This year you are lucky enough to have Mrs Stephani (M-W) and Mrs Lindop (W-Fr) as your child's class teachers. Miss Walton is our EYFS advanced practitioner TA, who will work with our Preshcool children. Mrs Brookes and Miss Green are also TA's whole support within Little Oaks.

 

This year we are extremely fortunate with our pd curriculum. We have Stretch and Grw every Monday and Friday.

We will be doing forest school every Wednesday so please send your child in with the appropriate clothing. Come with- waterproofs, wellies and layers during the winter months. 

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. 

We will have lots of key stories that we will read. This half-term nursery will read -The Tiger Who Came to Tea.

Homework will be set on a Wednesday 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 Stephani and Mrs Lindop 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. 

Big Question: Who lives in my house?

During the Autumn term , children will 

• Share information about their family and home.
• Listen to others talking about themselves.
• Learn new vocabulary related to body parts, emotions, and families.

• Enjoy stories about families, feelings, and starting nursery.

Special Experiences

• Wow Start: Parents come in for a stay and play session

• Fantastic Finish: Den building a house/building a house in junk modelling

• Additional Learning Opportunities:

  • Baseline assessments

    Making a family tree

    Building houses

    Elsa to visit around Christmas time

    Walk to the postbox to post the letters to Father Christmas

    Materials investigation - link to the three little pigs. What materials is the strongest.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Children will:

To build up relationships with new teachers and peers

To understand and talk about who they are and the people who are special to them.

Understand and follow the daily routine with support from adults and visual aids

Learn to share resources within the classroom and the rules of the classroom

Begin to talk about feelings- sad, happy

Show an interest in familiar/new toys when exploring the environment

To become more independent once settled into Nursery - Knowing where to put coat, going to the toilet etc.

To join in during circle times, talking about likes and dislikes and engaging with other peers.

Communication and Language

Children will:

To become familiar with the school routine and develop language related to this - days of the week, morning, afternoon, lunch time, outside time, group time etc.

To communicate with key adults and peers in the school environment

To join in with group time and discussions around interests and the topic.

To understand who they are and articulate this - name, age, interests, family, who lives in their house.

To show understanding of prepositions in front, behind, in, under when making houses.

To use plurals when talking about the amount of people who live in their house.

Physical Development

Children will:

To be able to use a range of body parts and move in different ways - stretch and grow.

To adapt speed and change direction to avoid obstacles.

To become confident in using the outdoor climbing equipment.

To develop riding skills using the bikes.

To use a range of tools to create shapes when making a house

To mark make to represent their name.

To access the playdough table, squashing and squeezing to build a house.

Literacy

Children will:

To engage with conversations around a familiar story - pointing out people that they have in their family/who live in their house

To begin to orally retell a familiar, repetitive story

To use family books to talk about own family members

To engage in phase 1 phonic sessions and activities daily

To access the writing area, making marks and giving meaning to these

To draw lines and circles to create a picture of a house.

Mathematics

Children will:

To join in with daily number songs

To count the people that are in their family and that live in their house

To share an amount of objects (up to 5) between a group

To use the dolls house to develop awareness of positional language- in front and behind, under and on

To use the bee-bots to talk about our routes to school

 

Understanding the World

Children will:

To gain an understanding of their new daily routine in school

To develop an understanding of themselves and each other

To understand what Autumn is and what happens during Autumn

To share information about their family, and where they live

To share special events and festivals that they celebrate and learn about other festivals

To develop new relationships and friendships

To get involved in sensory experiences in the classroom

To explore the indoor and outdoor environment in the classroom

Expressive Arts and Design

Children will:

To become familiar with instruments and the sounds that they make

To have a try at playing a variety of musical instruments

To share previous experiences within the role play home corner

To happily play alongside other children

To access the mark making and creative areas in the classroom

To use a range of different media when mark making

To explore colour