2025-2026
Welcome to Nursery!
This week in nursery we have welcomed lots of new friends and enjoyed helping them to settle in. We have learnt lots of new names, shared resources and taken turns in games. We explored the different areas of the classroom and how we can learn in them. We also enjoyed investigating the playground.
Marvellous Me!
This week we have been learning about ‘Marvellous me’, we have been very busy with lots of different activities. We have been looking in mirrors, looking at our baby photographs and learning the vocabulary for parts of the body and what they are used for example: ears - listen, eyes- see, elbow - to bend etc.
Children also enjoyed decorating their names with paint dobbers and sequins and listened well to our theme book ‘Incredible you’.
My Super Body!
This week we have been learning about ‘My Super Body’ We have been looking at how our bodies move and discussing if we were a Super Hero which one would we like to be and why. We have made Super Hero masks using different media, moved like superhero’s and made shelids. Our theme book we have been reading is Supertato which the children really enjoyed, we even had a Super Hero Headquarters in our Role play area where we could answer emergency calls and put on our capes to save the day!
How do you feel?
This week we have been talking about different emotions and feelings. We talked about the things that make us sad, happy, nervous, excited and proud. Children spent time in the role play lab where they pretended they were doctors and nurses. They helped to make their friends feel better.We looked at emotion cards and recreated the facial expressions and body language. Children also enjoyed putting Humpty Dumpty together again! We had to match his pieces and put them together, we then added plasters on him – he felt happier when we had helped him!
Fun with families!
This week we have been learning about ‘Fun with families’ we have talked about our own families and who lives with us and the fun things we like to do together. We have shared family photographs and read our theme book ‘A quiet night in’ along with singing a lovely song about families. The children have also drawn a family picture and attached it to a photo frame they made. We also enjoyed playing in the role play area with friends and bathing and washing the dolls in the water lab.
Fun with Friends!
This week we have been learning about ‘Fun with friends’ we have had a fun packed week from making friendship bracelets to partying with friends in our role play area. We have read the book ‘Lost and Found’ and made our own Penguins out of card and cotton wool. We have also learned how to be a good friend and practised sharing and using kind words to one another.
Autumn Antics!
We have had a very busy and exciting week learning about Autumn. We have learnt and sung some Autumn songs, made clay hedgehogs, read ‘The Gruffalo’ story, had a lot of fun playing in the Autumn leaves and we went on an Autumn hunt and came across a fox in our forest! We talked about the change in weather; it gets colder and windier so it is nice to have warm food in the Autumn – we then had a drink of hot chocolate during a snack time which all of the children really enjoyed!
Apples and Pumpkins!
This week we have been learning about ‘Apples and Pumpkins’ we have been scooping the flesh and seeds out of the pumpkins, rolling apples down ramps and estimating how far they would travel as well as weighing apples and pumpkins. We also made yummy chocolate apples with sprinkles. Our theme book this week was ‘Pumpkin Soup’, children enjoyed acting out the story and pretended to make pumpkin soup in the forest mud kitchen.
Sensational Senses!
This week we have been learning all about Sensational Senses. We have learnt that we have 5 senses and what each sense does.
We have been food tasting bitter, sour, salty and sweet - the sour lemon was not a popular taste!
We have explored the slimy texture of gloop, listened to and identified various sounds, relaxed in the Calming Corner and investigated the dark den with torches and sensory blocks.
Pants Safety
This week we have been learning that PANTS are private and how to keep safe. The children have enjoyed designing their own pants by using different media such as paint dabbers, felt tip pens and stickers. We have been reading the ‘Aliens Love Underpants’ book this week and in the Role play area we had a Space station where the children had to find the wanted Aliens around the classroom. We have also made aliens with the playdough, pipe cleaners and googly eyes. The children have been learning the correct terminology for the private parts of our body and enjoyed the NSPCC Pantasouras song.
