Nursery E for Excellence: 29.04.22

 Nursery E for Excellence

 

We have had a fantastic week of learning and there has been so much to celebrate and be proud of in Nursery! 

These children worked extremely hard and have been rewarded for all of their determination and efforts.

E for Excellence

Alexandra: for your efforts each week towards learning our nursery rhyme of the week! You sing all the words to the tune and you use the actions too!

Anika: for your kindness towards others. You have supported children that are new to the setting by sharing toys with them and helping children follow routines.

Daisy: for your contribution towards phonics input this week. You listened well to the sounds and repeated them. Great effort!

Nursery: w/b 25th April 2022 - Our learning this week

Learning Theme: Minibeasts

This blog shows some highlights from this week including:

• Book of the week

• Nursery Rhyme of the week

• Learning Through Play

• 2 year old Focus

• Ten Town Input

• Phonic Input

• Preparing for Reception

• Key Information

Book of the week

The children have enjoyed a selection of stories linked to Minibeasts including this non-fiction book:

Honey Bee by The Secret Book Company

Nursery rhyme of the week

This week the children continued to learn Incy wincy spider.

Here are the words:

Incy wincy spider climbed up the waterspout,

Down came the rain and washed the spider out,

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain,

So Incy wincy spider climbed up the spout again.

Incy wincy spider climbed up the waterspout,

Down came the rain and washed the spider out,

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain,

So Incy wincy spider climbed up the spout again.

Learning Through Play

This week’s learning has involved:

• Practicing ‘King 1’

• Learning about where honey bees live and how they care for their young.

• Following instructions to make perfume water from petals

Ten Town Input

As part of their number understanding learning, the children were introduced to ‘King One’ this week. They learnt:

• How to form the digit

• How to show the number on their fingers

• More or less than the number

• What the number represents in objects

You may also like to watch Number Blocks Episode 1 to reinforce the number 1.

Phonic Input

The focus for this week was around animal sounds, the children:

• Identified different animals forming a sentence

• Made a sound for an animal

• Listened to the teacher make the animal sound.

• Repeat the teachers sound.

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The children also enjoyed Phonics Play: Guess the Animal

2 year old focus

Nursery Rhyme: Insects all around

Story: The very Hungry Caterpillar

The children used number skills to count up to five and enjoyed naming most of the food that the caterpillar ate!

Expressive Arts and Design: As the weather is warmer, the children enjoyed being in the garden playing musical instruments and dancing, moving and singing to nursery rhymes.

Preparing for Reception

Each week we will include a tip to help prepare your child for reception; although it seems a long way off the summer term will shortly pass and September will be here before we know it!

Tip of the week:

• Get a child height coat peg at home to promote independence and encourage your child to have practice putting their coat on and off by themselves. Allow them time and a lot of praise for doing their zip up by themselves.

Focus child Meetings

Each week children will be chosen to be observed by their keyworker. Emails will be sent home to inform parents of the upcoming parent meeting taking place the following week, either in person or via telephone. Parents will have an opportunity to complete a form asking questions and sharing concerns they may have for the key worker to answer during the parent meeting. This form will be sent via email. Please check your emails weekly for school communications and evidence me parents share from your children's teachers. Parents are welcome to upload pictures and videos of their children at home. 

Key Information

• Please LABEL  all your children's belongings, including both shoes and wellington boots. 

• When the weather is forecast to be hot and sunny please provide a named hat for your child and dress them in summer appropriate clothing.

• Please ensure your child has high factor water suncream on before attending school.

Reminder: Strictly no nuts or foods with nuts in packed lunches.

Important dates: INSET Days & holiday dates- Nursery closed to children: Bank holiday- 02nd May 2022- School closed Polling day- 05th May 2022- School closed Eid dress up day (bright colours)-6th May PCSO nursery visit (police cars)* - 11th May 2022 Doctor Lord visits nursery*-19th May 2022 Half- term holidays - 30th to 3rd June 2022 INSET day- 6th June 2022- School closed Last day of term - 21st July 2022 Summer Holidays- 22nd July- 31st August 2022 School Reopens- 1st September 2022

* these visits will be as part of the People Who Help Us topic.

If you have any questions please contact nursery@broadford.havering.sch.uk or for more urgent messages speak to a member of staff or contact the school office: 01708 342880 or office@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Kind regards,

The Nursery Team

Nursery Curriculum Letter- Summer 2022

    

Dear parents and carers,

The aim of this newsletter is to give you an overview of the learning that will take place over the spring term in nursery.

