What a busy week in nursery! It has been a joy to watch how the children’s confidence and social skills are growing, and how much more they are chatting with each other and with us since the start of term.

We enjoyed lots of messy play alongside story-telling as we re-told the story of that funny Naughty Bus; driving it through a tray of baked beans and chips, making it trek through a jungle and then washing it clean at the end with soapy bubbles. On Thursday morning we had a very exciting visit to the local bus stop on Wandsworth Road, where we counted buses, checked what colour they were (there was one BLUE bus!) and counted how many people were waiting at the bus stop. One friendly driver even gave us a few beeps of his horn, and lots of people waved at us! The children were thrilled to spot other vehicles driving by, including trucks, vans, motorbikes, cement mixers, a rubbish truck and a police car. We sang songs about buses and enjoyed the Autumn sunshine, even though it has been getting chilly this week! The children followed our instructions beautifully to keep them safe, and we talked about how we wait at the side of the road and check left and right and left again to make sure it is safe before crossing a road.

The children found a huge pumpkin in the wildlife garden on Tuesday with Ms Pilard, and Mr Roberts allowed them to take it back to the nursery to look at closely before making pumpkin soup on Wednesday. The children used their observations skills, peeling skills with real peelers, washing and chopping skills. Many of the children were happy to try the soup, and most of them liked it! We had plenty left over to share with the children who come in on Thursdays and Fridays too! We read the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’ by Helen Cooper, which also gave us an opportunity to talk about friendship, kindness and sharing.  It is now the end of tomato season so we have finished all the ripe tomatoes in our garden, but we are still enjoying some wonderful cucumbers from the garden that last year’s children grew for us.

In the wildlife garden on Thursday, Mr Roberts came to show us how to sieve the soil of the wildflower meadow patch, to prepare it for us to sow the seeds next week in readiness for next spring. The turn in the weather this week means we have also started to talk about Autumn time and what this means.

Appropriately for the Naughty Bus story, our colour of the week has been red. Next week we will be exploring the colour green! Our key words have been ‘tall’ and ‘short’ and we learnt the Makaton sign for ‘silly.’ Next week, we will centre our learning around the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This will give us opportunities to talk about kindness, good manners, and size comparisons (big, medium, small. Bigger, smaller).

Thank you for all the lovely family photos coming in, and it’s not too late to send one if you haven’t yet got around to it!

Can we also ask you to make sure you child’s spare clothes bags are always fully stocked – we are still short on socks in particular. Some of the children have been a bit chilly this week, so it might be time to send them in with hats/scarves/gloves before too long!

Wishing you all a lovely weekend,

The nursery team

Dates to remember

Half term: 26th-20th October 2026

Inset day (school closed to children): Monday 2nd November