Autumn term 2025 has been such a positive start to the academic year!

Our new children grew in confidence as they became familiar with the nursery routine, the staff and their new environment. Lots of friendships were formed and the children learned to play together, to share and to take turns.

The autumn term is always an exciting term and we celebrated by learning about the colours, textures, smells and tastes of the beautiful, colourful season.

In October we celebrated World Mental Health Day and we focussed on the importance of looking after our thoughts and feelings.

We also collected donations in October for our local charity ‘Washington Community Food Project’. Your kindness and support made a huge difference to families in our community who are in need. Thank you!

The first of our parent stay and play sessions took part and we focussed on personal, social and emotional development. Thank you to everyone who came along. It was lovely to have you in nursery to promote the links between home and school.

In November we learned and remembered all those who served and sacrificed for our country. The children took part in special activities to help them understand the importance of Remembrance Day.

November 2025 brought snow and turned our garden into a winter wonderland! Everyone embraced the snowy weather and had lots of fun sledging down our hill!

This term we learned about harvest vegetables and had lots of fun chopping and tasting! We did some lovely cooking sessions, even making some lovely homemade soup – perfect for the winter weather!

Autumn term was Oak Group’s turn to experience Forest School. They enjoyed their weekly visits, were full of enthusiasm and were eager to explore. They worked very hard and definitely earned their hot chocolate at the end of each session! Well done Oak Group.

December obviously brought Christmas to Oxclose Community Nursery School! The children wrote their letters to Santa and we went out and about to post the letters to the North Pole. We were excited to receive a reply from Santa himself the following week!

Thank you to everyone who came along to our Christmas Craft sessions – there were some beautiful creations made and hopefully they will be treasured keepsakes for a long time to come!

Our nursery and gardens were turned into a Christmas wonderland in the last week of term. We hope you all enjoyed our beautiful fairy trail. Our school looked so pretty all lit up in the darkness.

And finally – our Christmas party was a huge success! Lots of fun, games and dancing. We even had a visit from the big man himself!

What a wonderful, exciting term we have had!