Pre-School (3-4 year olds)
Our Amazing Work!
This week the children enjoyed learning about Diwali. They cleaned the house, made temples with 3D wooden blocks, painted simple mehndi designs and performed a Diwali dance!
Bonfire Art! 🔥
Monday 3rd November 2025
Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope you had a restful and enjoyable half term break. We have an exciting half term ahead with the build up to Christmas and have lots of fun activities planned!
Our theme for this half term is ‘Time to Rhyme.’ Our mini weekly themes are as follows:
Week 1 – Bonfire Night
Week 2 – Diwali
Week 3 – Goldilocks
Week 4 – The Three Little Pigs
Week 5 – The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Week 6 – Christmas
Week 7 – The Nativity
We will continue to share a story and learn a new rhyme or song each week, which the children love joining in with every day. We will also be continuing with our ‘Colour of the Week’ and your child can bring in a small named object which is the colour of the week.
We will be starting our phonics scheme ‘Little Wandle’ this half term. The children will take part in daily phonics games to hear the first sound in words, blend sounds to make words and play rhyming games also. We will be sending home weekly phonics sheets so you can consolidate your child’s learning. We will have a ‘Sound of the Week!’ We would like you to go on a sound hunt and help your child to find a small object beginning with the sound of the week. For example, ‘s’ for sock, and write your child’s name on the object if possible. They can then bring it in to show. We will keep your child’s object safe and return it to you at the end of the day.
The sounds and colours for this half term are as follows:
Week 1 – Week commencing 3rd November – ‘s’ ‘black’
Week 2 – Week commencing 10th November – ‘a’ and ‘grey’
Week 3 – Week commencing 17th November – ‘t’ and ‘gold’
Week 4 – Week commencing 24th November – ‘p’ and ‘pink’
Week 5 – Week commencing 1st December – ‘i’ and ‘green’
Week 6 – Week commencing 8th December- ‘n’ and ‘white’
Week 7 – Week commencing 15th December – ‘m’ and ‘silver’
We will continue to have a weekly maths focus as well as practise reciting, touch counting, subitising and reading numbers through our adult led activities and continuous provision.
Your child is welcome to borrow a book from our class lending library every week. They will need to return the old book to borrow a new one. Please continue to sing nursery rhymes and share a story daily with your child as this plays a key role in their development.
We will also be continuing with P.E. on a Tuesday morning (your child does not need a P.E. kit) and Forest School on a Thursday morning. Please can your child come to school wearing tracksuit bottoms or leggings, a warm waterproof coat (hat and gloves weather depending) and either bring wellies in for the day or leave them in Preschool. We will provide waterproof dungarees.
Our next Christmas themed Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 17th December from 8.40 to 9.30/40.
Please do not hesitate to come and speak to your child’s key worker or any of the team if you have any questions or need a chat.
Thank you for your support, The Preschool Staff.
Autumn Stay and Play 🍁😍
The children have been learning about emotions and enjoyed designing their own fruit faces!
Meeting Mrs Featherstone’s tortoises and learning how to look after them. 🐢
In Pre-School we have been learning about our 5 senses. We went on a treasure hunt to find things with our magnifying classes. We also used the view finders and described to a friend what we could see. Later in the day Mrs Mitchell hid some things in a feely bad and we had to guess what the things were by feeling them.
Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome to Preschool! We are so proud of all the children who are settling into their new routines so well. They are also enjoying making new friends. We are all looking forward to an exciting year ahead where your child will be learning in a fun and safe environment.
Our theme for this half term is ‘All About Me.’ Your child will be learning through play as well as taking part in practical adult led activities based on our mini weekly themes. See below for the weekly theme, the story and the song of the week:
Week 1 – All About Me – Brown Bear Brown Bear and Brush Your Teeth.
Week 2 – My Body – Baby Bear Baby Bear and Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.
Week 3 – My Senses – Polar Bear Polar Bear and I’ve Got a Body
Week 4 – Pets – Hairy Maclary and Wind the Bobbin Up.
Week 5 – Family and Homes – Five Minutes Peace and Miss Polly Had a Dolly
Week 6 – Feelings – Wow Owl and the Rainbow Song
Week 7 – Harvest – The Enormous Turnip and If you’re happy and you know it
Week 8 – Autumn – Leaf Man and Incy Wincey Spider
We will be starting our ‘Colour of the Week!’ Your child can bring in a small named object which is the colour of the week. They can bring in an object once a week or every day. The item will be stored safely and returned to them at the end of the day.
The colours for this half term are as follows:
Week 3 – Week commencing 15th September – ‘red’
Week 4 – Week commencing 22nd September – ‘yellow’
Week 5 – Week commencing 29th September – ‘blue’
Week 6 – Week commencing 6th October – ‘purple’
Week 7 – Week commencing 13th October – ‘brown’
Week 8 – Week commencing 20th October – ‘orange’
Please do not hesitate to come and speak to your child’s key worker or any of the team if you have any questions or need a chat.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Caine, Mrs Mitchell, Mrs Featherstone, Mrs Lane and Mrs Bruce.
