Curriculum Overview Nursery Autumn 1

It’s been another busy week in nursery! The children have been learning all about identifying rhyming words in the story of the ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson as part of their literacy learning and exploring seasonal change in their project learning time. Nursery have also started the ‘Brilliant Brushers’ programme this week to support them with brushing their teeth.

Next week, nursery will have a maths focus during their adult-directed learning using the story of ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle.

Key vocabulary:

• same
• how many?
• sort
• total
• number
• amount
• numeral
• match
• accurately
• count

KEY INFORMATION

The ‘Favourite Five’ story for next week will be ‘There’s a Monster in Your Book’ by Tom Fletcher

Key Vocabulary to share with your child:

• shake
• tickle
• blow
• tilt
• wiggle
• spinning
• dizzy
• monster

Our focus song will be ‘Dr Foster’.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-doctor-foster-went-to-gloucester/zhkf6v4

SOS WINNERS

The Secrets of Success award this week for ‘Don’t Give Up’ and the winners have shown resilience and persistence to keep going when things get tricky. Well done to Hilton, Mandeeya, Logan and Thomas!

learning journey sharing

This week it was brown group’s turn to take their learning journeys home for sharing with their friends and family. Please remember to return on Monday.

key dates for spring term

• Phonics ‘stay and learn’ sessions will run through the week beginning 22nd January – 26th January 2024
• Term ends on Friday 9th February 2024

It’s been a great week back in nursery, the children have settled into the routines again brilliantly. Nursery learnt the story ‘Kind’ by Axel Scheffler with links to Personal, Social and Emotional Development as they represented their ideas about being kind through mark-making and role-play.

Next week, nursery will be exploring rhyming words in the story of the ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson as part of their literacy learning.

Vocabulary linked to adult-directed learning.

• rhyming words/phrasing
• stroll
• terrible
• frightfully
• poisonous
• feast
• scrambled
• scariest
• astounding

KEY INFORMATION

The ‘Favourite Five’ story for next week will be ‘Oi Frog!’ by Kes Gray. 

Key Vocabulary to share with your child:

• knobbly
• uncomfortable
• hare
• mule
• stool
• gopher
• iron
• plough
• stork
• pillar
• weasel
• easel
• newt
• flute
• gibbon

Our focus song will be ‘The Wheels on the Bus’.

SOS WINNERS

The Secrets of Success award this week for ‘Understand Others’ and the winners have shown that they can help others and understand when their friends are upset. Well done to Ivy-Leigh, Addison, Harry and Lottie-Rose!

learning journey sharing

This week it was blue group’s turn to take their learning journeys home for sharing with their friends and family. Please remember to return on Monday.

key dates for spring term

• Phonics ‘stay and learn’ sessions will run through the week beginning 22nd January – 26th January 2024
• Term ends on Friday 9th February 2024

What a fabulous last week of the Autumn term! Nursery have enjoyed lot of Christmas Crafting; making magic reindeer dust and Christmas cards to take home for Christmas, they even had a visit from Father Christmas himself!

When they return after Christmas, Nursery will be learning the story ‘Kind’ by Axel Scheffler with links to Personal, Social and Emotional Development as the children will be thinking about acts of kindness.

Key vocabulary:

• kind
• happy
• friend

KEY INFORMATION

The ‘Favourite Five’ story for the first week back will be ‘The Lion Inside’ by Rachel Bright and Jim Field. 

Key Vocabulary to share with your child:

• lion
• inside
• sparkled
• mighty
• quietest
• meekest
• ignored
• toothsome
• impressed
• cleverest
• slumbering
• forever

Our focus song will be ‘Miss Molly had a Dolly’.

SOS WINNERS

The Secrets of Success award this week for ‘Improve’ and the winners have shown that they can work hard to get better at their learning. Well done to Ivy and Charlie!

key dates for spring term

• Term Begins on Tuesday 9th January 2024
• Phonics ‘stay and learn’ sessions will run through the week beginning 22nd January – 26th January 2024
• Term ends on Friday 9th February 2024

spring curriculum overview

It’s been another busy week in nursery. The children worked really hard to learn the songs and dances for the nativity and were incredible as stars. Thank you to everyone who came and supported and for providing the costumes.

In their adult-directed time, nursery learnt the story ‘The Magic Sleigh’, thinking about ‘1 more’ and matching amounts of objects to numerals.

KEY INFORMATION FOR NEXT WEEK

The ‘Favourite Five’ story next week will be ‘The Christmas Pine’ by Julia Donaldson. 

Key Vocabulary to share with your child:

• pine
• cone
• whispering
• tall
• high
• distant
• travelled
• city
• reindeer

SOS WINNERS

The Secrets of Success award this week for ‘Imagine’ and the winners have shown that they can use their imaginations. A huge well done to Alice, Angela,

LEARNING JOURNEY SHARING

This week, it was red group’s turn to take their learning journeys home to share all of their hard work with their families. Please remember to return on Monday.

key dates

20th December – Christmas Dinner and Christmas Jumper day

22nd December – LAST DAY and Christmas jumpers.

