Nursery
Nursery
Staff
Mrs O’Hare- Teacher
Mrs Stoddart- TA
Mrs Ho- TA
Literacy/Communication and Language
After Easter, Nursery children will begin our Read, Write Inc learning on letters and the sounds they make when we say them. This will help us prepare for learning to read.
Every morning, we have a Nursery group time where children are encouraged to speak in full sentences to their friends and to listen to others when they are talking.
We are also learning to recognise and write our name, looking at the letters that make up our name, tracing our name and eventually writing it ourselves! We look at how many syllables our names have and explore through claps.
Friday morning is our library slot, so please ensure your child has their blue book bag in order to take books home. Please return the book after use and this can be swapped for another.
This Term in Numeracy
The children will be exploring 2d shapes within the environment and discussing the properties of shape using the appropriate vocabulary.
We will extend our knowledge of shape to patterns, being able to carry on patterns and creating our own.
We will be consolidating our understanding of numbers 1,2 and 3 where the children will subitise quantities to 3- this means knowing how many there are without having to count. In Nursery we call this ‘fast eyes’!
PE/Physical Development
Friday morning is PE for some children in Nursery which is delivered by Nursery staff.
This is a great opportunity to develop gross motor skills such as skipping, hopping and crawling. We will also be focusing on patterns in movement e.g. clap, stamp, clap, stamp.
In Nursery we are also working on our fine motor skills such as threading, cutting, tracing, mark making etc.
Topic Work
Each term in Nursery we look at different topics which we link to the 7 areas of learning in the EYFS. These topics will be ‘New Life’, therefore looking at how living things grow such as Minibeasts and linking to the story of the ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle.
Later in the term we will be linking our learning to ‘The Seaside’, looking at all of the things we can see at the beach and the story ‘Sharing a Shell’ by Julia Donaldson.
Children will also come to Nursery with their own interests that we will explore in addition to these topics, such as dinosaurs.
Outdoor Provision
Our EYFS area has an amazing outdoor space that we use as often as we can. Accessing the area requires the children to have their own labelled pair of wellington boots. These are kept in school and are only sent home if they are too small or at the end of the year.
The children also need a come to school wearing a coat that is waterproof. Coats and jackets often get muddy or dirty so please ensure that they are washable.
Don’t forget, if your child comes home dirty it usually means that they have enjoyed lots of fun.
Homework
Some family learning may be required in Nursery. Clear instructions will be given as and when required. For example, bringing in items to support discussions about what children have done in the holidays.
We would love to see what you get up to at home at the weekend and in the school holidays, please feel free to post any pictures on Tapestry and we will share them with our Nursery friends at group time!
It would also greatly help us if putting on coats and shoes could be practiced at home too which supports what we do in Nursery.
Reporting to Parents
Parents and carers are encouraged to view their child’s progress on Tapestry. If concerns arise then please contact a member of the team to make an appointment.
Home / school communications have gone paper free. Please make sure that your School App is working. Any problems please ask for support at the school office.
There will be further school reporting in the Summer Term which will be done in a written format.
Tapestry
As you are probably aware we keep an online account to celebrate the wow moments in your individual child’s learning. These can be accessed on your iPad or iPhone. If you are not using your account please do so as it provides a wonderful snapshot of your child within our provision.
If you require any help to log on then please speak to Mr Byers at the main office. He will help you with a log in and a password.
Staff love to see when parents comment and reply to the posts.
Also, keep up to date with our regular posts on Facebook.