Welcome to Nursery!
Meet the Staff
Teacher: Miss Godfrey (Monday/Tuesday) Mrs Ibbotson (Wednesday/Thursday/Friday)
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Gill and Miss Francis
PPA Cover Teacher: Mrs Fleming
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 everyday. As we are a healthy school, only water is allowed.
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!
Curriculum Documents
Please have a look at the documents below to find out what we will be learning in Nursery this term.
Summer 2 - Knowledge Organiser - Transport
Religion
"They went out and proclaimed the Good news everywhere while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by signs that accompanied." Mark 16:20
Knowledge Organiser - Good News
In Nursery, the children will be learning about the Christian celebration of Pentecost. Pentecost marks a very special moment when Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to his disciples after He returned to heaven. The disciples were filled with courage and joy, and they began to share the message of Jesus with others. This is why Pentecost is often called "the birthday of the Church", because it was the beginning of people coming together to follow Jesus and spread the Good News.
As part of this topic, the children will also reflect on what "Good News" means to them in their own lives. They’ll be thinking about happy moments, kind messages, and celebrations they’ve experienced, and how they can share that joy with others — just like the disciples did.
We will be continuing to work hard to make the sign of the cross in Nursery and learn our daily prayers. You can help at home by helping your child practice their prayers daily.
Maths
In Maths, we will be counting aloud carefully with 1:1 correspondence and developing our awareness of number. We will also be working hard to recognise numerals to 5, make the corresponding number on our fingers and practise our written number formation. We will be exploring the new vocabularly more and fewer.
We will also be learning measure. We will be exploring weight by using scales in our indoor and outdoor heavier. We will be talking about how heavy and light objects are and investigating and finding heavier and lighter things.
Useful Maths Websites:
Communication, Language and Literacy
In Communication, Language and Literacy, we will be learning lots of new vocabulary and trying hard to use the words independently. We will be exploring different modes of transport in the world through our small world and creative areas. We will be learning the story Car Car Truck Jeep and trying hard to sing along to the tune of Baa Baa Black Sheep.
Phonics
In Phonics, we wil be focusing on listening for intial sounds and trying hard to identify them. The children have now begun to access the Read Write Inc. phonics scheme and will learn to hear, say and write a new sound each week.
Useful Literacy & Communication Websites:
Reading
It is important that the children have the opportunity to share books at home and are read to daily. Home Reading Folders will be sent home each Monday and collected in to be changed each Friday. Class Library is open each Friday 8.30am-8.45am if you would like to come into Nursery with your child and chose a book to take home and share!
Below are some ideas to help your child with reading!
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:
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At point of contact, enquires and queries will be dealt with by Mrs. Potter.
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SEN enquiries will be passed on to the school SENDCo Mrs Holroyd.