Familiar faces greeting you at the door will be:

Nursery Class Teacher - Mrs Harris

Nursery Teaching Assistant- Mrs Studt

Support staff - Miss Bulman (Monday's) Miss Cammock (Tuesday's and Thursday's)

This term our topic is 'Food Marvellous Food'. We will be learning about where different foods comes from 

and talking about which types of food are better for us than others. We will plant our own beans and peas along with some sunflower seeds and work on developing a little growing area outside. Each week we will be involved in some kind of baking or cooking linked to a focus story. There is a lot we can learn from being involved with food such as practising our cutting, chopping and stirring skills and developing our understanding of different processes such as melting and dissolving. There will be things the children do not like to eat but we hope to encourage them to try new things. 

Curriculum

In Nursery we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. Page copies of a document called ‘What to expect when’ will be placed on our noticeboard in the cloakroom. This is an excellent break down of the steps in development in each area of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum and it will support you as parents in understanding and supporting your child’s learning. 

Physical Development

Physical development is a key area of the Early Years curriculum. Children are given lots of opportunities to develop their gross motor skills outside in the woodland area, riding on the trikes and bikes. and in accessing the climbing equipment. In addition to this, we are very lucky to be carrying on with our weekly yoga sessions with Lianne and this term we will have a go at gymnastics! The older children have a few more 'Move to Write' sessions left. We hope you have found the information we have sent home useful regarding these sessions, and have found the time to have a go at some of the suggested pre-writing shape activities. 

Wellies

In Nursery we will be exploring the outdoors in all weathers! We have a wonderful outdoor area for the young children but it can get very muddy. We are very fortunate to have all in one waterproof suits for our children, but we do ask that you provide your child with a pair of wellies. Please ensure children's names are written inside. 

Each week we will take part in Welly Wednesday activities together with the children from the Reception class. For many children this becomes the favourite part of the week. We get kitted up and spend the morning outdoors. We encourage children to find out about the outside world, creatures and habitats, explore using their senses and use natural materials to make pictures or dens etc.

Communication

We aim to communicate openly and effectively with parents/carers at all times. Class Dojo is a great way to send messages between home and school whereas Tapestry allows us to focus upon recording and sharing significant achievements in your child's learning and development. We encourage parents also to share  ‘WOW’ moments from home. There may be things that your child does at home that we don't see at school! 

Rewards

As well as selecting a child to wear the ‘Golden Jumper’ each week, we give out a daily 'Monster of the Day' certificate which links to the monster dojo points that children collect further up school.