Finger Gym

The children have been having a great time exercising their finger Muscles whilst weaving the pipe cleaners through the collinder.

Soap slime Fun

The children loved this malleable soap slime.  There was a great deal of finger exercising taking place.

Safari jungle in the Nursery

We now have started a new Amazing Animal Topic.  Some of the children asked for the role play to be turned into a Jungle. Mrs Chisholm spent half term weaving her magic....

I Have Made My Teacher Happy

These children have been making their teachers happy. They have been kind to their friends, helping to tidy up the classroom and working very hard! 

Good work guys and keep it up! 

Harry Brown

Bonnie Martin

Florence Ayers

Michael Ramalingam

Alice Adedipe

Tommy Cressey

Billy Little 

Hollie Gray 

Weekly Nursery Newsletter 23.02.15

Term: Spring 2
Date: 23.02.15

 

Nursery Newsletter

We hope you all had a wonderful half term. We will be commencing our new topic of ‘Amazing Animals.’ We have some wonderful activities lined up. The children have requested that we make the role play into a Jungle and some of the boys have also asked for a small dinosaur world. The children can help develop the Jungle role play as the week progresses. 

 

Our book of the week is ‘One day in the Jungle’ and we will be singing the songs ‘Down in the Jungle where nobody goes’ and ‘Elephants have wrinkles’.

We will continue with the phonics, we are now on the grapheme’ n’’.

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Responds to the feelings and wishes of others.
• Remembers where objects belong.
• Expresses own preferences and interests.

Communication and Language

• Beginning to understand 'why' and 'how' questions
• Beginning to understand 'why' and 'how' questions.
• Understands 'who', 'what', 'where' in simple questions (e.g. Who’s that/can? What's that? Where is.?).

Literacy

• Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.       
• Shows interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes.

Physical Development

•  Develops likes and dislikes for food.
•  Willing to try new food. 
•  Shows control in holding and using jugs, hammers, books and mark making tools.

Mathematics

• Uses positional language.
• Shows understanding of prepositions such as 'under', 'on top', 'behind' by carrying out an action or selecting correct picture.
• Listens to others one to one or in small groups, when conversation interests them. Recites numbers in order to 10.

Understanding of the World

• Seeks to acquire basic skills in turning on and operating some ICT equipment.
• Operates mechanical toys, e.g. turns the knob on a wind-up toy or pulls back on a friction car.
• Has a sense of own immediate family and relations.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Beginning to make-believe by pretending
• Notices what adults do, imitating what is observed and then doing it spontaneously when the adult is not there.
• Engages in imaginative role-play based on own first-hand experiences.

Learning Challenge

Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home.

The learning challenge will include either a nursery rhyme, illustration or a piece of music. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class.

 

Poem/Song to learn: Grey Squirrel
Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel! (bounce up and down on the words) Swish your bushy tail! (shake it)

Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel! Swish your bushy tail! Put an nut between your toes (touch your toes) Wrinkle up your little nose! (poke your nose)

Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel! Swish your bushy tail!

Piece of music: Camille Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals

Person: Animal/Pet of choice

	Nursery Rhyme	Piece of music	Person
Basic	Learn it off by heart	Listen to the piece of music	Draw a portrait of the pet/animal of choice
Advanced	Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	Create some movements to the music	Find and read a story with the chosen animal in
Deep	Find out about squirrels	Draw an illustration to represent their feelings	Find out about the animal

Messages

• Thank you for all your support and kind words with the stay and play sessions. It was requested by a number of you that we organise some more; we will definitely do that once the weather begins to warm up.
• Please continue to borrow books and complete reviews. When returning the books please ensure that you place the books in the box outside and don t let the children bring them into class.

Down in the jungle

Where nobody goes

There's a great big gorilla

Washing his clothes

With a rub-a-dub here

A rub-a-dub there

That's the way he washes his clothes

Diddle-I-Dee, a boogie boogie woogie

Diddle-I-Dee, a boogie boogie woogie

Diddle-I-Dee, a boogie boogie woogie

That's the way he washes his clothes

Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles, wrinkles.

Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles everywhere.

On their toes, (echo) No one knows, (echo) why yi yi yi yiih.

The Nursery Team

 

Weekly Reception Newsletter 23.02.15

Term: Spring 2
Date: 23.02.15

 

Welcome back! This half term is going to be as busy as ever. Our topic is, ‘Growing and changing.’ This week’s learning will be based around the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk.’

Your child will be taking part in the following activities within the seven areas of development (activities are subject to change, depending on the children’s interests; however, the skills remain the same):

 

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Initiates conversations, attends to and takes account of what others say
• Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.
• Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other children, e.g. finding a compromise.
• During circle time we will be discussing what the children already knew about Jack and the Beanstalk and who was wrong and who was right? Should Jack of taken the golden hen? Why shouldn’t we steal? What could Jack of done instead?

Communication and Language

• Uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations.

Physical Development

• The children will be continuing to go out in small groups with Mr Portway
• Negotiates space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with other children, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles.
• Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-hand grasp.
• Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good control.
• Can copy some letters, e.g. letters from their name.
• Jumps off an object and lands appropriately.
• Experiments with different ways of moving.
• Observes the effects of activity on their bodies 
• Travels with confidence and skill, around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.   

Literacy

• We will be continuing with our daily Read, Write Inc. groups.
• Hears and says the initial sounds in words.
• Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together and knows which letters represent some of them.
• Writes own name and other things such as labels, captions.
•  Please ensure your child’s reading book is in school on their reading day.
•  Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
•  Suggests how the story might end.

Mathematics

• Begin to use mathematical names for ‘solid’ 3D shapes & ‘flat’ 2D shapes, & mathematical terms to describe shapes.
• Select a particular named shape.
• Find the total number of items in 2 groups by counting them all.
• Say the number that is one more than a given number.
• Ordering numbers from 1-10/1-20.

 Understanding of the World

• Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time.
•  Shows care and concern for living things and the environment
•  Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.
• Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things. They talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another. They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Realises tools can be used for a purpose.
• Understands that different media can be combined to create new effects.
•  Manipulates materials to achieve a planned effect.
• Selects tools and techniques needed to shape, assemble and join materials they are using

Learning Challenge

Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home.

The learning challenge will include either a nursery rhyme, illustration or a piece of music. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class.

Poem/Song to learn: Jack and Jill went up the hill

Jack and Jill went up the hill,

To fetch a pail of water.

Jack fell down and broke his crown,

And Jill came tumbling after.

 

Up Jack got and home did trot,

As fast as he could caper,

And went to bed to mend his head

With vinegar and brown paper.

 

Piece of music: March Johann-Strauss Radetzky

Person: Mr Bloom

	Nursery Rhyme	Piece of music	Person
Basic	Learn it off by heart Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	Listen to the piece of music	Draw a portrait of the person. Watch the person in action
Advanced	Find out about Jack and Jill	Draw an illustration to represent their feelings	Find out facts about the person
Deep	Re write your own version of the nursery rhyme	Able to name the piece of m usic when they hear it	Make/grow something that the person has  made/grown

 

Messages

•  The children may bring in something related to our topic 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.
• 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.

 

 

 

Learning Challenge Reception Spring 2

Learning Challenge Spring 2 Reception

Poem/Song to learn: Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.

Up Jack got and home did trot,
As fast as he could caper,
And went to bed to mend his head
With vinegar and brown paper.

Composer/Piece of music: Johann-Strauss Radetzky March

Person: Mr Bloom

 

	Nursery Rhyme	Piece of music	Person
Basic	Learn it off by heart Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	Listen to the piece of music	Draw a portrait of the person. Watch the person in action
Advanced	Find out about Jack and Jill	Draw an illustration to represent their feelings	Find out facts about the person
Deep	Re write your own version of the nursery rhyme	Able to name the piece of music when they hear it	Make/grow something that the person has  made/grown

 

Learning Challenge Nursery Spring 2

Learning Challenge Spring 2 Nursery

Poem/Song to learn: Grey Squirrel

Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel!
(bounce up and down on the words)
Swish your bushy tail!
(shake it)

Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel!
Swish your bushy tail!

