Welcome to Nursery

Caterpillars

Dear Parents and Carers

Welcome to Warfield Nursery and our website.

On our website you will find key information about our learning for this term and other useful information. We ask you to say goodbye your child at the door and staff will support your child putting things on their peg. They may leave their bag with “spare clothes” on their own peg for the week. Please write your child’s name on the labels on all children’s clothing especially coats and jumpers. Please provide a full named change of clothes in your child's bag including socks and shoes.

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 and fruit such as grapes are cut in half.

As we are coming to the last half of 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. We will only apply Nivea Factor 50 to our full time children in line with school policy. Please let us know through the Office system or via an email or written permission if you do not want us to apply sun cream or if your child has allergies to Nivea. You may provide an alternative sun cream but we would need written permission on email or letter to confirm this for our records.

Our Learning this half term is Under the Sea. We will start this topic talking about the seaside and if the children have been to the beach before. This may be either in this country or abroad. What are their own experiences of the seaside? What did they see, hear, smell when they were there?  For example, was it a sandy or stony beach. How did the sand / stones feel when they walked on them? We shall be reading stories such as Lucy & Tom at the Seaside, Sharing a Shell, The Rainbow Fish, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch and a selection of Pirates & Mermaid stories. We will also look and discover Information books about the different animals that live under the sea.

One of our focus books will be the Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch and we shall spend time looking at the different foods Mr Grinling eats for his picnic and thinking about making a pulley for his picnic basket to travel down. We shall be using our Maths knowledge to see if the children can work out how many plates, knives & forks we need for our picnic and writing the different numbers. We shall also look at what happens to a number if we add one more person or take one away. We shall be learning about creating a repeating pattern with different shells and also seeing if we can continue a repeating pattern or spot an error in a repeating pattern.

Our final two weeks of term we will be thinking about Pirates and Mermaids. We shall learn about Treasure Maps and hunting for treasure, making our own pirate boats, pirate hats and cutlass’. This is always a lovely topic to end the term with and the children always love it.

Towards the end of this Summer Term we will also be talking about transition if your child is leaving Nursery and starting Reception class at school. We will role play “big “schools and talk to the children about their new experiences and their new learning and the new friends that they will make. We do encourage you to talk about the transition to school at home so the children can be fully prepared for the next stage of their Learning Journey.

If you have any queries / questions, please do not hesitate to ask one of the Nursery team and we will try our best to answer them for you.

Miss Elaine Dick

Nursery Teacher

Warfield CE School