The Preschool Staff
2024-2025
Police Visit!
Exploring hoops!
The children enjoyed a barefoot sensory walk! They stepped on grass, shaving foam and bubbly water!
Special Man in my Life Stay and Play 😍
A vet visited our Nursery and the children loved learning how to look after poorly pets.
Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope you all had a relaxing half term break. We are looking forward to welcoming the children back and have lots of fun learning activities planned for the last half term! Our theme for this half term is ‘People Who Help Us.’ We will be sharing a new story or stories every week and learning a new nursery rhyme or song as before. Our mini weekly themes are as follows:
Week 1 – People who help us – The Grand Old Duke of York
Week 2 – Transport – The Wheels on the Bus
Week 3 – Summer – Down at the Station
Week 4 – Seaside- Row, Row Your Boat
Week 5 – Under the sea – 1,2,3,4,5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive
Week 6 – Pirates- A sailor Went to Sea
Week 7 – Superheroes – One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
In Nursery the teaching of early reading skills is prioritised by reading lots of rich, engaging stories as well as learning rhymes and singing songs with sound patterns. In addition, we will continue to follow the Little Wandle phonics scheme. A new sound will be introduced each week during carpet time and repeated every day. We will find objects that begin with the sound. We will also play blending and rhyming games with the children. This will be followed up by small group opportunities to read and write the sound throughout the day, for example, in their sensory play or on paper. This will prepare them well for Reception. We would like you to continue to help your child to write their name regularly at home with a comfortable pencil grip the ‘birdy beak.’ Any support you can give your child will really help their progress.
Our sounds of the week will be as follows:
Week 1 – sound qu
Week 2 – sound ch
Week 3 – end sound _ck
Week 4 – sound x
Week 5 – sound sh
Week 6 – sound th
Week 7 – end sounds _ng and _nk
In maths we will be reading and counting objects with numbers 1 to 5 (and to 10) as well as revising other maths topics such as shape, pattern, size, length, weight and capacity. Your child can still bring in an object to show if it is related to our topic or to the sound of the week.
Don’t forget you can borrow a book from Nursery to share with your child once a week. Please can you send in the old book to swop for a new one. Please do not hesitate to come and speak to any of the Nursery staff if you have any questions or need a chat.
Thank you for your support,
The Nursery Staff
Frog Art 🐸
In Nursery this week we went on a minibeast hunt in Forest school. We have learnt that minibeasts have different characteristics.
Learning together 😍
Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope you all had a very happy Easter break. It is lovely to welcome the children back into Nursery and we have lots of fun learning activities planned for the summer term!
Our theme for this half term is ‘Plants, Flowers and Minibeasts.’ We will be sharing a new story or stories every week and learning a new nursery rhyme or song as before. Our mini weekly themes are as follows:
Week 1 – Jack and the Beanstalk
Week 2 – Minibeasts
Week 3 – Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Week 4 – Life Cycle of a Frog
In Nursery the teaching of early reading skills is prioritised by reading lots of rich, engaging stories as well as learning rhymes and singing songs with sound patterns. In addition, we will continue to follow the Little Wandle phonics scheme. A new sound will be introduced each week during the carpet time and repeated every day. We will find objects that begin with the sound. We will also continue to play games where the children learn to hear the first sound of a word as well as blending sounds to make words plus rhyming games. This will be followed up by small group opportunities to read and write the sound throughout the day, for example, in their sensory play or on paper. This will prepare them well for Reception. Please continue to support your child using the sound sheets we send home as well as helping your child to write their name using a comfortable pencil grip, the ‘birdy beak,’ as this will really help your child to make progress and be Reception ready!
Our sounds and numbers (which we will revisit for some children) will be as follows:
Week 1 – sound v and number 1
Week 2 – sound w and number 2
Week 3 – sound y and number 3
Week 4 – sound z and number 4
Your child can still bring in an object to show if it is related to our topic.
Please do not hesitate to come and speak to your child’s key worker or any of the staff if you have any questions or just need a chat.
Thank you for your support,
The Nursery Staff.
Enjoying the outdoors 🪴
Easter Egg Hunt!
We love our new tree house! 😍
Stay and Play 😍
Having fun exploring the glockenspiels in music!
The Nursery children had a busy morning thinking about Sustainability. They are learning about keeping our environment nice and tidy so it lasts longer. They went on a litter picking mission in the school grounds and collected lots rubbish that shouldn’t be there! Well done Nursery.
The children enjoyed making their own ABAB colour patterns.
Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope you all had an enjoyable and restful half term break. We are looking forward to welcoming the children back and have lots of fun learning activities planned!
Our theme for this half term is ‘Jungle and Pattern.’ We will be sharing a new story or stories every week and learning a new nursery rhyme or song as before. Our mini weekly themes and possible stories are as follows:
Week 1 – Jungle and Rainforest – Dear Zoo and Walking Through the Jungle
Week 2 – Safari – Handa’s Surprise
Week 3 – Dinosaurs – Dinosaur Roar!
