Nursery
Snowdrop Class
Mrs M Haigh
Mrs K Schofield (Nursery Nurse)
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Summer 1
Curriculum
This term our theme is ‘In the Garden’. We will be learning about the different minibeasts and other animals that are in the garden and we will go look for some in the sensory garden. We will be learning about how things grow. We will plant some seeds and learn how we need to look after these to ensure that they grow. The children will have opportunities to try different vegetables. We will be reading: Mad About Minibeasts, Superworm,
Spinderella, How Do You Make a Rainbow, Detective Dog, Hungry Caterpillar, Jaspers Beanstalk, and Supertato. The children will be focusing on numbers and amounts to 5, singing counting rhymes and exploring ideas of
shape, space and measure within our areas of provision inside and outside.
Prime Areas of Learning
We will be focusing on Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Communication and Language, and Physical Development. Opportunities to support your child’s development in these area’s are primarily embedded in the continuous provision and these are then enhanced by the gentle guidance and support of the practitioners in the setting. The teaching of daily phonics develops early listening and attention skills and your child’s participation in group time will support them in making relationships and help them to grow in confidence.
Welcome to our Easter starters.
We hope you like our Nursery. We have lots of resources to support your child’s learning. We will send some photos of your child in our setting via Class Dojo. If you are not signed up to Class Dojo please let a member of
the Nursery staff know and we can arrange this.
General Information
Nursery session times:
Morning children: 8.30am—11.30am.
Afternoon children: 12.20pm—3.20pm.
Attendance is very important for the children’s learning. Please ensure your child is at school for the start of their Nursery session. Please ensure your child’s jumper, cardigan, coat and shoes are labelled with your child’s name to ensure your child brings their items back home with them. If you think that your child might have an
accident in school, then please send them with a spare change of clothes in their bag.
Ways to help your child
We are heading into Summer but we might still experience some cold and wet days. Please can we ask that your child always brings a coat into school, even if you think it might be warm as we do go outside as part of
our daily learning, whatever the weather and we want your child to be warm and comfortable. In Nursery we aim to promote independence. You can help at home by encouraging your child to independently put on their coat and zip it up and put on their shoes. Please note that children are not permitted to bring toys or teddies into school as these can get broken or lost and we don't want the children to get upset if this happens.
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Spring 1
Curriculum
This half term our theme is ‘We Are Explorers’. We will be learning about different animals. We will be looking at different animals and describing what they look like. We will match animal noises to the animals, as well as moving like animals. We will be looking at the habitats of the different animals and in particular looking at whether these places are hot or cold. There will be lots of opportunities for the children to create and make pictures using paint and different collage materials. Our books of the week will include: What the Ladybird Heard, Iris and Isaac, Enormous Turnip, If I had a Dinosuar and Mr Wolf’s Pancakes. The children will be singing counting rhymes and exploring ideas of shape, space and measure within our areas of provision both inside and outside.
Prime Areas of Learning
We will be focusing on Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Communication and Language, and Physical Development. Opportunities to support your child’s development in these are primarily embedded in the continuous provision provided and are then enhanced by the gentle guidance and support of the practitioners in the setting. The teaching of daily phonics develops early listening and attention skills and your child’s participation in group time will support them in making relationships and help them to grow in confidence.
Welcome to our January starters.
We hope you like our Nursery. We have lots of resources to support your child’s learning. We will send some photos of your child in our setting via Class Dojo. If you are not signed up to Class Dojo please let a member of the Nursery staff know and we can arrange this.
General Information
Nursery session times:
Morning children: 8.30am—11.30am.
Afternoon children: 12.20pm—3.20pm.
Attendance is very important for the children’s learning. Please ensure your child is at school for the start of their Nursery session. Please ensure your child’s jumper, cardigan, coat and shoes are labelled with your child’s name to ensure your child brings their items back home with them. If you think that your child might have an
accident in school, then please send them with a spare change of clothes in their bag.
Ways to help your child
As we are still in Winter, we ask that your child brings a warm coat, hat, gloves and a scarf to school as we learn outdoors whatever the weather and we want your
child to be warm and comfortable. In Nursery we aim to promote independence. You can help at home by encouraging your child to independently put on their coat and zip it up and put on their shoes. Please note that children are not permitted to bring toys or teddies into school as these can get broken or lost and we don't want the children to get upset if this happens.
Thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Haigh, Mrs Schofield, Mrs Dzwigala and Mrs Beasley.
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Autumn 1
Curriculum
This half term our theme is ‘Once Upon A Time.’
We will be learning about different Traditional Tales, where we will retell the stories through roleplay and props. There will be lots of opportunities for the children to create and make pictures using paint and different collage materials.
Our books of the week will include: Owl Babies, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, The Gingerbread Man and Little Red Riding Hood.
The children will be singing counting rhymes and exploring ideas of shape, space and measure within our areas of provision both inside and outside.
Prime Areas of Learning
We will be focusing on Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Communication and Language, and Physical Development.
Opportunities to support your child’s development in these are primarily embedded in the continuous provision provided and are then enhanced by the gentle guidance and support of the practitioners in the setting. The teaching of daily phonics develops early listening and attention skills and your child’s participation in group time will support them in making relationships and help them to grow in confidence.
Welcome to our September starters.
We hope you like our Nursery. We have lots of resources to support your child’s learning. We will send some photos of your child in our setting via Class Dojo. If you are not signed up to Class Dojo please let a member of the Nursery staff know and we can arrange this.
General Information
Nursery session times:
Morning children: 8.30am—11.30am.
Afternoon children: 12.20pm—3.20pm.
Attendance is very important for the children’s learning. Please ensure your child is at school for the start of their Nursery session.
Please ensure your child’s jumper, cardigan, coat and shoes are labelled with your child’s name to ensure your child brings their items back home with them.
If you think that your child might have an accident in school, then please send them with a spare change of clothes in their bag.
Ways to help your child
As we head into Winter, we ask that your child brings a warm coat, hat, gloves and a scarf to school as we learn outdoors whatever the weather and we want your child to be warm and comfortable.
In Nursery we aim to promote independence. You can help at home by encouraging your child to independently put on their coat and shoes.
Please note that children are not permitted to bring toys or teddies into school as these can get broken or lost and we don't want the children to get upset if this happens.
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You will by now have all received your copy of the book.
Please share this regularly with your child.
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