Week Ending Friday 5th December 2025
It began to feel very Christmassy in nursery this week, especially when we had our Stay & Play Christmas Craft sessions.
Thank you to all the parents/carers who attended to work with their children to make some gorgeous Christmas gifts, cards, and decorations.
Week Ending - Friday 28th November 2025
Where we Live
This week we have been learning about where we live. We have been talking about our own homes and local area. The children were fantastic at remembering everything local to them. They particularly enjoyed looking at Google maps to find their houses. Most of the children knew the route they took home from school.
We were also very excited, because we've put our Christmas Tree up. The children decorated it themselves and it definitely put us in the Christmas spirit!
Week Ending Friday 28th November 2025 - Purple Poppies
This week we have been reading the story "Postman Bear." We have enjoyed lots of different activities connected to the story, including, posting our own letters, visiting the characters in the Forest and many more.
Week Ending Friday 21st November 2025
Purple Poppies
This week, the Poppies turned into budding palaeontologists as they celebrated all things dinosaur at nursery!
We read dinosaur books, sang dinosaur rhymes, learnt a brilliant printing technique to make dinosaur pictures and played in the dinosaur swamp - with the added fun of a snow day!
Week Ending Friday 21st November 2025
Talk for Writing
At Emmaville, we use the Talk For Writing approach across the school, starting in Nursery.
Talk For Writing is based on the thinking and creative process involved in ‘being a writer’; including generating ideas, drawing on the experience of what has been read, and understanding how to change and improve.
Talk For Writing involves the oral learning of model texts and the oral development of new versions so that children internalise the language patterns that they need for writing, adding to their linguistic competency. This benefits children’s writing as they get older. With a wealth of stories already in their heads, they can focus on the technical parts of writing rather than creating a story.
Last week, our Talk for Writing text was the Traditional Tale, The Little Red Hen
The children learned the story, using actions and a story map.
We baked bread and enjoyed it for snack.
Some of the children finished the week by attempting to draw their own story maps and use them to retell the story to each other.
Purple Poppies - Week Ending 14th November 2025
We've had a lovely week for World Nursery Rhyme week. The highlight of our week was Friday, when we visited the bake sale for Children in Need. We raised lots of money for charity and got to sample some tasty treats.
Week Ending - Friday 14th November 2025
This week was World Nursery Rhyme Week.
The focus Nursery Rhymes were:
. Sing a Song of Sixpence
. Humpty Dumpty
. When I was One
. I Hear Thunder
. 2 Little Dickie Birds
We observed the 2 minutes silence beautifully for Remembrance Day on Tuesday.
The highlight of our week was definitely Friday, where we dressed up for Children in Need. We raised lots of money for charity and got to sample some tasty treats in the process.
Week Ending Friday 24th October 2025 - Purple Poppies
This week we have been looking at all things spooky!! We have read stories, made spooky pictures and even did our very own experiment, to make "erupting monsters." We really are super scientists and had great fun doing it.
Week Ending Friday 24th October 2025
This week in Nursery we have been learning about all things connected to Halloween!! We have read spooky stories, made potions, gone on a pumpkin hunt, conducted experiments to make pumpkins fizz and even made cookies out of "pumpkin guts, spider web dust and goblin goop."
Week Ending Friday 17th October 2025
This week we learned all about our favourite creepy crawlies as we read stories, sang nursery rhymes, made minibeasts from playdough and craft materials and went on a bug hunt in the forest.
Week Ending Friday 17th October 2025 - Purple Poppies
Our amazing Purple Poppies have had a wonderful week learning about mini-beasts. We have seen lots of interesting creepy crawlies!!
Our favourite activity was rescuing the bugs from the "mud." We used our amazing fine motor skills to save them all!!
Week Ending 10th October 2025 - Purple Poppies
This week, the Poppies loved visiting the apple tree and collecting some windfall apples.
They then set to work to make apple muffins which they all loved!
Week Ending Friday 10th October 2025
This week in nursery, we have been investigating all of the changes that are happening around us, as we are now in the full swing of Autumn!
We collected Autumn treasures in the forest and made Autumn crowns and wreaths. We talked about the change in the colour of the leaves.
We learned a new song called 'Leaves are Falling'. The children used Makaton to sign the different colours in the song.
Purple Poppies - Week Ending Friday 3rd October 2025
Well done to our wonderful Purple Poppies this week. They have been superstars!!
This week we read the story "That's not my Hedgehog," where we got to feel lots of different textures and describe them.
Later in the week, we used our senses to explore lots of different vegetables. We were able to use some of the words that we'd learned earlier in the week. Tasting was definitely the best part.
Week Ending Friday 3rd October 2025
Another brilliant week in Nursery!!
This week we have used our senses to explore lots of different vegetables. We have used brilliant vocabulary to describe each one. Tasting was our favourite part. We were super impressed with the children for trying everything. They were able to say if they did of didn't like it. The carrots were a firm favourite. The onions, not so much!
In Phonics, we were looking at "Environmental sounds." We had the best time making different sounds with our sticks.
Purple Poppies - Week Ending Friday 26th September 2025
Our two year olds have enjoyed learning a bit more about brushing their teeth - they loved having a go with the giant toothbrush!
They have also explored lots of different messy play materials, a favourite being making their own cloud dough.
Week Ending Friday 26th September 2025
This week, we have been learning our first Talk for Writing text, the story of Mr Wiggle and Mr Waggle. We started by telling the story with hand actions. We then drew a simple story map to help us remember the story for when we retell it. The children were fantastic at telling the story by the end of the week.
We also introduced Jigsaw Jennie this week. This is a soft toy that helps us during group time to talk about our feelings. We started by passing it around and giving it a gentle hug. Then, using a chime, we concentrated on our breathing, slowly breathing in through our nose and out through our mouth, imagining a rainbow coming out.
Purple Poppies - Week Ending Friday 19th September 2025
The Purple Poppies have had the best week. We have loved learning new Nursery Rhymes and dancing to them with our "Flipper Flappers."
We also loved our "Book Blanket." We enjoyed choosing our own stories to read at home.
Week Ending Friday 19th September 2025
This week we have been learning all about ourselves and our families. We really enjoyed showing our family photos to our friends and talked about our family members.
We learned all about the different parts of our bodies by singing the action song, "Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes." We also learned how to change the volume of our voices by whispering the song and then singing it as loudly as we could. We also put on our "Listening Ears" to walk around our school. We heard lots of lovely things. We even took a little visit to the office, where we heard the phones ringing and the doors buzzing.
Week Ending Friday 12th September 2025
This week, we have enjoyed having our new nursery children in for their first full week. They have been amazing at settling into new routines and building relationships with friends and adults.
We have been practising our small group time routines, listening to stories, having snack and joining in with music and movement group activities.
Everyone has been exploring all of our areas in nursery. We have seen some lovely role play between children in the home corner and imaginative play with the building materials.
Week Ending 12th September 2025 - Purple Poppies
Our Purple Poppies have loved listening to Dear Zoo and lots of animal play this week.
We have also welcomed some new faces into our two year old provision and we can't wait to see them all again next week!
Week Ending Friday 5th September 2025
This week we have welcomed back our older nursery children, ready and refreshed for their full nursery year!
It was so lovely to see them playing happily together after the six-week holiday. I think a lot of the children have missed each other!
We have also loved having lots of children making their first short, induction visits; ready for longer sessions next week.
We cant wait for another full fun packed nursery year!