The Cobbs Infant and Nursery School

We welcome all the new children to our Nursery this academic year and also welcome back those children who have returned to Nursery after the holiday.

Our initial topic for this term is ‘Special Places’ and we will be thinking about and discussing our home and familiar places that we visit like the park and shops. Small world tables and role play areas will also be linked to this topic.  We will also be exploring our nursery environment and school grounds. 

In art and design we will be making marks using different materials, learning how to draw with more detail and drawing to represent ideas. We will be starting to learn how to hold scissors and make snips in paper.

Our traditional tale this half term will be ‘The Gingerbread Man’. We will be joining in with and retelling the story and singing songs.  We will also be encouraging the children to draw, paint and decorate their own gingerbread men and will look forward to making and tasting our own gingerbread men, observing the changes as they cook. Our maths work will focus on numbers around us to 5.

As always, we will be watching the weather carefully and observing the seasonal changes in our school grounds. We will be using leaves for printing using autumnal colours. Later in the term we will be learning about Harvest and taking part in the Harvest celebrations.

This term we will also be learning the ‘Three Cobbs Rules’ and trying hard to be good listeners. We will be learning how to use all of the resources in nursery as well as how to be a good friend and share.

Our topic title for Nursery this half term is ‘Light and Dark’.  We will be reading the book ‘Owl Babies’ and learning about nocturnal animals and animals that live in our woods.  We will some special visitors as some nocturnal animals will come to visit us in nursery, which is very exciting!  Role play and small world tables will support this learning.  We will also be reading the book ‘Whatever Next’ thinking about night time and the dark, and will make our own fireworks and rocket to fly to the moon.  Artwork will also focus on making hedgehogs and owls from clay. 

In Science we will be using torches to explore light and dark. In Geography we will be exploring simple maps and using vocabulary like ‘next to’ and ‘behind’.

In maths we will be continuing to develop our number knowledge and learning more number songs like ‘5 little owls’ and ‘5 little fireworks’.  We will also be solving autumn number problems like how many spikes are on our hedgehogs. Times of the day will also be an important theme for this term and we will be sorting pictures into day time and night time as well as thinking about morning, afternoon and night.

As the term continues, we will begin to get ready for Christmas by learning songs to sing around the Christmas Tree.  We will also be getting excited for some very special and magical visitors!