Being healthy
This week we have been learning about ‘Being healthy’ we have enjoyed using the gym in the classroom as well as learning all about healthy foods. We have cut out pictures of food to make a healthy meal and chopped up fruit to make a healthy fruit face for snack! We also brushed a model of teeth and painted pictures of fruits and vegetables. Our theme book this week was ‘Oliver's vegetables’ by Vivian French.
Transport
This week we have been learning about Transport. We have had so much fun looking at all the different types of vehicles and if they travel on land, sea or air. We have made our own hot air balloons with a photo of the children inside which they thoroughly enjoyed doing! We also went outside of the school gate to do a traffic survey where we saw cars, bikes, vans, bicycles a lorry and a bus, we used a tally chart to record what we had seen. In the Art lab we made tyre tacks with cars in paint. In the Role play area children pretended to work in a bicycle repair shop and used the tools to fix the bikes and scooters. We looked at how wheels work on toy cars and pushed them to see how far they travelled. We also sang transport songs and read the book ‘What friends do best’.
Stickman
This week we have focused on the story of ‘Stickman’. Children have learnt that Julia Donaldson is the author. We talked about the characters in the story and made predictions of what we think might happen next. We know that books have a beginning, middle and an end. This week we also collected sticks from our forest area and made our own Stickman, we painted pictures of Stickman and his family and made Stickman headbands.
Winter
We have had a busy week learning about Winter this week. In the role play area we had a Winter Wonderland where the children had fun using the pretend snowballs and dressing up in warm clothes. We explored the cold ice in the science lab, made bird feeders and hung them in our forest area and we even made our own mince pies and jam tarts!
Boxes and Balls (Christmas)
This week we have been learning about ‘Boxes and balls (Christmas)’ we have been decorating our classroom Christmas tree in the role play lab and seeing how many baubles we can fit into different size boxes and stockings in the maths lab. We read the story book ‘My cat likes to hide in boxes’ In the art lab we printed with Christmas themed cookie cutters and wrote Christmas cards in the writing lab. The whole school took part in decorating their classroom doors for Christmas – we took a tour around school to look at the doors and found some favourites! Nursery children performed in front of parents this week, singing Christmas songs that we have been learning and it was AMAZING!! Parents then joined Nursery staff and children afterwards for shortbread and hot chocolate, it was so lovely to see so many parents attend.
Welcome to Nursery
This week in Nursery we have welcomed lots of new friends and enjoyed helping them to settle into our school. We have learnt lots of new names, discussed the different areas of the classroom and explored how we can learn in them.
Where we live
For this theme we learnt about our local area and the homes that we live in. We read the story of the Three Little Pigs and discussed the best materials to make houses from. For our adult-led activities we discussed the homes we could see when in the big playground - we even tried to huff and puff and blow the houses down, but we didn’t manage it! We also designed our own front doors and practiced writing house numbers on them.
Arts and Artists
This week we have been exploring the theme ‘Art and Artists’. We have been looking at how we can use colour to create art and how colours can be mixed to create new ones. We walked around the school in small groups and found lots of artwork on the walls and in display cabinets. The children have enjoyed being creative and making their own art such as painting on the easels and using chalk outside to create colourful rainbows. We are looking forward to continuing this theme next week, where we will be using our ‘maths eyes’ to explore art and artists.
Arts and Artists 2
We carried on with our Art and artists theme this week with more of a maths focus for our learning. For one of our adult-led activities we made our own artwork inspired by Kandinsky. We identified the different, colourful circles used in Kandinsky's work and tried to recreate this using colourful squares and circle paper shapes. We explored colour mixing with filter paper, felt tip pens and water as well as colour mixing primary colour paints to create secondary colours. In our role-play art gallery we looked at Mondrian and his famous artwork consisting of lots of rectangles and squares using the primary colours.
