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 prepare for transition into Reception, visiting their new classroom and talking about September.
To begin to label and express when feeling happy, sad, tired, angry, frustrated and excited.
To talk about their feelings in regards to transition and moving into Reception.
Is able to share and attempt to solve conflicts within play.
Becoming more independent in their self-care.
To be able to follow rules and boundaries without much adult support.
Takes part in pretend play with others, engaging and building on play ideas.
Can engage with an activity for a prolonged period of time.
To engage in group tasks e.g. building guttering
To discuss if they like the rain
To talk about their experiences of going to the seaside/ playing with water
To discuss who their friends are (sharing a shell)

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

To participate in group-time for at least 15 minutes at a time.
Remember and join in with familiar songs and rhymes.
Understand simple ‘why’ questions. Why do we need water?
Can start and continue a conversation with an adult and child.
Use a sentence of 4-6 words.
Understand and follow a two-part instruction.
To sort out clothes for a hot and then a rainy day
To make voice sounds to represent water
To give instructions to peers
To follow more complicated instructions - to create boats.
Take part in NELI sessions to increase the understanding of new vocabulary.

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

To take part in team games - sports day.
To hop, skip, jump, balance and develop riding a bike skill.
To move with control in different directions, navigating different spaces.
To use one-handed tools and equipment with good control.
To make snips with scissors.
To be able to hold a pen/pencil with good control, choosing a dominant hand.
To use their thumb and first finger to operate spray bottles
To pour between jugs and containers with control
To tip watering cans
To balance across objects and beams
To blow bubbles
To mix liquids together
To shape pipe cleaners to make bubble wands
To peg the clothes up and practice zips and buttons

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

To understand that they read left-right and label key parts of a book - front cover, pages, pictures, text.
To read their own name.
Recognise rhyme in words.
To begin to identify some objects that start with a sound - alliteration.
To be able to clap syllables.
To form the letters in their name or give meaning to the marks they make when representing their name.
To form some recognisable letter shapes.
To orally retell the story of The storm Whale.
To change the character within the story
To give meaning to marks.
To show an interest in non-fiction texts about water and sea animals
To assign meaning to print in the environment
To recognise familiar labels and signs
To orally retell a story and begin to scribe with an adult

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

To subitise with numbers to 5.
To be confident with number to 5 - reciting, recognising, and 1:1 correspondence.
To describe a sequence of events.
To continue a repeating pattern.
To talk about and explore 2D and 3D shapes.
To make comparisons between objects in relation to length, height, weight and capacity.
To sing once I caught a fish alive and five little ducks.
To discuss the shape and size of shells
To name 2D shapes: circle, square, triangle and rectangle.
To name 3D shapes: Sphere, cuboid, pyramid
To continue and create ABAB patterns

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

To be familiar with the days of the week.
To begin to compare past and current experiences.
To know and talk about family events.
To have an understanding of Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer.
To know that there are different countries in the world and that they have differences - talk about holidays and experiences.
To use all of our senses to explore water - ice, freeze, melt, cold etc.
To understand different weathers and the clothes that we would wear - beach party, water play etc.
To gain an understanding of roles such as sailors, firemen etc.
To observe changes in weather
To make ice melt and observe the changes
To identify animals that live under the sea
To explore floating and sinking
To name the key features of boats

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

To create small world settings within their play - buildings, homes etc.
To complete the rhyme time challenge - sing a range of songs, changing pitch and tone to match the music.
To explore colour and colour mixing.
To use a range of tools and materials to create a boat with a mechanism (DT).
To use water-colour paint to create a scenic picture of the sea.
To create a storyline within play - pirates and boats, going to the beach etc. Extend on play ideas.
To build guttering for water to travel down
To construct boats with key features.
To use music and voice sounds to create water sounds – splash, drip, swoosh.
To create small world scenes of an ocean.
Music focus: Music Playtime: Seaside and under the sea
DT focus: Mechanisms - Making boats