Welcome to Nursery

#proud

Meet the team

Teacher: Miss Edwards   

                                   Teaching Assistant: Miss Mahmood

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Dixon

PE Day - Monday

What have we done this term to make ourselves proud?

We are so proud of the children continuing to come into Nursery with smiles on their faces and becoming more and more independent with the routines. We also welcomed some new children in January and they have settled into school life well and made lots of new friends along the way.

We are also proud that we are learning how to read and write some letter sounds and try our best to write some letters from our names. Most of use in Nursery can now recognise our own names without a picture.

In March, we supported Red Nose Day by wearing something red and donating some money. It was interesting to learn about where our money goes and who it helps.

Earlier this term we have been learning about people who help us in the community. We learnt all about the jobs of a firefighter, a doctor and the police. We learnt about different vehicles and jobs that people do. We used our writing and phonics skills to label the uniform of a firefighter and looked at clues like detectives to find out about police officers. The home corner was turned into a doctors surgery and we learned how to take care of each other.

During the later part of the term, we were very excited to read and learn about different fairy tales. We have become very good at retelling stories using story maps, puppets and props. During choosing time we have explored the stories using our senses with pigs mud, porridge for the three bears and gingerbread play dough.

During this half term we have also thought about celebrations and traditions for Eid and Chinese New Year.

What we will be learning about in the Summer Term.

Reading

During the summer term we will be continuing to enjoy class reads every day and talk about the stories we enjoy. During phonics sessions we will develop our listening skills to hear sounds in words and begin to recognise them. We will begin to hear initial sounds in words including our names and sound out and blend some simple words using the sounds we have learnt.

Writing

We will continue to mark make, draw and write some letters with support from the teacher. During Family Time sessions we will see how teachers write for different reasons and try to do this ourselves during choosing time. We will focus on writing the letters of our name as well as sound we learn during phonics using the rhymes to help. Pencil grip is so important so using our fine motor skills during choosing time will help us to have a better grip and become super writers read for Reception.

Maths

Mini Adventures

Summer 1 - Cooking & Growing

During this mini adventure we will:

*Plant seeds and take care of them.

*Understand what a seed needs to grow

*Try some different foods and notice how they taste

*Understand the difference between plants and animals.

*Look at how a caterpillar grows and changes

*Explore how materials change such as melting, cooking, freezing.

Summer 2 - Beside the Sea

During this mini adventure we will:

*Explore what a beach looks and feels like

*Compare different things found on beaches such as shells.

*Learn about different animals that live in the sea.

*To think about the area we live and how this is different to a seaside

*Explore maps of the local area and beaches

*Read stories about the seaside

Be safe, be kind, be ready to learn.