Welcome to the Early Years

Nursery AM Teacher: Mrs Sian Perkins

Nursery PMTeacher: Mrs Sophia Probert

Nursery Teaching Assistant: Mrs Alison Sault

Reception Teacher: Mrs Lizzie Bailey

Reception Teaching Assistant: Mrs Emma Hardware

Spring Term

This half term our topic is ‘People and Communities.’ During this theme the children will be learning about:

In Nursery:

• People who help us.
• The emergency services.
• Types of Travel.

In Reception

• Types of jobs.
• What we want to grow up to be?
• Jobs in the community.
• Travel around the world.
• Travel beyond this world (Space.)

You can support your child in this topic by talking about jobs in the family or house. Discuss how we help each other and people who helps and how.

Books to support:

• Mr Gumpy’s Outing
• Emergency Service Books
• Aliens love underpants.
• Q pootle 10.

Also this half term we will be looking at Spring celebrations. This will include:

• Changes to the environment in spring.
• Signs of Spring
• Easter
• How Easter is celebrated traditionally
• Mother’s day

We will be making bonnets in school and completing a virtual bonnet parade for parents to watch within our bubbles. The children will also perform a Spring song for parents to enjoy.

We will be having our on Easter Egg hunt with the children. It's going to be EGGcellent!

Forest Session:

Our Muddy sessions focus on developing the children's physical skills. We explore how to move around the forest and also the animals that live in our forest. Children observe the effects the Autumn and Winter seasons have on our forest area.

Reception Forest day is each Monday. 

Nursery Forest day is each Thursday. 

Homework Story Sacks:

Story Sacks will be sent home every THURSDAY and must be returned every MONDAY. Each sack includes a task sheet to choose from, key words, a story book and resources to support as well as your child’s individual homework recording books.

Virtual Reception Phonics Workshop

We have put together a virtual phonics workshop for you to access with your child at home. This workshop gives you information about RWI and includes some simple rhyming activties to play together at home. 

Please click on the link to view our Reception Phonics Video. 

https://vimeo.com/467361208 

Early Adopter School

We have started this school year with an exciting change for our 'Early Years Foundation Stage'. The government is preparing to release a new document of 'Curriculum Guidance' for the 'Early Years Foundation Stage' in September 2021. Our school has opted in to be an ‘Early adopter’ of this new guidance and will be piloting the 'New Early Learning Goals'.