Our Nursery Class

Welcome to Nursery!

Mrs Smedley is the class teacher supported by Miss Stafford.

In Nursery we have a happy, stimulating environment where children feel valued, safe and motivated to learn. Each individual child is at the centre of everything we do.

We are an accredited Communication Friendly School, providing tailored interventions to enable our children to develop their communication skills across all areas of our provision. Alongside this, upon entry children are language assessed using the WellComm framework and planned for accordingly, enabling them to fast-track their communication skills in small structured groups. The groups are taught during provision time and support children’s use of the provision whilst building on their language development. 

Children are supported and challenged in their learning.  Our experienced practitioners engage in individual play, enhance the learning ensuring that the children make good progress.

Our bespoke curriculum is linked to specific interests, enabling our children to thrive, reach their full potential and gain a true love of learning.

This term we will be learning about ‘Celebrations’. We will be reading the stories ‘One Snowy Night’ by Nick Butterworth and ‘Dear Santa’ by Rod Campbell. We will explore the different animals within the story of ‘One Snowy Night’ and look at the changing seasons. Then we will look at describing objects through the book ‘Dear Santa’. We will look at the objects in the book and find out what they can do. We will write letters to Santa and make some different items from the book using playdough.

We will also be focusing on the celebration of Advent and Christmas. We will think about how our families celebrate together.

Our Golden words for this half term are (2 week blocks)

There are words that we will be focusing on throughout our carpet sessions and continuous provision. Can you use these words at home in conversation with your child?

8.50- Classroom doors open- independent task on the carpet whilst we wait for all our friends.
8.55- Register and welcome, days of the week and prayers
9.05- Physical development/ squiggle while you wiggle
9.20- Phonics
9.30- Continuous provision
10.45- Maths
11.15- Prayer, Lunch, then continuous provision
1.00- Topic/ RE/ RSE/ My Happy Mind
1.15- Continuous provision
2.30- Tidy
2.45- Dough Disco, story
3.20- Prayer, Home time

Reading

In Nursery reading is at the very centre of all we do. We love reading lots of different books each day and using puppets, teddies and other resources to act them out. We encourage the children to read daily with an adult at home, enjoying a special story time together. You can visit the local library for free books and enjoy the different activities on offer there.
We send home a shared reading book each week. This is for the adult to read to their child. It is a chance for you to share in some time with your child to talk about their interests and introduce them to new and exciting stories. Please note down what you have enjoyed about the book in your child’s reading record.
Books will be changed on a Thursday.

My Happy Mind:

Our focus this term is ‘Meet your Brain’. The module is focused on teaching children the following key concepts :Our brains help us with lots of different jobs. We need to look after our brains for us to be at our best. When we learn something new our brain remembers it for next time.

We have met Bertie and Betty. They will help us to remember the key concepts of this topic through stories and activities.

We love to know what the children have been doing at home. If you have any photographs of your child enjoying a particular family event, special day out or toy/ book at home, please send them in for us to celebrate with their friends.

Email your pictures to leah.smedley@holyfamily.oldham.sch.uk