This year you are lucky enough to have Mrs Stephani (M-W) and Mrs Lindop (W-Fr) as your child's class teachers, and Miss Walton as your child's teaching assistant, full time in Nursery.

This year we are extremely fortunate with our pd curriculum. Children will have a stretch and grow session both on Monday afternoons and Friday mornings. How exciting!

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

We will be doing forest school every Wednesday so please send your child in with the appropriate clothing. come - 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. 

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 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 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. 

Our Autumn 1 & 2 topics are: Who lives in my house? (Autumn 1)

Within these topics, we will be learning about the people and world around us. We will learn about the people around us and the seasonal changes of Autumn. We will also be learning about different homes that people live in. 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. 

Our key text for Autumn 1  is 'The tiger who came for tea"

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 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.

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 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. 

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

• 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. 

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

• 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 

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

• 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 

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

• 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