Nursery Christmas Blog

Date: 19th Dec 2025 @ 8:18am

The children have been very busy learning now they are settled and familiar with the Nursery environment. They have learnt about different events and celebrations as well as learning about themes related to their own interests. They have learnt about Bonfire night, Antibullying ( our focus was filling our kindness bucket) and of course the last 2 weeks in particular have been focused around that highly anticipated event – Christmas!

In phonics we having been looking at Phase 1 and have spent lots of time learning to listen and join in with different forms of sounds around our environment and also experimenting with instrumental sounds.

In maths we have learning lots of counting songs, recognising and reading numbers in our environment and have been learning how to use flashcards – just ask us how quickly we can say our name!

We have done lots of learning around different stories with Dear zoo, We’re going on a Bear Hunt and Brown Bear coming out as clear favourites.

Despite the weather the children have enjoyed playing outside, jumping in muddy puddles and then using the puddles to paint our hut.

There has been much story telling outside as we have run away from fire-breathing dragons and giants and mixed lots of spells to protect our outside area.

This final week before Christmas has seen us making reindeer food, modelling for our calendars, developing our fine motor skills by punching out those hearts and designing and writing our Christmas cards. We also had great fun on the Santa Dash and at our Christmas Disco!

We were so proud of all the children in our Nativity. They were so brave, looked fabulous in their outfits and had worked so hard learning all the songs and actions.  We hope you enjoyed the performance!

I am so proud of the huge progress the children have made in their confidence and independence this term. Next term we will welcome Mrs Lofthouse (the children met her last week) on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and I will be back seeing you on a Thursday and a Friday.

The entire Early Years Team would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and look forward to seeing you all in the new year.