We will share them regularly in class and use them to start discussions about:

• Family

• Labelling body parts and tlaking about similarities and differences

• Where we live and places we like to visit

  
  

Below are some areas that you encourage your child to do at home:

• Washing their hands

  Chat about the importance of good handwashing with soap and water, especially after going to the toilet or handling animals.

• Dressing and undressing

  Let your child practice putting on their school clothes, especially if they are fiddly fastenings. Clothes with elastic bands and shoes with Velcro are easier to handle for young children.

• Using a tissue

  Introduce your child to the routine of 'catch it, bin it, kill it'- catching their sneeze or runny nose in a tissue, putting it in the bin straightaway, then washing hands to kill germs.

• Tidying up

  Get your child into the habit of hanging their coat up, putting their toys away, clearing the table and so on, to prepare them for doing these things in nursery.

This padlet is to share what the children will be learning during the first part of the Autumn term. Every half-term it is updated and provides you ideas of how you can support your child's learning at home.

These are the staff who will be supporting your child in Nursery.

Miss Braidley - Nursery Teacher (Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday afternoon & Thursday)

Mrs Skilbeck - Nursery Teacher (Wednesday morning and Friday)

Mrs Hird - Nursery Nurse (Full-time)

Mrs Carpenter - Early Years Practitioner (Full-time)

Mrs Greenwood - Nursery Nurse (Tues / Weds / Fri until 1pm)

We also have group time teacher led maths sessions each week.

Below are some suggestions of home learning activities that support the group time learning..

Number Nursery Rhymes

We will be singing the following nursery rhymes and activities based on them within continuous provision.

The rhymes we will be focusing on are:

5 Little Ducks

5 Speckled Frogs

5 Currant Buns

5 Little Men in a Flying Saucer

All of the rhymes can be found on the website above, plus many more that we will introduce during your child's time in Nursery.

During their time in nursery we will be teaching and supporting your child to develop the skills above.

Please remember every child is an individual and we support all children on their learning journey. We will adapt and support children to access the learning and resources within the indoor and outdoor environments.

For those children returning, they will be helping to model the nursery expectations and we will support them to make new friends.

The approach is being introduced across our school, and in Nursery our focus is on building the important foundations for later reading and writing.

Through traditional tales, familiar stories, rhymes and songs, children learn to join in with repeated phrases, use new vocabulary and retell parts of a story using actions and movement. We use lots of repetition so that children gradually become familiar with story language and begin to use it independently.

At this age, we are not expecting children to write stories. Instead, we are helping them to develop the language, imagination and confidence they will need for writing in the future.

The key idea behind Talk for Writing is simple: if a child can say it, they are much more likely to be able to write it. By giving children lots of opportunities to talk, listen, act, sing and tell stories, we are laying strong foundations for their future literacy journey

Together, we will create a simple story map using pictures and symbols to help the children remember and retell the story.

Keep an eye on Weduc this week, where we will share a video of our staff retelling the story. You can watch it together at home and encourage your child to join in with the actions and repeated phrases.

For example, we might change the bear to a rabbit. The adults will help the children create and tell their new version of the story through talk, actions and play.

This might include role-play, drawing pictures, early mark-making or telling a story to an adult who can write down their words for them. The focus is on building confidence, imagination and a love of storytelling.