Week Commencing 9th November 2026

The Nest

We are excited to share a variety of engaging activities designed to bring our favourite rhymes to life. Nursery rhymes play a vital role in early childhood development, helping to build spacial awareness, language skills and creative thinking to support the children learning.

Physical Development:

The children have experimented in painting with star shaped cutters, inspired by Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. They dipped their hands into the paint, squeezing them together to explore the texture. The children demonstrated good hand control as they moved the stars around the paper, noticing the marks they had created.

Outdoor Learning

We all have enjoyed being in the garden exploring the leaves and feeling the crisp air on our cheeks. The children were all bundled up in their warm coats and hats and happily explored the garden surroundings. Laney was throwing the leaves in the air and singing “Autumn Leaves are falling Down”. The children were captivated as they watched the leaves fall back to the ground. It has been so lovely to see the children gain confidence in their environment and the lovely interactions observed with lots of smiling and frequent babble sounds.

In Honour of Remembrance Day we have explored red, green and black coloured rice. The children showed no reluctance to begin exploring the tray of rice, using their hands to feel the rice. They really enjoyed using their hands to push the rice around the tray, watching their movements move the rice. The children also observed as an adult sprinkled the rice from height, and demonstrated big smiles to show their enjoyment of this action!

Communication and Language:

We shared a lovely small group singing time with the children who were all incredibly engaged. We began by singing “Whats in the box” Before each child had the chance to take a prop from the basket. The children showed their happiness through facial expressions as we sang familiar nursery rhymes as a group, with them making some babble sounds, moving their bodies and clapping their hands in response to our singing.

We provided the light panel and coloured water sensory bottles for the children to explore. The children had a wonderful time observing the different colours and seeing how they reflected onto the light panel.

We added some ducks to our water tray to create 5 Little Ducks. The children sat next to the tray, content next each other and watched as they began engaging and exploring the water. They carefully reached into the tray with their hands in the water and gently moved it around feeling the water on their hands.

Staffing update

We want to welcome Jodie from our Deckham site who will be joining us in the Nest on a Friday going forward.

Parent Partnerships

We want to invite you to our Belong stay and play session on Monday 30th November 2-3pm. please let a member of staff know if you plan to attend.

Wishing you a lovely weekend!