Put an nut between your toes
(touch your toes)
Wrinkle up your little nose!
(poke your nose)

Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel!
Swish your bushy tail!

 

Composer/Piece of music: Camille Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals

Person: Animal/Pet of choice

	Nursery Rhyme	Piece of music	Person
Basic	Learn it off by heart	Listen to the piece of music	Draw a portrait of the pet/animal of choice
Advanced	Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	Create some movements to the music	Find and read a story with the chosen animal in
Deep	Find out about squirrels	Draw an illustration to represent their feelings	Find out about the animal

 

Learing Challenge Superhero's

Well done to Indie, Florene, Keira and Lewis who all completed this terms learning challenge. They each spoke confidently to the class about their superhero picture and what special powers their hero had.

Farm to Fork

This week we had some visitors from Tesco to talk about '5 a day thats the way'. The children sorted the various fruits and vegtables and got a chance to use their senses to desribe the fruits and vegetables. They learnt about where our fruit and vegetables come from.

Our healthy snack

This week the children in reception have been making their own fruit salad. They have been cutting the fruits up and pouring in the juce. They have been looking at various fruits and are beginning to describe the texture of them.

Weekly Reception Newsletter 9.2.15

Term: Spring 1                       
Date: 9.02.15

 

 This week we will be looking at the superhero ‘Sportacus’ from Lazy town. We will be discussing how exercise, eating, sleeping and hygiene can contribute to good health. We have a visitor from ‘Farm to Fork Tesco’ coming in to talk to the children about where our foods come 

  

Your child will be taking part in the following activities. (Activities are subject to change, depending on the children’s interests):

 

 Personal, Social and Emotional

• Aware of own feelings, and knows that some actions and words can hurt others’ feelings
• Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.
• Can usually adapt behaviour to different events, social situations and changes in routine.
• Initiates conversations, attends to and takes account of what others say.
• Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other children, e.g. finding a compromise.
• Aware of the boundaries set, and of behavioural expectations in the setting. 
• Beginning to be able to negotiate and solve problems without aggression, e.g. when someone has taken their toy.

 Communication and Language

•  Responds to instructions involving a two-part sequence.
•  Understands humour, e.g. nonsense rhymes, jokes.
•  Able to follow a story without pictures or props
•  Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion.
•  Beginning to understand ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions.

 Physical Development

•  Eats a healthy range of foodstuffs and understands need for variety in food
• Shows some understanding that good practices with regard to exercise, eating, sleeping and hygiene can contribute to good health.
•  Observes the effects of activity on their bodies
•  Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-hand grasp.
•  Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good control.
•  Can copy some letters, e.g. letters from their name.
•  Jumps off an object and lands appropriately.

Literacy

• We will be continuing with our daily Read, Write Inc. groups.
• Hears and says the initial sounds in words.
• Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together and knows which letters represent some of them.
• Writes own name and other things such as labels, captions.
• Please ensure your child’s reading book is in school on their reading day.
• We will be sending home words on Friday for you to practice with your child. Please can you practice Fred talking these and blending them back together e.g. c-a-t = cat

 Mathematics

•  Recognise some numerals of personal significance.
•  Counts up to three or four objects by saying one number name for each item
•  Counts actions or objects which cannot be moved.
•  Counts objects to 10, and beginning to count beyond 10.
•  Counts out up to six objects from a larger group   
• In practical activities and discussion, beginning to use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting.

Understanding of the World

• Completes a simple computer programme.

 Expressive Arts and Design

• Manipulates materials to achieve a planned effect.
• Constructs with a purpose in mind, using a variety of resources.
• Uses simple tools and techniques competently and appropriately
• Selects appropriate resources and adapts work where necessary.
• Creates simple representations of events, people and objects.   
• Chooses particular colours to use for a purpose.
• Shows understanding of the need for safety when tackling new challenges, and considers and manages some risks
• Practices some appropriate safety measures without direct supervision. (When cutting fruit for their fresh fruit salad/using smoothie machine etc)

Learning Challenge

Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home.

