Reception learning 05.06.2026

 

Year Reception: What We Are Learning 

This term our topic is Journeys. Our focus book this week was The Gruffalo.

Here is what we have been up to:

In Literacy we recapped our red words the,a,I,of,he,go,to,my,was,you,we,they,she,have,all and remembered that sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop. This week the children enjoyed describing the Gruffalo and talking about his different features. We were impressed with their imaginative ideas and growing vocabulary!

Please continue to read 5 times a week with your children and work on set 1 and set 2 sounds as well as word time words (1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc).

In Maths this week the children have been learning how to share objects equally between groups. They used a range of resources to explore fair sharing. The children showed enthusiasm and are becoming more confident in recognising when groups are equal and when they are not.

Thank you so much for all your generous donations for Rainbow Day. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Well done Reception for an amazing week - keep up all your brilliant work! 

Nursery Summer Newsletter

 Term: Summer 2023

Dear Parents and Carers,


The aim of this newsletter is to give you an overview of the learning that will take place over the Summer 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 regularly to know what is happening for your child.


This term our focus books will include: All through the night, Don’t throw that away, Supertato, Elliot Midnight Hero, Commotion in the Ocean, Somebody swallowed Stanley, Hooray for fish, The rough tough girl pirates and The bright fish.

Below is an overview of the learning focuses for this term which we will focus on during adult led activities and through supporting the children’s play.


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. 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 engage in gross motor activities such as: hula hoops, climbing frame, basketball hoops, balancing on the logs and vertical painting. In addition to this the children will begin to collaborate with one another to move larger objects and engage in outdoor games such as skittles.


Children will continue to engage with finger gym activities as well as Dough Disco to support the development of their fine motor skills.


Maths

The children will work on number recognition and representing numbers in different ways, revising numbers 0 - 5. There will be a mixture of ordinal (numbers in order), cardinal (a number of objects to count or name by sight), nominal (using numbers as a name i.e. bus number).

Children will also revisit language to describe 2D and 3D shapes in the environment. They will make comparisons between the sizes of different objects and explore capacity. The children will also be encouraged to order events, developing an understanding of day and night and focussing on positional language’



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. Our text that we are focusing on this term are:

All through the night, Supertato, Eliot Midnight Hero, Commotion in the Ocean, Somebody swallowed Stanley, Hooray for fish, The bright fish.


Mark making opportunities will be available throughout the provision.


Messy Play

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 practising putting on and taking off their socks and shoes at home, as well as their 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, bottles and packed 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.



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

Nursery Learning 17.4.23

Nursery Learning- 21.04.23

Key found- a key has been found in Nursery. It has 2 distinct keyrings. If you have lost a key, please describe the keyrings to a member of nursery so we can return it to you. 

Home Corner Request - We are looking for phones with numbers, remotes with numbers, clocks, baby items such as small baby clothes for the dolls, bottles, feeding spoons to promote pretend play. If you have any spare at home we would really appreciate any items. Thank you! 

Here are the children enjoying the home corner. They loved the new baby resources!

 The children have enjoyed exploring the story of 'Supertato' this week. The children have made a delicious vegetable soup, they have helped to cut the ingredients carefully and have added them together to create a delicious end product. They enjoyed dipping their bagels into this and tasting at the end.

The children have enjoyed trying to make cards this week in the writing area. We have been modelling how to carefully hold the pens and pencils to control their writing, there have been lots of opportunities to practice name writing! 

Outside the children enjoyed making pretend soup in the mud kitchen. They used water in the barrel carefully and learnt to turn it on and off. There was some great team work shown as they cooked and listened to each others ideas. 

The children have been mark making using chalks on the floor and benches. They loved  looking at the different pattern each other had created.

 

They children also chose to work on their throwing and aiming skills, just look at these throws! 

As always, the children have been creative using the malleable area and the art area. Harriet enjoyed rolling out the playdough with the textured rolling pin and feeling the pattern it made. Idhaya, Sadhana and Emir all made and decorated fans independently.

The children have loved the maths area this week, using it to draw round shapes and discuss what they notice. They have been practicing witting their numbers and counting objects.  

We have been working on our fine motor skills by threading using buttons and shoelaces. 

Nursery learning 17.03.23

Nursery Learning- 17.03.23

Important messages 

• All reading books are changed on a Friday morning. Please ensure your reading folder is placed in the box in the entrance of Nursery by Thursday.
• If your child comes out on Friday without their reading folder, please ask them to go back in and check their tray as it will have been put in there. 
• Please check at home to see if you have any books from Nursery that may have got mixed in with your own books.
• Water play is part of the children's learning which means that sometimes they can get wet. Please ensure that they have a spare set of clothes with them. 
• If you have any of the nurseries clothes (pants/knickers, socks, trousers, legging ect...) please can we ask you to return the clothing items asap as we are running low.
• Donations- we have has a couple of parents donate a bag of socks and and a few other items which has been hugely helpful. If you are having a clear out and have any socks, underwear, bottoms that you no longer require, we would gratefully receive them. 

