Class Teacher: Mrs Saini
Learning Support Assistant: Mrs Costa and Miss Manyeh
If you have any questions, then please do not hesitate to ask a member of the Nursery team.
Spring 1
Welcome to Nursery!
Our theme for this term is 'Real Life Superheroes' We will be learning about people who help us in our community such as doctors, nurses, police, fire fighters, paramedics, dentists and bin collection services.
Key Person
In Nursery, all of our children are special and unique and we appreciate the importance of building strong relationships with the children and families that we work with. There are two key groups in Nursery; Squirrels and Hedgehogs. The role of the Key person is to ensure quality care, offer a settled relationship for your child and build a relationship with parents/carers.
Water bottles, snacks and spare clothes
Don’t forget to bring water bottles in each day - it is important for the children to stay hydrated throughout the day. Please put a label on bottles and refill them every day. Please only fill your child's bottle with water. We are a healthy school. Water bottles are available to buy at the school office.
We provide a healthy snack and milk during the day for all children. If your child has any allergies that we are unaware of, please let a member of staff know.
Please provide your child with spare clothes clearly labelled that can stay on their peg in one of our spare bags in case of any accidents. This should include: pants, top, bottoms and socks.
Due to the limited space we have in the cloakroom in our classroom, please can children refrain from bringing in large rucksacks. This is to allow space for children to hang up their coats. Instead, we encourage them to bring the green school reading book bags to put their belongings in.
Reading at home
We want to encourage every child to develop a love for reading!
Every child will choose a library book from school to take home on Thursday which they will have for a week. We ask parents to share this with your child over the week and write a comment in their reading record. We recommend for the book to be shared a minimum of 5 times a week as it is important for their development. This could be reading a few pages each day or re-reading the story several times in the week.
Seesaw
We will share your child's learning journey via Seesaw which will include photos and activities.
P.E
Please ensure that your child comes to school wearing their full P.E kit on P.E days; Our PE day is Monday. Children will not be getting changed into their P.E kit during school time.
PE kit consists of: a plain white t-shirt, black shorts and black PE pumps. Children may wear black jogging pants and a jumper in the colder months if they go outside.
Maths
This term, we will focus on subitising to 3 and exploring positional language such as 'in, out, under, behind'. We will continue to use our fingers to represent numbers to 5, compare two amounts and say which has more/ fewer items.
Literacy
We will be exploring texts that are linked with our theme;
Real Life Superheroes -Julia Seal
Hello Winter - Jo Lindley
Super Gran - Timothy Knapman
Supertato - Sue Hendra
You Can't call an Elephant in an Emergency - Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Doctorsaurus - Emi-Lou May
Mei's Sweet Chinese NEw Year
The Best loved Bear - Diana Noonan
We are embedding a new exciting professional development programme TWiTCH that combines dialogic reading of stories and dialogic interaction to improve language outcomes. Our TWITCH text this half term will be 'Little Red Riding Hood' where children will become familiar with the story, sequence it and retell it confidently.
We will also be looking at non-fiction texts linked to people who help us in our community and we will be celebrating Chinese New Year, looking at information in texts and online BBC Bitesize videos. We will be learning to listen to a story, answer questions and share our ideas within a small group. In writing we will carry out our 'squiggle' gross motor movements and then draw them to learn how to create early letter shapes and patterns. We will practising reading and writing our first name.
Phonics
This term we will be developing our awareness of rhythm and rhyme in speech. We will learn to recognise two words that sound the same, identifying rhyming words in familiar songs and rhymes. Practising singing nursery rhymes at home will support your child to develop their awareness of rhyme.
R.E
This term, we will be looking at special people in our life.
The children will learn to value everyone and celebrate differences.
Matthew 19:26
With God, all things are possible!
