Welcome to Nursery

Caterpillars

Dear Parents and Carers

Welcome back Caterpillars! We hope you have had an enjoyable Easter!

Nursery Curriculum

The Nursery outdoor learning space is a large, natural area incorporating a gardening area, a large grassy meadow as well as dedicated areas for music, construction, sand play and water investigation. Children can access the outside area throughout the day and much of our learning takes place outside.

All children should have a named drinks bottle and named lunch box. We politely ask that no nuts or eggs are included in their lunch boxes due to allergies. May we remind you we are a nut free Nursery so please do not pack peanut butter sandwiches, cereal bars or other products which may include nuts. Please remember to cut grapes, cherries or strawberries into small pieces and include a spoon or fork if needed for pasta or yoghurts. We encourage children to drink water at school to support children’s dental health. We find that this helps children develop healthy habits of drinking water.

All children have a Learning Journey folder which is a record of their learning. If you would like to complete a Proud Cloud for your child’s Learning Journey, please do write one and hand them to one of the adults at the Nursery door. We love to hear what your child gets up to at home and of course their wonderful achievements.

As we go into the Summer Term hopefully the weather will be getting brighter and warmer please can you send your child in with a named sunhat. We also ask if you can apply sun cream to your child before their session starts. Please continue to send your child with a waterproof coat and a pair of wellington boots as outside learning is an important part of our curriculum and of course we can never rely on the British weather! Thank you.

Our Learning this half term is Growing. And Planting. We shall be reading the stories The Tiny Seed, Eddie’s Garden and then Jack & the Beanstalk and growing our own beanstalks and other plants and vegetables. We shall learn how to look after beanstalks and other plants within the Nursery garden and meadow.

Our next focus book will be The Frog Prince and the lifecycle of frogs. We are hoping to have some frogspawn and watch them change into tadpoles and then hopefully into frogs. We then move onto The Very Hungry Caterpillar and we shall spend time looking at the lifecycle of a caterpillar and how they turn into a butterfly. The children will be painting their own symmetrical butterfly for our butterfly garden within Nursery.

We have attached documents to give you more details about what your child will be learning with us at Nursery and how you can support your child at home.

As we are a school Nursery we start the children learning phonics, Phase 1 and then progressing to Phase 2. We also introduce Early Number, shape and counting to the children. Please do ask if you have any questions about these two important areas and how you can support at home. Please see the attached Topic Plan and Home learning documents for more ideas of how you can support your child's learning.

We are looking forward to the last term of Nursery for many of your children If you have any queries or questions, please do not hesitate to ask one of the Nursery team.

Miss Elaine Dick

Nursery Teacher

Warfield CE School