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 Monday 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 Spring topics are: What do we know about the amazing animals in our stories? (Spring 1)

What can you spot through a magnifying glass? (Spring 2)

Within these topics, we will be learning lots about different types of animals. We will be learning about jungle animals, farm animals, pets, sea creatures and meeting many more animals within our stories! We will learn about baby animals and the different things that animals need. 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 Spring 1 is 'The Little Red Hen' and for Spring 2, 'What the Ladybird heard'.

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 solve conflict using different social stories.
To be able to name things that we can use to help us to calm down when we feel angry.
To become more independent, using zips to fasten our coats and persevering with challenges.
To select and use resources with a goal in mind.
To talk about feelings, referring to characters in our stories to support this understanding.
To continue to learn about differences and similarities in relation to likes/dislikes and religion - Easter.
To label emotions and use them in everyday language - happy, sad

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

To be able to talk in the past tense when sharing weekend and holiday news.
To be able to talk in the future tense when talking about plans and future learning.
To be able to listen and engage in a range of songs.
To be able to talk about what we use our ears, eyes, mouth and hands for in relation to the 5 senses.
To ask and begin to understand what questions - what did we do yesterday? What are you having for tea tonight?
To ask and begin to understand why questions - why does the worm live underground? What do some people celebrate Easter?
To build up a range of vocabulary related to NELI and our topic.

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

To be able to balance on two points confidently and one point with practice.
To build up the skills to balance on a bike and push using the pedals.
To learn how to skip.
To begin to develop the skill of zipping up our coats.
To practice throwing and catching using a range of ball sizes.
To develop our hand and eye coordination through activities such as threading.
To begin to learn some boundaries and get involved with active team games.
To continue to develop fine motor skills through dough disco, ribbon dancing, mark making, threading and daily funky finger activities.

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

To engage within the NELI programme, completing daily sessions and weekly texts.
To pick up on new vocabulary, understanding the meaning of new words.
To continue to develop an understanding of how to handle books, that print has a purpose and it goes from left to right.
To continue to sequence familiar stories.
To give meaning to different marks and try to copy different shapes.
To match and spot some initial sounds that are of significance.
To practice recognising and writing their name using a name card.
To draw pictures with a purpose in mind - life cycle, minibeasts.

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

To join in with daily number songs.
To develop an understanding of size, using the words big, small, long and short.
To compare objects of different sizes.
To learn all about the number 5.
To recognise and count numbers to 5.
To count 1:1 correspondence with objects to 5.
To practice recognising and creating with shapes.
To solve real-life problems with numbers to 5.

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

To use words related to the school day - before, after, next.
To build up an awareness of the life cycle of a butterfly and talk about the life cycle of a chick and frog
To share care and concern for living things in the environment.
To observe the effects of Spring and go on a Spring walk around the grounds.
To learn about and name some baby animals.
To explore the environment, looking for minibeasts.
To learn about Easter and why it is celebrated.

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

To make marks to a range of different types of music.
To explore colour mixing using the prime colours.
To create different minibeasts using a range of media.
To use an object to represent something else in play.
To use loose parts to create a minibeast.
To get creative with some Easter arts and craft activities.