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, full time in Nursery.

You will also have three teaching assistants that support in your class. Mrs Fowles is in Nursery Monday and Tuesday, Miss Walton in is Nursery Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and Miss Jones works within Nursery during the morning session.

PE

PE will take place every Wednesday. Please come wearing active clothes and shoes.

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, SeeSaw. A link for which is placed below:

https://app.seesaw.me/#/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 topic is: Mary Mary quite contrary how does your garden grow?

Within this topic the children will be learning all about things that grow. We will focus on plants and humans, as well as other things that grow in the ground such as vegetables.

The children will be looking at how they looked as a baby and comparing this to how they look now. They will learn about what a plant needs to grow and what a human needs to grow. Nursery will be transforming their role play area into a garden centre and exploring using all of our senses!

Our key text is The Enormous Turnip!

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

To understand the colour monsters/worry monsters and how this can be used.
To discuss if it is right to take somebodies belongings.
To use a variety of vocabulary to describe character’s feelings.
To role play a story as group
To share and take turns on shared construction projects.
To settle at an activity for a while
To talk about themselves and describe what makes them unique.

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

To answer questions on the key text
To use key vocabulary in role play
To ask questions about who/what/where things grow in the ground
To listen to stories and recall basic events
To join in with rhyme/fill in the blank at the end of the line.
To use 4-6 words in a sentence - The flower has grown / in the garden.
To continue to develop social phrases - good morning how are you? How was your weekend?

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

To use gardening tools safely such as spades, trowels.
To understand we can grow food
To use kitchen tools with support to cut and peel
To identify vegetables
To sort healthy and unhealthy foods
To gain an understanding of what makes us grow

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

To join in with repeated parts of the story
To predict what might happen next.
To sequence the story
To discuss the characters of the story and their actions.
To discuss the main events of the story.
To bring in objects from home that start with the letter of the week.

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

To sequence the growth of a plant.
To use language of size when describing plants
To compare weight of objects and make predictions of what objects are heavier/lighter
To begin to learn about capacity - empty, full, half full, half empty.
To compare amounts using ‘more than’ ‘ fewer than’
To describe a sequence of events - first, then, next, after that…
To notice patterns in everyday objects - wallpaper, clothes etc.

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

To understand what a seed is
To understand what is needed to make plants grow
To talk about changes observed in plants
To understand the role of a farmer and garden shop
To observe different gardens around the school and world
To understand what we need to make us grow
To compare how we looked as a baby to how we look now
To talk about what helps us to grow - being healthy

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

To retell the story of the enormous turnip through role play
To orally retell Jack and the Beanstalk
To respond to the key text through drawings and paints. Representing key parts.
To create textures to represent plants.
To mix colours and explore what happens.
To explore different foods using all senses