Welcome to Nursery!

Meet the Staff

Teacher: Mrs Fahy (Monday/Tuesday PM) Mrs Ibbotson (Tuesday AM, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday)
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Gill and Miss Francis

PPA Cover Teacher: Mrs Godfrey

What You Need to Know

In the mornings, classroom doors will open at 8.30am for children to arrive. The door will then close at 8.45am and the register will be taken, please ensure your child is arriving on time. In the afternoons, doors will open at 3.15pm for home time. 

We ask that you provide your child with a named water bottle and make sure they bring it into school empty everyday. As we are a healthy school, only water is allowed, your child's water bottle will be filled up in school each morning and sent home for cleaning each day.

Please provide your child with a change of clothes that they can bring into school and leave on their peg. Spare clothes don't need to be school uniform! Please make sure that your child’s name is on all items of clothing so they don’t get lost! Especially jumpers and cardigans as we enter the warmer weather! School shoes should be black and be fastened with velcro fastenings, not laces.

Curriculum Documents

Please have a look at the documents below to find out what we will be learning in Nursery this term.  

Our Topic this half Term is:

All About Me

Religion

In Religion this half term we will be listening to the story of the Creation. The children will be thinking about God's wonderful world, they will think about all of the wonderful things that God has created, including themselves. They will also be working hard to make the sign of the cross in and learn our daily prayers. You can help at home by helping your child practice their prayers daily. 

Maths

 In Maths this half term we will be singing number nursery rhymes and using our fingers, we will also be practising our counting using 1-to-1 correspondence.

Useful Maths Websites: 

Topmarks       

Crickweb

Cbeebies Numeracy

Cbeebies - Numberblocks

Communication, Language and Literacy 

To start this half term we will be focusing on reading books about colours. We will be reading these books: Dogs Colourful Day, Elmer and Brown Bear, Brown Bear. We will then move onto the story of Goldilocks and The Three Bears. The children will listen to the story and re-tell it in their own words.

Phonics

In Phonics  we will be following the Letters and Sounds programme. We will start by focusing on aspect 1 - Environmental Sounds and aspect 2 - Instrumental Sounds. The children will be going on sound walks, playing listening games and experimenting with instrumental sounds. 

Useful Literacy & Communication Websites:

Phonics Play

Vooks

Oxford Owls

Topmarks

Cbeebies - Alphablocks

Fine Motor Skills

The children will also be developing fine motor skills with mark-making activities to build muscles and control when using a pencil. We will work on these skills through dough disco, paint brushes, chalk, tweezers, and a variety of pencil control activities. It is really important that your child has the correct pencil grip for writing. Share this short video with your child to practise holding a pencil correctly. Encourage them to use their pinchy parrot fingers!

Healthy Teeth

At Christ the King, we want to promote the importance of good oral hygiene. This  term, we will be having a visit from the Dental Nurse who will teach us how to take care of our teeth. In Nursery, we brush our teeth daily after lunch using the 'Brush Bus' and regularly talk about the importance of taking care of our teeth. 

We would appreciate it if you could share this video with your child and talk about the importance of brushing your teeth in the morning and at night. You can also discuss how different foods and drinks can be good or bad for your teeth. With this in mind, please ensure your child only brings water and healthy snacks to school.

Here is a presentation of Top Toothbrushing Tips: