Welcome to Nursery
Our class is Owl and our class email address is owl@churchfields.q1e.org.uk.
Our teachers are Mrs Burn – Class Teacher and Mrs Thornton – Teaching Assistant.
Autumn 1
Our Topic for the first half term is ‘Ourselves’ we will be focussing on our senses.
The children will be encouraged to talk about themselves, make links to their own experiences and listen to others.
Autumn 2
Our Topic for the Second half term is ‘Special Times’ we will be focussing on Bonfire night, Remembrance Sunday, Children’s Day, Thanksgiving, Winter and Christmas
The children will be encouraged to talk about themselves, make links to their own experiences and listen to others.
Optional Homework – ‘Celebrating’ Week 5 bring in a photograph of a celebration your child experienced. They will need to be able to talk about what they did, decorations they saw or food they ate.
Spring Term 1
Our Topic for the first half of the Spring Term is ‘Exploring Our World’ we will be the garden, flowers and birds.
The children will be encouraged to talk about what they see, make links to their own experiences and listen to others.
Optional Homework – Make a minibeast. Please bring in at the end of week 4.
Spring Term 2
Our Topic for the Second half of the Spring Term is ‘Houses and Homes’ we will be focussing on Traditional Tales and Nursery Rhymes.
The children will be encouraged to talk about stories, make links to their own experiences and listen to others.
Optional Homework - Support your child to make a space ship, an alien, volcano, dinosaur, farm animal or a sea creature. Use any materials you have at home eg, paper, cardboard, string, wool, paints, felt tips, crayons, playdough. Encourage them to tell you what they want to do and how they are going to do it. Talk to them about how it is going as you go along and when it is tricky encourage them to have a go themselves with you showing them what to do. When it is finished they can bring it in (or a photo of it) to show us in Nursery.
Summer 1
Our Topic for the first half of the Summer Term is ‘Living Things’ we will be focussing on woods and woodland animals, minibeasts, the garden, flowers and birds.
The children will be encouraged to talk about what they see, make links to their own experiences and listen to others.
Optoinal Homework - Make a den at home. Decide who is going to live there. What things will you have in it? Take a picture of you playing in it. Share with your Class Teacher.
Summer 2
Our Topic for the first half of the Summer Term is ‘Living Things’ we will be focussing on woods and woodland animals, minibeasts, the garden, flowers and birds.
The children will be encouraged to talk about what they see, make links to their own experiences and listen to others.
Optional Homework – Make a minibeast. Please bring in at the end of week 4.
Reading
Sharing books with your child really helps them to learn about the world around them and to start thinking about language.
We are happy to share the books from our book corner. Please return them by putting them into the box outside the classroom before you take another one.
Forest School
The children will not need to wear their own clothes and change after Forest School like the rest of the school. This is to avoid having to support each child to change their clothes.
Instead the children will be wearing an all in one suit. This will protect them from getting their clothes dirty and wet. Their wellies stay in school for this every week.
In the hotter weather in the Summer term we will change them into long sleeved tops and bottoms. This will be before the lesson so they are nice and cool in their school uniform for the morning. If it is too hot for long sleeved tops and bottoms we will have forest school at base camp and they will stay in their uniform.
The Nursery Classroom is air conditioned
Forest School is on a Wednesday morning.
School Uniform
Red polo top with a red jumper, with or without Churchfields emblem.
A red fleece and/or coat.
Black Velcro strapped shoes
Black jogging bottoms – fleeced lining for warmth in cold weather
Black shorts or leggings in Spring and Summer to keep cool. Elasticated waistband.
A red long-sleeved polo top can be worn in the colder weather or a red long sleeved top underneath
They do not need a PE kit as they do physical activities as part of their daily activities in their school uniform which supports them to be independent in going to the toilet and moving about freely.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us on our class email address if you have any concerns or questions at owl@churchfields.q1e.org.uk
Please let me know any changes at home to the routine that may affect your child emotionally during the day.
Thank you for your support.
Mrs Burn