Nursery

Spring Term

Welcome to Little Stour Nursery class, we are thrilled to take the children on to the next stage of their learning journey. Our approach is built on strong principles of inclusion, valuing each child's unique qualities and ensuring they thrive in every aspect of their development while giving them a voice to express themselves. We place a significant emphasis on fostering early reading, communication skills, building meaningful relationships among peers and with staff. We empower children to nurture their curiosity, independence, and problem-solving abilities within our enriching and supportive learning environment. We have an open-door policy, so please reach out with any questions. We look forward to a fantastic term of growth, discovery and learning.

As a key element of our nursery curriculum, children are required to write their names independently. The first step to do this successfully would be to recognise their names, self-registration can really help with this as it encourages them to find their name by themselves. Finding their names around the learning environment using post-it notes is another way the children have enjoyed recognising their names.The next step involves us encouraging the children to write over letters in their names and finally writing their names independently. To help practise these skills we have incorporated a range of activities such as ordering letters in their names, painting their names and using chalk on a rainy day to write on large surfaces outside.

We have started the Read Write Inc. phonics programme, which is great for helping children build their reading and writing skills. It involves learning fun rhymes about how to write letters and then using their knowledge of  phonetic sounds to say and blend together to make words.

This term our wider curriculum focus will be about all things that change and grow. This includes plants and living things such as caterpillars, butterflies, fruits and vegetables. During our wider curriculum lessons we link stories to key elements of our curriculum, for example we have been using the story of the very hungry Caterpillar and its life-cycle to learn new vocabulary and mathematical concepts such as first, next, after that and finally. In mathematics we will be learning about more and fewer. Using activities related to green grocers and using lunch bags will help the children to compare the amounts and apply their new learned knowledge in context.
We have been visiting chicks and chicken eggs in our neighbouring class to discover more about life cycles and how changes can occur daily. We look forward to soon welcoming caterpillars to our classroom. This will be a great first hand experience of change and how things grow in different ways.