Welcome to FS1

2025-2026

Class Teacher: Mrs Anderson

Teaching Assistant: Miss Channing

Welcome to FS1, We hope that you all had a happy and safe holiday. We are very excited to welcome our new children and families and we are sure the children will settle quickly into school life. A big welcome back to those children who have already started their school journey. We are sure they will help us to show the new children what to do.

Please remember the FS1 door is always open and if you have any queries or questions regarding your child or their education please do not hesitate to ask one of the FS1 staff.

Just a few reminders:

• Our morning session starts at 8.45am and finishes at 11.45am. The afternoon session is 12.25pm till 3.25pm. Please inform the office if someone else is collecting your child from school.
• Please make sure the office staff have your up to date contact details.
• Please inform the office if your child is absent.
• Please ensure your child brings a coat as we head into the cooler months, on wet days please also bring wellies for your child. We like to be outside in all weathers!
• Please ensure that your child comes to school in the correct uniform, including a tie and suitable footwear.
• Please inform a member of the FS1 staff each morning as to whether your child will be having a school dinner or packed lunch.

Dear God,

Please show me how to spend this day

Sharing your LOVE in every way

Help me to be kind to everyone

To play and laugh and have lots of fun

Shining your light and giving your grace

Sharing your JOY with a smile on my face!

Today we honoured Remembrance Day with a creative Stay & Play session filled with messy magic! The children (and adults) got hands-on with a variety of poppy-themed activities that sparked imagination and sensory delight:

 potato printing to create vibrant poppy art, sculpting poppies from soft playdough, designing collage poppies with colourful textures, fishing for poppies in our sensory water tray and diving into poppy-themed shaving foam fun. Thank you to all the families who joined us.

The EYFS children enjoyed sharing their learning about Understanding the World: Past and Present with their parents and carers.

To celebrate Bonfire Night, the children enjoyed reading The Bonfire Dance and talking about what happens and why we celebrate this special event.

This week in maths, the nursery children have been exploring and comparing different amounts. They have been recognising when sets are the same size and noticing when groups have “more” or “fewer”. The children have also been finding big and small collections through play, developing their early counting and comparison skills.

This week we’re celebrating kindness, friendship, and being ourselves! To start the week we joined in with Odd Socks Day — a fun reminder that we’re all unique and special in our own way. Throughout the week, the nursery children will take part in activities about sharing, caring, and showing kindness to others. 

This week we have really enjoyed learning all about Diwali, the Festival of Lights. We found out how people celebrate Diwali with lights, colours, and family traditions. The children loved painting mehndi patterns, creating colourful rangoli designs with chalk, and making playdough divas. We also had fun dancing to traditional music and moving with our bright streamers. Everyone enjoyed listening to the story of Rama and Sita and learning why Diwali is such a special celebration.

As part of our Black History Month celebrations, our nursery children have been exploring the theme "Standing Firm in Power and Pride" in ways that are meaningful to them. We’ve been focusing on the feeling of being proud — of who we are, what we can do, and how we grow every day.

The children have shared things they feel proud of, such as putting on their coats by themselves, eating all their sandwiches, or trying something new. They created their own Proud Medals to celebrate these wonderful achievements and made beautiful Proud Clouds using different art materials to express their feelings.

One of the most special parts has been sharing the Proud Clouds children brought in from home, filled with lovely messages from parents and carers about what makes them proud. 

The nursery children enjoyed exploring sound with their voices, bodies and musical instruments.

The nursery children have been learning all about different occupations. They’ve really enjoyed exploring a variety of roles through play, especially taking on the roles of nurses and doctors in our role play area. In the small world provision, they loved pretending to be firefighters, showing great imagination and teamwork as they responded to "emergencies."

The nursery children have been exploring mark making through movement! They created a special dance, moving up and down, and side to side and then turned their wonderful wiggles into colourful squiggles on card and using chalk outside. A fantastic way to develop their early writing skills!

As part of their Phase 1 Phonics learning, the nursery children have been exploring instrumental sounds. They’ve enjoyed discovering the names of different instruments and learning how to play them. The children also had great fun experimenting with playing loudly and quietly, developing their listening and sound discrimination skills along the way.

The nursery children stepped into the role of art critics this week, exploring and discussing self-portraits by a variety of artists. They shared what they liked and disliked, expressing their own ideas and opinions with confidence. The children then created their very own self-portraits.

The nursery children have been learning that our bodies are good and we need to look after them. We have been talking about keeping healthy and the importance of looking after our teeth and visiting the dentist.

The nursery children have been using their five senses to explore the wonders of autumn! 🍂 They felt the smooth, shiny conkers, looked closely at the changing colours of the leaves, and took in all the sights and textures this beautiful season brings.

The nursery children enjoyed learning about animals that hibernate. They made a hibernation box for our class hedgehog.

The nursery children have been learning about how we enter into God's Family through Baptism and that there are special things that we do and say as part of the Baptism celebration. 

Nursery children have had a fantastic time taking part in our whole school TT Rockstars Day!
They loved dressing up as rockstars, strumming guitars, and most importantly—doing lots of fun maths activities. We’ve been busy matching amounts, singing number rhymes, and exploring all the exciting maths resources in our provision.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first 'Stay and Play' session. It was lovely to see parents and carers joining their children in discovering the many ways we learn through play - from building and creating to pretending and exploring. Every activity helps support early development and the children thoroughly enjoyed spending time with their grown-ups too!

The nursery children enjoyed finding out more about their immediate environment. We went for a walk right round school and visited lots of different places and saw lots of different people. 

The children have been thoroughly enjoying our class text Supertato! They’ve responded to the story in lots of creative and exciting ways. The children used their imaginations to draw Supertato and Evil Pea. There was lots of laughter as the children took part in catching and tying up Evil Pea, just like in the story. The children made their own peas out of playdough and completed lots of other Supertato activities too.

The nursery children have been exploring mark making with different drawing materials. They have used crayons, felt tips and chalk to draw patterns and pictures.

The children have been listening to the story of Creation and how God made our world and everything in it. They have  learnt that God made each of them and knows all their names. The children decorated their names and remembered that their names are special. They sent 'Bubble Prayers' to God to say thank you for the things he has created.

The nursery children have been busy settling in to their new environment and exploring all of the continuous provision. Throughout the course of the week we have concentrated on settling in, getting to know each other and learning our nursery routines and structures.

The nursery children have been busy matching, recognising and naming colours. They have enjoyed having a colour scavenger hunt around the EYFS unit.

The nursery children enjoyed a 'drumming walk' as part of their Phase 1 Phonics. The children enjoyed using the claves to drum quietly, loudly, quickly and slowly. They enjoyed exploring the different noises the surfaces made as they drummed on them.

The nursery children enjoyed looking at the books and listening to a story on their first visit to the Reading Room today.