Meet Our Staff

Nursery Oak 

Teacher: Miss A Khan

Teaching Assistant: Miss J Bushby (EYP)

Key Information

PE

Wednesday

Your child is to come in to school in their PE kit on this day.

Termly Update

Summer 1

This half term we have been looking at different animals and where we might find them. Our new favourite book this half term is definitely dear zoo! We have sent so many animals back to the zoo and can’t wait to see what they send us back next! We have completed a range of activities based around this book including making our own animals, a letter to the zoo and making some stick puppets.

We have been working super hard on learning our initial sounds in phonics and some of us have been phonic star of the day! We have also enjoyed lots of singing and incorporated a new goodbye song to our routine .

We had fun celebrating VE day, making planes, decorating bunting and colouring flags to wave. We also watched a video to see how other people celebrated this very important day.

We have been working very hard in the garden area, deciding which plants we would like to grow, planting them indoors, re-homing them in the garden and then eating the fresh vegetables we grew! This has been so much fun and we have loved watching the vegetables grow! It will be very exciting to see what else grows over the next half term…

We have had a fantastic half term in Nursery and have enjoyed many exciting learning opportunities and watching the children and vegetables grow.  We are looking forward to what the last half term of Nursery has to offer us!

Spring 2 

The children have enjoyed another busy half-term in Nursery.

We have focused on some of our all-time favourite books, Jack and the Beanstalk and Handa’s Surprise. The children have enjoyed retelling the story in many ways; for example, we have had a food shop in our home corner for Handa’s surprise fruits. We have also tried lots of different fruits and foods which the children loved!

We have talked about Spring and looked at the beautiful flowers outside. The children have even had a go at planting their own flowers and painted some beautiful plant pots for Mother’s Day. The children have enjoyed a lot of time in the garden, exploring all things spring.  This has led us up to Easter, which has been a very busy and creative time, with it also being Mother’s Day and Eid.

The children have enjoyed hearing a variety of stories at Storytime, learning some Makaton signs to use when reading and creating their own story for World Book Day.

Our daily bucket time session, focusing on building children's attention, listening, eye contact, and the ability to sit for a short period of time, has had a very positive outcome. It is now one of the children’s favourite parts of the morning .

In Maths, we have focused on carefully and accurately counting a variety of objects and actions using one-to-one correspondence.  The children are also learning to use their fingers to represent numbers and to subitise (identify a small number of up to 10 pictures or objects without the need for counting).

As you can see, it has been a very busy time in Nursery! 

Autumn 2

The children have enjoyed another busy half-term in Nursery.

We have continued to focus on the theme ‘All About Me’, looking at the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.  The children enjoyed using their sight to idendify their favour colour, their hearing to listen to their favouite songs (wiggle dance), their sense of smell to identify hidden foods and their sense of touch to explore and describe sensory boards and the contents of ‘feely’ bags.  Snack-time was even used to taste and describe the texture of a variety of fruit and vegetables.

We then spent a couple of weeks focusing on the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ by Michael Rosen. The children enjoyed listening to, then acting out, the story.  They also enjoyed exploring our ‘Bear Hunt’ small world tray and talking about or retelling the story in their own words. The children were taught about different breeds of bear.  After that, they made their own bear sandwiches and enjoyed their very own Bear Hunt, going ‘through’ the mud, grass, water and snow!

We have also focused on the changing seasons and winter.  The children have enjoyed a winter walk and was lucky enough to experience real snow to add to the Christmas excitement.  This has led us up to Christmas, which is always a very busy time. We have listened to the story of Christmas and Nursery joined with Reception learning songs for our Nativity performance.  They have also been busily engaged in a variety of Christmas-themed activities in class.  

During story-time, the children have enjoyed listening to a range of stories and information books linked to the above themes. 

We have started daily bucket time session, focusing to build children's attention, listening, eye contact, and ability to sit for a short period of time.

In Maths, we have focused on carefully and accurately counting a variety of objects and actions using one-to-one correspondence.  The children are also learning to use their fingers to represent numbers and to subitise (identify a small number of up to 6 pictures or objects without the need for counting).

As you can see, it has been a very busy time in Nursery!