Nursery
Welcome to Nursery!
Class Teacher - Miss Ashton
Teaching Assistant - Miss Ikin
Our Nursery is such a wonderful place to start your Holy Spirit journey. We share our provision with the Reception children, and we are all one very big family. In Nursery we do some focused activities, but the large majority of our learning takes place through play.
We have lots of fun things to do and we are looking forward to sharing our journey with you!
Nursery Curriculum
For more information about the Nursery curriculum, please click on the curriculum tab of our website.
Homework
Each week your child will bring a reading book home for you to read and share with them.
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RECEPTION
Welcome to Reception!
Class Teacher - Mrs Bretherton Monday-Thursday and Mrs Whittaker Friday
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Jackson
Reception is a really exciting time for both parents and children. During this year we will all work together to ensure that your child will develop a love for learning which they will carry with them for the rest of their school journeys. We provide a nurturing and exciting learning environment to give all our children the opportunity to grow and develop into happy and confident learners. We understand that children learn best when they are interested and intrigued.
I'm sure we are going to have lots of fun this year by trying new activities and sharing exciting experiences together.
Reception Curriculum
For more information about the Reception curriculum, please click on the curriculum tab of our website.
Homework
Each Friday your child will receive a new reading book. This is a book that your child will share with yourself and with a member of staff. We expect your child to read it by themselves with encouragement from you. If you could record how they did in their reading diary this will help support your child in moving through book bands.
Inside your child’s book bag they will have;
- A reading book
- Tricky word flash cards
- Number flash cards
Book bags must be in school everyday and books will be changed every Thursday.
Evidence Me
We evidence key assessment moments of your child's learning, these will be shared with you via Evidence Me. We will also share with you the next steps for your child's learning, we would like to invite you to add your own observations linked to the next steps.
EYFS Gallery
Literacy
We love stories in EYFS!
EYFS have been exploring the magical world of Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson! We’ve enjoyed retelling the story, acting out our favourite scenes, listening out for words that rhyme and creating our own potions and broomsticks.
Understanding the world
Where in the world?
We had so much fun exploring our capital city, London. We had tea and crumpets, made our own London 3D models and mapped out London and the key landmarks we would see.
We loved exploring all Bonfire Night.
We did many fun things to help celebrate Bonfire night.
We did firework printing, made our own rockets, made edible chocolate finger sparklers and looked at fire safety before having our own bonfire to roast marshmallows.
Maths
In Nursery, we develop our Mathematic knowledge through stories.
So far this year we have read the following stories:
1: The Gingerbread Man
2: Little Red Riding hood
3: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Take a look at our pictures to see our learning in action!
In Reception, we develop our mathematical knowledge a number at a time.
So far this year we have explored the numbers 0, 1, 2 & 3
See our gallery below to see some highlights of our mathematical journey. These include...
- Recognising number 1 when rolling a dice (Number 1)
- Matching numeral to quantity (Number 2)
- Ordering full, half full and empty (Number 3)
To Know You More Clearly
Branch 1 - Creation and Covenant
God made our beautiful world and everything in it. God made me.
Prayer and Liturgy
Parental Engagement: Teddy Club
Teddy Club
We had a lovely time inviting our grown-ups to our Teddy love books club. We were really interested in the story Room on the Broom so our parents helped explore this story through fun, immersive activities.
Physical Development
PAThS
(Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies)
PAThS Pre-School Programme
Our Nursery class are off to a great start with their PAThS learning, on our pre-school programme. Our PAThS circle time has proved a huge hit with the children & they are loving getting to know Twiggle, Henrietta, Duke and Daphne!
Our Nursery children love being Pupil of the Day and having extra responsibilities, like being line leader!
We love playing with Twiggle, Henrietta, Duke and Daphne!
As part of our daily practice, we celebrate all the wonderful things about each other with our PAThS Pupil of the Day!
We give our POTD compliments - this could be something they're good at, something we like about their appearance or something about their character.
Our POTD is encouraged to give their self a compliment and this is taken home for a compliment to be given at home too. #PAThS #PSHE
Daily check in with our emotions.
Expressive Arts and Design
Protected Characteristics
Anti Bullying Week
Nursery have been thinking about how they use their Power For Good to support our Anti-Bullying Week learning! We made superhero masks and talked about our super powers!
World Kindness Day
On World Kindness Day, Nursery have been using their #PowerForGood by sharing, being kind and playing together cooperatively
Protected Characteristics
As part of our Protected Characteristics learning in PSHE, we have shared, I am Brown (N) and We are all welcome (Rec), which teaches us to be aware that we are all different, yet all welcome. #PSHE #ProtectedCharacteristics #BeingMeInMyWorld
Reception shared ‘You be you’ in our Protected Characteristics lesson. We explored similarities & diļ¬erences. Philippians 4:13 says ‘I can do all this through Him who gives me strength’ - we have been celebrating differences between ourselves.
Nursery shared ‘You be you’ in our Protected Characteristics lesson. Romans 12:16 says ‘Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them’ - we explored our special talents & those of our friends
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