Class 1 Nursery

Welcome to our Nursery class.  The staff in Nursery this year are:

Miss Wainwright  Nursery Teacher	Mrs Taylor Support staff	Mrs Vitalie Support Staff

From a child's very first day in Nursery, all the way through to Year 6 we support children to make the right 'CHOICES' to enable them to grow into well-rounded, motivated individual. 

We know this is such an important time in your child’s school life, where routines are established and relationships are built between home and school. We will always do our best to work closely with you, to ensure that your child has a smooth start to their school career in such a way that you as well as the children feel comfortable, supported and respected.

Indoor Environment

We have a lovely open-plan environment which has a wide range of different areas to be accessed during child initiated play. These allow children to develop lifelong skills such as, co-operation, perseverance and independence. Some of the areas include a water area, creative area and reading corner. 

We enjoy sharing stories in our reading den.	We enjoy building in our construction room.	We have lots of fun in the water area.	We enjoy playing in the home corner.  We make food and look after the baby.	We self register every day and hang our pictures on the tree.
We have lots of small world areas. We build our own worlds using all of the different resources.	We enjoy playing with the fire station.	We like to roll and cut with the play dough.	We like to build and pour in the sand.	We like to use the glue to make models and pictures.

Outdoor Environment

We also have a fantastic garden which is accessible from the classroom and is extremely beneficial in allowing us to extend our learning outdoors.

Things you can support your child with at home over this term:

Sharing stories and encouraging your child to talk about what is happening.

Singing number songs and counting how many are left each time. 

Counting to 10. 

Talking about Autumn and Winter and what is happening as the weather changes.

Practising putting on, fastening and taking off coats.  

ATTENDANCE   

Morning Nursery starts at 8:30am and finishes at 11.30am every week day.

 Afternoon Nursery starts at 12.15pm and finishes at 3.15pm every week day.

Staff will be available before and after each nursery session.  If you have any questions, concerns, or queries please don’t hesitate to talk to us.

Please let us know in advance if your child is going to be picked up by someone other than the agreed adults.

HOMEWORK

Parents will receive suggested activiites to complete at home every Friday.  These activities wil always be linked to the learning that has taken place during the week and will be through our online learning platform, Seesaw.  

Children will bring home a book to share every Monday.  This will be a book chosen by the child.

What we have been up to in Nursery ...

Transition week

Our theme for transition week was Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses.  We shared lots of 'Little Princess' stories and enjoyed making swords, shields and crowns with our parents and carers.  We also joined in with medieval games. 

Autumn 1 2023

Settling In Week   

We have enjoyed our first week in Nursery.  We have explored all of the different areas with our friends.

Autumn 1 2023

Three Little Pigs

We enjoyed sharing the story 'Goldilocks and theThree Bears.'  We used props to retell the story and made houses using different materials.  We made pigs using play dough and counted the houses we made in the sand.  We also has lots of fun mark making in the foam, painting pictures and making sticky pictures. 

Autumn 1 2023

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

We have really enjoyed reading 'Goldilocks ad the Three Bears.'  We uses propes to retell the story and enjoyed mixing and pouring porridge using differnt bowls and spoons.  We made bears using the dough and matched the bears to their bowl, bed and chair.  We used lots of size vocabulary and enjoyed playing Let's Compare'  on the interactive board.  

Autumn 1 2023

The Gingerbread Man

We have had a super week reading 'The Gingerbread Man.'  We used props to retell the story and decorated and tasted gingerbread man biscuits.  We made play dough scented with ginger and used it to make gingerbread men.  We used different shapes to print gingerbread men and enjoyed selecting the correct number of buttons for the gingerbread man using the interactive board. 

Autumn 1 2023

Story time with parents

We invited our parents and carers into Nursery to join in with story time.  We shared a story together.  The children enjoyed showing their parents how they join in with repetition in a story using words and actions.  

Autumn 1 2023

Stay and Play

We invited our parents and carers to join us for 'stay and play.'  The children enjoyed showing their parents and carers their favourite things to do in Nursery.  

Autumn 1 2023

The Little Red Hen

We have had a super week reading 'The Little Red Hen.'  We have used props to retell the story and have used lots of capactiy vocabulary to fill and pour with  different cereals.  The Little Red Hen visited Nursery and left us some different breads to taste.  They were delicious.  We have also enjoyed exploring our Autumn tray.  We have been naming the different objects and collecting leaves and conkers.     

Autumn 1 2023

Autumn and Harvest Time

We have enjoyed learning about all the changes that happen during Autumn time.  We have shared 'The Very Helpful Hedgehog' and some non-fiction books about Autumn and Harvest.  We enjoyed making dough hedgehogs and creating Autumn collages using the objects we collected from our garden and our local area.  We had fun exploring our Autumn tray and can name lots of different objects.  We carved a huge pumpkin.  It was very tricky but lots of fun.  

Autumn 1 2023

Our trip to Summerhill

We enjoyed a trip to Summerhill.  We shared 'Room on the Broom' and made our own wands and broomsticks.

Autumn 2 2023

Witches and Wizards

We have had a super week reading 'Room on the Broom.'  We have made some magic wands to help us cast spells.  We have used different coloured chalks to make firework pictures.  We have also enjoyed collecting objects for our cauldrons using tweezers.  

