Trotts Hill Primary School and Nursery

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Nursery

Welcome to Nursery

Welcome to nursery. Your class teacher is Mrs Flack (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) and Mrs Paice on a Wednesday. Mrs Norman and Miss Lloyd are your teaching assistants. 

We aim to fill each day with fun and engaging activities. We learn best by playing with our friends and using a range of different resources across our indoor and outdoor classrooms. The areas we have on offer include creative, shape and numbers, the natural world, construction, role play, literacy and sensory play e.g. sand and water. We also have lots of opportunities to develop our communication skills, for example through singing, reading stories, rhymes, playing instruments and dancing. Some of these activities take place outside or in the hall and the forest school in our outdoor area.

During the term we will be looking at the topic of 'Ourselves', and celebrating, Divali, Fireworks night and Christmas.

Please make use of your Tapestry account to view your child's learning regularly or see below for weekly updates.

Mrs Flack

 

Mrs Norman

 

Miss Lloyd
Mrs Paice

Brilliant book list EYFS

2025-2026

Nursery Class Curriculum Overview

Nursery Reading Spines  

New to Nursery power point 2025

New to Nursery 2025

2025-2026

Spring Term

Week beginning 16th March 2026

We had great fun using the scissors to cut vertical lines. This was a new skill for us to try. We are used to cutting shapes and around different objects, but this was new and exciting. You can see that we managed really well and are developing our scissor skills. 

16 March 2026

Week beginning 9th March 2026

This week in maths, we have been looking at shapes. We read a book named All Shapes Matter and discussed the different things we can make with shapes. The children made their own patterns/models with 2D shapes.

9 March 2026

Week beginning 2nd March 2026

We had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day. We all dressed up, as super heroes. book characters, nursery rhyme characters and princesses. We invited our grownups in to read stories to us and we had a special visit from Goldilocks and her three bears, when she came to read a story to us.

Week beginning 23rd February 2025

The children worked really well together using the new construction set. They had to fix, connect and work out how the pieces slotted together.

Week beginning 9th February 2026

What fun we had making a dragon for our dragon dance to celebrate Lunar New Year.

Week beginning 2nd February 2026

As part of our Mindful sessions, we were thinking about taste this week. What fun we had tasting new foods and describing how they tasted and felt in our mouths.

Week beginning 26th January 2025

We have been thinking about animals keeping themselves warm in the cold. We had to hold or put our hands in icy water and then wrap our hands around a bag of oil. We spoke about the difference between them.

"It's freezing" A
"Cold" J
I, knew it would melt with our warm hand

"The fat will get you hot" - J
C remembered the word, "blubber"

Z also remembered, What keeps the bear warm - "blubber"

R, "Hot with the oil"  and "Cold with the ice cubes" 

Week beginning 19th January 2026

 

As part of our Mind up activities, this week we were thinking about smelling. We had a selection of different things to smell. We had to think if we had smelt them before and if we liked them or not.

Week beginning 12th January 2026

Our topic this half term is colours and we have been playing with different coloured water. The children were mixing, pouring and transferring water.  

Week beginning 5th January 2026

This week we have been reading the story of Elmer. The children acted out the story using props and vocabulary from the story.

Autumn Term 2025

Week beginning 8th December 2025

This week we preformed our Christmas production, We're going on a baby hunt. The children were fabulous and did such a good job. Here are a selection of our cast... 

Week beginning 1st December 2025

This week in nursery we made salt dough Christmas trees. We mixed together, flour, water and salt, then we had to knead it and then using the cutters we made Christmas trees, ready to decorate next week.

Week beginning 24th November 2025

We have been thinking about sustainability and recycling this week. We joined the rest of the school to do activities about helping the planet. We reused toilet rolls by painting them and making them into sculptures.

Week beginning 17th November 2025

What fun we had exploring the ice. The children used many different utensils to release the animals and people that were stuck in the ice. They found large shards of ice and tiny little pieces too. They persevered for a long time, squealing with delight when they had set the animals and people free.

Week beginning 10th November

This week we have been thinking about Anti-bullying week. We talked about how we need to be kind to one another and say kind things to one another. We also discussed what we need to do if we are feeling sad, unhappy about somebodies behaviour towards us. We then coloured in Odd Socks to show our support to stop bullying.

Week beginning 3rd November 2025

The children had a wonderful time making fireworks with paint, cotton wool and spoons.

Week beginning 20th October 2025

This week in  nursery, we have been celebrating Diwali. We made diva's, rangoli patterns, danced to Indian music and designed mehndi patterns on templates of hands.

Look at our beautiful rangoli patterns we made on the interactive whiteboard.

Week beginning 13th October 2025

This week we have been looking at Handa's Surprise. We have listened to the story, watched the animation, spoken about the African animals and fruits and had a taste of them.

Week beginning 6th October 2025

During CIL (choosing time) some of the children wanted to colour in a pumpkin on the interactive whiteboard. They had to chose the colour by changing it at the side and then they used their fingers to draw across the pumpkin to colour it in.

Week beginning 29th September 2025 

This week in nursery we have been thinking about houses. We read the story Peace at Last and discussed all the different rooms that are in our houses and homes. We then used a variety of construction materials to build our own houses.

Week beginning 22nd September 2025

This week continuing our learning about Owls, the children we given the opportunity of making owls. They needed to use small wooden discs, feathers and stick on eyes. They then displayed them on our autumn tree in the classroom.

Week beginning 15th September 2025

What a wonderful time we had exploring jelly. We used our senses to smell and touch the jelly. We described what it smelt like, felt like and how it made us feel.