Nursery

Welcome to Nursery class with Mrs Gray and Mrs Fielding

Monday 29th June

Hello everyone! I hope you've had a good time in the rain- we certainly did in our bubble today!

The children listened to a story about rain, which had an interesting page in it, suggesting that only worms and snails like to come out when it rains (and frogs).

So, we suited up in our waterproofs and went on a rainy mini beast hunt!

Can you find out which mini beasts like to be out in the rain and which like to hide away?

Go for a hunt together with your wellies on and let us know what you find :)

We even used magnifying glasses! Take a look...

Good luck and have fun,

Mrs Gray :)

Home Learning ideas

A big hello to our wonderful families

We hope that you are keeping safe and happy while our school is temporarily closed during this unprecedented time. Below are some fun things for parents or carer to do at home with their children.

• Keep Fit activities can be found on YouTube for example 5 Minute Move with Joe Wicks the Body Coach. You can also join Joe each morning at 9am for PE.
• Search for Spread the Happiness TV Channel on YouTube to join Shonette live every day 9.30am for dough disco and 1pm for a story based challenge.
• Search for Jack Hartmann kids Music channel on YouTube for fun counting songs
• See 50 fantastic ideas to try at home on the abcdoes.com website. It is full of fun and exciting ideas for you to do, older siblings might also be interested. https://abcdoes.com/home-learning

See below documents for how you can continue to support your child at home with both phonics and maths as well as the learning grids that were sent home.

You will find activities to try, along with lots of fun and useful web links.

Finally, take care we miss you all so very much! Please know this will end and we will see you again soon. Remember the simple message “Stay Home and Save Lives”

Mrs Gray and Mrs Fielding

Purple Mash

If you'd like your child to access their Purple Mash account and play games, complete challenges and do some cross-curricular activities, please contact Mrs Gray for the individual login (I've set you some challenges to do in the "to-do" section!) and have an explore on the section called "Mini Mash" which is designed for Early Years children.

Monday 22nd June

Good afternoon everyone! We had our bubble of children in today and it was so lovely to see them.

I'm going to continue to update this page with a new challenge for the week, which you can upload on Tapestry to add to your child's learning journal.

Today's challenge is to make Silly Soup, where you make 'soup' by pretending to mix rhyming pairs in a bowl!

Take a photo of the pairs that your child finds, like socks and a box, cup and a pup, mug and a bug, ring and a king- anything that rhymes! Good luck!

Here are the pairs that we made (dog & frog, book & duck, pan & man, fox & box):

See you soon for your next challenge!

Mrs Gray :)

Monday 8th June

Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a good half term; I know some of you were carrying on with your home learning which is fantastic- parents, please continue to send updates!

This week, I am challenging you to do these things:

• Have a teddy bear's picnic 
• Practice writing your name
• Play some 'robot talking treasure hunt' games where you/your parents say sounds and the other has to go and find the object you're talking e.g. c-u-p.... p-e-n... b-a-g... etc. :)
• Practice doing a roly-poly! Can you already do one?
• Get dressed by yourself 

Good luck Nursery!

Mrs Gray 

Monday 18th May

Hello everyone! It was so nice to speak to your parents today, and I'm glad to hear you're getting on so well at home with your families. 

This week, I'm challenging you to blend, blend, blend! That means speaking in sounds and hearing the sounds in words (oral blending)

Maybe you could have a treasure hunt, where your grown-up asks you to find a p-e-n, a d-o-g or a c-u-p! Then you could be the grown-up and challenge them to find objects that you've sound-talked.

For some more ideas, watch the video underneath this text block.

Good luck and have another great week, 

love from Mrs Gray 

p.s. if you're looking for some other things to do/draw/write, check the bottom of the page for some PDFs that you can download and use as an activity book- handy when there's a spare 5 minutes. 

p.p.s. don't forget about the Oak Academy school- with 3 lessons per day to access!

