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