Nursery - Spring 1 Week 6
Date: 11th Feb 2026 @ 7:58pm
This week in Nursery has been filled with love and kindness, and as Valentine’s Day approaches, we embraced the opportunity to explore its meaning together.
We began our week by talking about what love means to us, sharing who we love and what we love about ourselves and others. It was so heartwarming to hear the children’s thoughtful responses.
Inspired by the story ‘Love Bug’, we created our own special “Bags of Love”, each complete with a little tasty love bug treat. The classroom has truly been filled with care, friendship, and celebration of one another.
During Forest School, we worked together to create a large-scale heart using natural materials. The children showed wonderful teamwork as they searched for sticks, leaves, and other treasures to carefully build and shape our heart together.
In PE, we continued developing our gymnastics skills, revisiting familiar shapes and movements with growing confidence. The children also demonstrated responsibility and teamwork by helping to tidy away the mats at the end of the session.
Our Early Listening sessions were full of fun as we played a variety of listening games, including exploring syllables. We enjoyed it so much that we even clapped out the syllables in our favourite snack choices!
In Maths, we have been singing our new rhyme, ‘Five Little Fingers of Love’, to recap numbers one to five. We also explored shapes and their properties, from noticing how a circle has one continuous side, while a pentagon has five straight sides. The children were very proud of using this new mathematical vocabulary.
Across the classroom, we immersed ourselves in love-themed activities. We created beautiful love hearts, used heart-shaped pasta to make patterns and practise threading, and in ‘Funky Fingers’ used tongs to carefully place pom-pom decorations onto hearts, strengthening our fine motor skills. Making “love potions” from self-made foam was particularly exciting — full of wonder and curiosity from beginning to end!
Through sharing books about love, we talked about our own hearts and the feelings connected to them, helping us to understand emotions in a gentle and meaningful way.
On Tuesday, for Safer Internet Day, ‘Jessie’ helped us learn about staying safe online. We talked about the importance of telling a trusted adult if anything we see or hear gives us a “funny feeling in our tummy.” The children engaged thoughtfully in this important conversation.
It has truly been a wonderful week filled with love, care, and togetherness — a beautiful way to end our half term.
We would also like to say a heartfelt thank you to all our parents and carers for the continued support you provide at home. The time you spend reinforcing learning, sharing stories, practising rhymes, and nurturing independence makes such a meaningful difference to your child’s confidence and development. We truly appreciate your partnership — it helps your child to flourish and shine.
We wish you all a well-earned rest and look forward to seeing you in ten sleeps, ready to continue learning and 'Shine Bright' together.
Warm wishes,
Mrs Grayson and the Nursery team
Please see our updated virtual classroom attached to this blog if you would like to explore any of the themes we will be exploring after the half term.