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Welcome back Nursery.

We hope you had a great half term! Please see information about what Nursery will be learning about in class over this half term.

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Key Staff in Nursery  

Class Teacher:

Miss Millward

Other Supporting Staff in Class:

Mrs Dennis

Miss Thompson-Smith

Miss Rushton
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School Day Arrangements

School starts for your child at 8.25am. Please bring your child to the nursery classroom door.

Your child will then also need to be collected at 2.45pm prompt from the nursery classroom door.

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Snack, Drinks & Lunch Time

Children in EYFS/KS1 will be provided with a piece of fruit at break times each day.

Children can bring in a water bottle, containing water that they can have access to at all times throughout the school day. Please ensure that these bottles are named to avoid any confusion.

Imaginative Learning Project:

Down at the bottom of the garden

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Over this half-term, your child will be learning about the following:

English/Reading:

Rhyme and alliteration

Understanding that print has meaning

Drawing and giving meaning to our marks

Writing our names

Recognising our names

Orally blending sounds in CVC words

Maths:

Comparison 2: Compare and sort collections

Pattern 4: Lead on own repeats

Shape, space and measure 5: Start to puzzle

Pattern 5: Making patterns together

Phonics:

Read Write Inc - m a s d t i n p o g

PSED:

‘Being my best’ including themes such as:

  • What does my body need?

  • I can keep trying

  • I can do it!

Communication and Language:

Question why things happen and gives explanations. 

Uses a range of tenses (e.g. play, playing, will play, played) 

Understands use of objects (e.g. “What do we use to cut things?’) 

Physical Development:

Developing fine motor control through:

  • Wiggle me into Squiggle

  • Squiggle Me into a Writer

Developing gross motor skills through:

  • Ball Skills

  • Making big movements using materials and streamers

  • Outdoor climbing and use of vehicles

Understanding the World:

Children will learn about:

  • different animals that we might find in our gardens and outdoor environments
  • the different features of these creatures
  • the life cycle of a butterfly

Materials focus:

  • describing materials and beginning to categorise these materials

Expressive Arts and Design:

Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of things.

Explores colour and how colours can be changed.

Draw with increasing complexity and detail, such as representing a face with a circle and including details.

Use drawing to represent ideas like movement or loud noises.

Show different emotions in their drawings and paintings, like happiness, sadness, fear, etc.
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PE

Your child’s PE days this half term will be Monday.

Please remember your child must come to school wearing their full PE kit on these days, earrings removed (staff are unable to remove and children will not be able to join in the lesson if wearing earrings)

Home Learning

Thank you for your support with our new home learning format.  It has been wonderful to see the children’s work uploaded onto their portfolios. We will continue with this same format next term. 

As always, if you need any assistance or resources to help with the completion of home learning, please do let a member of the class team know and we will be happy to help. 

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Reading at Home

Please aim to listen to your child read their school reading book at home 4 times a week (10 minutes per session). 

Please record this on your child’s reading card. The log and reading book must be returned to school each day.

Children will also have a book from the class lending library to enjoy too. However we ask this is not recorded on the Reading Card as this book will be one your child may have picked for you to read with them and is not the reading book matched to their reading/phonic ability.

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Maths

Please continue to support your child in the following ways at home:

  • singing number rhymes
  • reciting numbers in sequence
  • counting objects lining them and accurately by touching each object one at a time
  • helping them when they are building - this supports children with their shape knowledge and knowledge of space and size
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Online Safety

Online safety for all children is extremely important. Your child will receive online safety lessons throughout the academic year. Please use the following website for guidance and support: 

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/

To help teach your children about online safety, you can access the following websites for support:

My Life Online - Conversation Guide | Childnet 

Parents and Carers Toolkit | Childnet 

Parents and Carers - UK Safer Internet Centre 

If you have any concerns or questions regarding online safety, please do not hesitate to contact a member of your child’s class team for further support and advice.

General reminders:

Please remember to label all your child’s clothing with both names.

As the weather hopefully is to improve into the summer, it would be beneficial if children could have a hat or cap in their bag, just in case. Please make sure teh hat is named to avoid confusion.

If you wish to speak to your child’s class teacher or to arrange a meeting with them, please ring the school office 01782 234868 and they will return your call as soon as possible before/after the school day, messaging on class dojo will not be replied to.

If your child is absent please ring the school or leave a message on Arbor by 9am, holidays are not authorised.

Holidays and  regular poor attendance may involve fines for each parent and involvement from the Education Welfare Officer so we do look forward to seeing your child in school every day unless you have informed us that they are poorly.

See you next time!

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