Nursery

Miss McGhee
Nursery Teacher

Mrs Najem 
Teaching Assistant

Welcome to Nursery

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We are excited to welcome our Nursery class of 2022 – 2023. We have lots of fun in our Nursery and learn so much in this very special first year at Holy Family Catholic Primary School. Here is some information that you may find useful.

Staffing

The staff in Nursery are Miss McGhee & Mrs Najem. Please talk to any of the Nursery Team if you need to share any information or have any concerns.

Our learning this half term

We will begin the topic of ‘Good News’ giving children the opportunity to find out about others and share their own good news. We will talk about how we celebrated Easter and how the signs of new life are continuing to grow around us. We will learn about the Holy Spirit by exploring wind using windmills and streamers outside. We will use wind and water to explore bubbles and use them to represent the Holy Spirit. We will thank God for the good news we receive and share. 

Our ‘Talk for Writing’ focus this half term will be ‘The Little Red Hen’ . We will be role playing the story in our home corner and with stick puppets. We will use our actions and phrases in talk for writing to retell the story with our peers. We will be using our ‘listening ears’ to identify different sounds and begin to hear initial sounds in words. we are going to be learning a sound a week towards the end of this term and will be preparing for this with lots of Fred talk activities. 

We will use songs to make sure we know the days of the week in order and use time words to talk about different days and times. We will be encouraged to problem solve in a range of ways through continuous provision. We will continue to practice accurately counting in a range of ways and will be comparing sizes, amounts, lengths and capacity. we will also be exploring the main shapes. 

In our outdoor play we will be using the equipment to balance and travel around, we will be making dens and other representations using the sticks and large blocks. We will be using our funky fingers to build the muscles in our hands and help us to write with ease. Our P.E focus will be on running, jumping and throwing with a range of resources. 

We will be role playing the story of The Little Red Hen and playing in our own bakery shop. In our music lessons we will be learning the song of Old Macdonald and using it to explore how we can change the sound different instruments make. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E72TZy0LNo

In phonics we will be beginning to identify initial sounds in spoken words and using Fred to hear sounds in words and repeat them.

In PE we will be using the bikes to explore balance. We will continue with activities that help our fine motor skills such as threading, manipulating and pinching materials.