Making music
This week children have enjoyed exploring a variety of musical instruments. We made our own shakers in the science lab by filling containers with dried rice and pulses. We also enjoyed making sounds to represent the animals in our theme book ‘Walking through the jungle’ such as loud stomps like an elephant and quiet hissing like a snake etc. We sang lots of familiar and new songs whilst clapping to the beat and especially enjoyed venturing into the music room in the big school where we watched and listened to some of the older year groups playing instruments in their music lessons. Mrs Addison even came to Nursery and played some familiar nursery rhymes on her violin for us!
Ways to Say I Love You
This week we have been exploring our emotions. We recapped what we had previously learnt about the different feelings and emotions that we have and how we can recognise them. We learnt what it is to be kind and how we can do this in Nursery with our peers. We discussed the people that we love and how we can show that we love them. Children made a Valentines themed biscuit as one of our adult-led activities and thought about who they might share their biscuit with at home. Children also created hearts by painting one side of the heart and folding it in half to see the symmetrical pattern emerge.
Pants Safety
This week we have been learning that PANTS are private and how to keep safe. The children have enjoyed designing their own pants by using different media such as paint dabbers, felt tip pens and stickers. We have been reading the ‘Aliens Love Underpants’ book this week and in the Role play area we had a laundrette where we could pretend to wash, dry and iron items of clothing. We have also practised fastening zips, buttons, Velcro and poppers. Children have been learning the correct terminology for the private parts of our body and enjoyed the NSPCC Pantasouras song.
We Love Books
Throughout this theme we read and talked about lots of different books by the author Julia Donaldson. We enjoyed some of her stories such as 'The Gruffalo', 'Room on the Broom', ‘Superworm’, ‘Tiddler’ and 'Stick Man'. We made our own book covers using Julia Donaldson books as inspiration, we discussed who the stories might be about and what we might want to include on our book covers. We also created fish handprint pictures based on the main character from the book 'Tiddler’ which is a favourite in Nursery! Children and staff dressed up and parents came in and shared a book with their child for part of our world book day celebrations.
This week’s learning was all about how plants grow and the things they need. We explored the different parts of plants and flowers such as stem, leaf, petal and roots. Children enjoyed our theme book this week ‘Jack and the beanstalk’ and acted out the story in groups. We sowed cress seeds as a class and took interest each day waiting for them to grow. We learnt that plants need water and sun to help them grow. Children also planted their own bean and will take them home to care for.
This week we explored the different kinds of produce that are available at the supermarkets. We had a visit from a Tesco staff member where she brought in lots of different items from the supermarket. Children then talked about the things they recognised and the shops they go to with their families. We talked about the differences between supermarkets and greengrocer shops. Children also recognised pictures of shops in the local area. We shared thoughts about our favourite fruits and vegetables, wrote shopping lists and did some fruit and vegetable printing. Children also used safety knives to cut fruit for snack and role played in our greengrocers shop.
This week we finally said hello to Spring (and some slightly warmer weather!) We explored outside to search for signs of spring – we even found a birds nest! Children enjoyed our theme book ‘Hello Spring’ by Jo Lindley and we talked about the changing of the seasons. We learnt about baby animals that are born in spring, hunted for the hidden numbered eggs in the playground and during a Curiosity carpet session we watched a short video of chicks hatching from their eggs.
This week in nursery we have welcomed lots of new friends and enjoyed helping them to settle in to our school. We have learnt lots of new names, discussed the different areas of the classroom and how we can explore and learn in them. Our theme book was ‘The colour monster goes to school’ by Anna Lleans and children enjoyed creating their own colour monsters!
This week we learnt about where different animals live. We talked about the animals we might find at the zoo and learnt how zookepers and vets take care of animals. We considered how different animals move and we looked for toy wild animals that had been hidden around the playground. Lots of children enjoyed making a zoo in the blocks lab. On Tuesday and Wednesday the older children in Nursery visited Arbury Court Library. We explored a range of books and talked about how to borrow books from the library. We borrowed a book that we will read together next week.
