Welcome to Nursery Class Page

Autumn 2023

 

WELCOME TO NURSERY

The Nursery staff would like welcome to all the children and their families who have started Nursery and those who have returned this academic year. It has been wonderful to see all the pupils wearing their uniform with pride and greeting friends and staff with happy smiles, kind words and good manners. We have had an excellent start to the year already. The glorious weather has allowed us to enjoy the beautiful outdoor spaces of our school and keep active, while getting to know the daily routines of Nursery.

 

If you need any support or would like to discuss how we can best work in partnership to support your child in school, we are always here to help. Your class teacher is always the first point of contact, followed by Mr Gilroy as EYFS Lead. For any advice on special educational needs, it may be appropriate, after speaking with the class teacher, to also contact Mrs Whitehead, who is our school Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENDCO).

Smaller queries can often be answered at drop off times, however for more private conversations, or those that may take a little longer, please make an appointment by discussing this with the teacher or calling the school office instead.

Please be advised that collection time is a very busy time, and not a time when we can give you our full attention.

Mrs Gillin -Nursery teacher

Mrs Jones LSA

ATTENDANCE

Good attendance and punctuality are vital, not only for learning, but also to help pupils settle into their new school routine, make friends and grow in confidence.

Our classroom door opens at 8:30am and the gate closes at 9:00am The gates will open at 11.15am and close promptly at 11:30 am.

Autumn Curriculum Coverage

English

Week 1 Here we are.

Week 2 The colour monster.

Week 3 The colour monster goes to school.

Week 4 Little red riding hood.

Week 5 My mum and dad make me laugh.

Week 6 Peepo.

Week 7 Hello Autumn

Week 8 Leaf Trouble.

Maths

Develop fast recognition of up to 3 objects, without having to count them individually (subitising)

2D and 3D shapes.

Patterns.

Size and length

 

Phonics

Phase 1 phonics

Voice sounds

Oral blending and segmenting

Alliteration

Body percussion/voice sounds.

Instrumental sounds and Rhythm

Rhyme.

 

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Myself, Welcome, Celebrating Difference, Birthdays, Hanukkah, Diwali

Understanding the World

Seasonal changes Autumn

Weather patterns

Maps and routes (to school)

Children’s own history.

Communication and Language

Enjoy listening to longer stories and talk about what happens in the story. Use a wider range of vocabulary.

Understand a question that has two parts.

Understand ‘Why’ questions.

Sing a large repertoire of songs.

Know many Rhymes, be able to talk about familiar books, and tell a story.

Expressive Arts and Design

Enjoy and take part in action songs.

Express ideas and feelings through making marks.

Personal, Social, Emotional Development

Children will learn about themselves, their emotions and how they have grown.

Physical Development

Fundamentals – Movement.

Phase 1 phonics

Phase 1 phonics concentrates on developing children’s speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for the phonic work which starts in the next phase. The emphasis during Phase 1 is to get children attuned to the sounds around them and ready to begin developing oral blending and segmenting skills.

The activities introduced in Phase 1 are intended to continue throughout the following phases, as lots of practice is needed before children will become confident in their phonic knowledge and skills.

Phase 1 is divided into seven aspects:

Aspect 1 – General sound discrimination – environmental

The aim of this aspect is to raise children’s awareness of the sounds around them and to develop their listening skills. Activities suggested may include going on a listening walk, drumming on different items outside and comparing the sounds, playing a sounds lotto game and making shakers.

Aspect 2 – General sound discrimination – instrumental sounds

This aspect aims to develop children’s awareness of sounds made by various instruments and noise makers. Activities include comparing and matching sound makers, playing instruments alongside a story and making loud and quiet sounds.

Aspect 3 – General sound discrimination – body percussion

The aim of this aspect is to develop children’s awareness of sounds and rhythms. Activities include singing songs and action rhymes, listening to music and developing a sounds vocabulary.

Aspect 4 – Rhythm and rhyme

This aspect aims to develop children’s appreciation and experiences of rhythm and rhyme in speech. Activities include rhyming stories, rhyming bingo, clapping out the syllables in words and odd one out.

Aspect 5 – Alliteration

The focus is on initial sounds of words, with activities including I-Spy type games and matching objects which begin with the same sound.

Aspect 6 – Voice sounds

The aim is to distinguish between different vocal sounds and to begin oral blending and segmenting. Activities may include Metal Mike, where children feed pictures of objects into a toy robot’s mouth and the teacher sounds out the name of the object in a robot voice – /c/-/u/-/p/ cup, with the children joining in.

Aspect 7 – Oral blending and segmenting

In this aspect, the main aim is to develop oral blending and segmenting skills.

To practise oral blending, the teacher could say some sounds, such as /c/-/u/-/p/ and see whether the children can pick out a cup from a group of objects. For segmenting practise, the teacher could hold up an object such as a sock and ask the children which sounds they can hear in the word sock.

 

Class messages…

Your child’s clothing, bags and bottles should all be labelled with their names.

We kindly ask for a £1 donation per week to help to cover the cost of snacks.

Dates of interest

Tuesday 26th September European day of languages Non-Uniform- including colours of a country’s flag
Friday 29th September Liverpool Maths Party Day Fun Maths activities in school
October Black History Month

 

 

The theme this year: The Importance of Black Resistance
Sunday 1st October

 

Feast of St Teresa Feast of St Teresa will be marked in school with pupils.
Monday 2-8th October Dyslexia awareness week

 

Raising awareness
Wednesday 4th October Walk to school day

 

Promoting being ACTIVE
Thursday 5th October National Cerebral palsy day Raising awareness
Friday 6th October

 

CAFOD Harvest day

National Poetry day

Year 2 Boys Football (LSSP)-

more information to follow

Last day for all food donations to be brought in

Poetry theme this year is the experience of being a refugee

 

Tuesday 10th October World Mental Health day

 

Raising awareness and promoting wellbeing
Monday 16th October Children’s Nasal Spray Nursery – Year 6

 

Permission forms went out via a link to complete
Wednesday 18th October Parents’ meeting More information will follow
Thursday 26th October School photograph day

 

Big smiles and full uniform needed
Friday 27th October

 

Finish for half term

 

Disco in school- more information will follow

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