we enjoyed walking around the whole school together with the older children running alongside us. We finished the afternoon with some singing in the hall.
Week commencing 15th December 2025
Our children have loved all the Christmas celebration activities this week. We have made chocolate Reindeers for snack. Using mini rolls, chocolate matchmakers and edible eyes. These were delicious part of our snack. We have enjoyed painting with puff paints this was a great experience for the children as they painted with a new texture. The children have enjoyed working on their fine motor skills as we decorated the rice Christmas tree in the tuff spot.
All the children have enjoyed mark making and colouring a variety of Christmas pictures, reading books.
Everyone enjoyed our Christmas party, you all looked fantastic in your party clothes. We danced, played games and sang lots of party song before having a little snack at the end. We were so lucky to have a special visit from Santa
We finished our week of celebrations by developing our full body muscles and upper arm muscles in the hall. We did this by lying on our tummy and getting pulled along the floor whilst making marks on the paper. This was really funny and great to do. We all had numerous goes and giggled each time.
We hope you all have a fantastic Christmas with your loved ones and we look forward to seeing you all in the New Year. Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Garside
Week commencing 8th December 2025
Nursery this week our Christmas celebrations are continuing. We have been singing and practicing our Nativity ready for our grown ups on Friday.
The children have loved making eatable Christmas trees using ice cream cones, icing and a selection of sweets to decorate. We loved eating them at snack with our friends.
Our winter igloo has been a huge success with everyone, has loved climbing inside getting comfortable and reading a book or exploring the light box.
The mark making area has been popular with the children this week, all the children have loved painting on a large scale exploring colour mixing with different shades of blue.
We had a wrapping station for the children to build on their fine motor skills as they wrapped a variety of boxes. The children loved hiding things in the boxes as gifts for us grown ups and their friends.
In the tuff spot the children have loved getting creative making their own igloos using sugar cubes, magnetic blocks. It was fantastic listening and watching the children sharing their ideas with their friends.
Thursday has been Christmas jumper Day. The children have all come to nursery on their Christmas jumpers. It was great seeing you all in your jumpers.
Today was break the school rules day. All the children had a chance to break the school rules for a small donation. We had children come into school with coloured hair, their own clothes or their pyjamas.
We had a wonderful afternoon watching the pantomime of Little Red Riding Hood. All the children joined in with the dancing, singing and laughter. It was a fabulous afternoon.
Week commencing 1st December 2025
This week has been busy busy busy, we are practising our Christmas nativity play with our friends in Reception ready for our grown ups to come and watch us. We hope you all enjoy it as much as we are loving singing and dancing.
There has been lots of Christmas activities going on in nursery this week, we have loved exploring the fake snow and the artic animals. There was lots of discussions amongst friends about the texture, smell of the snow. Some say it was like Jelly others said it was like slime.
Everyone has made a Christmas bauble biscuit, we decorated the biscuit with green butter icing, jelly tots, smarties and strawberry laces. It was so much fun and delicious too when we ate them for snack.
The children have loved collaging with a variety of white and blue coloured materials as we made a giant picture of a polar bear water.
We have decorated the Christmas tree with Mrs Garside and Mrs Atkinson taking it turns to place baubles on the tree. We have loved writing letters to Santa and posting them in our school post box ready to send to him.
The children have loved having a go at making wool Christmas trees, it was a little tricky weaving the wool around the cardboard but with a little practice we all did a fantastic job.
Maths this week we have continued with our AB patterns. We have been looking at patterns with three colours this week. All the children have worked extremely hard and are becoming fantastic at finishing the patterns. We loved working together as a group also working alone or in pairs for our tasks.
RE this week we have continued looking at the Nativity story. This week we focussed on the Shepherds in the book. We had a discussion about what the children thought the job of the shepherd was. We also discussed that the shepherd in Jewish cultures would sleep next to their sheep to look after them.
We shared and listened to the story ‘The shepherd Girl of Bethlehem’ after the story we asked the children how they thought the shepherds felt when the angels appeared. The children came up with some great answers here are a few, “ scared and would jump”
”go tell there Mam” “happy Jesus was born”.
Week commencing 24th November 2025
This week we have enjoyed taking part in a variety of Gingerbread activities. We loved making some saltdough decorations for our grown ups at home. The Ginger playdough was a huge hit with the children, they loved having lots of discussions about the smell of the playdough trying to guess what was hidden in the dough. They loved using some of the movements from dough disco into the area squashing, patting, rolling and pinching the dough. We have loved making some felt gingerbread people and decorating them into clothes.
We have some little dancers in nursery, they have loved dressing up and singing and dancing on the stage with their friends.
RE this week we have discussed What is the Christmas story? We shared the Nativity book with the children and listened to Christmas carols. When the carols had finished we discussed if the children had heard these before and where they have heard them.
as a whole group we recapped on the Nativity book and explained that Jesus is special and is God’s gift to the world.
