Weekly blog and posts

This week, the winter fun continues with a Jack Frost story (click to open YouTube link) . The Children will also be dancing to music and freezing as frost statues. Percy's Shed was very popular last week and the fun will continue, we wonder where the animals will choose to hide and sleep this week! Every afternoon, in small circle, the Discoverers will be exploring different sounds in Mrs Browning's Box and will be coming up with ideas of how to describe them. Outside, chil

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and look forward to welcoming you all back for the start of the new year. We would like to offer a warm welcome our new starters; Gabriella, Isra and Tallulah. Percy's shed has arrived in our theme area and we will exploring the story One Snowy Night. At Rainbow times this week, the Explorers will be exploring patterns and the Discoverers will be finding out alll about woodland animals. The afternoon activities continue with Music and

We have been very busy entering into all of the festivities. Santa’s workshop has been in full swing with lots of elves practising their wrapping skills and helping to fill the sack ready for the big day. We’ve enjoyed dancing with the snowmen and singing Christmas songs. This week, the celebrations will continue and outside, they will even be making their own Santa's sleighs. We look forward to seeing you at our Christmas Show and Activity Morning on Friday. Thank you to al

The walls in the rooms are looking very festive and sparkly! This week, Santa’s workshop has opened in the theme area and the children can dress up as elves and practise their wrapping skills as they fill Santa’s sack in preparation for the big night. We have supplies of tape, scissors, wrapping paper and labels at the ready. We will also be trying to ‘catch the beat’ with the Barn band, and we will be singing festive songs and rhymes. During our Music and Movement afternoon,

This week, the children will be enacting the Christmas story. They will also be exploring the story independently, looking after baby Jesus and the animals in the stable. We will be continuing with our Christmas concert preparations and singing Away In A Manger. The children will all be making a card and helping to create a Christmas story scene, involving camels, kings, shepherds, and angels. Lots of busy, creative fun with sparkle, glue, and paint. Outside, there is more fe

Last week, we had fun exploring sounds and music and experimenting by playing different instruments and trying out new rhymes. At gatherings this week, we will be heading to the church to begin learning some of our new Christmas songs and the theme area has been transformed into a special stage, so that the children will be able to perform and entertain their friends in the audience! The sensory tray will be out in the garden, and there will be muffin tins and cake cases in

This week we will be exploring lots of rhymes for National Nursery Rhyme Week. Our rhymes of the week will be Sing A Song Of Sixpence, Humpty Dumpty, When I was One, I hear Thunder and 2 Little Dicky Birds. You can play the songs and see the lyrics at World Nursery Rhyme Week 2025 . The Barn home has become the 3 Little Bears' cottage ready for Goldilocks to venture inside. Outside, there will be a puppet theatre and lots of fun to be had with Incy Wincy spider - the play ma

We hope that you all enjoyed the half-term break. And now, we begin the countdown to Christmas! This week, we are looking forward to welcoming our newest Explorers to The Barn: Leo, Delilah and Sammy. We are all going to have lots of fun looking at the night sky, the stars, the moon and fireworks! In the mornings, we will watch an 'indoor' firework ( a cake fountain ), listen to the fizz and crackle, look at the sparkle and talk about the colours and shapes. This week, the ch

This week, we will continue to investigate the arrival of autumn and look out for signs of change in the environment. At the creative table, we will be having fun painting pumpkins and at the gross motor table we will be using hammers to hammer golf tees into pumpkins and squash. During small circle time, children will be investigating autumn fruits using all of their senses in a hands-on exploration involving cutting them open, looking inside, discussing texture and explorin

This week we are exploring autumn colours, and discussing the seasons and why all the leaves are turning brown and falling off the trees. We will be having fun investigating and counting autumn fruits and going on a lovely autumn walk to collect treasure. We will also be talking about hibernation and finding out why some animals sleep during the cold, dark winter months. Happily, a big brown bear has arrived at The Barn and he is ready to quietly hibernate in his lair! We wil

The children have loved the measuring wall last week and have been busy comparing heights. This week, our theme is playing together . We will be listening, chatting, playing games, and celebrating our own successes and those of our friends. At review times, both rooms will enjoy taking part in ring games and having lots of fun dancing together. Our Doctors' Surgery will remain open for another week and we look forward to welcoming new patients, it has been a very busy week of

We have had a lovely week exploring homes and acting out the story of The Three Little Pigs and building our own homes with the large bricks. The children have loved feeding our grasshoppers fruit this week and watching them leap about, they have been very entertaining to watch. This week, our theme is my body and our senses , we are going to be very busy! The children will be listening to their hearts, measuring their heights, and finding out ‘who is the tallest of them all?

This week we will be looking at different kinds of homes From igloos and yurts, castles and palaces, to the houses, flats, bungalows and cottages that we see around us. We will be considering the similarities and differences between them. At review time, the children will be re-enacting the story of the Three Little Pigs , and building their homes of straw, sticks and bricks. We will have fun seeing which house will survive the “huff and the puff” of the wolf! Outdoors, we wi

This week the home corner has become the Barn supermarket, where children will be able to find everything they need for their weekly shop. Outside, the mud kitchen has been filled with tea bags and herbs and we are looking forward to seeing the creations that come out of the oven. Children will also be exploring ebb and flow in the water table. Fun for everyone! In the creative area, children will be using their imagination to make models using recyclable materials and we can

This week we will be exploring, recognising and learning how to express our feelings.. At review time, the Discoverers' children will be reading The Colour Monster and other books about our feelings. The Explorers will be having fun singing If You're Happy And You Know It. The Ice Cream shop remains open for another week, and the children will be busy buying and selling delicious ice lollies and frozen delights. Outside we will be investigating the flow of water and serving u

We hope you have all had a lovely summer and look forward to welcoming all children back from Tuesday the 2nd of September. We have been busy over the summer updating The Barn loft and having a little move around in the rooms. We also have a beautiful new Rainbow room that has replaced the office. We can't wait to see how the children use the space in the rooms. A reminder that children moving up to The Discoverers' room will be leaving from the Discoverers' door at the end o

We had lots of fun last week, practising our songs, playing in the sunshine with our friends, and toy washing where lots of hands made...

We can't believe the academic year is nearly over, as we enter the last 2 weeks! This week, we will be continuing with summer fun, and...

Our theme this week is sun, sea and sand. We've enjoyed another lovely week of picnics on the field. Indoors, the pirate ship has sailed...

What fun! The caterpillars have been busy spinning their cocoons and they have hatched into beautiful butterfiles ready to be released....

We had a lovely week, enjoying the sunshine with lots of picnics on the field. Our caterpillars have spun their cocoons and we have...

This week is we are looking at summer gardens and minibeasts. Outside, there will be lots of minibeast hunts in the small world area and...

This week we are celebrating Father's Day and the special men in our lives. We will also be having fun learning new songs for our special...

We begin with a warm welcome for our newest Explorers: Kobi, Robert, Thea, Jake, Georgia, Evelyn, Misam, Clemmie and Eleanor. Our theme...