Welcome to Nursery

The Nursery Team
Mrs Volland- Class Teacher

Miss Burton- Class Teacher

Mrs Price: TA 
Mrs Davenport: TA 
Mrs Wilding: TA

Miss Jammeh - Dinner Supervisor 

Miss Marella - Dinner Supervisor 

Nursery Checklist 

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

You will need to bring the following into Nursery:

- A named water bottle

- Wellington Boots in a plastic carrier bag

- Black velcro strapped PE pumps

- A book bag

 - A warm coat, hat and gloves when the weather gets colder - We try and go outside whatever the weather!

Please note, unless you think your child needs a spare change of clothes, please do not leave anything else in the cloakroom. Should your child need them, there are spare clothes in our Nursery cupboard.

Nursery Groups & Opening Times

Your child will be in one of the following groups: Giraffes or Zebras. Please help to familiarise them with their animal group.

Nursery drop off is at 9am and pick up is at 3pm. Please be prompt. if you are delayed, please inform the office so we can reassure your child.

This is our secure home learning platform. Teachers will post photographs of your child enjoying activities in Nursery, as well as sending you 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.

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 1 

Our topic this half term is 'All About Me'. 

 
As part of our topic, we will be looking carefully at our faces and the similarities and difference between ourselves and others. We will talk about our families and explore how we have changed since we were babies. We will begin to talk about our feelings and ask, 'What is love?'. We will look carefully at who helps us in our community. 

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 learning about Big Bible Heroes, for example Noah, Jonah and Daniel.  

Communication & Language 

We will be learning how to listen carefully and why listening is important. Children will learn to respond to questions and instructions that have two parts, such as 'Please get you water bottle and sit down.' We will enjoy listening to longer stories and start to talk about what we have heard. We will start to use 'Word Aware' to help children use new vocabulary, especially relating to our topic work and use it within their play and learning (new words can be seen by parents on the Nursery door).  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 beginning Phase 1 Phonics in Nursery. Children will be joining in with action songs and nursery rhymes. We will listen to, remember and identify animal and environmental sounds and match and sort pictures and objects and spot which one is missing during memory games.  

 
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: Dear Zoo, Where's Spot, Hug, Zekki Loves Daddy, Peppo and Paper Dolls. 

Mathematics 

In Maths, children will enjoy familiarising themselves with the Maths area, where they can explore shape and number. We will be thinking about time and routines, by talking about how the days change, singing our 'Good Morning' song every day and familiarising the children with our daily visual timetable. We will also explore sorting and matching.   

Understanding the World 

We will be helping children to begin to make sense of their own life-story and family’s history. Children will be encouraged to look carefully at themselves and others and talk about similarities and differences. They will also be encouraged to express their likes and dislikes.  We will begin to get to know the outdoor learning environment and Forest School activities. Children will explore and sort natural objects in the classroom. 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development 

This term the focus will be on becoming part of ‘Team Nursery’. Children will learn the rules and routines in the classroom, such as turn taking, good sitting and listening. This begins with the children thinking about what rules are, why we need them and following these rules in the classroom. We will also introduce our Growth Mindset characters, including ‘Have a go Joe’ and ‘Choosing Chimp’.   

Physical Development 

The key focus for this term will be to encourage ALL the children to be able to put on their coats, shoes and wellington boots independently, this usually takes a number of weeks. We will also focus on the importance of good hygiene in Nursery and how and when to wash our hands. During PE lessons, we will focus on moving safely and sensibly in a space with consideration of others and stopping with control. We will play ring games to develop co-operative play as a group and of course, explore the equipment in the Nursery playground.  

Expressive Arts and Design 

We will start this term by looking at portraiture, exploring the photographs of Corrine Day and Julia Cameron. Children will be looking carefully at their own faces and painting and drawing what they see. We will begin whole class drawing, to explore how to use a pencil and make marks using different lines. We will also be learning how to use the Art resources correctly.