Autumn 1
Week 8
19th - 23rd October 2026
Rainbows 🌈

To end our first half-term topic on colours, we learnt about the seven colours of a rainbow.

   

In our Literacy lessons we shared lots of rainbow themed stories with our teachers. Our favourite stories included; ‘Maisy’s Rainbow Dream,’ ‘Mo’s Smelly jumper,’ ‘Elmer’ and ‘ “Wow!” said the Owl.’
   
We acted out the story of Ella’s Rainbow using our imaginations.

Using our Expressive Art and Design skills, we made our own rainbow paper-chains with seven different coloured paper strips.
   

     
At our dough table we put different coloured pipe-cleaners into the dough to create our own rainbows and we all enjoyed painting our own rainbows.

  

We used our mathematical and construction skills to copy rainbow models and built rainbows and towers with Duplo bricks.
   
In our computing and technology skills we used the interactive board choosing the colours to draw our own rainbows and to colour the squares on an Elmer the elephant template.

To finish the brain theme from our myhappymind lessons we made our own brain hats.

  

It has been a wonderful and busy first half-term getting to know everyone and building routines and making friendships. We wish all our families a safe and happy half-term break and look forward to seeing everyone when we return to school on Monday 2nd November.

Our topic next term is all about Celebrations. We will start the term thinking about things we celebrate and learning about Diwali and Bonfire Night.

  

Autumn 1
COLOURS
Week 7
12th - 16th October 2026
Brown and Grey

This week we have been learning the colours, brown and grey and noticing the change in season from Summer to Autumn.

We read an Autumn themed picture book together called, ‘A Wet Walk’ then went on our own Autumn walk around the school to look for signs of Autumn and collected different coloured leaves. We told our teachers what we had seen, noticed and observed using new vocabulary we had learnt.

  

We painted and printed Autumn trees and leaves using Autumn colours. We used the leaves we collected on our Autumn walk to make some leaf rubbing pictures. 

   

   

We read the story, ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?’ This was a great book to recap all the colours we have already learnt. We practised retelling the story in groups trying to remember the colours and order of the characters. 

  

We painted our own pictures of brown bears by painting circles and adding features.

  
We also used circles and rectangles to make our own monkeys with zig-zag arms and legs.

We used grey elephants to make footprint marks in grey play dough and tried to make our own grey elephants with the dough. 

 

Next week, we will be learning about rainbows and reading lots of rainbow themed stories together.

Autumn Term 1
COLOURS
Week 6
5th - 9th October 2026
Black and White

This week we have been learning about the colours black and white.
We looked at pictures of different black and white animals and identified them, discussed and compared the animals by looking carefully at their different patterns, features and sizes.

We read stories featuring black and white animals, such as;
'Zigby Zebra,' 'Pandas,' ‘Elmer and Wilbur’ and the penguin in 'Lost and Found.'

     

We made zebra patterns by ripping and tearing white paper and sticking it onto black paper to create zebra stripes.
    
We practised our fine motor skills and pencil control by tracing over zebra stripes and drawing and painting our own black zebra stripes.
    

We also had a go at painting some black and white animals using a variety of resources.

In our mathematics work, we carefully counted animals and matched them to number cards and numbered pots/plates.
    

 
We used lolly sticks and pipe-cleaners to learn about the properties of a triangle and used our design and technology skills to make our own triangles.
    

 
Next week, we will be looking at more animals when we learn the colours brown and grey, and continue to investigate the changing seasons from Summer to Autumn. 🍂

Autumn Term 1

COLOURS
Week 5
28th - 2nd October

Our colours this week have been pink and purple.

We created repeating patterns using two different shapes dipped in pink and purple paint.

  

  

We read the story, ‘Dog’s Colourful Day’ by Emma Dodd, and carefully counted the ten different coloured spots on dog’s body. Then we had a go at drawing our own spots on a picture of the dog. We tried to remember how dog got each of the coloured spots while retelling the story.

    

In our ‘myhappymind’ lesson we continued to learn about our amazing brains and helped to make play dough using flour, water and red paint. We used our pink dough to make a group brain, carefully making worm shapes with the dough and joining them together to create a brain shape.