The nursery blog on the school website and Facebook page are a great way to keep up to date with what is happening in the nursery, along with any upcoming events. It is very important for all parents to check the blog every Friday evening to know what is happening for your child. Please click under EYFS on the school website to view the Nursery blog.

This term the nursery themes will include: Minibeasts; People who Help Us; Pirates; and Underwater.

Below is an overview of the learning focuses for this term which supplement the Planning in The Moment approach to learning that the nursery follows.

Communication and Language 

We will be encouraging the children to speak in full sentences to express themselves. Each term there will be focus texts which will allow the children to become familiar with the story and retell the story using their own words. This will also support them to increase their vocabulary and learn the meaning of new words.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development 

This term the new starters will be settling into their new environment, ensuring they are aware of expectations and learning the routines within the setting. They will also be working on sharing resources and taking turns. 

Those children who are more familiar with the setting will continue to develop positive relationships with their peers and to develop special friendships with other children. Opportunities for children to take on more responsibility such as taking leadership of an area of the provision for tidy up time will be offered. The children will also explore the zones of regulation, a whole school approach, through stories and during play.

Physical Development 

This term there will be a continued focus on gross motor and coordination activities to strengthen the children’s shoulders and core muscles for whole body movements; this is a prerequisite to writing. They will also engage in fine motor activities such as: finger gym and name writing practice. They will be challenged to use one-handed tools and equipment, for example, making snips in paper with scissors as well as using a comfortable grip with good control when holding pens and pencils.  

Maths

The children will be introduced to Ten Town this term to deepen their understanding of digits 0-10. Activities will include a focus around identifying numbers in their environment, representing numbers and learning to recognise more or less.

Literacy 

Stories are a key part of our curriculum and high quality texts will be used throughout the day to foster the children’s love of reading. We will also be starting the Bedtime Story Scheme where your child can take 2 books home each week. A blog post will explain more about the reading scheme and the different ways in which you can share your love of reading with your children.

Mark making opportunities will be available throughout the provision. This term the children will also have a phonics phase 1 focus activity each week which will prepare them for phase 2 in reception.

Messy Play Continues

Messy play, or sensory play, is the term for any activities allowing children to work with their hands to create a controlled mess. Often involving traditionally messy ingredients such as paint, sand, slime, water, clay or mud, it is geared toward exploring feelings and imagination. Your child will have opportunities to participate in messy play on a daily basis; you will see some of these activities on the blog (and occasionally on their clothes!).

Independence

In nursery, independence will be promoted for your child and encouraged through the daily routines. These include: walking in independently; using their coat peg; self-registering; toileting; changing into wellies for the outside area; pouring water into their cups; and cleaning their cups. Please support your child by practicing putting on and taking off their socks and shoes at home, as well as their cardigans, jumpers and coats.

Key Dates

Check the blog on a weekly basis to keep up to date with key dates this year. We do not send letters home. We will send you an email regarding any upcoming Focus Child parent meetings.

Important information:

     

• Please ensure your child has a named set of spare clothes in nursery at all times. 

• All uniform, cups and pack lunch boxes should be labelled with your child’s name. 

• Please can toys from home stay at home. We have lots in school and it saves toys being lost or broken. 

• Your child does not need to bring snacks to school. Fruit and water are available throughout the day for the children to access. The children only need to bring food to school if they are having a packed lunch. 

• Please let the teachers know if your child has any medical needs, allergies or dietary requirements if you have not done so already. 

Dismissal information:

• When you arrive, aim to stand on a spot and see the spots closest to the nursery as a boundary so that there is a clear space for the nursery children to make their way out, this spacing will also help us see the children walking safely to their adult.
• When you arrive, allow time for the parents/carers who were already there to collect their children before coming forward.
• If you have other children with you, ensure that they stay with you and do not encourage them to come to the nursery entrance door to ask for pupils.
• Once you have collected your child, please swiftly move them away from the door area so that the next children can come out.
• If you need to speak to a teacher, please wait for all children to be dismissed and wait to the left of the nursery entrance door by the nursery office window (as this space is generally free).​
• Mrs Luca shares first aid notes as a priority; it may be that the teacher has a message to give you, if so please wait to the left of the nursery entrance door by the nursery office window (as this space is generally free)- do let us know if you are in a rush and have to go though as we can phone or email instead should the message be urgent.

We look forward to working with you over the upcoming term and thank you for your support. If you would like to contact a member of the nursery team via email, the address is: nursery@broadford.havering.sch.uk 

        

Kind regards,

The Nursery Team

Reception Curriculum Letter - Summer Term

 

             Term: Summer 

Dear Parents and Carers,         

A warm welcome back to the Summer term from the Reception team!

