Nursery Newsletter 29.09.14

Term: Autumn 1
Date: 29.09.14

 

The children have continued to settle well and seem happy. We will continue to spend the next few weeks teaching the children about the expectations within the Nursery setting. We usually base all of our activities around a specific theme which has been directed by the children. The children have enjoyed talking about the kinds of homes they live in and who they have in their families. Therefore we will continue to base the topic on ‘Ourselves’.

Our story for the week will be ‘Hello, Goodbye’ and we will be singing many songs including ‘The Grand old duke of York’ and ‘Wind the Bobbing Up’.

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Aware of the boundaries set, and of behavioural expectations in the setting.
• Plays cooperatively with other children and adults.
• Responds to a few appropriate boundaries, with encouragement and support.

Communication and Language

• Enjoys rhymes and demonstrates listening by trying to join in with actions or vocalisations.
• Beginning to ask simple questions.

Physical Development

• Makes connections between their movement and the marks they make.
• Beginning to balance blocks to build a small tower.

Mathematics

• Beginning to organise and categorise objects.
• Enjoys filling and emptying containers.
• Associates a sequence of actions with daily routines.

Understanding of the World

• Tasting and describing various fruits.
• Remembers where objects belong.
• Matches parts of objects that fit together.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Vegetable prints.
• Joins in with nursery rhymes.
• Expresses self through physical action and sound.

Messages

•  When your child comes in to begin their session please help them to find their name and place it under their key worker. Please ask a member of staff if you are unsure who this is.
• Thank you for all of the snack money, you have been very generous. We ask for £1 every half term.
• We regularly update our EYFS blog. Please like our Broadford Primary Facebook page every time you see an EYFS blog. Feel free to make a comment on the children’s experiences.
• If you wish to contact a member of the EYFS staff please email them at eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk
• On Tuesday 7th October the “Owl man” is visiting Nursery in the morning. Afternoon Nursery children are invited to attend the morning session only 8.30 am – 11.30 am. Afternoon Nursery will be closed on this day only.

Thank you for your support

The Nursery Team

 

Wind the bobbin up

Wind your bobbin up (x2)

Pull, pull, clap, clap, clap

Wind your bobbin up (x2)

Pull, pull, clap, clap, clap

Point to the ceiling, point to the floor

Point to the window, point to the door

Clap your hands together, one two three

Put your hands upon your knee

Wind it back again (x2)

Pull, pull, clap, clap, clap

Wind it back again (x2)

Pull, pull, clap, clap, clap

Point to the ceiling, point to the floor

Point to the window, point to the door

Clap your hands together, one two three

Put your hands upon your knees

Reception Newsletter 29.09.14

Term: Autumn 1

Date: 29.09.14

 

Our children have coped brilliantly with their first full week. They have thoroughly enjoyed learning about ‘Goldilocks and the 3 Bears’, especially getting to make porridge. We have decided to continue with traditional stories. This week we will be basing our learning around the book, ‘The 3 Billy Goats Gruff’.

 Your child will be taking part in the following activities and routines:

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Being encouraged to demonstrate friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
• Responding to simple instructions and following rules.
• Learning to put away activities once they have finished playing with them.

Communication and Language

•  The police station has proved very popular so we will be doing some more detective work encouraging the children to generate the questions and solve clues as to who broke the bridge? Whose footprints do they belong to? How do you know? How did the bridge break?
• Communicating freely about own our homes and community.

Physical Development

• Making trolls out of play dough developing fine manipulative skills.
• Hall session: The children will continue to go out in small groups to work with our Sports Coach, Mr Clark. Please bring in PE kits as soon as possible.

Literacy

•  We will be continuing our daily phonics sessions, learning set 1 letters and beginning to blend simple words.
• We will be sending home a daily practise sheet for you to complete with your child.
• The children have been issued with a reading book and reading record. Please encourage your child to talk about the pictures and make up their own stories. Every time you listen to your child read, please make a comment in their reading record- this may even be a bedtime story, it does not have to be their school reading book. Please ensure your child has their reading book in school on their reading day.
• Listening to the story, ‘The 3 Billy Goats Gruff’ and recalling events.
• Listening to alternate stories to stimulate thinking skills. Ask what would have happened if… the big Billy Goat Gruff had crossed the bridge first? The troll came back one day? The troll was friendly? The little goat found a boat? If a horse crossed the bridge? Etc… 