   

    

We experimented with colour mixing by choosing a prime colour for each hand and rubbing our hands together to create a new colour. Using the prime colours of red, blue and yellow, we made the colours: purple, orange and green.

  

  

Next week, we will be learning the colours black and white, and seeing how many black and white animals we can name.

 

Autumn Term 1
COLOURS
Week 4
21st - 25th September 2026

Orange and Green
We have been reading the story, 'Orange Fish, Green Fish' by Linda Kranz. This story helped us to learn lots of opposite words, for example; fast/slow, over/under and big/little.

 

We have been learning to recognise our own names by finding our own peg labels, finding our named red apples or green pears for self-registration and learning the initial letter of our own names. We decorated our initial letter with a variety of collage materials and resources.

   

In our topic work this week we have been learning the colours green and orange and experimenting with making new colours by mixing two primary colours. We did this by painting our hands with different colours and rubbing them together to make a new colour, and by rolling a marble in a box through two different coloured paints and printing a patterned picture showing the mixed colours. It was lots of fun!

  

We have continued to get to know our class peers and have been developing friendships and working together as a class and in our keyworker groups with a familiar adult.

  

Next week we will be learning the colours pink and purple and exploring patterns.

Autumn 1
COLOURS
Week 3
14th - 18th September 2026

This week we have continued to learn our colours, with a variety of activities using the colours, red, blue and yellow.
We made our own colour collages using different textured materials and resources.
  
We looked at a picture of a painting by the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian where he uses the colours; black, white, red, yellow and blue and paints squares and rectangles. We used these colours to paint our own Mondrian inspired paintings.

  

   
We continued to get to know our teachers and PE coach and went to the hall to participate in a PE lesson; learning to walk inside school and to listen to and follow instructions from a different adult.

  

We drew our first self-portraits, using mirrors to look carefully at our facial features and had a go at drawing ourselves and writing our names.

  

  

We learnt about how to hold and use scissors safely and had a go at snipping and cutting patterned lines.

  

Next week, we will be learning about the colours orange and green and will explore colour mixing.

Autumn Term 1
COLOURS
Week 2
7th - 11th September 2026

                                   This week it has been wonderful to have all the nursery children together.                                     We have been learning the daily routines and getting to know our teachers and peers.
Our colour focus this week is the colour red. We made red collages, developed our finger muscles by manipulating red dough and made marks using red crayons, pens, pencils and paint.

    
This week we have been matching and naming colours.

  

Our teachers read the stories; The Colour Monster’ and ‘Colour Monster Goes To School’ by Anna Llenas.

We created our own colour monsters by scraping paint with a fork, adding sticky eyes and a mouth.

   

These are displayed in the school for everyone to see.

We started our ‘My Happy Mind’ lessons and met the characters, Berty and Betty. This term we will be learning about our brains and how they help us to do everything! Please download the myhappymind app to find out more about our personal, social and emotional development programme which supports the children’s understanding of their emotions and wellbeing.

     

Next week our colour focus will be yellow and blue. We will continue to develop positive relationships with our peers and familiar adults and how to respond appropriately to the daily routine instructions.

Autumn Term
Week 1
1st - 4th September

Welcome to our Nursery, it has been lovely to meet all our children and families this week. We look forward to getting to know you all and giving the children lots of wonderful learning opportunities.

Meet Our Nursery Team:

Red Apple Class: Miss Lee, Miss Bishop and Miss Wiseman

Green Pear Class: Mrs Piper, Mrs Erdogan, Miss Parker and Ms Massey

The children have loved exploring their new learning environment and creating their first day handprint pictures which are on display in the nursery.

They have been learning which class carpet to sit on for registration, snack time and stories. Your child will sit on either Red Apple carpet or Green Pear carpet.

 

Alongside this; the children have had opportunities to meet and play with some of their new friends, both inside and outside in our lovely nursery garden. We explored a variety of free flow learning opportunities; covering maths, literacy, colour sorting, sensory play, exploring letters and using expressive art and design to create our own collages. As a group, the children came together for both singing and storytelling.

  

Next week we are looking forward to having all the children in together, establishing routines and completing activities linked to our class story, 'The Colour Monster goes to School.'

Our topic this half-term is All About Colours.