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Week Beginning 26th January 2026
This week in nursery, we continued our learning about birds 🐦. The children had lots of fun making bird models 🎨 and, in maths, counting the correct number of worms 🪱 to feed the birds. We also created our own bird feeders 🪹, which are now hanging in our outdoor area 🌳. In phonics, our older children learned the sound ‘t’ 🔤, and our focus story for the week was The Go Away Bird 📖. We had so much fun and enjoyed a lovely week full of learning and creativity 😊🌟
4 days ago1 min read


Nursery – Week Beginning 2nd February 2026 🧧🐲 Chinese New Year Celebrations
This week in Nursery, we have been very excited as we prepared for Chinese New Year ! 🎉 We learned all about traditional celebrations and explored the different ways people come together to get ready for the festivities. In Maths , we played a fun game rolling the dice 🎲 and dishing out the correct number of noodles 🍜. We even practised using chopsticks , helping to develop our fine motor skills 🥢✋. We counted the correct number of pom-poms and focused on the number 5 ⭐.
4 days ago1 min read


Nursery Pre-Phonics Parent Workshop
This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming our lovely nursery families into school for a pre-phonics workshop 🏫💛. Together, we explored the different skills children need to support them on their phonics and early reading journey 📚🔤. We also shared and explored a range of fun activities that children can enjoy at home to help develop these important skills 🎲🎶. What a fantastic morning of learning and partnership with our families! 🌟😊
5 days ago1 min read


Nursery – Week Beginning 19th January 2026 🗓️
This week in Nursery, we have been busy learning all about birds! 🐦 Our focus story was Hooray for Birds , which helped us to recognise and talk about different colours 🌈. In Maths, we sang Five Little Ducks 🦆 to practise our counting and number recognition 🔢. In the creative area, we made bird crafts using primary colours 🎨 and explored a range of materials to create bird nests 🪹. We also used our fine motor skills ✂️👐 to make bird models. Our older children learned
Jan 221 min read


Week Beginning 12th January 2026 – Dinosaurs 🦕
This week in Nursery, we have been busy learning all about dinosaurs! 🦖 Our focus stories were Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs 📚 and The Dinosaur That Pooped collection, which the children thoroughly enjoyed. We developed our fine motor skills through dinosaur stomp paint printing 🎨, and in maths we played a dinosaur egg dice counting game 🥚🎲 to support number recognition and counting. The children also enjoyed dinosaur yoga 🧘♂️🦖, helping them to exercise the
Jan 141 min read


A Special Surprise Delivery in Nursery
Today, our nursery children received a very special delivery! While practicing our super listening and smart sitting, we heard the sound of jingle bells outside our classroom door. We wondered if it could be Santa’s sleigh—and we couldn’t believe our eyes when we opened the door to find a pile of presents waiting for us! Miss Manning kindly handed out the presents, and each one had a special gift tag with the children’s names on it. What a magical surprise it was, and such a
Dec 18, 20251 min read


Nursery Christmas Party
This week, we had our Nursery Christmas Party! We had so much fun playing games, winning prizes, and showing off our amazing dance moves with our friends. We finished the celebrations with some delicious party food. What festive fun! 🎄🎉
Dec 18, 20251 min read


Early Years Advent Celebration of the Word 🎄✨
This week, the children in Nursery and Reception came together to celebrate the Advent Celebration of the Word. We talked about the many ways we prepare for Jesus’ birthday, including putting up our Christmas decorations and opening our Advent calendars. The children helped to dress the focus table, joined in singing hymns, and spent time in prayer as we joyfully prepared for this special season.
Dec 18, 20251 min read


Festive Fun in Nursery!
This week, our children have been busy getting into the Christmas spirit! We celebrated Christmas Jumper Day, tucked into our delicious Christmas dinners, and wowed everyone with our fantastic nativity performance. Well done, boys and girls!
Dec 12, 20251 min read


Nursery Week Beginning 1st December 2025
This week has been an exciting one for our Nursery children! Our focus story has been The Christmas Story , and we’ve been getting into the festive spirit with lots of Christmas crafts and plenty of nativity practice. We were also lucky to receive a special delivery from the elves, who brought us some beautiful Christmas decorations and a delicious advent calendar. To say thank you, the children created their own junk-modelled elf houses—our little way of spreading some Chris
Dec 12, 20251 min read


Nursery – Week Beginning 24th November 2025
This week in Nursery, we have loved diving into the world of The Gruffalo ! The children have had great fun retelling the story with their friends and using rich vocabulary to describe all the characters. In the Gruffalo Café, we practised our number-recognition skills as we took orders and served our “customers.” We also enjoyed getting creative with a range of Gruffalo-inspired crafts. It’s been a wonderful week of imagination, learning, and fun!
Nov 27, 20251 min read


Nursery- Week beginning 17th November 2025
This week in Nursery we have been busy learning about bridges! Our focus story has been ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. We have had lots of fun learning new vocabulary from our story. We used our investigating and building skills to use a range of materials and create our own bridges. We got creative with some goat crafts and use our communication skills to retell the story with our friends!
Nov 20, 20251 min read


Nursery- Week Beginning 10.11.2025
This week in Nursery , we have been busy learning about where we live and Remembrance Day . Our focus story was Martha Maps It Out , which helped us talk about our homes and the people who live in them. We also explored our local area and learned more about the places around us. To mark Remembrance Day, we created some beautiful poppy artwork and used this activity to practice our fine motor skills in maths — giving each poppy the correct number of petals, from 1 to 5.
Nov 13, 20251 min read


Nursery- Week Beginning 3/11/25
This week in Nursery we have been learning about Bonfire night! We have been busy creating our own beautiful firework art and exploring firework fine motor activities. We have learned how to keep safe around fireworks and used a range of vocabulary to explore our different senses when watching the fireworks. Our focus story has been ‘Whatever Next’. We have loved building our own 2D shaped rockets during Maths!
Nov 6, 20251 min read


Nursery Rhyme Stay and Play
This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming our wonderful parents into the classroom to celebrate all our hard work! The children had a fantastic time sharing the nursery rhymes they’ve been learning and performing them with great enthusiasm. Parents also had the opportunity to look through our beautiful workbooks and see just how busy and creative we’ve been at school!
Oct 23, 20251 min read


Week 8 in Nursery- Spider Sandwiches
This week in Nursery, we’ve been learning all about spiders! Our focus story was Spider Sandwiches , and we’ve been very busy practicing our fine motor skills, creating lots of spooky spider art, and even making our own spider sandwiches — they were delicious!
Oct 23, 20251 min read


Week 7 in Nursery- Pumpkins
This week in Nursery we have been feeling the Autumnal vibes! We have been busy with lots of learning all about pumpkins. We have been investigating real pumpkins using our five senses, baking pumpkin mud pies outdoors, creating pumpkin art, and recognising numbers. We fully immersed ourselves in our focus story of this week- Pumpkin Soup- by cooking and tasting our very own pumpkin soup, it was delicious!
Oct 15, 20251 min read


Nursery - Week beginning 6th October 2025
This week in Nursery we have been busy learning about Autumn. We have had lots of fun doing activities based around our focus story,...
Oct 10, 20251 min read


Week 5 in Nursery- Poetry Week ‘Chocolate cake’
This week is poetry week, and our focus poem is ‘Chocolate Cake’. We have been practicing using a range of key vocabulary and have had...
Oct 2, 20251 min read


Week 4 in Nursery- Funny Bones
This week our focus story has been ‘Funny bones’. We have been learning about our bodies and singing songs such as ‘head, shoulders,...
Oct 2, 20251 min read
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