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Nursery Autumn 2 - Curriculum Newsletter

Nursery Autumn 1 – Curriculum Newsletter

Week Beginning 3rd November 2025

Welcome back for another fun filled half term. This week we have started our food and celebrations topic. We started the week with activities loosely linked to Halloween then went onto bonfire night and fireworks themed activities.

Outside, we cracked open plenty of pumpkins, discussing their textures, smells and using rich vocabulary to describe them - a wonderfully sensory experience. As well as this we explored being creative with our bodies to make firework dances, popping and banging to create explosive movements. Inside we explored making marks using lots of different medium to create firework pictures such as chalk, silver pens, paint and colouring and sticking pasta. While enjoying the colours and sounds fireworks make we also talked about the importance of being safe near fire and fireworks and what we need to do to stay safe.

Our focus nursery rhyme this week is Humpty Dumpty and the children really enjoyed making silly versions of the rhyme by changing it to include our own names. 

During our daily maths we have been hearing and saying number names; joining in with number rhymes and saying some number names in order. This has been followed by exploring number rhymes on the maths table using small props and singing to our friends as well as counting the blocks we use as we build.

 

Teddy Bear Picnic - Stay and Play Session 

Teddy Bear Picnic - Stay and Play

Thank you once again to all who attended the stay and play session. It was a lovely opportunity to speak with you all and share all of the children's successes and learning from this half term. The stay and play focus was on the area of learning known as communication and language; this encompasses listening, attention & understanding and speaking. We started the session in the infant hall going through the expectations and typical skills children would show at different ages and what we could be doing at home to help our children move to the next stage in their development. We also talked about screen time, its impact on speaking and the recommended guidance. A PDF with the key information can be found on the website. We then went into the nursery where the children were able to show the parents around and talk them through activities linked to the skills we had been learning this half term. The children were very confident in talking about what they had learnt using much of the key concepts and vocabulary we have been practising this half term. They made bear bread, identified patterns using coloured bears, created 'scibble' bears using circular arm and pencil movements and created bear faces with loose parts.

The EYFS team are very proud of the children's progress this half term and the way that they were able to show their independent and communicate their learning.

If you missed the session or would like any further information about what was shared please come and speak to one of us.

Week Beginning 20th October 2025

What a wonderfully busy week we have had in the nursery this week. How have we finished the first half term already? We have begun to explore some celebrations that are celebrated from around the world. This week we have been exploring Halloween; carving pumpkins, decorating and designing spooky patterns, creating potions practising our tipping and pouring skills.

Our fine motor focus this week is making zigzags to complete pictures such as pumpkin mouths, mazes and mountains.

Week Beginning 13th October 2025

This week in nursery the children have been working in their key groups to create their own versions of 'We're going on a bear hunt'. It has been a busy and bear filled week this week. We have been exploring lots of natural resources within our key groups to make our own picture books based on our story of the week 'We're going on a bear hunt'. We used lots of resources to explore the story using lots of sensory experiences. We retold the story in our own words using the small world tray, created our own thick oozy mud paint and splashed in the water during our outside time.

Week Beginning 6th October 2025

This week at nursery we have been enjoying some space exploration through our focus story 'Whatever next'. The children have been taking on the role of baby bear; donning our colander helmets, space boots and a teddy bear climbing into our box rockets and zooming to space. At the maths table we have been exploring repeats; repeated phrases in nursery rhymes and repeated colours or shapes in patterns. We have also been using shapes to create pictures this week such as rockets, stars and of course bears.
The children enjoyed spending time at our talking tables and they are being encouraged to speak in full sentences and respond to their friends' ideas.

Week Beginning 29th September 2025

This week at nursery has certainly flown by. We started the week with an exciting visit from the fire brigade who flashed their lights and played their sirens. You may have also heard the children say that they have been making Christmas cards. This is true. They have. Whilst we appreciate this may appear early it is so that we can get them out to you with the potential to buy sets of cards your child has designed.
 

 

Week Beginning 22nd September 2025

We have had a super week at nursery this week continuing to learn about bears. This week we have looked at different bears and thought about where they live; polar bears in the arctic, panda bears in the forest and brown bears in the woods. We have learnt the Makaton signs for 'bear,' 'who' and 'hear' this week. We have listened carefully to the story of Polar bear Polar bear what do you hear and thought about the sounds that each of the animals make. The children have been encouraged to communicate using words and ask one another if there is something they need on the table. During our structured play sessions we have been learning to compare groups of objects using the vocabulary of 'more' and 'less' as well as making a group have less by taking things away. We continue to develop our mark-making using lines to create animal legs, raindrops and tree trunks.

Week Beginning 15th September 2025

This week at nursery we have been a hive of activity and concentration. We have continued with our bear theme. Our focus book was 'Brown bear, Brown bear what do you see'. We shared the story throughout the week and had lots of activities based around the story including talking about different bears (panda bears, brown bears, teddy bears), completing bear puzzles, and creating hand print art work linked to the story characters.

In the creative area we have been learning to use different tools such as forks, paint brushes and our hands to create art work. We even had a try at making our own puzzles by cutting bear pictures and placing the pieces back together.

We are really focusing on lunchtime routines; washing our hands, finding our own lunchboxes and then sitting down to eat our food.