January 

In January, we learnt all about Winter and the weather. We had great fun exploring the snow. We made some ice decorations and enjoyed sledging. 

We enjoyed our Goldilocks and the 3 Bears theme. We made and tasted porridge, loved reading the book and dressing up as characters and retelling the story. We learnt about size, small, medium and large and made 3 different sized bears out of playdough. 

Our Masterclass was cookery lessons. We made lots of healthy snacks including healthy pizza and cheese twists. 

We are amazing at doing jigsaws. We love working out, how all the shapes fit together. 

December

In December, we learnt about Advent and Christmas traditions. We made Christmas cards and decorations, practising our sticking and cutting skills. We went on a walk and posted our cards in the post box. We decorated our Christmas tree. In Wonderful Woodlands we went on a Nativity Hunt. 

We had a Christmas Crafts and Carols session with our families. We made some Christmas crafts together and had a Christmas sing-along. We showcased our Bell Ringing Master Class.

Our Dragonflies went on a Santa Hunt. We found big and little Santa's.

We had a Christmas Party and played lots of party games including pass the parcel. Father Christmas came to visit us and gave us all a present. 

Our skill of the half term was to put on our own coats and fasten up the zip. We are good at this skill now. 

We are progressing well with our malleable skills. We are starting to think about a design and then making it out of playdough, using different tools and techniques.  

We enjoyed our transport theme last month and are still enjoying designing and creating our own vehicles. 

November

In November we learnt about a range of festivals and traditions such as Bonfire, Remembrance and Children in Need. 

We also enjoyed our transport theme, learning about different types of transport and the noises they make. We did a transport survey looking at the different vehicles that pass nursery. We pracitsed our creative and painting skills by making trains and ships for us to role play in. We enjoyed playing with airports, garages and trains in our small world aera. 

We had a special friendship week and learnt how to be kind and a good friend. We practised our threading skills and made a friendship bracelet and gave it to a  friend.  

We started our Bell Ringing Masterclass. We are learning how to ring bells along to music.

Our skill of the half term was to practise fastening up our own coats. We are doing very well at it. 

We are getting good at writing our own names now too. 

It snowed one day; we enjoyed exploring and playing in the snow. 

Little Zoo came to visit, and we learnt about lots of different animals and we were able to touch them.  

October

In October we learnt about Autumn; what happens to the trees and the weather, woodland animals and berries and fruit that grow at Autumn time. We went on an Autumn walk and made a woodlands fruit crumble. We enjoyed exploring and playing in the rain and jumping in puddles.

Bronwyn and Gus, two therapy dogs visited us. We enjoyed learning how to care for a pet and we were very brave and stoked them. We even read a book together.

Our parents came for a 'Stay and Play'. we enjoyed playing with them in  Nursery.

In social snack time, we learnt how to serve and eat with a spoon and pour our own drinks from a jug. 

In Woodlands we got a new, large sandpit. We love playing in it with our friends.  

We enjoyed developing our construction skills, and made some very good buildings.

We enjoyed lots of spooky activities at Halloween and dressing up. 

September

In September we got to know the nursery environment and each other. We enjoyed learning how to use all the areas in continuous provision. We enjoyed gluing and cutting in the workshop area. We explored different musical instruments in the music area, we learnt how to use different tools in the malleable area and enjoyed sorting objects in the maths area.

We learnt 'All about Me,' naming face and body parts. We enjoyed painting a self portrait with our key person and making faces out of playdough. In Woodlands we made faces out of natural materials.   

Our Core Story was 'Almost Anything' by Sophy Henn. George couldn't do anything unless he wore a magic hat! We all made a magic hats in nursery and we could do everything in Nursery!

Our Dragonfly children also enjoyed learning their colours. 

July

In July, we invited our parents to our mini-Olympics. We did lots of sporting activities including football, egg and spoon and basketball. We all won a trophy and had an ice pop to cool us down after our energetic work out!

We continued to love to build, after our ‘Can you Build it?’ theme last month. We made some super constructions.

This month we had our ‘Summer, Beach and Pirate’ theme. We enjoyed making up stories about pirates and even went on a treasure hunt!

