Autumn 1
We have had a great and very busy start to the year. We have welcomed our new children into our setting and they are making great progress. The children are now settled and engaged in their learning.
We started our year by settling back into our new playroom as over the summer, the room has been made bigger. The children have responded really well to our bigger playroom and love all the new calm areas. We have been promoting “Choose it, use it, put it away” when it comes to tidying up and this as been working well.
We were reintroduced to our routines and welcomed some new friends into our nursery. We began to build friendships, learning new friends names. Our children have been learning the rules of the room and helping each others to follow these to keep us safe. We had a look at some photos of our families and what each other had been doing in the summer holidays. This was great to see and sparked conversations.
As part of self registration at the beginning of the sessions, the children select their own name card and move to our feelings board. Currently the children can choose from happy or sad. We have been talking about what may make us feel happy and what makes us feel sad throughout the sessions.
In the front garden and around the school grounds, we have been recognising the different colours of the leaves on the trees. We found some leaves on the ground and matched the leaves to the colour hoop.
We went on a walk to Barker’s Park, had a walk around the woods, gathered some different size sticks. We looked at the different colours in the leaves then had a play at the park. The children walked really well and had great listening ears!
Our returning children have been involved in Tiny Talkers group, which will run throughout the year. The children involved in these groups are making progress during the small groups with their communication and language skills through games and songs in a quieter space.
It has been lovely to get to know our new friends this half term and see the progress our little learners are making already. We will be having progress meetings with parents at the beginning on next half term. Dates are to be confirmed.
We hope everyone has a great October break!
