Autumn 2026 - Newsletter

🦔🍁Welcome to our autumn newsletter! We are delighted everyone has settled happily into the new preschool year, We are look forward to a great year filled with fun, friendship and learning.

🍂 Growing in Independence

We are building our confidence by learning to say goodbye to Mammy and Daddy at the gate and coming into preschool happily. We are also learning to manage our own bags and coats, developing independence at lunchtimes managing our own lunch and tidy up afterward building vital independence, self-sufficiency, and fine motor skills. Every little step is a big achievement!

🍂 Autumn Adventures

We are exploring the changes autumn brings, noticing the leaves changing colour and falling from the trees. We are learning about hibernation and how hedgehogs sleep through the winter. We also enjoyed a nature walk, collecting leaves to make a cosy bed for our little hedgehog! 🦔🍁The children have lots of opportunities to explore the beauty of autumn in the garden, creative activities, stories, songs and seasonal play. We look forward to watching their confidence grow as they discover new things, develop new skills and make special memories together

We have been learning all about good hand hygiene with our special friend, Rufus the Handwashing Monster! The children have been discovering why it is important to wash our hands properly and when we should wash them throughout the day. We also carried out fun, hands-on experiments to explore how germs can spread from person to person, helping us understand why washing our hands with soap and water is so important. Through play, exploration and lots of laughing, the children are becoming little handwashing experts

We have also been learning how to help keep ourselves and our friends healthy, learning how to catch our coughs and sneezes in a tissue, put it in the bin, wash our hands and ask our teacher for help when needed

Stories and Story Time 📚

We have been enjoying a lovely variety of stories, including The Three Little Pigs, Winnie the Witch, That’s Not My Dinosaur and Hattie the Hedgehog. Sharing stories helps develop our children’s language, listening skills, imagination and concentration, while encouraging curiosity, discussion and a lifelong love of books.

Songs and Rhymes 🎶

Our songs have been supporting our All About Me theme, with favourites such as I Have 10 Little Fingers, Who’s Here Today? and I Look in the Mirror. We have also been enjoying Autumn songs like, the Leaves Are Falling Down, Hop Little Bunny and Dingle Dangle Scarecrow. Singing helps develop language, listening, memory, rhythm, coordination and confidence, while bringing lots of fun to our learning! Our Juniors especially love getting moving and stomping along to Dinosaur Stomp!

Fine motor skills

We have been developing our fine motor and pre-writing skills through a variety of fun activities, including cutting, gluing, painting and drawing. These activities are incorporated across the curriculum to help strengthen our hands, improve hand-eye coordination and prepare the children for early writing

We’ve also made a great family tree on our wall, we each glued on pictures of our family, it’s a great talking point in the playschool

But most importantly, we have been having lots of fun, using our imaginations, making new friends, building relationships and learning to play, share and explore together. ❤️