What a great week! The children have been busy learning all of the songs and practicing for their upcoming nativity performance. They have also been working on their physical development – practicing their balance and stretching during yoga. In their project learning time, they have been thinking about designing and creating their own Christmas images and writing letters to Santa.

KEY INFORMATION FOR NEXT WEEK

The ‘Favourite Five’ story next week will be ‘The Christmas Story’ which will link to  adult-directed learning.

Key Vocabulary to share with your child:

• carpenter
• innkeeper
• inn
• stable
• manger
• shepherds
• angel
• star

Nursery will continue to practice their Nativity songs next week ready for the performance on Thursday.

For their adult directed learning, nursery will be learning to find ‘how many?’ using the story The Magic Little Sleigh by Anna Claybourne. Below is some key vocabulary to support your child’s learning:

• same
• how many?
• sort
• number
• amount
• numeral
• match
• count
• accurate

SOS WINNERS

The Secrets of Success award this week for ‘Push Yourself’ and the winners have shown that they are willing to keep going when things get hard. A huge well done to Kanmi, Caleb, Hilton and Hazel.

LEARNING JOURNEY SHARING

This week, it was purple group’s turn to take their learning journeys home to share all of their hard work with their families. Please remember to return on Monday.

key dates

14th December – EYFS Nativity

It’s been another busy week in nursery! The children have been busy learning all of the songs and practicing for their upcoming nativity performance. During their adult direction time, nursery have been learning the story ‘Dear Zoo’ and have been thinking about describing words for the characters in the story. They have also enjoyed exploring the frost in the natural environment and thinking about freezing and melting.

KEY INFORMATION FOR NEXT WEEK

The ‘Favourite Five’ story next week will be ‘Sharing a Shell’ by Julia Donaldson which links to Personal, Social and Emotional Development as the children think about sharing.

Key Vocabulary to share with your child:

• shell
• share
• gull
• empty
• scuttle
• safe
• blob
• anemone
• tentacle
• grown

Nursery will continue to practice their Nativity songs next week.

For their adult directed learning, nursery will be learning to find ‘how many?’ using the story The Magic Little Sleigh by Anna Claybourne. Below is some key vocabulary to support your child’s learning:

• same
• how many?
• sort
• number
• amount
• numeral
• match
• count
• accurately.

SOS WINNERS

The Secrets of Success award this week was for Concentrate – well done to Fauja, Esme, Sophia and Chloe who have shown they can really focus on their learning.

LEARNING JOURNEY SHARING

This week, it was orange group’s turn to take their learning journeys home to share all of their hard work with their families. Please remember to return on Monday.

key dates

4th December – Bedtime Stories

14th December – EYFS Nativity

What a great week in nursery! The children have been busy learning all of the songs and practicing for their upcoming nativity performance. During their adult direction time, nursery have been learning about 2-dimenional shapes and their properties and thinking about selecting appropriate shapes to make pictures.

key information for next week

The ‘Favourite Five’ story next week will be ‘One Snowy Night’ by Nick Butterworth which links to our learning about seasonal change as we move into the winter months and approach Christmas.

Key Vocabulary to share with your child:

• warm
• hut
• cosy
• blanket
• hot cocoa
• miserable
• shivering
• shoved

Nursery will continue to practice their Nativity songs next week.

For Nursery’s adult-directed learning, the children will be learning the story ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell thinking about adjectives to describe the animals in the story. They will be representing their ideas through mark-making and role play.

Key Vocabulary:

• adjective
• wrote
• fierce
• danger
• grumpy
• naughty
• perfect

sos winners

The Secrets of Success award this week was for Try New Things – the winning children have shown that they are brave and willing to try things that they haven’t done before! So, a huge well done to Roniel, Emilia, Oliver and Tillie.

learning journey sharing

This week, it was green group’s turn to take their learning journeys home to share all of their hard work with their families. Please remember to return on Monday.

It has been a very busy week in nursery!

This week, nursery children have been identifying rhyming words in the story ‘Oi Frog!’ by Kes Gray. They have acted out parts of the story and have used mark-making to represent their ideas. During project learning time, children have responded to the provocation “What’s inside a spiral?” and have studied different artists and then have selected different media to represent their ideas.

phonics stay aND learn

During Nursery’s phonics and Maths time, parents were invited in to see their children’s learning this week. Thank you to all of those that were able to attend.

attingham park trip

EYFS went to Attingham Park to explore seasonal change in the natural environment. Thank you to everyone that was able to support the trip.

key information for next week

The ‘Favourite Five’ story next week will be ‘Binny’s Dawili’ to consolidate the children’s learning about Diwali.

Key Vocabulary to share with your child:

• festival of lights
• sari – dress
• jalebis – orange discs
• pedas- milk
• diyas – oil lamps
• Hindu

For Nursery’s adult-directed learning, the children will be learning about 2-Dimensional shapes – circles, triangle, squares and rectangles. They will be thinking about their properties and identifying shapes in the EYFS environment.

Key Vocabulary:

• 2D shapes
• circle
• square
• triangle
• rectangle
• sides
• face
• vertices

sos winners

The Secrets of Success award this week was for Working Hard – the winning children have shown that they are willing to work hard and not give up. Well done to Harry, Esmae, Shernice and Roman.