Nursery News

27.02.26

🦸‍♂️ Superheroes 🦹

In Turtles, we love learning about superheroes and using our imaginations to become heroes too!
We talked about famous superheroes like Hulk and Captain America, and discussed what makes them special. The children shared ideas about superpowers such as flying, super strength, or turning invisible, and then we discussed real life superpowers like kindness, sharing and helping our friends.
We drew pictures of our own superheroes, designed and made masks and made Captain America shield pizzas.
Learning about superheroes helps us build confidence, teamwork, and creativity whilst having lots of fun!!

Superheroes

07.02.26

👑 Kings, Queens and Dragons 🐉

Following on from our initial topic of Castles, the children have evolved their interest and learning on to the sub-topics of Kings and Queens and dragons.
Through stories, role play, art, and small-world activities, they have enjoyed dressing up as royalty, making their own crowns, decorating dragon eggs, and creating their own dragons using different materials.
We’ve been developing their language skills by learning new words linked to the topic, sharing ideas, and listening to traditional tales.
The children have also practised important early skills such as turn-taking, imagination, fine motor control, and cooperation as they played and created together.

Kings, Queens & Dragons

12.01.26

🏰 Castles 🏰

Over the next half term, Turtles Class will be exploring the exciting and magical topic of Castles.
Through stories, role play, art and hands-on activities, the children will learn about what castles are, who lived in them, and why they were built.
We will develop key skills across all areas of learning by building and designing castles, exploring knights, kings and queens, and using imaginative play to create our own castle adventures.
This topic will support language development, creativity, problem solving and understanding of the past, while encouraging curiosity and teamwork in a fun and engaging way.

Castles

28.11.25

Winter

This week, the nursery children have been exploring the topic of Winter. They have been learning about the changing weather by observing frost, ice and chilly mornings during outdoor play, and taking part in activities such as melting ice blocks, making 'snow' with sensory materials and creating winter themed crafts like snowflakes and snowman collages.

The children have enjoyed listening to seasonal stories and winter themed music such as 'Winter' by Vivaldi and discussing in group time how the music sounds like and how it makes them feel. We have talking about winter clothes and practising putting on hats, scarves and gloves independently.

We also learnt about how animals adapt to winter with small world play involving hibernating bears and migrating birds.

These activities have supported the children's language development, curiosity about the world and creative expression, while helping them understand the magic of the winter season.

Winter

 

11.11.25

Remembrance Day

At nursery, celebrating Remembrance Day helps the children learn about kindness, respect and gratitude. Over the past few days, the children have taken part in activities such as painting and creating poppies, decorating poppy biscuits and exploring poppy themed playdough and sensory tuff tray.

Through art, discussions and play, the children begin to understand that Remembrance Day is a time to be thankful for the people who help to keep us safe.

Remembrance

 

07.11.25

Fireworks - Nursery

23.10.25

Diwali

This week, our nursery class have been learning all about Diwali, the Festival of Lights, which is celebrated by millions of people around the world. We explored the story of Diwali, discovering how it celebrates light overcoming darkness and the importance of kindness, family, and togetherness. The children enjoyed making salt dough diyas (lamps) and making Rangoli patterns using a variety of media and materials such as shapes, paint and small pegs and boards.

They also took part in music and dance activities and listened to and watched Diwali stories.

Diwali

 

17.10.25

Pumpkins

The children compared different pumpkins by weight and size. They used balance scales to see which pumpkin was heavier or lighter and talked about which ones were big, small, tall, or round.

Pumpkins

 

10.10.25

Tractors

Due to tractors being such a popular topic, this has led to excellent group discussions in group time about what they know about tractors on the farm as well as re-calling their own experiences with tractors and being on a farm!

Tractors

 

03.10.25

Yesterday our nursery children celebrated Harvest Festival in a very special way!

What a lovely way to mark the season of harvest and gratitude!

Nursery Harvest

 

12.09.25

Turtles Class welcomed back everyone this term with a favourite topic of Dinosaurs!

We have explored the wonderful world of dinosaur swamps and habitats through sensory play in our tuff tray and investigated dinosaur fossils through artwork and making fossils out of clay. We also explored the different shapes that might make up a dinosaur, such as using triangles for a stegosaurus!

Dinosaurs

23.05.25

Where our food comes from

To finish off our topic of Spring and Growing, the children in the nursery have been learning and understanding where our food comes from and how it grows.

Having the understanding and knowledge of where our food comes from and how some of our favourite foods are made is an important and vital part of developing a healthy relationship with food and the environment around our community.

The children made their own loaf of bread, collected some eggs and spent the last few weeks growing their own cress to make their snack of egg mayo and cress sandwiches to enjoy on our picnic in the sun!

Food

16.05.25

Minibeasts

Carrying on from our Butterfly week, the children in the nursery have taken a great interest in all things bugs and insects.

We have been looking at and exploring the different kinds of bugs we might find in the school field through bug hunts, as well as drawing and creating our own insects through different medias and materials.

Minibeasts

09.05.25

Butterflies

This week the nursery class have taken an interest in butterflies after seeing some fluttering around the garden, especially around the new flowers growing.

The children learnt what symmetry means and how to spot symmetry in their environment, such as on butterfly wings and on their face!

We learnt the life cycle of a butterfly and how a small caterpillar (sometimes dull in colour) can turn into something bigger and beautiful with many different colours!

Butterflies

 

02.05.25

Sunflowers

This week in the nursery, the Turtles Class have been exploring and discovering sunflowers and learning and understanding the process of how the sunflower grows.