Maths this week we are looking at AB patterns. We discussed what a pattern was with the children and where we can find patterns. The children shared their ideas of where they can find patterns some of them were, clothes, birds and pictures. The children then had a turn at making patterns and finishing patterns with coloured blocks and coloured teddy bears.
Week commencing 17th November 2025
We have had a super week looking at our new story The Gingerbread Man. We have investigated some fresh ginger, using our senses to touch and smell. Some of the children like the smell but some did not “ooo that stinks.” We have made our own Gingerbread Man and we ate it all up just like the fox did in the story, the children said “it was yummy.” We have made playdough gingerbread men, printed some and built some super houses to put the Gingerbread man in. The children loved doing the Gingerbread dance in PE we have some good little movers in our class.
Maths this week was continuing all about number 2, we showed 2 on our fingers and loved doing a number 2 hunt with their clipboards ticking the number off as they found them all around the classsroom.
RE this week was why do we say thank you? We discussed why we say thank you when we receive presents “Thats a kind thing to do.” “It makes you happy.” We discussed what presents different people get and how they would feel.
We loved playing in the snow this week using all our senses to see and feel the snow and ice. We have started looking at the artist Jackson Pollock and investigated with string making our own string paintings.
Children in need
What a fun packed day we have had. Our day started with a visit from Pudsey Bear, where the children had their photographs taken alongside him.
Our nursery children came in dressed in their own clothes or something yellow as we engaged in a variety of Pudsey activities. We had yellow playdough with coloured Pom poms. Pudsey face in the tuff spot made from yellow and black rice. The children loved colouring and drawing Children in need pictures.
All the children loved joining Pudsey as he taught us a little dance that we all joined in together.
Week commencing 10th November 2025
This week our story of the week is Owl Babies, we have participated in many activities linked to our story. The children have enjoyed getting creative making some Owl Baby pictures using cotton wool and chalks. We have been working on our cutting skills as we created some owl pictures cutting and sticking different parts of the owls. Our favourite was joining in making some chocolate crispy nests with chocolate eggs on the top, we loved sharing these at snack with our friends. After we loved creating our own baby owl out of salt dough, the children were all fantastic.
Remembrance Day we decorated a poppy wreath where Mrs Hill placed the wreath in Hetton cenotaph. We explored a variety of remembrance day activities such as potato printing making poppies. Exploring dried red rice in the tuff spot making small poppies. The red playdough was a hit making poopies and using Pom poms for the middle.
after the activities the children watched a short video called CBeebies/ Poppies animation. We discussed how it was not only soldiers that were hurt during the war but also lots of animals. We discussed why we wear poopies before having a two minute silence on the carpet. The children were all fantastic discussing their thoughts around remembrance day.
RE this week we have been looking and discussing Why we give presents?
As a group we discussed why we might give presents to family and friends or someone who is special to us. The children then discussed what presents they would give to someone who is special to them.
Maths this week we have been looking at the number 2. We have looked and discussed what the numeral looks like. How it is different from the number one. The children played a little game where they rolled the dice and tried to get the dice to land on the number two. We loved subitising one and two using cards with different sized patterns. The children were really quick at this.
Week commencing 3rd November 2025
Welcome back everyone we have loved seeing all your smiling faces and hearing all about the adventures you had with your families.
This week has been a busy week for us in nursery. We have started the week off with a new book called Owl Babies. The children have loved sharing this book together with friends. The children have loved getting creative making their own owls using toilet roll holders, paint, feathers.
Some children had a go at making a model owl using playdough, salt dough and a variety of materials. We were so impressed at how hard the children worked using their fine motor skills to mould the dough.
we celebrated bonfire night by making our own firework pictures. For snack we made edible sprinklers. The children loved this we dipped our breadsticks in melted chocolate and the sprinklers. The grownups thought they were delicious too.
PE this week we have loved building our gross motor skills as we, climbed balanced and jumped on the large apparatus. The children were fantastic at following the obstacle course and using all their skills and taking a risk growing their confidence each time they had a go.
It was fantastic to see all the children cheering their friends on as they observed them having a go.
Maths this week we have been working on the number 1. We have discussed that number one likes to be all by himself. The children sang a song called one finger one thumb keep moving I’m sure they would love to share the song with you at home. We have looked at the numeral discussing what it looks like and how the numeral likes one of everything.
It was outdoor learning day this week. We had a great time on the school field. Mrs Lawrence made us some toasted marshmallows whilst we sat around the fire pit listening to a story read by Mrs Fearby. After the story and our treat we had a explore and run around the field with our friends. We headed back to nursery where we continued our play in the garden.
Please see below our Autumn 1 Medium Term Plan.