Week 4 – Farm – The Little Red Hen
Week 5 – Spring and Mother’s Day – I Love My Mum and Come on Daisy
Week 6 – Ramadan and Eid
Week 7 – Easter – We’re Going on an Egg Hunt
We will also be continuing with our Sound of the Week. We would like you to go on a sound hunt and help your child to find a small object from inside or outside of the house beginning with the sound of the week. Please use the sound of the letter, for example ‘a’ for apple, and write your child’s name on the object. They can then bring it in to show. We will keep your child’s object safe and they will bring it home at the end of the day. Your child can bring in one object a week or a different object every day if they wish. We will be revisiting numbers 1 to 5 and have weekly maths topics which fit with our theme.
The sounds and numbers for each week for this half term are as follows:
Week 1 – Week commencing 24th February – letter ‘u’ and number ‘6’
Week 2 – Week commencing 3rd March – sound ‘r’ and number ‘7’
Week 3 – Week commencing 10th March – sound ‘h’ and number ‘8’
Week 4 – Week commencing 17th March – sound ‘b’ and number ‘9’
Week 5 – Week commencing 24th March – sound ‘f’ and number ‘10’
Week 6 – Week commencing 31st March – sound ‘l’ and numbers 1-10
Week 7 – Week commencing 7th April – sound ‘j’ and numbers 1-10
You are welcome to join us on Tuesday 25th March from 8.40 to 9.30 for a Mother’s Day Stay and Play.
Please do not hesitate to come and speak to your child’s key worker or any of the team if you have any questions or need a chat.
Thank you for your support,
The Nursery Staff.
The children loved making and decorating heart shaped biscuits for Valentines Day
We used telescopes to explore the school grounds. We had to describe to a friend what we could see.
We had fun this week at the Stay and Play! Our theme was about the Chinese New Year.
The children have been learning about Light and Dark. They really enjoyed wearing their pyjamas for Nursery and making shadows with torches.
We had a special visitor in school who brought in some animals for us to learn about. We got to hold and stroke them.
In Forest School we had fun exploring natural materials to make 2D shapes.
We hope you had a wonderful and restful Christmas break. We would also like to wish you all a Happy New Year!
Our theme for this half term is ‘Winter, Day and Night.’ We will be sharing a new story or stories every week and learning a new nursery rhyme or song as before. Our mini weekly themes and possible stories are as follows:
Week 1 – Happy New Year, Winter and Hibernation – We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Week 2 – Polar Regions – The Snow Queen/The Runaway Iceberg/Inuit People/Lost and Found
Week 3 – Day and Night – Peace at Last/Owl Babies/ A Tale of Two Feathers
Week 4 – Chinese New Year – The Chinese New Year Story
Week 5 – Space – Whatever Next/Back to Earth with a Bump
Week 6 – Valentine’s Day – The Story of St Valentine/Love Monster
This half term we will be continuing our Sound of the Week. We would like you to go on a sound hunt at home each week and help your child to find a small object which begins with the sound of the week, for example, ‘a’ for apple. They can then bring it in to show. Please can you name your child’s object. Your child can bring in one object a week or a different object every day. We will also have a Number of the Week and your child can bring in an object to show which is related to this as well if they would like to.
The sounds and numbers for this half term are as follows:
Week 1 – Week commencing 7th January – sound d and number 1
Week 2 – Week commencing 13th January – sound g and number 2
Week 3 – Week commencing 20th January – sound o and number 3
Week 4 – Week commencing 27th January – sound c and number 4
Week 5 – Week commencing 3rd February – sound k and number 5
Week 6 – Week commencing 10th February – sound e and numbers 1-5
Your child can continue to choose a book from our class library to share with you each week by swopping their old book for a new one.
Please do not hesitate to come and speak to your child’s key worker or any of the team if you have any questions or need a chat.
Thank you for your support,
The Nursery Staff
Christmas Stay and Play 🎅🎄😍
Santa Fun Run!
Trip to see Santa! 🎅❤️
Our first Forest School! 🌿😍
Snow day!
We have been learning about Diwali this week. The children have been building temples with 3D wooden shapes, dancing with ‘firework’ streamers and making rangoli patterns with numicon. 😍
The children have had lots of fun this week colouring and making fireworks, playing firework bingo and investigating torches! 🎆
Autumn Stay and Play
Outdoor fun! 💙
The children loved meeting some very special pets. Miss Scully’s dogs and Mrs Featherstone’s tortoises. They found out how to look after these lovely animals. 🐶🐢
The children are settling into Nursery and having fun! They are enjoying seeing old friends and also making new friends. 😍
Welcome to Nursery!
We are so proud of all the children who are settling into their new routines so well. They are also enjoying making new friends. We are all looking forward to an exciting year ahead where your child will be learning in a fun and safe environment. We will send a message on the App every Monday to explain the weeks activities and you will be able to see photos of your child learning through play on Tapestry.
Please do not hesitate to come and speak to any of the Nursery staff if you have any questions or need a chat.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Caine, Mrs Mitchell, Mrs Featherstone, Mrs Lane, Mrs Bruce and Mrs Gifford.