Monday 11th May

Hello again everyone and welcome to another week of home learning. It has been so good to hear from so many of you in Nursery and I am so proud that you're all trying hard and even accessing Purple Mash! If you would like to have a look around and let your child have a go at some learning challenges, please email me (Mrs Gray) on the link below.

This week I'd like to challenge you all to read a book every day with your families, then do a book review in your little green books and send me a picture- so far it's been really interesting and I've even ordered some books I've not heard of before, so thank you!

It would be extra special if you could write your name on the review too.

Good luck and have a great week, 

love from Mrs Gray 

p.s. if you're looking for some other things to do/draw/write, check the bottom of the page for some PDFs that you can download and use as an activity book- handy when there's a spare 5 minutes. 

p.p.s. don't forget about the Oak Academy school- with 3 lessons per day to access! 

Friday 8th May

Hello everyone and happy 75th VE day!

Myself and Mrs Fielding would love to know how you're celebrating this special day- are you having a stay-at-home street party in your garden? Dressing up in red, white and blue? Making decorations? Whatever you're doing, let us know by email; we absolutely love hearing from you 

Also, please continue to access all the websites like the oak academy for lessons, teachyourmonstertoread.com I know has been a hit with some of our Nursery children and there are even some phonics lessons (where you'll learn what the letter sounds look like) that you can join in with down below!

Tuesday 19th May

Good morning everyone!

parents, you'll have received an email this morning from Tapestry asking you to activate your account. This is so that when we go back to school, you'll be able to see everything we put in your child's learning journey, and you can add things to it too, like the lovely things your child is doing at home. If you have any queries, please email me.

Mrs Gray 

Monday 27th April 2020

Hello again everyone :)

it's still lovely to hear from all the families and to see the wonderful work the children are doing at home.

This week (27th April- 3rd May) is National Gardening Week!

In honour of this special week, I'd like to challenge the Nursery children to plant, look after or share something amazing they've seen while enjoying the outdoors! 

Here are some examples...

While I've been out walking my dog, Mabel, I've seen some lovely daffodils- look how different they all are!

Also, for the Reception & Nursery mud kitchen, I've planted some beans, mint and strawberries to move over which will hopefully grow back year after year which the children can cut, smell, dig up, use and look after. :) It would be amazing if you could grow something that smells nice or tastes good for our garden too! 

I'd really like to see what you've been up to this week, so please email me photos!

Also, don't forget that you can use the National Academy website for lessons (click on the Reception part, the lessons are suitable for nursery too) which has been developed by the government for free during this time of COVID-19 lockdown. https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/schedule 

Stay safe and have fun,

Love from Mrs Gray :)

Monday 20th April 2020

Hello again, it's been really great to hear from families about the exciting things that the Nursery children are up to so please continue to send messages, photos or videos via the email link down below. I'm enjoying reading and responding and feel so proud of you all, well done and keep up the good work!

Stay safe & have fun,

love from Mrs Gray :)

p.s. if you're looking for more ideas, please look at the website Hungry Little Minds, it's got some lovely ideas on for children  from birth to 5 (but even the big kids would like to join in with some of them!)

The Nursery is open to all children from the term following their 3rd birthday. Everyone is entitled to 15 hours of free nursery time, which is 08.30 to 11.30 every morning. If you would like your child to stay longer, afternoon sessions are available for an additional cost. There are 30 hours funded places available, subject to eligibility. Please ask for more information if you are interested.
 
As an extra service children may stay on for lunch (at £2.25 per day) and be collected at the later time of 12.45pm. 
Children are asked to wear uniform- this is a red jumper or cardigan (red school jumpers or sweatshirts can be bought from the school office).

Your child is important to us and we know it’s important for you to know your child is happy and safe, so come and visit us anytime and we will all be happy to answer any of your questions.

The Nursery and Reception team are working with the children on learning phonics using the Letters and Sounds system.

To help your child, you can follow the link below to reinforce their learning. Parents of children in Nursery should focus on the Phase 1 activities.    http://www.letters-and-sounds.com

Please also have a look at the Jolly Phonics jingles (below, from YouTube) to help your child remember how to make the pure sound of each letter.