Nursery

Welcome to our Nursery Class Page, the place for you to find out all the amazing things that have and will be happening in your class this year.

So click on each of the headings to find out more information about the given topics.

Your Class Teachers

This year you are lucky enough to have Mrs Russell as your child's class teacher, and Miss Walton as your child's teaching assistant, full time in Nursery.

PE

We have now finished stretch and grow and will be doing some PE skills every Friday. Come in your active clothes/shoes for these sessions.

Yoga will be every Thursday morning and Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Ash.

We will be doing forest school every Wednesday so please come dressed appropriately - waterproofs, wellies and layers during the winter months.

Reading

It is important that your child builds up a love of books and reading for pleasure!

Every Monday your child will be given a new library book when their previous one is returned. This book is to enjoy together throughout the week and over the weekend.

Story bags will be given out to your child when they are a focus child for that week. This includes a book for you to share and enjoy with your child, as well as some other resources. Please look after the resources within the bag and return it on the Monday ready to be sent home with another child.

Homework

Homework will be set on a Tuesday through our online learning platform, Tapestry. You can search for this through the app store or via an email login.

All homework should be completed by the following Monday and Mrs Russell will check and respond to this within that time. Some homework will involve an activity through the app, and other homework challenges will be a practical challenge for you to complete with your child.

Curriculum

Our Summer topics are: Mary Mary Quite Contrary, how does your garden grow? (Summer 1)

What can you do with water? (Summer 2)

Within these topics, we will be learning about the world around us. We will learn about plants and what they need to help them to grow compared to what a baby needs to make it grow. We will be talking about how we care for the surrounding environment, the change in seasons, and we will be experimenting with planting and floating and sinking. We will also be continuing to develop our PSED skills through our Think Equal sessions, focussing on what makes us unique and special and the differences in the world around us. We will be exploring many roles within the community, such as nurses, dentists, firefighters etc. and how they help us.

Our key text for Summer 1 is 'The Enormous Turnip' and for Summer 2, 'The Storm Whale'.

We will also be focussing on different key texts each week as part of the NELI project.

Our Personal, Social and Emotional focus for this half term will be...

To begin to solve conflict using different social stories and transferring this into play situations.
To gain awareness of safety when out of school, in and around the farm.
To become more independent, using zips to fasten our coats and persevering with challenges.
To take on different roles within the community, understanding the importance of all occupations.
To talk about feelings, referring to characters in our stories to support this understanding.
To learn about what our body needs to be healthy and to help us to grow.
To label emotions and use them in everyday language - happy, sad, angry, tired, excited

Our Communication and Language focus for this half term will be...

To be able to talk in the past tense when sharing weekend and holiday news.
To retell and recall past experiences and familiar stories and songs.
To be able to talk in the future tense when talking about plans and future learning.
To retain new vocabulary when visiting the farm and talking about being safe.
To use sentence connectors to extend sentences - because, and etc.
To retell instructions for growing a plant - step by step.
To perform songs and poems about growing.
To ask and begin to understand what questions - what did we do yesterday? What are you having for tea tonight?
To ask and begin to understand why questions - "Why did you do that?"
To build up a range of vocabulary related to NELI and our topic.

Our Physical Development focus for this half term will be...

To be able to balance on one-point with practice.
To continue to build up the skills to balance on a bike and push using the pedals.
To practice skipping and hopping.
To begin to develop the skill of zipping up our coats.
To cut and peel different vegetables and fruit to create a fruit salad.
To learn about what is needed to keep our bodies healthy and sort between healthy and unhealthy.
To learn some teamwork skills get involved with active team games.
To continue to develop fine motor skills through dough disco, ribbon dancing, mark making, threading, a range of tools and daily funky finger activities.

Our Literacy focus for this half term will be...

To engage within the NELI programme, completing daily sessions and weekly texts.
To pick up on new vocabulary, understanding the meaning of new words.
To engage with RWI phonics.
To give meaning to different marks and try to copy different shapes- 'label' drawings.
To match and spot some initial sounds that are of significance.
To practice recognising and writing our name using a name card.
To draw pictures with a purpose in mind - flowers and a garden.
To explore non-fiction books when learning about plants and flowers and how to grow a plant.

Our Maths focus for this half term will be...

To join in with daily number songs.
To continue to develop confidence with numbers to 10 - reciting and recognising numbers.
To learn about weight and use the language heavy and light.
To learn about capacity and use the language full, empty, half full, half empty.
To learn about more and less with numbers to 10 - use concrete objects to support this.
To use the language more and fewer than in relation to an amount of objects.

Our Understanding the world focus for this half term will be...

To compare themselves as a baby and what they look like now - is it the same of different?
To become aware of a range of different occupations, understanding what they do for the community.
To explore fruits and vegetables, using all senses. Peel and cut some different foods and talk about where they come from - the ground, a tree etc.
Gain an understanding of planting and what a plant needs to help it to grow.
To share care and concern for living things in the environment.
To observe the effects of Spring and go on a Spring walk around the grounds.
To experience meeting animals on the farm and gain an understanding of how to handle them carefully.
To understand what we need to help us to grow big and strong.

Our Expressive, Arts and Design focus for this half term will be...

To make marks to a range of different types of music.
To use a range of tools to manipulate the playdough, creating shapes and objects.
To use water colour paint to create a flower picture.
Use the vegetables to print and create different marks and patterns.
To create a song/poem about growing and perform this on the stage in the garden.
To use an object to represent something else in play.
To create a narrative in play when in the home corner or in the garden centre, taking on a range of different roles.