Academic Year 2024-2025

Autumn 2

Our talk for writing book this half term was the traditional tale of The Little Red Hen. Children in nursery have enjoyed a range of learning experiences around farm animals, playing farm games together, exploring flour and making their own play dough, cornflour gloop and bread rolls. They have enjoyed nature walks on our school field and have collected leaves for printing in autumn colours and leaf threading.

Children enjoyed conker rolling and mixing paint for our autumn display. We have been planting bulbs in our garden and everyone has planted their own daffodil bulb and decorated their pot to take home for the holidays. Our term finished with our Christmas celebration.

The children learnt songs and poems to share with families. They re-wrote their own version of the Little Red Hen and in their story, they made a “rainbow, raisin, chocolate cake!” The children enjoyed making banana muffins to share with our audience and they have been busy making cards and decorations. Santa’s Grotto and our nursery party provided a very exciting end to our term!

Our new nursery children have settled in well. They are becoming familiar with our nursery routine and starting to make new friends. The children have enjoyed the warm weather and have been spending a lot of time outdoors in our nursery garden. They have enjoyed bikes, water play, building in our loose parts play area and cooking and creating in our mud kitchen.

Our “Talk for writing” book this half term has been “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell. The children have enjoyed learning the story and learning about different animals. We have been talking about sizes and measuring each other. We have enjoyed a range of pet and animal stories and the children have enjoyed our deconstructed role play vets and small world animal play.

We are delighted that everyone has settled so well.