Nursery rhymes help young children to develop vocabulary and communication skills and encourage them to become interested in rhythms, rhymes and patterns in language. Use World Nursery Rhyme Week as a great reason to explore this resource pack.
(We also have an EYFS resource pack.)
What is Nursery Rhyme Week?
World Nursery Rhyme Week is a global initiative that celebrates the importance of nursery rhymes in early childhood development.
This week-long event encourages schools, nurseries and early years practitioners to engage children in daily rhyming activities, promoting language, literacy and social skills through fun and interactive experiences.
When is Nursery Rhyme Week?
In 2025, it will take place from Monday 10th to Friday 14th November.
What's inside the pack?
This resource pack provides a selection of traditional nursery rhymes to recite with children, with teaching opportunities linked to each nursery rhyme. The activities cover areas of the Year 1 English curriculum and will develop pupils' oracy.
Nursery rhymes included
- Two Little Dickie Birds
- The Wheels on the Bus
- Solomon Grundy
- Star Light, Star Bright
Resources included
- Nursery rhyme examples, available as a PDF and on a PowerPoint
- PDF outlines of characters or objects from the poems to create stick puppets
- Two Little Dickie Birds writing template
- The Wheels on the Bus writing template
- Solomon Grundy writing template
- Star Light, Star Bright writing template
- Teacher notes with guidance on how to use the resources in the classroom
National Curriculum links
Reading: Encourage enjoyment of reading, a love of books and the development of vocabulary and understanding. This includes recognising and joining in with familiar or predictable phrases, as well as enjoying rhymes and poems and learning to recite some from memory.
Writing: Focus on spelling the days of the week correctly and using capital letters for names of people and places. Practise composing sentences orally before writing them down, and begin punctuating sentences with a capital letter and a full stop