Week commencing 20th October 2025
What a spooktacular week the children have had. We have participated in so many fun halloween activities. The children have loved getting messy in Green cooked spaghetti with hidden creepy creatures and cauldrons. We loved getting our hands straight in and making potions. The children loved sharing what their potions were, “a happy potion. A super hero potion. A fast potion”. As we explored the spaghetti we used some scissors promoting our fine motor skills. The children were keen to share that they had long spaghetti and some short spaghetti in their cauldrons sharing and comparing these with their friends.
Continuing with developing our motor skills the children have loved using the large pumpkins to hammer in golf tees. This was a great hit with the children where they had a little friendly competition going between friends to see who could get the most tees in the pumpkin the fasted.
The creative area has been a great hit too, we have made collage pumpkins and a variety of materials and halloween stickers.
We have loved making pumpkins, worms, witches faces and pumpkin faces in the playdough together.
We decorated some witches hats that we wore when doing PE. The children loved participating in some monster dances. We then played a game with the balloons. We had to carry the balloon in between our legs before letting go off it into the cauldron in the centre of the circle.
RE this week we have discussed why Christians believe Jesus is special? Some of the answers the children gave are:
” He is in the sky.” “He helps people” “He helped the girl and man.”
We all watched a short story of Jesus heals a man born blind. We discussed together what it means to be blind? What would the children miss the most if they were blind the children gave some great thoughts. Some of the things they said were, “rainbows, mam, houses, trees.”
Some of the children then had a go at been blind folded to see how they would feel if they couldn’t see.
Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Garside have loved seeing some childrens photos of their pumpkins they have done at home with their grown ups. We are looking forward to seeing more if you have any.
We would like to wish you all a lovely half term and look forward to seeing you all in the new term.
Week commencing 13th October 2025
What a fun filled week we have had in nursery. We were all very excited as we got a special delivery of a new sandpit. The children loved watching eagerly as it was put together and filled up. The children and staff couldn’t wait to go outside and explore together. The water tray has been a big hit this week as the children continued to make potions with flower petals and sliced fruit. We discussed how they were making happy potions, scary potions and flying potions.
The children have loved spending time on the bikes and swings, mark making on a large scale with the chalks.
Inside has been very busy, we have made playdough monsters, used potato mashers in the paint to print monsters. Adding some goggly eggs and arms and legs to the print. Our little bakers have loved baking some monster biscuits this week. We all worked together as we measured out the ingredients and rolled the dough out ready to cut.
We loved having a visit to the school library this week where we shared a book with our friends that we chose. Then Mrs Garside read us a book as a whole group before heading back to nursery for snack.
Maths this week we have continued looking at sorting. This week we have been sorting by objects with similar or different properties. With two hula hoops we sorted a basket of scarves and a variety of toys into two groups. We then sorted a group of toys by soft toys and hard toys. We used teddies and puppets, wooden blocks, cars and pencils to sort. The children all did great sorting these objects.
We have continued our story the colour monster. We shared the book together discussing the beginning, middle and end.
After the children all took it in turns to pass the rainbow monster around the circle. Each time the child received him they would share how they were feeling.
RE this week we have discussed Who is Jesus? What does Jesus do?
We discussed first how Jesus is special to Christians and that he is God’s son, we listened to a short story of Jesus and the Paralysed man. All the children shared their thoughts of what Jesus does.
Week commencing 6th October 2025
The children are loving our story of the week ‘Colour Monsters. We have started the week by looking at the characters in the story. We discussed what some of the words “ happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and calm”means. We shared and read the story together as a whole group.
We loved making a feelings bottle to show how we were feeling. All the children used a variety of materials, Pom poms, glitter and water.
Feelings potions have been a huge success in the garden. The children have really showed a interest in getting creative in the water tray. We used flowers petals, glitter, sliced fruit, as we stirred and poured until our creation was just right.
The children have been creative in the mark making area, painting their own Autumn trees using Lego blocks and autumn coloured paints.
We loved making monster pizzas using, peppers, cheese, peppers to creative a scary face. They were really delicious when we ate them at snack time.
RE this week we have discussed as a whole group, “How can a friend help me?”
The children gave some great examples of how you can be a great friend. Some of the examples are as follows. “ They share with me.” “ They are nice to me.”
”They play with me.” “They are my best friend”.
Maths this week we have been looking and working on sorting by size. We recapped on sorting from last week discussing how we can sort by colour and shape. We then discussed how we are going to sort by size. We looked at some coloured sorting bears where there was big, small bears. The children were asked if they could help us by placing the teddies in a group by size.
We then moved onto shaped buttons, we discussed how the shapes were the same and matched but we need to place them into groups by size. The children were great at recognising the big and small buttons.
PE this week we have loved participating in some exercises, the children used their fabulous listening skills as we ran around the hall before hearing “walk.” The children had to then swap to walking, we tried this a few times before stopping. We did some stretching, star jumps, hopping and jumping. Before finishing off with a monster dance.
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.
