06/09/2026
What a brilliant first week of Autumn term!
🍂🌈 A New Term, New Adventures at PLS! 🌈🍂
We’re open and learning all year round, but the start of a new term always brings a little refresh — new topics, new resources, new experiences and lots of new adventures to explore! ❤️💛💚💙
Our first topic for Autumn Term is All About Me, and this week we’ve been exploring what makes every one of us unique. 🥰
We’ve learnt about our faces, features and body parts, played games identifying and matching them, and had lots of fun exploring feelings and emotions. 😊😢😡😮 We’ve talked about what different emotions look like, how our faces change when we feel them and how we can begin to recognise and communicate our own feelings.
There’s been plenty of hands-on learning too, with new resources arriving for the new term and lots of opportunities for building, problem-solving, experimenting, balancing, creating and developing those all-important fine and gross motor skills. 🧩🧱
And, of course, Learning Without Walls has taken us far beyond the nursery! 🎒🌎
We’ve enjoyed a STEM session, explored the Motor Museum, experimented, constructed and investigated, visited Compton Verney, taken in the incredible views from the RSC Tower, spotted familiar places from high above Stratford and enjoyed riverside walks through our local community. 🚗🔬🏛️🌳
Trips like these aren’t an “extra” to our learning — they are part of it. ❤️ Children learn by doing, touching, seeing, questioning, talking, moving and experiencing the world for themselves. One moment we’re learning about emotions together at nursery; the next we’re looking out across Stratford from the top of the RSC Tower or investigating how things move at the museum.
That’s exactly what Learning Without Walls is all about. 🌈
What a fabulous start to our Autumn Term 2026 — and this is only week one! 🍂❤️