 

The learning challenge will include either a nursery rhyme, illustration or a piece of music. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class.

 

Poem/Song to learn: Grand Old Duke of York

The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men

He marched them up to the top of the hill

And he marched them down again.

When they were up, they were up

And when they were down, they were down

And when they were only halfway up

They were neither up nor down.

 

Painting: Illustrations by Eric Carle

 

Person: A superhero

Messages

• The children may bring in something related to our topic for Show and Tell on Friday.
• Remember that the last day of term is Thursday 12th February as the school is closed on Friday 13th February for a staff INSET day.
• 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 all of your support. We hope you have a very enjoyable half term.

Weekly Nursery Newsletter 9.2.15

Term: Spring 1 Date: 09.02.15

 

Our story of the week is ‘Cinderella’. We have been encouraging the children to tell their own stories the last few weeks and we have then been acting them out. Our songs of the week will be ‘Two little Dicky birds’’ and ‘Mary Mary Quite Contrary’’.

 

We will continue with the phonics, we are now on the grapheme ‘i’. We will also be having a focus on physical activities this week.

 

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Responds to the feelings and wishes of others.
• Remembers where objects belong.
• Expresses own preferences and interests.

 Communication and Language

•  Repeats words or phrases from familiar stories
•  Beginning to understand 'why' and 'how' questions.
•  Understands 'who', 'what', 'where' in simple questions(e.g. Who's that/can? What's that? Where is.?).

Literacy

• May be beginning to show preference for dominant hand
• Imitates drawing simple shapes such as circles and lines.
• Has some favourite stories, rhymes, songs, poems or jingles

Physical Development

• Beginning to use three fingers (tripod grip) to hold writing tools
• Turns pages in a book, sometimes several at once.
• Runs safely on whole foot

 Mathematics

• Notices simple shapes and patterns in pictures.
• Begins to use the language of size. Recites numbers in order to 10.
• Sometimes matches numeral and quantity correctly

Understanding of the World

• Seeks to acquire basic skills in turning on and operating some ICT equipment.
• Shows skill in making toys work by pressing parts or lifting flaps to achieve effects such as sound, movements or new images
• Has a sense of own immediate family and relations.

 Expressive Arts and Design

•  Creates sounds by banging, shaking, tapping or blowing.
•  Shows an interest in the way musical instruments sound.
•  Joins in singing favourite songs.

 Nursery Learning Challenge Spring 1Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home.

The learning challenge will include either a nursery rhyme, illustration or a piece of music. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class.

Poem/Song to learn: 5 Little Speckled Frogs
Five little speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious grubs - yum, yum
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Now there are four green speckled frogs - glub, glub.
(Repeat down to 0)

Painting: Illustrations by Rod Campbell

Person: Traditional tale character

	Nursery Rhyme	Painter	Person
Basic	Learn it off by heart	To find out 2 facts about the illustrator	Read a story with the traditional tale character in
Advanced	Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	To draw a picture in a similar style	Draw a portrait of the traditional tale character
Deep	Find out about frogs	Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator	Find out facts about the traditional tale character

Messages

• We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the parental stay and play session on 12.2.15 both in the morning and afternoon. This will give you an opportunity to play with your child in the Nursery session, we will also demonstrate reading a story and how this can be made into a fun learning activity. Also Miss Morris (The Early Years Leader and ICT coordinator) has kindly agreed to pop in and demonstrate how to navigate around the school facebook page etc. 

AM 10.30 - 11.30

PM 2.30 - 3.15

• Also please remember that Friday 13th February is an INSET day, therefore the children have the day off school

Mary Mary Quite Contrary

May Mary quite contrary

How does your garden grow

With silver bells and cockle shells

And pretty maids all in a row

Two Little Dicky Birds

Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall

One named Peter, one named Paul

Fly away Peter, fly away Paul

Come back Peter, come back Paul

 

The Nursery Team