We hope you find this curriculum letter informative. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries using our reception mailbox:  reception@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Maths

Our focus on learning this term will be numbers beyond ten, adding and subtracting numbers, doubling and sharing and grouping. The children will use a range of resources to show their mathematical thinking and will practice and revisit concepts until they are confident enough to apply the skills independently to a range of situations and talk about their process. Throughout the term, children will continue to practice and consolidate key skills in subitising, counting, composition, sorting and matching and comparing and ordering numbers.   

Literacy

Stories are a key part of our curriculum and high quality texts will be used throughout the day to foster the children’s love of reading. This half term we will be reading a selection of stories linked to our theme of growing and changing; Jasper’s Beanstalk, Tadpoles Promise, The Hungry Caterpillar. After Half term we will be reading Handa’s Surprise, The Gruffalo and Lost & Found.  The children will continue to develop their writing skills, writing simple phrases and sentences that can be read by others. Please continue to support your children at home, encouraging them to write their name, a shopping list or even write a story.  

The children’s reading is progressing well, with some strong sound recognition and blending skills. The more they practice these skills the more fluent your child will become at decoding words, this then allows them to develop their comprehension skills. Try to make reading a part of your daily routine, finding a time that fits in with your schedules at home. This could be when you first get home from school or after dinner. Record this is in your child’s reading record, for it to be counted towards awards and certificates.  Encourage your children to take part in the 105 Books to read before you leave Broadford challenge. Please remember to bring your child’s reading folder into school on their reading day. 

Phonics

The children have made good progress in our RWI programme. We will be continuing to develop oral blending skills (Fred Talk) and using these skills to help spell words (using Fred Fingers). Please refer to the video links below for more information.

Read, Write, Inc: Sound Blending Help Video 

Read, Write, Inc: Spelling with Fred Fingers Help Video

We practise letter formation every day in Reception but your child will greatly benefit from 1:1 practice at home alongside this. If you are able to support your child in this way, please watch this short clip on letter formation so you teach the correct phrase alongside each sound: Letter Formation Rhymes.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development.
To support the development of the children’s personal, social and emotional skills, we will continue to explore the Zones of Regulation.  This term the children will complete their own toolbox which they will bring home. The tool box is a visual representation of strategies the children can use to support them in each zone and how to support them getting back into the green zone.

The  Zones of Regulation is a framework that uses four colours: blue, green, yellow and red to help them identify their feelings. The children are then given a range of tools to help them regulate themselves and deal with the different feelings and emotions that they will be experiencing. In Reception, we explore the Zones of Regulation through our adult carpet times and through stories and try to explore a different zone each week.  

Understanding the World.

During this term, the children will be exploring the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants. We will be making a visit to our school pond to see the tadpoles as part of the Tadpole’s Promise theme. Linking to our growing and changing theme, each child will be planting their own bean and sunflowers.  

Each class will be growing their own butterflies and we will be watching closely and observing the changes as the  caterpillars grow and change into beautiful butterflies.  We now have a wormery in Reception. The children have helped to make the wormery and are enjoying  adding worms to it and observing the worm tunnel system. 

Arts & Design 

This term the children will  continue to explore their creativity in an environment where they won’t be tested on their skills, choice or technique. They will be encouraged to participate in activities that offer them opportunities to experiment and have fun.  They will continue to safely use and explore  a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.  As part of our growing and changing theme, the children will complete observational drawing of a sunflower.  Children will also have the opportunity to design and make an African necklace to celebrate the story; Handa’s Surprise.

As part of the Queen's Jubilee Year, the children will  have the opportunity to design an emblem to represent her jubilee. Alongside this we will be making bunting and decorations to decorate the Reception environment as part of our whole school celebrations.

Key Dates

School Closed - Polling Day	Thursday 5th May 2022
Eid Celebration Day - Wear bright clothes to school	Friday 6th May 2022
Visit from Harold Hill Librarian	Tuesday 17th May 2022
Queens Jubilee Celebrations	Monday 23rd May - Friday 27th May
Last Day of Term	Friday 27th May 2022
School Closed - INSET DAY	Monday 6th June 2022
NSPCC childhood day - wear green to school	Friday 10th June 2022
Reception’s End of Year Trip to Southend Sealife Centre.	Monday 11th July (more information to follow)
Go Bonkers	Thursday 14th July 2022
Last day of Summer Term	Thursday 21st July 2022

We will continue to celebrate the children's achievements and will blog this in our weekly awards blog. If your child has achieved something amazing outside of school, please let us know so we can also celebrate this in school. We will also capture all the amazing learning happening across the Reception learning environment in our weekly learning blogs.

Thank you for your continued support.

        

Kind regards

The Reception Team