Date: 02/10/26

The Star of the week/Ser yr wythnos in the morning is:

Jude

The Star of the week/Ser yr wythnos in the afternoons is:

Arlo

Welsh speaker of the week is/Siaradwr yr wythnos in the Morning is:

Brody

Welsh Speaker of the week/Siaradwr yr wythnos in the afternoons is:

Inaya

🌈 Nursery Newsletter – 2nd October 2026

After exploring our autumn treasures last week, we continued learning about them through our sense of touch. The children enjoyed a sensory guessing game where they felt natural objects without looking and described what they could feel. We discovered objects that were soft, spiky, smooth, tickly and rough, developing lots of new vocabulary as we explored.

We continued investigating different textures in our sensory tray by making our own kinetic dough. The children experimented by adding more water and watched it change into gloop, enjoying the different ways it moved and felt. 

Using our collection of autumn leaves, we had a go at leaf printing and explored beautiful autumn colours through paint. The children were very creative and enjoyed seeing the different patterns the leaves could make.

Following our apple picking last week, we made Apple crumble. We used our sense of taste to compare different varieties of apples and discussed how they looked, smelled and tasted. The children helped to chop the apples, looked at a recipe and identified the ingredients needed before making the crumble together. On Thursday, we enjoyed tasting our apple crumble with either ice cream or custard for snack. For some children it was a big thumbs up, while others decided it was not quite for them! Nevertheless, everyone thoroughly enjoyed taking part in making it.

Our busy builders have continued working hard both indoors and outdoors. In the garden, children have been constructing homes using a variety of building materials, blocks and pretend bricks. Inside, they have been creating tracks from bamboo and testing how fast different cars can travel, making predictions and solving problems along the way.

Thursday's dramatic weather certainly caused a stir as heavy rain arrived just as the children came into Nursery. This sparked lots of conversation about the weather and the world around us. We used Google Earth to locate our school, explored weather forecasts and were fascinated to learn how weather information is gathered using satellites.

We are also incredibly proud of how hard the children have been working on being kind friends. Many children have worked their way up the Kindness Rocket, blasting all the way to the stars and earning a star rubber to take home. We hope you have enjoyed celebrating this achievement with them. They are already working hard to climb the rocket again!

In PE, we revisited our obstacle course as many of the challenges felt a little tricky last week. With determination and perseverance, I think we can safely say we have mastered it!

Thank you for your continued support. We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and look forward to another week of learning and adventures in Nursery.

The Nursery Team 🌟🍂🍎🌈