2025-26

Curriculum Newsletters

Nursery Autumn 1 – Curriculum Newsletter

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.