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 The Paris Olympic Games.  We smade lots of Olympic crafts with our parents and took part in our own Olympic Games in the garden.  

Autumn 1 2024

Settling In Week   

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

Autumn 1 2024

Three Little Pigs

We enjoyed sharing the story 'The Three Little Pigs.'  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 2024

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 2024

Story time with parents

We invited our parents and carers into Nursery to join in with story time.  We shared The Gingerbread Man together.  The children enjoyed showing their parents how they join in with repetition in a story using words and actions.  We also shared all of our gingerbread man activities with our parents.  

Autumn 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.  

Autumn 1 2024

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 2024

Autumn at Summerhill

We had a fantastic visit to Summerhill.  We made fairy bracelets and then made fairy houses in the woods.  We talked about colours, shapes and sizes.  We collected leaves and made leaf hats.  We counted the leaves as we collected them.  We collected branches and made a huge broomstick.  We used long and short to talk about the sticks we collected.  We sat on our broomstick and flew away!

Autumn 2 2024

Room on the Broom

We have had a very busy week pretending to be witches and wizards.  We shared Room on the Broom and have made magic wandds and witch and wizard hats.  We made spiders using dough and counted their eyes and legs.  We enjoyed printing to make bubble potions and we shared our own experences of halloween.  We have been using torches in the den to make shadows and we have been looking at shadows in the garden.  

Autumn 2 2024

Happy Diwali

We have had a very busy week finding out about and celebrating the Hindu festival of Diwali.  We shared the story of Prince Rama and Princess Sita and used non-fiction books to find out how Diwali is celebrated.  We compared this to our own celebrations.  We made firework pictures and mehndi patterns.  We used dough to mould and create diva lamps and explored the resources.  

Autumn 2 2024

Physical Friday

We had a lovely morning sharing all of our fine motor activities with our parents and carers.  Thank you for joining us.

Autumn 2 2024

Christmas at Forest School

We had the best morning at Forest School.  When  we arrived, Santa had just landed on the roof and his nsleigh bumped into the trees and all of his bells fell off.  Our first job was to find his missing bells.  Then we went inside and made bird feeders because all of the berries have fallen off the trees.  We went to visit Santa and he gave us all a present.  We made jingle sticks and then searched for the elves in the woods.  We ended our visit with a hot chocoloate and toasted marshmallows.  

Spring 1 2025

The Enormous Watermelon

We have had a super week back at Nursery after the Christmas holidays.  We have shared The Enormous Watermelon and Mrs Hubbard from the story sent us a basket of melons to taste.  We talked about what they look liike, feel like, smell like and how they taste.    

Spring 1 2025

A visit to Imagination VIllage

We had the most amazing morning at Imagination Village.  We enjoyed exploring all of the different role play areas and resources.  We played with our friends and did lovely team work, chatting and sharing.  

Spring 2 2025

World Book Day at Summerhill

We had a very busy morning celebrating world Book Day at Summerhill.  We shared The Three Little pigs and made straw, sticks and bricks houses in the woods.  We made clay pigs and hid them in the houses.  We finished our morning off with a game of 'What time is is Mr Wolf?'  

Spring 2 2025

Ready, steady grow!

We had a very busy Spring Term in Nursery.  We have shared Jack and the Beanstalk, Titch and Jasper's Beanstalk and planted our own beans, sunflowers and cress.  We have watered them and watched them grow.  

Spring 2 2025

Happy Easter

We have been finding out about the celebration of Easter. We have shared fiction and non-fiction books and have enjoyed making Easter cards, chocolate crispy cakes and decorating boiled eggs.