Our topic this term is Traditional Tales and Nursery

Rhymes
Happy New Year to all Nursery children and their families! Welcome back to Nursery for a new and very
busy term. Starting this term we have changed the way that parents can access their 15 hour free
entitlement for 3 and 4 year olds to be as flexible as possible. Children have been allocated a range of
places with some attending Nursery a mixture of all day and half days, only half day sessions either a
morning or a afternoon, some parents are ‘topping up’ their free entitlement with paid provision.

This term we also welcome new staff into the Nursery Miss Williams will be joining us from the
12th January as an Early Years Educator, Tahira will be working 2 full days and 3 lunch times a
week, Ana will be covering 2 lunch times a week (on a supply basis).
The structure of staff in the Nursery looks like this:
Teacher – Mrs Atkinson
Early Years Educator Level 2 – Miss Williams and Mrs McGranaghan
Early Years Educator Level 1 – Mrs Rose
Teaching Assistant/Midday Meals Supervisor – Tahira
Midday Meals Supervisor (supply) – Ana

Early years Foundation Stage curriculum focus for the term

Personal Social Emotional Development: welcoming and settling the new children joining the Nursery, following
routines and rules in the Nursery, managing own personal hygiene
Communication Language and Literacy: recalling and retelling familiar stories and rhymes, suggesting alternative
endings to stories, beginning to form recognisable letters (emergent writing)
Problem Solving Reasoning and Numeracy: ordering objects by size, using positional language to describe the
location of items, counting out from a larger group, recognising numerals 0-20
Knowledge and Understanding of the World: designing and constructing houses and dens, planting seeds and
thinking about how we can look after them,
Physical Development: ring games, negotiating pathways, obstacle courses and developing fine motor skills with
threading activities, manipulating objects by squeezing and squashing, rolling and patting
Creative Development: exploring and describing different textures, painting with sticks and twigs, play dough and
corn flour, small world and role play related to the topic

Please ensure that your child brings a warm winter coat

with them to Nursery everyday, an important part of Keys books that we will be reading:
your child’s learning and development includes access to The Gingerbread Man
the outside area and we encourage the children to play The three little pigs
outside everyday. Goldilocks and the 3 bears
Uniform can be bought from the school office on Jack and the beanstalk
Tuesday’s, sweatshirts with the school logo are priced The enormous Turnip
between £8-£9, polo-shirts with the school logo are The Little Red Hen
priced between £7-£8. Little Red Riding Hood
50p’s – we ask for a contribution of 50p per child per
week, this allows us to buy ingredients for cooking. If you would like to pay termly it is £3.00
for this term. Your child can put the money in the penguin money box next to the computer.
If you have any pieces of ribbon, wrapping paper and shiny paper or sweet wrappers left over
from Christmas then please send them into Nursery with your child.

Kara Atkinson
Nursery Teacher and Foundation Stage Coordinator