Elsa and Anna, the donkeys came to visit, and we all had a ride on them. We were all very brave and the donkey’s loved to be stroked. Then we had our beach party, and we did lots of beach activities. Finally, Captain Blue the Pirate and Fidget Fairy joined us, and we played lots of games together and had lots of end of term fun!

June

We couldn’t believe how much the fruit and vegetables in our allotment, had grown over the holidays. We were ready to harvest. We dug up the vegetables and picked the fruit. We washed and prepared the fruit and vegetables and ate them at snack time. They tasted delicious, especially the strawberries.

 Our theme this month was ‘Can we Build it?’ We read the traditional tale, ‘The 3 Little Pigs.’ We built houses made from straw, bricks and sticks. In our Woodland area, we had great fun building dens.

Our Masterclass this half term was Dance. We had a dance teacher from Pendle Academy of Dance and Performing Arts who taught us how to dance.

The Superheroes arrived at our writing table this month to help us with our writing.

We had a special visitor too, an historian. She told us what toys she used to play with a long, long time ago. We all found it very interesting and asked lots of questions.

May

We celebrated the Kings Coronation in May. We made crowns and stick flags. We had a lovely Coronation picnic with our parents. 

In our Great Outdoors Theme, we went on a discovery walk around our local area. We followed a map! We found shops, a mosque, a church, a bridge, a train and bus station and lots more.

Now the weather is getting nicer, we have really enjoyed performing in our outdoor theatre. 

We also learnt about re-cycling and the importance of not dropping litter on the floor. A naughty magpie dropped lots of litter in our woodland area (all previously washed and donated by staff) and we had to litter pick and re-cycle it!

Our school leavers started their Guided Reading sessions so they will be really prepared for school.

April

In April our Core Story was 'What the Ladybird Heard' so in Woodlands we went on a bug hunt and built a bug hotel. We also started our Gardening Club and are growing vegetables in our allotment, planted some wild flowers and have made some hanging baskets. 

We have really enjoyed performing; singing and dancing on our outside stage and playing musical instruments to music. 

Shape has been of interest this month and we have been exploring different 2D and 3D shape. 

We celebrated Eid by making Eid decorations and having a party. 

March

In March, our Core Story was ‘Jack and the Beanstalk.’ It was very exciting when the giant beanstalk grew in Nursery and the Giant's legs came through the roof! This helped us retell the story. We also enjoyed planting our own beans and watching them grow. We painted beanstalks and made them out of junk modelling.

We celebrated ‘World Book Day’ and dressed up as our favourite characters. We enjoyed drinking hot chocolate whilst reading our favourite books together, in our Key Person groups.

We learnt about ‘People Who Help us’ and had visits from the Police and Dentist. We also learnt about Fire Fighter and Doctors. We used our imagination to re-enact these roles. elp

In Woodlands, we enjoyed experimenting with clay and we made Clay Bogarts.

We started out Heuristic play sessions. This is where we explore natural objects and loose parts.

Finally, the warmer weather came, and we started to see signs of Spring around our gardens.

We ended the term with Easter activities and had a very special visit from the Easter Bunny!

February

In February our core story was Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. We enjoyed re-enacting the story and dressing up as the characters. We even made a new bed for baby bear. We made and tasted porridge and tried different toppings. We voted for which was our favourite.

Our master class this term was Art. We painted still life at our easels, experimented with water colours and worked with clay. Andrew the clay potter came to visit to show us his clay tools. We even went on his potters wheel. We looked at the work of different Artists and read the book, Katie and the Sunflower. We are now always busy in our painting area experimenting with colour and techniques. 

We have continued to practise our scissor skills and been snipping paper. We have been trying to cut Sellotape with scissors which we found quite challenging. 

We have been developing our physical skills by playing on the climbing wall and stilts. 

January

In January, we learnt all about Winter and the weather. We had great fun exploring the snow. We made some ice decorations and enjoyed sledging. Our core story was 'Snowmen at Night' and at every opportunity we made a snowman, even at home!

In Woodlands we made birdfeeders because there is not much food for the birds to find in Winter.

At snack time we learnt how to pour our own drinks from a jug and the skill of peeling. Peeling an egg is very challenging!

We have really developed our music skills, after our music master classes, and have been making music everywhere.

We practised our construction skills and made lots of buildings for different people to live in. We made up some super stories as we went along.