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Nursery Class 

Welcome to our class page. We will regularly update our page so you can see the fun we are having and  what the children in Nursery are learning about.

 

Staff 

Mrs Wright-Class Teacher

Mrs McLaughlan-Teaching Assistant

Mrs Howe - Teaching Assistant

Mrs Morton-Teaching Assistant

Mrs Wilson-Lunchtime Supervisor

Mrs Lee-Teaching Assistant

Mrs Currans- Headteacher (PPA cover)

 

Session Times

Morning session- 8.30 am-11.30 am

Afternoon session-12.30 pm-3.30 pm

We offer a limited number of places of 30 hour Provision

 

Water Bottles

 Children can bring a named water bottle to class each day.

 

What we are learning this half term:

This term our topic is 'Food'

 

 Reading

Here is a list of books we will be reading in class this term and if you wanted to read them at home or borrow them from the library, your child will quickly become familiar with the stories.

  • Here's a little Poem by Jane Tolen and Andrew Fusek Peters

 

We have a library system in class where children can take home books on a daily basis.

 

Rhymes

Below is a list of the nursery rhymes and counting rhymes we will be learning in nursery this term.

Hickory Dickory Dock

Humpty Dumpty

Incey Wincey Spider

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

If Your Happy and You Know it

Five Currant Buns

Five Little Peas

Wind the Bobbin up

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Five little ducks went swimming one day

We're going on a bear hunt

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

One, Two, Three, Four, Five

 

 

 

 

Medium Term Planning Summer Term 2-Food

Medium Term Planning Summer Term 1-Life cycles/Growth

Medium Term Planning Spring Term 2

Medium Term Planning Spring Term 1

Medium Term Planning Autumn 1

Medium Term Planning-Autumn 2

Arts Week- Take one picture-We created a stormy sea painting based on 'A shipwreck in Stormy Seas'.

We made sensory bottles 'An ocean in a bottle'.

20/6/22-Nature day-Weeding and setting up our nature garden ready to hunt for minibeasts, developing our bug hotel to attract more minibeasts to stay, making mud pies and animal habitats. We also created Mr Potato Heads with natural materials from our garden. We have also painted new stones for our fairy garden. In the afternoon we worked with a partner to complete a egg box scavenger hunt.

Making another healthy snack-banana and oat cookies

Writing letters and identifying initial sounds in words.

This week we have been learning about healthy and unhealthy foods and we made food kebabs.

Food Art-We made faces from fruit and vegetables inspired by the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Fun in the garden!

We have been developing our running, throwing and jumping skills

10/6/22-We had a special visitor today from Leon Flint who is a former pupil and now rides for the Berwick Bandits. He talked to us about being safe on our bikes and about his own experience of becoming a speedway rider.

Bike Week 2022 -We have enjoyed cycling on our bikes every day. We have learned the names of different types of bikes we ride and the parts of a bike. We have lovely clean bikes after our bike wash this week.

A jubilee scavenger hunt, picnic and races to finish off our Jubilee celebrations in class.

Look at our Jubilee collages!

The Queen's Jubilee- In class we have been learning facts about the queen and we have been talking about the different hats people wear and the reasons why they wear these hats.

We've been busy celebrating the Queen's Jubilee with our Royal tea party

23/5/22 Jubilee parent workshop- We designed beautiful crowns, coloured lovely flags and finished with a game of Royal bingo.

We have been learning about the life cycle of a sunflower, naming parts of a plant and painting sunflowers.

This week we have been learning to recognise coins and count different amounts using 1p coins.

Mark making using different media

6/5/22 Planting sunflowers

26/4/22-This week we have planted our seed potatoes, carrots and peas in the nursery garden.

We are all delighted that we have our sand tray open again. This week we have talked about wet/dry sand and the type of sand we need to build sandcastles.

In P.E we are learning to make and hold yoga poses.

This week we have been learning to compare heights and use the vocabulary tall, short, taller than and shorter than.

31/3//22 Number 7-we are learning to recognise and count sets of 7 in class.

30/3/22 In our Commando Joe session we worked together to make houses

29/3/22 Junk Modelling-This week we have made model houses.

Comic Relief-Super Scientists!

Science Week-We have been busy learning about plants (we had a botany workshop) and we've looked at the properties of slime and magnets. We are busy preparing our seed potatoes for planting and we have planted lots of garden bedding plants.

The children loved completing the sensory circuit in the garden. They have been practising their balancing, jumping and coordination skills whilst using it.

This week we have been busy gardeners!

We baked chapattis for snack. We were learning to knead the dough.

We have been learning the story 'The Gingerbread Man' and 'The Runaway Chapatti' in class. We have retold the stories using props and have compared both stories.

Problem Solving-We thought of ideas to help the Gingerbread Man across the river. We built bridges and boats to help him across. It took lots of attempts to make our bridges balance but when we built them, we tested them to see if the Gingerbread Man could walk along them . The boats will be tested this week in the water tray.

We had a lovely story and chat with the author Anthony Wootten

World Book Day 2022-We love to read books and share stories in nursery so we dressed up as our favourite story character

This week we are learning to recognise and talk about 4 sided shapes. So we have been shape detectives looking for objects that were rectangular and square in shape. We also made rectangle and squares using matchsticks and lolly sticks.

Shrove Tuesday-We learnt about the history and traditions around 'pancake day'. We talked about our favourite toppings and ate pancakes for snack. We held a pancake race at the end of the day.

Commando Joes-We completed a circuit of activities that helped us to develop our throwing, jumping, balancing and coordination skills

We have been learning to talk about how much is in different containers using the vocabulary full, empty, half full, nearly full.

Birds-We are learning to spot, name and describe birds that visit our garden. We have made bird feeders to hang in our garden to feed the birds.

We are learning about the season Winter

Squiggle-we have been acting out movement 1 to music and representing it with our pens (up, down, side to side)