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 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 - Summer Term

Our topic this half term is….. Puddles and Rainbows

 
As part of our topic we will be enjoying stories about colour such as Elmer, The Colour Monster and the Rainbow Fish, The Rainy Day and Mr Archimedes Bath. We will be exploring colour mixing, floating and sinking, as well as creating our own colourful Kandinsky prints. 

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. 

Communication & Language 

Children will begin to develop their answers to who, where and what questions. We will be using 'Word Aware' to help children use new vocabulary, especially relating to our topic work and use it within their play and learning. We will be listening to stories told orally and with no pictures. We will also be using our role play area to act out the stories we are reading, by remembering key phrases, characters and events. 

Phonics 

We will be continuing with Phase 1 Phonics in Nursery based on the school’s phonics scheme Supersonic Phonics Friends. We will continue to explore rhyme and begin to generate rhyming strings, as well as enjoying rhyming poems and stories. We will also start to hear and say the initial sounds in familiar words, such as the children's names. Once children become more confident with initial sounds we will begin to explore alliteration. 

 
Literacy 

In Literacy we will be focusing on listening to a range of stories related to our topic, including Elmer, The Colour Monster, The Rainbow Fish and Mr Archimedes Bath, as well as helping the children engage with different reading materials, such as non-fiction books relating to our topic work.  Children will continue to take home a shared reading book to share with you at home. In class we will encourage children to respond to 'wh' questions, such as 'What was your favourite part?'. They will continue to explore the writing area, and we will encourage all children to write their name or letters from their name on their work. They will also have fun engaging in mark-making and writing in the outside environment, such as with chalks and sticks. 

Our Spine Books this half term are……. 

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, 

What Do You See? 

By Eric Carle

Here We Are 

By Oliver Jeffers 

Hooray for Fish!

By Lucy Cousins

Mathematics 

In Maths children will continue enjoying the Maths area, where they can explore shape and number. We will continue to consolidate our number knowledge and encourage children to use number in their play and environment. Children will also have fun learning to count backwards from 5. Children will also enjoy making their own marks to represent numbers and quantities. Children will continue to investigate 2D shape, and begin to explore 3D shape too. We will also be looking at sequencing, positional language and the concepts of more and few. 

Understanding the World 

This term is always a very exciting one as children are encouraged to explore the world around them, through colour and water. We will be investigating primary colours and what happens when they are mixed.  There will be lots of opportunities to paint hands and fingers for lots of messy fun! We will also be observing and talking about what happens to different objects in the water tray as we investigate floating and sinking. We will use the outdoor learning environment to find out how water makes seeds and plants grow and grow cress heads in the classroom. We will also be looking at how water can change properties and enjoy activities with ice. There will be lots of opportunities in the Nursery garden to have fun in the Water Area, with the buckets, boats and sea creatures. 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development 

This term the focus will be on using the environment’s resources with a clear purpose in mind, becoming more responsible for themselves and their belongings and following the rules and routines in Nursery independently. They will be developing listening skills, and encouraging children to listen to one another when participating in play, small group and whole class focus. Children will now be able to share and take turns without been told to. They will also be confident to enjoy talking to their teachers and the Reception children.   We will also continue with our Growth Mindset characters, including ‘Perservering Parrot’.    

We also follow the My Happy Mind scheme created by the NHS. This supports the children's understanding of their emotions and promotes their well being and communication.

Physical Development 

Children will continue to confidently access the outdoor PD equipment, experimenting with the scooters and balance bikes. As the weather gets warmer, we will have fun making dens in the garden. We will be helping children to develop their fine motor skills with pencils by continuing whole class drawing. We now expect children to be able to safely tidy up the classroom and outdoor area independently, remembering where equipment belongs and how to store it correctly. Children should now all be able to take off and on their own coats and we will encourage children to have a go with zips and buttons. 

Expressive Arts and Design 

We will start this term by looking at the art of Kandinsky. We will be creating our own Concentric Circle Art by encouraging children to explore 2D shapes and vibrant colours. We will continue to develop gross motor skills in PE lessons where children will take part in team games, such as relay races. In the classroom we will be having fun with ribbons to learn 'The Rainbow Song'. In music lessons we will be continuing learning songs from 'Boogie Mites', beating out rhythms and altering pitch and tempo.