General Information

Staffing: 

Teacher: 

Nursery: Mrs O'Brien

Teaching Assistants: 

Nursery: Miss Mason and Mrs Dearden

Outdoor learning:

Over the Autumn and Spring Term it can get very cold, please ensure your child wears a warm coat, hat and gloves as we will be outdoors everyday.

Home Learning:

Please support your child by reading to them as often as possible. Practising writing their name and ensuring that children can form their letters.

Please do share photographs of your children carrying out home learning tasks or activities with the year group's Twitter page. 

Topic:

Autumn 1

Autumn leaves are falling

During the first half term of the year in Nursery we will be exploring and talking about the changes that are occurring as the season starts to change and we move into Autumn. Children will gain first hand experiences as they explore their senses and begin to notice more detailed features of the natural environment. We will be developing our language skills as we explore new vocabulary to describe what we see and feel when exploring the outdoors and enjoy investigating the outdoors during all weathers. We will learn how the four seasons differ and changes that occur and talk about animals that live in our gardens and how we can help to care for them as the weather starts to turn colder and there is less food for animals to eat.

Books to read at home 

Autumn 1

The Rainbow Snail by Karin Åkesson 

Blue like the raindrops. Green like the soft grass. Yellow like the warm sun. This is the story of how the rainbow snail came to be. It takes sun and rain to make a rainbow, and what better combination of colors could there be?

Puddling! by Emma Perry

Pull on your wellies and button up your coats for this playful, interactive story all about children delighting in the joy of splish-splash-sploshing in muddy puddles with their friends, and cherishing snuggles on the sofa afterwards.

Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert 

Fall has come, the wind is gusting, and Leaf Man is on the move. Is he drifting east, over the marsh and ducks and geese? Or is he heading west, above the orchards, prairie meadows, and spotted cows?

No one's quite sure, but this much is certain: A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.

Tidy by Emily Gravett 

Pete the badger likes everything to be neat and tidy at all times, but what starts as the collecting of one fallen leaf escalates quickly and ends with the complete destruction of the forest! Will Pete realise the error of his ways and set things right?

Spike's Best Nest by Tony Maddox 

Lovable Spike the Sparrow wakes up one morning in a grumpy mood, and decides that what he really needs is a new and better nest.