Autumn 2 2023

Stay and Play

We invited our parents and carers to join us for 'stay and play.'  The children enjoyed showing their parents and carers their favourite things to do in Nursery.  

Autumn 2 2023

Physical Friday

We invited our parents and carers into Nursery to show them the activities we have been working on to develop our fine motor skills.

Autumn 2 2023

Forest School

We visited Rossmere Forest School to take part in Christmas activities.  We met Santa Claus and he told us he had lost Rudolph's bells.  We found 15 of them in the garden.  We made magic reindeer dust to guide the reindeer to our doors.  We also made bird feeders for the garden to ensure all of the birds have plenty of food over the cold Winter.  Before we came back to Nursery, we toasted marshmallows and had hot chocolate.  

Autumn 2 2023

Summerhill

We visited Summerhill to take part in Winter and Christmas activities.  We collected sticks and made a chair for Santa Claus to take a rest on during his travels on Christmas Eve.  We made a rindeer decoration for our Christmas trees.  We had a super morning.

Spring 1 2024                                       

Fabulous Food

The Enormous Watermelon   

We have enjoyed sharing 'The Enormous Watermelon.'  We joined in with the story using words and actions and we tasted different types of melons.  We used words to describe their touch, taste and smell.  We also talked about how heavy they were.  We made melons in the dough and painted them using the interctive board.  

Spring 1 2024

Fabulous Food

Whatever Next

We have enjoyed sharing 'Whatever Next.'  We used props to retell the story and made a picnic to share on the moon.  We made bears using the dough and selected the correct colours to paint bears.  We used craft materials to make rockets and picked our favourite food to pack in a picnic basket.

Spring 1 2024

Fabulous Food

The Tiger who came to Tea

We have enjoyed reading 'The Tiger who came to Tea.'  We have had tea parties with the tiger in our wigwam and made tigers using the dough.  We enjoyed moving the 'tigerbots' in different directions and used our cutting and sticking skills to make tiger masks.  We had fun exploring tea bags, pots and pans in the water tray.  

Spring 1 2024

Fabulous Food

Topsy and Tim have a Birthday Party

We have been celebrating birthdays this week.  We have shared 'Topsy and Tim have a Birthday party' and talked about how old we are and how we celebrate our birthdays.  We have had tea parties in the home corner and made cakes using the sand and dough.  We have made party hats and birthday cards.  Our Nursery bear, Barnaby, was 4 this week and we shared birthday cake with him and all wrote our names in his birthday card.  

Spring 1 2024

Chinese New Year 

We have been celebrating Chinese New Year in Nursery.  We made lanterns and counted golden coins for our ang pow envelopes.  We made dragons using the dough and celebrated Chinese New Year in our home corner.  We shared fiction and non fiction books to find out how Chinese New Year is celebrated.

Spring 1 2024

Marvellous Maths 

We invited our parents and carers into Nursery to show them all of our maths activities.  We had lots of fun showing them all of the different activites we do in Nursery. 

Spring 1 2024

Stay and Play 

We invited our parents and carers to join us for 'stay and play.'  The children enjoyed showing their parents and carers their favourite things to do in Nursery.  

Spring 2 2024

Ready, steady, grow 

Jack and the Beanstalk

We have had a busy week sharing the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk' joining in using our gaint voices.  We have made beastalks using different construction materials and used size vocabulary to compare.  We also used positional language to describe where the giant was hiding on our huge beanstalk.  we used the paint programme to draw beanstalks and props to help us retell the story.  

Spring 2 2024

World Book Day 

A visit to Summerhill

We visited Summerhill to celebrate World Book Day.  We made a den and sat inside to share 'The Three Little Pigs.'  We made houses using straw, sticks and bricks and played 'What time is it Mr Wolf?'

Spring 2 2024

World Book Day 

We invited our parents into Nursery to help us celebrate World Book Day.  We planted cress heads and shared our favourite stories.   

Spring 2 2024

Ready, steady, grow 

We have shared 'Jasper's Beanstalk' and planted our own beans.  We sequenced the steps we take and talked about what a bean needs to help it grow.  

Spring 2 2024

Shared Story 

Parental Engagement

We invited our parents into Nursery to share a story with them.  We showed them how we join in with a story and how we use our own words to retell a story.  

Spring 2 2024

Stay and Play 

We invited our parents and carers to join us for 'stay and play.'  The children enjoyed showing their parents and carers their favourite things to do in Nursery.  

Summer 1 2024

A trip to the library 

We went on a bus to visit the local library.  We sang some songs and played musical instruments.  We shared the story 'One Banana, Two Bananas' and made a craft banana.  We had a lovely morning.  

Summer 1 2024

The Very Hungry Caterpillar 

We have had a very busy time sharing 'The Very Hungry Cayerpillar.'  We have also shared non fiction books about caterpillars and butterflies.  We have made symmetrical butterfly paintings and made caterpillars in the dough.  

We also have some visitors in Nursery.  We have 5 tiny caterpillrs and we are looking after them until they turn into butterflies.  Watch this space for some photogrphs and videos.