Mathematics

• Continuing Ten Town – our number formation scheme. Learning to form numbers. 
• Developing an understanding of positional language, such as; across, beside, next to, below, above, under, on top, over, in, on etc…
• Reinforcing size activities developing vocabulary. Is the goat tiny or minute, gigantic or enormous, mediocre or average etc…

Understanding of the World

• Creating small world scenes of ‘The 3 Billy Goats Gruff’.
• Using the interactive story maker to tell their own stories.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Home Corner – The 3 bears, using different sized cups, spoons, bowls etc…
• Role play – A Police Station, to solve the crime –Who broke the bridge?
• Making masks to support their role play

Messages

•  The children may bring in something related to our stories for Show and Tell on Friday.
• This week can you send your child in with a photo of them with their family or friends so we can discuss who is important to them.
• Please make sure your child has a spare change of clothes in school just in case they have any little accidents. The spare change of clothes does not have to be school uniform.
• We regularly update our EYFS blog. Please like our Broadford Primary Facebook page every time you see an EYFS blog. Feel free to make a comment on the children’s experiences.
• If you wish to contact a member of the EYFS staff please email them at eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Thank you for your constant support.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A challenging Sand Pit

Mrs Chisholm has been up to mischief again and enhanced our amazing sand pit. She has set various challenges for the children linked to our bear story theme. Challenges relating to quantity and size ordering.

Indie and Ruben are project superstars!

Well done to Indie and Ruben for their excellent projects which were produced at home. It is clear how hard you both worked on your superstar projects.

Our new reading den

Mrs Chisholm has created a lovely new reading den outside in one of our amazing new tepees. Thanks Mrs Chisholm, we will enjoy reading books outdoors in the fresh air. We like to see literacy in all of our areas.

More fun in the afternoon Nursery!

What great fun the children have been having on their first few days of Nursery. They have been very busy!

Fun in the Nursery

The morning nursery have had a great start to their school life, thank you to all of the parents for ensuring the start went so smoothly.

Charlie Tyrell's great effort...

Charlie Tyrell did some super work at home with his mum. Well done, it is clear you have been working on your fine motor control...super colouring!

Next week in Reception

Next week in Reception we will be discussing some of the things that make us unique, and talking about some of the similarities and differences in relation to our friends and families.

This week can you begin to send your child in with a photo of them with their family or friends so we can discuss who is important to them.

Reception Newsletter 22.09.14

Reception Newsletter

 

Term: Autumn 1                       

Date: 22.09.14

 

This week is the children’s first full week in Reception. Doors open from 8.30 in the morning and the school day ends at 3.05pm.

This term we are focussing on work around ourselves, our families and our friends. We will be basing our learning around the book, ‘Goldilocks and the 3 Bears’.

 

Your child will be taking part in the following activities and routines:

 Personal, Social and Emotional

• Being encouraged to demonstrate friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
• Responding to simple instructions, e.g. to get or put away an object.
• Beginning to accept the needs of others, take turns and share resources, sometimes with support from others.

Communication and Language

• Listening to the story, ‘Goldilocks and the 3 Bears’ and recalling events.
• Being detectives to ask questions and solve clues – Who broke into the 3 Bears house?

Physical Development

• Making bears out of play dough, developing fine manipulative skills.
• Hall session: The children will begin to go out in small groups to work with our Sports Coach, Mr Clark. Please bring in PE kits as soon as possible.

Literacy

• We will be continuing our daily phonics sessions, learning set 1 letters – t, i, n, p, g. We will be sending home a daily practise sheet for you to complete with your child.
• The children have been issued with a reading book and reading record. Please encourage your child to talk about the pictures and make up their own stories. Every time you listen to your child read, please make a comment in their reading record- this may even be a bedtime story, it does not have to be their school reading book. Please ensure your child has their reading book in school on their reading day.

Mathematics

• Continuing Ten Town – our number formation scheme. Learning to form numbers
• Reading the story of The 3 Bears – children to sort compare bears and teddy bears into groups using size.
• Estimating the number of bears in a group and then check by counting them.

Understanding of the World

• Using the paint programme on the computer to paint pictures of bears.
• Making porridge – discussing the changes that occur when we use heat.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Home Corner – The 3 bears, using different sized cups, spoons, bowls etc….
• Role play – A Police Station, to solve the crime – Who ate all the porridge and broke baby bear’s chair?
• Making masks to support their role play

Messages

• The children may bring in something related to our stories for Show and Tell on Friday.
• Please make sure your child has a spare change of clothes in school just in case they have any little accidents. The spare change of clothes does not have to be school uniform.
• We regularly update our EYFS blog. Please like our Broadford Primary Facebook page every time you see an EYFS blog. Feel free to make a comment on the children’s experiences.
• A reminder that the school will be closed on Friday 26th September for a staff INSET day.