Using our knowledge of how tall a sunflower can grow, we have made a sunflower height chart to see which one of us is the tallest!

Hopefully, our own sunflower seeds will grow just as tall!!

Sunflowers

 

25.04.25

After a lovely Easter holidays, the nursery is back and enjoying the spring weather. This week we have been exploring and discovering all about the springtime flowers that are starting to grow in our gardens and around the village.

Learning about flowers offers a unique opportunity for children to learn about the natural world, including plant biology and life cycles. Engaging with flowers can also stimulate a child's curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving skills. Flowers have a calming effect on children's minds, which helps increase their concentration and focus. Studies have shown that exposure to natural elements, such as flowers and plants, can reduce stress and anxiety, leading to improved attention spans. By integrating flowers into the learning environment, children can develop better focus, making it easier for them to absorb new information and concepts.

Flowers

04.04.25

Happy Easter

The nursery has ended the busy Spring term by celebrating Easter with a wide range of fun activities including making chocolate nests and having an Easter Egg hunt on the field.

Easter is a great way to develop children's understanding of new seasons and the environmental changes which take place. Easter symbolises new life and growth, which can easily be seen in the immediate environment around school and home.

Nursery Easter

 

28.03.25

To finish our topic of Traditional Tales, the children in the nursery have been reading the story of The Little Red Hen.

We have enjoyed working together in a group to bake some delicious bread, building a farm for all the animals to live on as well as talking and discussing how we can show friendly, kind behaviour towards our friends whilst at nursery!

Traditional Tales

 

21.03.25

The children in the nursery have enjoyed reading and discovering the story of Goldilocks and The Three Bears this week. The story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" can be explored through various topics, including morality, respecting others' property, finding balance, and the concept of "just right,"

as well as exploring literacy and numeracy skills through activities like sequencing the story, comparing sizes, and counting.

Goldilocks

United Kingdom Week Update!

Everyone was absolutely thrilled to have received a response from the Palace after the nursery wrote to King Charles during our United Kingdom week! The nursery learnt all about the Royal family and wrote a letter to King Charles. Having had a response is absolutely brilliant!

14.03.25

This week Turtles Class have been reading and exploring the traditional tale of The Three Little Pigs. This story is a perfect way of teaching the children all about the importance of hard work and dedication as well as exploring emotions and feelings.

Our outdoor learning session was spent searching for natural materials that we experimented with "huffing and puffing" as if we were the big, bad wolf and seeing if we could blow them down! 

Three Little Pigs

 

28.02.25

This term the nursery class are starting their new Outdoor Learning programme. This type of learning can help children develop social skills, physical skills, and emotional resilience. It can also help them learn about the natural world and develop a respect for it as well as develop a positive impact on the environment.

Research shows that outdoor learning can improve mental and physical health and wellbeing.

This week, the children experimented with mark making and creating patterns using natural materials found in and around the field and playground.

Nursery Outdoor

 

14.02.25

This week, the nursery class have been celebrating Valentine's Day.

Celebrating Valentine's Day in an early years setting is a wonderful way to help children understand the concepts of friendship, care, kindness, and appreciation for others.

The children have been decorating and writing cards to give to their loved ones, exploring playdough and adding different materials to it, as well as creating and making love potions!

Nursery valentines

Exploring the Rainforest

Rainforest

31.01.25

Celebrating Chinese New Year in the nursery!

This week we have travelled to China to experience the colourful and fascinating celebration of the Lunar New Year. We have made and decorated our beautiful lanterns, created some dazzling and sparkling dragons and we especially enjoyed tasting and eating some delicious Chinese food - our favourite being the prawn crackers and the noodles!

Chinese New Year

20.01.25

🦒This week in the nursery, Turtles Class have explored and discovered the magical and beautiful world of Africa. We have experienced the spectacular colours and patterns that is associated with the African culture, listening and dancing to the rhythmic beats of traditional music as well as learning about all the magnificent animals that live across the African land 🦒

Nursery Africa

13.01.25

 This week in the nursery, we have been learning and discovering our country - the United Kingdom. Following on from our topic 'All Around The World', we have landed the class plane on home soil and have taken the time to explore new and exciting parts of our home country. We have learnt about the Royal Family, written a letter to King Charles, made and decorated our own fabulous royal crowns and finished the week with baking scones to have our own Royal Tea Party

Nursery 13.01.25

15.12.24

This week has been a fun and festive packed week with children in the nursery enjoying Christmas dinner, watching the school play (in preparation for their acting debut!) and playing and exploring plenty of Christmas activities and experiences

Nursery Xmas 15.12.24

05.12.24

This week in Turtles Class (nursery), Christmas has well and truly arrived!

We have been playing and exploring different Christmas activities that are focussed on developing our fine motor skills, our hand - eye coordination and our cognitive development.

We have also been very busy practicing our Nativity and singing our Christmas songs as well as writing our very important letters to Santa!

Nursery Xmas 05.12.24

 

04.11.24

As we start a new half term, Turtles Class have started to learn and explore all about autumn. Autumn provides the perfect opportunity to teach our young children about seasonal change. The outside during autumn seems to hold a new level of intrigue for children as they explore the fallen leaves, notice new natural objects such as pinecones and acorns, and become more in tune with the wildlife around them. 

We proudly celebrated Remembrance Day, teaching the children about the significance of our history as well as having an opportunity to foster a sense of gratitude, empathy and respect for those who have served and those who serve today.

Nursery 04.11.24