Welcome to Nursery

The Nursery Team
Mrs Volland- Class Teacher
Mrs Price: TA - Monday to Thursday
Mrs Davenport: TA - Friday
Mrs Smith - Tuesday and Wednesday PM

Miss Jammeh - Dinner Supervisor - Daily

Miss Marella - Dinner Supervisor - Daily

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.

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 - Spring Term 1

Our topic this half term is Food.

As part of our topic we will be enjoying stories about food such as The Hungry Caterpillar and Each Peach, Pear Plum (2 of our literature spine texts) and The Tiger Who Came To Tea. We will be thinking about which foods are fruits or vegetables etc and whether different foods are healthy or unhealthy as well as having fun with some food tasting!

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

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. 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 and use it within their play and learning.

Phonics

We will be continuing with Phase 1 Phonics in Nursery based on the school’s phonics scheme Supersonic Phonics Friends. We will listen carefully to the rhythm in words and phrases, clapping out syllables in words including our names. We will begin to recognise when words rhyme and listen out for rhyming words in songs, books and nursery rhymes.

Literacy

In Literacy we will be focusing on listening to a range of stories and helping the children engage with different reading materials, such as books, recipe cards and menus. We will be listening carefully to spot rhyming words and children will begin to fill in rhyming gaps. Children will begin to take home a shared reading book to share with you at home. They will independently explore the writing area, write over their name cards and begin to write their name, or letters from their name on their work.

Our Spine Books this half term are…….

Each Peach Pear Plum                                  Astro Girl

By Allan and Janet Ahlberg                                     By Ken Wilson-Max

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

By Eric Carle

 

Mathematics

In Maths children will continue enjoying the Maths area, where they can explore shape and number. We will be helping children develop their 1-1 correspondence to count objects carefully from 1 - 5. We will explore the numerals 3, 4 and 5 and learn to recognise them and represent them with objects, such as out fingers. Children will begin to understand language related to shape, such as corners, sides and flat and use shapes appropriately for construction and tasks.

Understanding the World

We will be helping children to understand the need to look after ourselves, by exploring healthy and unhealthy foods.  We will talk about our sense of taste when trying different fruit and vegetables. We will continue to explore the outdoor learning environment and Forest School activities and begin to use their senses outdoors to explore their world around them. Children will explore the natural objects they have found outside in the classroom.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This term the focus will be on using the resources and following the rules and routines in Nursery independently. Children will be able to follow 2-part instructions. They will enjoy talking to their peers and teachers and begin to engage more with the Reception children. We will also continue with our Growth Mindset characters, including ‘Have a go Joe’ and ‘Choosing Chimp’.  

Physical Development

Children will continue to confidently access the outdoor PD equipment, experimenting with the scooters and balance bikes. They will be able to create movements and simple dance patterns. We will be helping children to develop their fine motor skills with pencils, paint brushes and scissors. They will be able to independently dress themselves. 

Expressive Arts and Design

We will start this term by looking at the art of Andy Goldsworthy. We will be collecting our own natural resources to create art and learn simple adjectives to describe the natural materials we have used. We will continue to develop gross motor skills and the children will enjoy PE lessons where they will take part in 'Scrimbling' (using movements with crayons and chalks to make marks to music). In music lesson we will be continuing learning songs from 'Boogie Mites', beating out rhythms and learn the names of individual instruments.