Thank you for your support.

Nursery Newsletter 22.09.14

Nursery Newsletter

Term: Autumn 1

Date: 22.09.14

 

 

The children have had an amazing start to their time in the Nursery. We look forward to getting to know them and settling them in. We will spend the next few weeks teaching the children about the expectations within the Nursery setting.

 

 

We will be focusing on the following Early Learning Goals:

 

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Aware of the boundaries set, and of behavioural expectations in the setting.
• Plays cooperatively with other children and adults.
• Responds to a few appropriate boundaries, with encouragement and support.

Communication and Language

• Listening to the story ‘Where’s my Teddy’.
• Enjoys rhymes and demonstrates listening by trying to join in with actions.
• Beginning to ask simple questions.

Physical Development

• Makes connections between their movement and the marks they make.
• Beginning to balance blocks to build a small tower.
• Showing an awareness for bladder and bowel urges.

Literacy

• Interested in books and rhymes.
• Early sensory mark making.

Mathematics

• Knows that things exist even when they are out of sight.
• Beginning to organise and categorise objects.
• Enjoys filling and emptying containers.

Understanding of the World

• Remembers where objects belong.
• Matches parts of objects that fit together.
• Shows interest in toys and buttons with flaps and simple mechanisms and beginning to learn to operate them.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Imitates Joins in with nursery rhymes.
• Expresses self through physical action and sound.
• Pretends that one object represents another.

Messages

• Thank you to all of the parents who have named their children’s clothes. If you have not had time to do this yourself please see a member of the Nursery team who will write their name in with a permanent pen.
• Also a big thank you to all of the parents who have sent in a pair of named wellies and hung some spare clothes on their child’s peg.
• We ask for a voluntarily contribution of £1 every half term. We put this toward buying ingredients for snacks and cooking.
• A reminder that the school will be closed on Friday 26th September for a staff INSET day.

Thank you for all your support.

 

The Nursery Team

Making electrical circuits in Reception

Look at the amazing circuits the children in Reception made. They had been enjoying making pretend circuits previously and were excited to have the opportunity to make real electrical circuits. There were lots of opportunities for the children to work scientifically and develop their communication skills as they worked together to join circuits. Squeezing the clips on the wires was a great fine motor excercise too! After a little modelling the children then worked independently and their end products were very impressive.

Reception Weekly Newsletter 15.09.14

Term: Autumn 1
Date: 15.09.14

 

 I hope the children thoroughly enjoyed their first week in Reception. 

 

This term we are focusing on work about ourselves, our families and our friends. We will be basing our learning around familiar stories. Following on from last week, the book we are sharing is called ‘Peace at Last’.

 

Your child will be taking part in the following activities and routines:

 

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Being encouraged to demonstrate friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
• Responding to simple instructions, e.g. to get or put away an object.
• Beginning to accept the needs of others, take turns and share resources, sometimes with support from others.

 Communication and Language

• Listening to the story ‘Peace at Last’ and recalling events.

 Physical Development

• Making bears out of play dough, developing fine manipulative skills.
• Hall session: The children will begin to go out in small groups to work with our Sports Coach, Mr Clark. Please bring in PE kits as soon as possible.

Literacy

• The children have been issued with a reading book and reading record. Please encourage your child to talk about the pictures and make up their own stories. Every time you listen to your child read, please make a comment in their reading record- this may even be a bedtime story. It does not have to always be their school reading book.
• We will be starting our daily phonics sessions, learning set 1 letters – m, a, s, d. We will be sending home a daily practise sheet for you to complete with your child.

Mathematics

• Number songs.
• Introducing Ten Town – our number formation scheme.

Understanding of the World

•   Introducing the 2simple paint programme on the computers.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Exploring the art area and resources available.

Messages

• Please follow Broadford on Facebook (remember to press the ‘like’ button) and twitter. We update the Early Years blog regularly with photos and information.
• Show and tell this week should be linked to the theme of: bears.
• Please make sure your child has a spare change of clothes in school just in case they have any little accidents. The spare change of clothes does not have to be school uniform.

Thank you for your support.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John's Shape Castle

John really impressed Reception with his amazing shape knowledge. He built a tower made of 3D shapes and named them all as he used them. He even took a whiteboard and spelt all the shape names correctly. He learnt about the properties of the shapes as he built his tower, he spent a long time trying to balance the sphere on a cube before it could roll away! Well done john.