Welcome to Nursery

The Nursery Team

• Mrs Volland- Class Teacher
• Miss Price- TA
• Mrs Price- TA
• Mrs Bass- PPA teacher
• Miss Jammeh - Dinner Supervisor
• Miss Patricia - Dinner Supervisor

Welcome to our Nursery Class page, we hope the information here helps you support your child and find out some more about how your child is learning and developing during their time in the Nursery Class. We have family meetings ahead of starting in September and two parent consultations during the year, however please do ask us any questions or let us know of any concerns as you see us on the door each day.

Nursery Checklist

Please ensure you name all of your child's clothes and possessions

It is helpful if children can manage their clothing as independently as possible. Please select trousers with elastic waistbands and shoes without laces.

You will need to bring the following into Nursery:

• A named water bottle, no squash or juice please
• Wellington Boots, please name
• Black velcro strapped PE pumps
• A book bag, big enough to keep a picture book flat
• A warm coat, hat and gloves when the weather gets colder - we try and go outside whatever the weather!
• Do not bring any toys from home as they could get lost or broken in school
• Do not leave any medicine in a child's bag. Please inform us if your child needs medicine of any kind in school and complete a permission form available from the Infant Office

Please note, unless your child has a spare change of clothes in a bag, please do not leave anything else in the cloakroom.

Nursery Opening Times

Nursery drop off is at 9.00am and pick up is at 3.00pm. The gates are shut at 9.10am and 3.10pm. Please be prompt. If you are delayed picking your child up, please inform the office so we can reassure your child. If someone else is picking your child up please inform us as we will not let your child leave without your permission.

We group the children for some activities. We have a Giraffe and a Zebra group. We create these groups as we get to know the children.

This is our secure home learning platform. Teachers post photographs of your child playing and learning in Nursery, as well as sending messages about your child or important information about up and coming events. You, as parents, are also able to upload photographs send messages to the Nursery staff. These are checked daily outside of teaching time, any urgent messages should be sent to the Infant Office.

You will have your own secure login which will be given out during the Autumn term.

When you are given the Home Learning Code, please login to Seesaw at https://app.seesaw.me/#/login as soon as possible. If you have any problems please speak to the Nursery staff.

A video explaining how to use Seesaw is given below, plus there is further information about how to login and set up Seesaw on our Home Learning page on the website.

Dates for your Diary

Please keep checking back here for more information

Our Curriculum - Autumn Term

Our topic this half term is Autumn and Christmas 

As part of our topic we will be looking carefully at the changes we see around us in nature.  

Religious Education 

  In Nursery at St Peter's we follow the Jack in the Box scheme which has been developed by Early Years Specialists. Our worship sessions follow a familiar, repeated pattern with fun songs set to well-known tunes and a variety of learning strategies guaranteed to engage our children in the Bible stories. Children travel with Jack the Dog to meet the Big Bible Heroes of the Old Testament and then on to learn all about Jesus and his love for the world, and the adventures of his friends and followers. This term we will be listening to stories about Moses, we will be using the Nativity story to inspire our learning. 

  

Communication & Language 

  We will be talking together about the different people who help us, both at school and in our lives. We will be asking questions to find out what is hiding in the ‘Mystery Box’! We will enjoy listening to longer stories and start to talk about what we have heard. We will continue to use 'Word Aware' to help the children expand and deepen their vocabulary. We will also be using our role play and small world areas to encourage children to talk imaginatively to their peers. 

  

Phonics 

  

We will be continuing Phase 1 Phonics in Nursery. Children will be joining in with action songs and nursery rhymes. We will be listening to stories full of sounds, such as ‘Toot Toot, Beep Beep’ and ‘Clickerty, Clackerty, Choo Choo’. We will be copying and making sounds with our own voices. We will discover what sounds we can make with our own bodies and we will explore simple percussion instruments.  

 
Literacy 

 

  In Literacy we will be focusing on key concepts about print. For example, to understand that all print has meaning and a purpose. Children will learn how to use print in the classroom to locate their pegs, name cards and tidy up resources properly. We will be enjoying listening to simple stories and joining in with Nursery Rhymes. We will learn how to handle books, by turning pages carefully and learning the names of the different parts of a book, eg cover, title.  

Our Spine Books this half-term are:  

  

Mathematics 

  In Maths children will continue to explore the Maths area, where they can investigate shape, number, pattern and size. We follow the White Rose scheme in our maths sessions. This half term we will be exploring repeats, especially in stories and rhymes. We will be hearing and saying number names. Children will be counting forwards and backwards in a range of contexts as they develop their understanding of the stable order of number. We will be counting small amounts and there will be lots of opportunities to recognise small amounts. 

  

Understanding the World 

 

  We will find out about the people who help us with a focus on firefighters and emergency services. We will be learning about the festival of Diwali and how people celebrate this. We will find out about fireworks, thinking about what people do on ‘Bonfire Night’ on the 5th November. We will be observing the changes in Autumn and will investigate pumpkins, pine cones and a variety of leaves. We will learn about some animals that hibernate as the weather gets colder and that some animals are nocturnal.  We will be listening to the Nativity Story and will be using this across our setting to inspire our learning. 

 

                    Personal, Social and Emotional Development 

We will be continuing to follow the SCARF scheme of learning to support our lessons. We also use My Happy Mind, created by the NHS, to further develop the children’s understanding of their emotions and support them in talking about how they and others may be feeling.  

 

Physical Development 

 

We will be focusing on developing the children’s key physical skills, such as using scissors, holding mark making tools, using glue and tape. The children will have multiple opportunities to learn and practise these keys skills. We will be beginning to enhance the movement and strength needed for drawing and writing by following the ‘Write Dance’ programme of ‘scrimbling’. We will continue to use our outside area to develop core strength, coordination and gross motor skills. We can sweep up all the leaves which will have fallen! 

  Expressive Arts and Design 

We will be using clay to make Diva lamps and Christmas tree decorations. We will be pressing objects into the clay to create patterns before painting them. We will be making cards and displays for our classroom. We will be expanding our use of paint by printing and suing different objects (other than brushes) to make marks. We will be learning special songs for Christmas which we hope to perform to our families and carers. We will continue with weekly ‘Boogiemites’ sessions with Mrs Price. 

 
 

 

  

  

  

Useful Website Links - Please click to open.

• Seesaw Video Tutorial for Parents For further information on how to set up Seesaw on the Home Learning page on the website
• Top Marks Fun maths game for your child
• Out of the Ark Songs and activities for your children
• Robin Hood EYFS Week by week learning scheme for young children
• Family Education Ways to build pre-reading skills.
• Heart Smart Activities to talk about feelings and positive behaviour.
• Value of Outdoor Play Information for parents about the benefits of outdoor play.
• More Early Years Games!
• Early Years Games