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 Two.
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.
