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These are the members of staff who will be supporting your child in Nursery. There are at least three members of staff in nursery each day.

Miss Braidley - Nursery Teacher (full-time)

Mrs Hird - Nursery Nurse (full-time)

Mrs Carpenter - Early Years Practitioner (full-time)

Mrs Greenwood - Nursery Nurse (Tues/Weds/Fri mornings)

Mrs Whittall - Early Years Practitoner (Weds/Thurs all day)

Mrs Nagy - Early Years Practitioner (Mon & Tues all day & Friday afternoon)

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2D shapes

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More than, Fewer than

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Positional Language

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Sequencing

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This half-term we will continue to encourage the children to recognise their own names (and supporting them to begin to write them).

Please can you make sure all clothing items and personal belongings are named. This will then help them (and us) to identify their items of clothing.

All children have their own draw, with their name on, and this is where we encourage them to put their cardigans and jumpers when they take them off.

We are aware that children often have toys they like to bring and show their friends in nursery, however this can cause disagreements and toys to become broken or lost. Please do not send your children into nursery with any toys (I am more than happy to see them on the door or afterschool if they would like to show me!).

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For most children starting Reception in September we will be introducing Read Write Inc.

Above is a link to a parent guide. This has videos about how you can support your child on their Read Write Inc journey.

For the children who will be staying in nursery in September we will continue to develop their phonological awareness skills. This will involve activities that support their abilaity to listen and distingusih between different sounds, recognising syllables in words, continuning a rhyming string for example.

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Welcome to the Read Write Inc. page on Oxford Owl for Home.

Read Write Inc. is a popular phonics scheme. Like all phonics schemes, it teaches children the sounds in English, the letters that represent them, and how to form the letters when writing. Read Write Inc. Phonics includes reading books written using only the letters they have learnt at each level (and a small number of separately taught tricky words). The children will quickly feel confident and successful.

Here you can find lots of free resources to support your child's learning.

Free eBooks | Videos | Set 1 resources | Set 2 resources | Set 3 resources | Kits and flashcards to use at home

Read Write Inc. Phonics

We have lots of free Read Write Inc. Phonics resources to help your child, including eBooks, practice sheets and parent films. We suggest you start by watching this film for parents: What is Read Write Inc. Phonics?

Speed sounds and Read Write Inc. Stages

If your child is learning to read at school with Read Write Inc. Phonics, they will be at one of the following stages:

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Parent guide to Read Write Inc. Phonics - Oxford Owl

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Find out what Read Write Inc. Phonics is and find eBooks, videos, and kits to help your child as they learn to read with Read Write Inc. Phonics at home.

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The maths learning focus for this half-term:

Week 1 - Number 5 (Recap)

Week 2 - Sequencing

Week 3 - Positional Language

Week 4 - More than / Fewer

Week 5 - 2d shape

Week 6 - Consolidation Week

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Above are the letter formation rhymes that we use with the children within Read Write Inc lessons.

Many of your children have started to show an interest in writing their name.

For the children starting Reception in September, we have created a name writing pack that we will be sending home.

The pack contains the letters in their first name and how to form them correctly along with a name card we have made using the Read Write Inc letters.

Please support your child to practice writing their name.

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In nursery your child has daily opportunities to play with and manipulate playdough. This activity helps to strengthen fine motor muscles to enable your child to develop their pencil grip which in turn will help to develop their writing skills. But most of all it's fun!

Above are some moves that we do with the playdough whilst listening to music. Any music with a beat is good to use - a current favourite is 'Happy,' by Pharrell.

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Poetry is a vehicle for adopting new vocabulary in a fun and accessible way. It is so important for children’s ocmmunication and language development, which is part of the statutory EYFS framework.

Children begin to use a wider variety of vocabulary as they connect with words simply and deeply through the rhythm of a poem.

We create actions to reinforce the language and its meanings, making it is easy for the children to absorb these new words so effortlessly.

The poems we will be learning:

Week 1 - Fantastic Food

Week 2 - Supertato

Week 3 - 5 Little Peas

Week 4 - The Gigantic Sandwich

Week 5 - The Gingerbread Man

Week 6 - Pat-A-Cake

If you click on the purple poetry basket picture at the top of this post you will be able to see the words to the different poems.

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Fred Games Examples

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Fred Games

Speaking like Fred helps children to understand that words are made up of sounds.

In nursery, we use Fred Talk in games and throughout the day to help children practise blending sounds together.

Parents/Carers, please note -

When playing the Fred talk games, if your child is not yet able to blend the sounds to make the whole word, please don't worry, it is something that just needs practise, keep going.

Help them by modelling the blending of sounds to make whole words, this will be great for their development.

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Putting their coat on and doing up the zip

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Putting their coat on and doing up the zip

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Getting dressed is an important life skill for pre-schoolers, but many children find dressing tricky.

Begin by breaking the dressing activity into small, straight forward steps.

Tackle one step at a time and give help where needed with the other steps of the task, for example, help your child to place the coat the correct way to start.

The Coat Flip:

Start by talking to your child about what you’re going to do. Consider having a coat of your own so that you can practice together.

Once you’ve explained the activity, encourage your child to tell you what they’re going to do – ask questions – for example, “What will you do first? Tell me what comes next.” This will prompt them to communicate and use predictions.

Step 1: Child to put the coat down on the floor / a table.

Step 2: Child to stand near the tag / hood (tag to toes).

Step 3: Child to put their arms through the arm holes.

Step 4: Child flips the coat over their head.

Next support your child to do the zip up. This does take practice and coordination to pull the metal clasp down and place the other side into the zipper. Please model this and encourage your child to do pull the zipper up at the end if they are finding it tricky to connect the two parts of the zip together.

How this supports your child’s learning:

Dressing can be a complex activity. Children need to be able to master several skills, which include:

• Fine Motor Skills – being able to reach, grasp and release objects in order to complete tasks such as buttoning or holding the item of clothing.

• Co-ordination - where a child needs to be able to create co-ordinated movements, using one arm and both arms. A child also needs the control of hand movement that require fine motor skills, such as fastening buttons.

This activity will support your child’s learning in a number of ways, including ordering, listening and understanding – enhancing their communication and language skills. It encourages independence, confidence and resilience, and will help your child to feel prepared for the next stage of their journey

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This half-term we will be learning about food.

We will be using our senses of touch, smell and taste to explore fruit and vegetables.

We will learn to follow recipes to make a fruit salad and cupcakes.

Key Stories

Week 1 - Which food will you choose?

Week 2 - Supertato

Week 3 - Handa's Surprise

Week 4 - Spider Sandwiches

Week 5 - The Gingerbread Man

Week 6 - Recipe to make cupcakes