Welcome to Acorn Class
Teacher: Mrs Pierce (Friday) Nursery Nurse: Miss Riley Teaching Assistant: Miss Hadwen
Don't forget to add your photographs to Tapestry!
Our Learning
In Nursery your child will learn through a combination of structured and free play. Activities may include playing in the sand, listening to stories, painting, drawing, building with construction blocks and making things with play dough, doing jigsaws and puzzles as well as singing songs. Your child will learn early literacy and maths skills and develop their social and communication skills. Our learning takes place both indoors and outdoors.
Summer Term 2
This half term our topic is 'I wonder...'. The topic will be driven by the children's interests around fantasy/adventures/journeys. During the first few week our learning and experiences will be based around dinosaurs and then we will move onto a new topic such as 'under the sea - real and mythical', 'the seaside' or 'space'.
We have lots of exciting learning and experiences planned for the children based around these themes.
We will share these with you on this webpage and also on Tapestry.
Independence Skills
The children in Nursery are working hard to develop their independence skills; such as putting on and taking off their own coats and shoes. We hope parents and carers will continue to help by giving children lots of opportunities to practise at home and encourage children to tidy away their things when they have finished playing with them.
Mark Making
Children in Nursery practice mark making and writing their names daily in preparation for Reception. We begin to do this by encouraging mark making on a large and small scale, using scissors and manipulating materials and media such as stickers and threading beads. The outdoor area is also used to work on a larger scale and to develop core muscles that are essential for handwriting. We then look and talk about the shapes in our letters, feeling the movements that are made when writing, tracing shapes and beginning to form letters.
As children begin to write their names we explore and discuss the sounds in their own name.
