Nursery Weekly Blogs

This week we shared the story of The Girl, the Bear and the Magic Shoes. We talked about the sounds that the girl made on her journey and made the different noises – crunch, squelch, whizz, splash.

In our pen disco…

This week we have been talking about the changes between autumn and winter. We looked at the shapes and colours of the leaves that had fallen from the trees and compared them. We looked for leaves that were the same size, shape and colour.

In maths this week we also talked about size. We…

This week we have been learning about road safety. We talked about how to stay safe when crossing the road by looking and listening for cars. On Wednesday we wrapped up warm and walked to the post box to post letters to Father Christmas. When we were walking, we crossed the road using the pelican…

Welcome back to Nursery!

We hope you all had a lovely half term break. The children have settled back into Nursery so well this week. It was great to see so many smiles as they came in, in the morning.

This week, we have had a wonderful start to the new half term with our Bonfire Night theme…

What a fantastic half term we have had the children have settled in well, made lots of new friends and have been very busy! This week we have been learning about Diwali and looking at the seasonal changes around us. We used clay to create Diva lamps and used chalk to make Rangoli…

17/10/25 

This week we have been sharing the story of the Dot. We talked about how Vashti feels in the story and painted and drew our own dots. We talked about things that we are good at doing.  

In our pen disco this week we drew circles. We used our arms to draw big, medium and small…

Blog 10/10/25 

This week we have been talking about our likes and dislikes. We talked about the food we like to eat and used the sentence starter I like... to encourage us to talk in sentences. We also talked about what we don’t like to eat and used the sentence starter I don’t…

Blog 03/10/25

This week we have been learning about our bodies. We have been naming our body parts and counting how many we have e.g. 5 fingers on each hand, one head, two arms. We sang head shoulders knees and toes and made hand print pictures. 

In our pen disco we drew horizontal and…

Blog 25/09/25

This Week

We have been learning about families. We have been naming the people that live at our house and sharing the story Families, families, families. We talked about how all families are different and talked about similarities and differences between our own families.

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This week we have continued talking about the new routines in Nursery including where our nursery toys belong, how to use the outside equipment and where we can find tissues if we have a runny nose!

We have been reading lots of stories and singing lots of nursery rhymes and counting songs…

Weekly Blog Nursery 

Week Commencing 8th September 2025

This week we welcomed the children into Nursery for the first time. They all did a fantastic job of coming in and putting their coats and water bottles away. We have spent lots of time this week talking about the new routines in…

Welcome to Strathmore!

We’re so excited to welcome you and your little ones back to school! We hope you had a joyful and restful break, and we can’t wait to see all the smiling faces ready for a new term of learning, laughter, and growth.

This term, we’re making a small change to how we…