Nursery

January 2026

The nursery children have been learning about Henri Matisse’s 'The Snail' and exploring how he used bright colours and simple shapes in his artwork. They enjoyed creating their own collage pictures using a variety of coloured card, carefully choosing and arranging shapes

Our 2-year-olds have also been very busy developing their fine motor skills by threading laces through 2D shapes. This fun, hands-on activity helped to strengthen little fingers!

The children explored art by creating raindrops using a flicking paint technique.

As part of our topic, Our Local Area, the children learned about how different every house looks and worked together to design and build their own using junk materials. These creations are now proudly displayed in our classroom.

For RE, we have been learning about the story of Feeding the 5000, exploring sharing, kindness and helping others. As part of their learning, we baked focaccia bread, helping them make a hands-on connection to the story and understand how food can be shared with others.

In maths, we explored capacity, focusing on full and empty by filling and emptying plastic containers through hands-on play.

The children regularly take part in number and phonics games to support early learning. Through these activities, they practise counting, recognising numbers, listening to sounds and identifying letters.

December 2025

The children made Advent wreaths using paper plates as part of a fun, hands-on learning activity. They carefully cut out the candles, practicing their cutting and fine motor skills.

In Maths, the children explored different shapes by matching them on a mat. They carefully placed each shape in the correct position, which revealed a form of transport. This activity supported shape recognition and early problem-solving skills.

In Art, the children painted using stencils showing different scenes from the Nativity. They carefully applied paint to create pictures, exploring colour and print. This activity encouraged creativity, concentration, and fine motor control while helping the children engage with the Christmas story in a meaningful way.

The children enjoyed dressing up as shepherds, bringing the Nativity story to life through role-play. This activity encouraged imagination and communication while helping them understand the story’s characters and events.

The children enjoyed a festive Christmas Lunch and Christmas Jumper Day together, celebrating the season with friends. They also took part in the Rudolph Run, running laps in the playground to raise money for charity. In RE, they learned how people celebrate Christmas around the world, explored traditions in the Philippines, and made parols, star-shaped Christmas lantern decorations.

The children had the opportunity to practice wrapping gifts using wrapping paper and tape. This activity helped them develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination while also encouraging creativity and a sense of pride in presenting neatly wrapped presents.

Merry Christmas from Nursery!

Nursery Making Christmas Biscuits - Dec 2025

Owl Painting 2025

Black History Month 2025 - African Art

15.03.24

This week we celebrated World Book Day throughout the school. We absolutely love reading books in the nursery and it was lovely to have the year 2 children join us this week and read stories to us.

We also celebrated St Patrick’s Day by making shamrock crowns!

It is our last week of the ‘At Sea’ topic. The finished making their pirate wanted posters and treasure maps, which we put up on display. It has been a fun topic learning all about life at sea.

01.03.24

Kicking off the classic mysteries project in the early years this week, we’ve been learning about ‘Peter Rabbit and The Lost Hat’.

We made bunny headbands and masks to role played the story, we baked carrot cupcakes which the children described as “delicious” and “carrot-y” and we drew up maps to help us find the lost hat.

09.02.24

It’s been a busy week in nursery! We made decorations for our classroom for Chinese New Year, made Chinese lanterns and dragons and even learnt some Chinese dance moves.

As Pancake Day has fallen during half term, we celebrated early and made sprinkle-filled pancakes as requested by the children. Mr Allen joined us in the morning,
when the children were making pretend pancakes using playdough.

For maths we have been learning about lengths, focussing on tall and short objects.

26.01.24

 This week, we focussed on the stories ‘Whatever Next’ and ‘Miss Tizzy’. As a class we made moon rocks and moon cakes. The children described them as “delicious” and “yummy” and also said they will make these at home with their families.

For our citizenship topic, we have been learning about our elders and what we can do to help them when/if we are with them. We invited grandparents for a stay and play session – the children were so excited! We did lots of fun activities such as making rockets and spaceships using junk materials, moulding playdough into space rockets and stars and we ended the session with a story.

For RE, we learnt about the story ‘Jesus Feeds the 5000’. The children retold the story and role played the story amongst themselves.

12.01.24

Happy New Year! The term began with a brand new topic and home corner, the Space Station! The children were so excited to dress up as astronauts and aliens and pretend they are travelling to space.

For maths, we built rockets using different shapes in different sizes and used playdough to represent the correct number of moon rocks on our mats.

The children were invited to build rockets and spaceships using large coloured blocks outside and the wooden blocks inside. It was so nice to see the children’s interpretations of space transportations using different construction materials.

For physical development, the children took part in space yoga and we talked about different ways we can move if we were in space.