Hello and welcome to the Polar Bears class page! 

We hope you enjoy looking through all the pictures of our marvellous children and following us on our Nursery adventure.

Plants and vegetables
We’ve been exploring plants and vegetables. We talked about how they grow and change over time. We have been growing our own beanstalks and sunflowers. We know they need soil, sun and water to help them grow. 

World Book Day 2026! 📚

We had lots of fun dressing up as our favourite book characters. We loved ‘biscuits and story time’ and performing our own puppet shows! 🎭

People Who Help Us

Superheros!

We have loved exploring Superheros this week. We made some superhero masks and made up our own superhero stories!

Owl Babies!

We loved reading this book, during our Birds week. We created our very own fluffy baby owls, using white paint and forks.

We're Going On A Bear Hunt!

We have been reading one of our favourite books. We know it so well we made our own story map, using our fantastic art skills!

A Frosty start to the year!

Polar Bear's have been exploring the polar regions and welcoming our new friends.

Fireworks Night!

The Polar Bears have enjoyed learning about fireworks this week. We used our listening skills to hear and mimic the sounds POP BANG CRACKLE WHIZZ! We learnt to use a pipette to drop food colouring into our water tray and watched the colours mingle and swirl. We also used pipettes to make some beautiful firework pictures with paint.  

We loved reading Meg & Mog and making our own potions!

Halloween Fun!

The Polar Bears had lots of fun celebrating Halloween! We practised our balancing by walking on the spider web, danced and chased bubbles, wrapped the mummy, cut open pumpkins and made a scarecrow that we called Harry O'Hay. We also enjoyed eating our spooky treats that we made earlier in the week, ghost bananas and mummy pizzas.

Autumn Continued & Halloween!

We have been using our natural materials to make Autumnal transient art. We explored pumpkins of all shapes, sizes and colours. We used our senses to explore their external features and then we chopped one up and looked at the inside! We investigated the leaves in our outdoor area, we gave them a clean and watched to see if they would float or sink. We had the most fun at out Halloween party! Dancing, playing spooky games and making a Scarecrow. We called him Harry O'Hay!

Autumn
We have been on an autumn walk. We collected natural materials and looked for signs of autumn. Our leaves were great fun to play with in the class, we made leaf men and lovely patterns.
We looked at art work from the famous artist Kandinsky. We used paints and our knowledge of shape to make circular paintings.  

We are Risk Takers

We have been practising our balance and coordination on the balance bikes. We know that we need to wear a helmet to protect our heads and to stay safe. 
We’ve been learning about pattern, reading lots of stories with repeating refrains and making some shape patterns with 3D shapes and paint. We’ve also been using our super listening ears to identify mysterious objects in Miss Richardson’s bag. 
We had a visit from Emily at Future Steps who showed some some great activities to improve our muscle memory. 

Jill Murphy

We have enjoyed reading some Jill Murphy books! We read ‘Peace at Last’ and used our listening ears to hear all the sounds Mr Bear could hear. We made a sound map of the story!
We also read ‘Whatever Next’ and used shapes and objects to make a rocket to take Baby Bear to the moon. We found our own space helmets and space boots and build some rockets outside. 3, 2, 1 Blast off!

Our First Phonics & Maths

We practised our scissors skills and made some listening ears! We talked about how we can do good listening and had a listening walk around school. We heard all sorts of sounds! We’ve also been looking at quantities in maths and comparing them, big, bigger, small, smaller. 

Exploring Colour

We’ve been busy looking at colours of the rainbow! Making collage rainbows, patchwork Elmer and Andy Warhol style Pop Art!

OUR FIRST WEEK IN NURSERY

We have loved getting to know our new friends and exploring our learning environment inside and out! We have been learning where all our resources are and how to put them back where they belong ‘Choose it, use it, put it away’. We have done a great job learning our nursery routines, sharing with friends and remembering to say please and thank you.