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Taw Pre-School Autumn Term 2026

18.09.26

Our topic this week is ‘All About Me!’.  The children have been getting to know each other and exploring pre-school.

Books we have read this week:

  • I’m Starting Nursery
  • The Colour Monster
  • This is The Way We Go To School
  • The Smeds and The Smoos
  • You Choose

Activities/provision this week:

  • ‘What I like’ collage – The children decorated a heart shape and glued on pictures of things they like. For example, their favourite food, games, animals.
  • ‘My house’ craft – The children created a picture of their house using cut out 2D shapes e.g. square windows, triangle roof. They drew who lived in their house and people in their family.
  • Decorating gingerbread biscuits – The children decorated their own gingerbread biscuit to look like them using colourful icing.
  • Family photographs - The children shared their family pictures from home, talking about who is in their family.
  • Labelling my body activity - We drew around one of the children on a large piece of paper. The children then labelled the different parts of the body by placing pictures on the outline e.g. hands, eyes, mouth, feet. 
  • ‘How tall am I?’ activity – We measured the children using string and the chalk board. We compared the children’s heights using mathematical language e.g. tall, short. 

 

  • Mud kitchen – The children have been practising putting on mud suits and boots to explore our mud kitchen/digging area. They have enjoyed water play with herbs from our pre-school garden. 
  • Home corner – The children have enjoyed playing in the home corner, pretending to cook and play families
  • Dolls house – The children have been playing with miniature people and our dolls house/furniture.
  • Small world – The children have been playing with familiar characters such as, Bluey, Peppa pig and Hey Duggee.
  • Fine motor doll game – The children played with magnetic dolls, putting on different outfits and dressing them.
  • Craft – The children have made their own colour monster using different craft materials.
  • Construction – The children have been building with different size blocks and Duplo.
  • Reading den – The children have been listening to lots of familiar stories and fairytales.

 

Phonics: Instrumental sounds

This term our phonics focus is instrumental sounds! We will be experimenting playing with a variety of instruments. We will practice playing the instruments loud, quiet, fast, slow etc. 

 

Maths: Sorting 

We have been learning to sort objects into different groups and describe them e.g. sort by shape, colour or size. 

 

 

Nursery rhymes: 

This term we will be learning the nursery rhymes:

  • Old MacDonald had a farm
  • Twinkle Twinkle little star
  • Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
  • Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
  • See the sleeping bunnies
  • Hickory Dickory dock 
  • Wind the bobbin up
  • If you’re happy and you know it 
  • The wheels on the bus
  • I’m a little tea pot 
  • Five little monkeys

 

Next week the topic is: Harvest!

Important information

  • Please can children bring in any books from home about farming or farm animals.
  • Please can parents/carers send in family photographs for our family tree.
  • Send in any WOW moments for the children or photos of experiences to
    pre-school@bishopstawton-primary.org.

11.09.26

Our topic this week is ‘All About Me!’. This week we have welcomed lots of new children to pre-school. The children have been getting to know each other and exploring pre-school.

Books we have read this week:

  • I’m Starting Nursery
  • The Colour Monster
  • This is The Way We Go To School
  • The Smeds and The Smoos
  • You Choose

Activities/provision this week:

  • All about me collage – The children decorated a paper doll to look like themselves. They used colouring pens/crayons and craft paper. We talked about our facial features e.g. eyes, nose, mouth, hair.
  • Painting with sponges – The children painted on large pieces of paper using different shape sponges.
  • Mud kitchen – The children have been practising putting on mud suits and boots to explore our mud kitchen/digging area. They have enjoyed water play with herbs from our pre-school garden.  
  •  Home corner – The children have enjoyed playing in the home corner, pretending to cook and play families
  • Dolls house – The children have been playing with miniature people and our dolls house/furniture.
  • Small world – The children have been playing with familiar characters such as, Bluey, Peppa pig and Hey Duggee.
  • Playdough – The children have been playing with miniature people, pets and houses.
  • Craft – The children have made their own colour monster using different craft materials.
  • Construction – The children have been building with different size blocks and Duplo.
  • Reading den – The children have been listening to lots of familiar stories and fairytales.

Next week the topic is: All About Me!

Important information

  • Please can parents/carers send in family photographs for our family tree.
  • Send in any WOW moments for the children or photos of experiences to
    pre-school@bishopstawton-primary.org.

04.09.26

Our topic this week is ‘All About Me!’. This week we have welcomed lots of new children to pre-school. The children have been getting to know each other and exploring pre-school.

Activities/provision this week:

  •  Home corner – The children have enjoyed playing in the home corner, pretending to cook and play families
  • Dolls house – The children have been playing with miniature people and our dolls house/furniture.
  • Small world – The children have been playing with familiar characters such as, Bluey, Peppa pig and Hey Duggee.
  • Playdough – The children have been playing with miniature people, pets and houses.
  • Craft – The children have made their own colour monster using different craft materials.
  • Construction – The children have been building with different size blocks and Duplo.
  • Reading den – The children have been listening to lots of familiar stories and fairytales.

Next week the topic is: All About Me!

Important information

  • Please can parents/carers send in family photographs for our family tree.
  • Send in any WOW moments for the children or photos of experiences to
    pre-school@bishopstawton-primary.org.