Welcome to Nursery!
Silver Class
Class Teacher: Rhea Harris
Class Teaching Assistant: Lydia Kazibwe
Class Teaching Assistant: Linda Pavitt
Nursery Curriculum Overview for 2021-2022
Half term | Topic | Curriculum Area |
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Autumn 1st Half | Getting to Know Each Other | Personal, Social and Emotional Development Understanding the World |
Autumn 2nd Half | Autumn is all Around | Personal, Social and Emotional Development Physical Development |
Spring 1st Half | Passport Around the World | Personal, Social and Emotional Development Physical Development |
Spring 2nd Half | Jurassic Journey | Communication and Language Mathematics |
Summer 1st half | Under the Sea | Communication and Language Understanding the World Literacy Expressive Arts and Design |
Summer 2nd Half | What's Up There? (Space) | Communication and Language Understanding the World Literacy Mathematics |
The themes have been chosen to ensure that there is opportunity to cover all areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum.
Although specific areas of the curriculum have been highlighted, we plan for all areas to enable the children to experience a variety of play-based activities during their time in Nursery.
If you have any queries, please contact the Class Teacher or the Learning and Teaching Leader for this phase: Clare Garside
Please read our half termly curriculum letters for more information.
Autumn Term
Gardening
The children have been watering our plants and picking our strawberries. Well done nursery for looking after our environment !
Mud Kitchen Adventures
The children in nursery have been busy exploring the mud kitchen, making recipes and looking for insects.
Mark Making Fun
The children have really enjoyed mark making in the garden.
Spring Term
Number Fun
Nursery have been very busy learning numbers to 10 and counting up to ten objects. Great job nursery!!
Fine Motor Skills
Nursery have been developing their fine motor skills in a number of ways, which include painting, using lego and play dough. Fine motor skills involve the use of the smaller muscle of the hands, commonly in activities like using pencils, scissors, construction with lego or duplo, doing up buttons and opening lunch boxes.
Sensory Play and Understanding of the World
Nursery has been busy learning about fossils, plants and insects, through sensory play. The children are now developing a keen interest in caring for plants and insects in the nursery garden.
Summer Term
Number Fun
In nursery the children have been doing a great job at learning how to count, spot and add numbers to 10 and beyond.