The sun might not be shining brightly yet but as you can see from Rostam's face, we still have fun in the garden. Rostam was have a great time singing songs about minibeasts with an adult whilst in the garden. 

The children all love Friday mornings as they get to choose their own books to take home. Miss Day talks to each child about what they have been reading and ticks off the returned books.

Water play whatever the weather! The children love using the tap to fill up different containers. This week their mission was to try and fill up the water trays by carrying water in a container of their choice.

Super job by Vedashi this week. After painting a picture, she independently wrote her own name on her painting, using paint! 

Look at our 2 year olds go! This week in the snack area we were making banana milkshakes. The children loved chopping and mashing up the bananas and pouring the milk (or oat milk separately)  but the most exciting part was watching it all blend together in the mixer. The children then poured themselves a cup of milkshake.

Super building from the boys in the construction area today. They spent a long time working together creating their building. It was fantastic to observe their concentration and collaboration. 

Nursery Learning- 20.01.23

 Nursery Learning- 20.01.23

It's been another busy week in nursery! 

Incredibly Icy

The chilly weather just mean there is more to explore. The children were thrilled when they went outside to see that the water in tuff tray had turned to ice! After they had the best time bashing and smashing it into little pieces, we decided we would use the paints to turn them different colours. The children loved watching how the paints move and spread on the water and ice. 

By the afternoon, the ice had all melted so it was time to put on our waterproof on and/or our  welly boots and go splashing about in puddles and explore using the water. 

This is the children using paint brushes and water to create patterns and pictures.  

Brilliant Building 

These super boys spent a long time working together building their amazing building. They said they had built towers for all the goodies! We loved seeing their concentration, imagination and collaboration in full force! 

Delightful Dough  

In nursery, we love our playdough. It helps children’s hands develop the strength, dexterity, and control needed to manipulate everyday items such as scissors, pencils, zippers, and buttons. 

This week the children have begun to make the playdough themselves. Following simple instruction cards they have used flour, salt and oil to create some super dough. This is a great activity to do at home using ingredients you may already have in your cupboard. Ask the children if they can remember what you need!

Reminders

Late drop off and pick up times: If you arrive after 9am for morning drop off, you will need to go through the school office. If you are late collecting your child, they may be taken to the school office for collection. 

Wellie boots- Please ensure your child has a pair of wellie boots in school. We spend a lot of time outside, whatever the weather.

A change of clothes- Please ensure your child has a spare change of clothes (including socks and underwear) in their bag. If you have any pants/knickers or socks at home that belong to the nursery, please can you return them as we are running low. 

A quick reminder incase you missed last weeks post, here are the new faces in nursery who have taken over for Mrs Rice: 

Mrs Stanley (Monday)   Miss Tynan (Tuesday and Wednesday)  Miss Chappel (Thursday and Friday) 

Nursery: 18th-21st October 2021

 Learning Theme: All about me

 

“Splash, splash! wellies, go, go, splash”

Said Olivia jumping in the splash area

 

This blog shows some highlights from this week including:

• Our focus learning

• Our social skills

• Key Information

• Two year old focus

• Home learning challenge

 

Half term home learning challenge

Our half term home learning challenge is to collect conkers! Please collect as many conkers as you can find and bring them into nursery after half term on tuesday 02nd November 2021. Pictures can be uploaded to the Evidence me app.

Good luck!

 

 

Reminder:

Can Parents please bring in Wellington boots and a drawstring bag with spare clothes ASAP.

Please LABEL  all your children's belongings, including both shoes. 

Please do not bring bags daily into nursery due to lack of space on pegs. Spare clothes are stored in the changing rooms.

Thank you

Two year old focus

This week we have been learning about our emotions; happy, sad and angry. We have been developing our positive sense of self and how to wait and take turns. We have been learning new words to help extend our play.

“Ngenge, ready your chicken” Said Akela to his teacher after asking for help with his apron.

Our focus nursery rhyme after half term will be:

 

Our focus learning

Maths: the children have been focussing on shapes this week through thor play. We have played fun shape games with dice and our peers, taking turns. We have also been learning to identify 2D shapes based on sight and name. We have also been practicing our number recognition from 0 to 10 during circle time.

“I found square” said Damien	“Look its a rhombus” Said Emma
Zhyan said  “Look I found a hexagon, 2 hexagons and one circle” As he threaded shapes onto his string.	“We found all the shapes” Said Ava-rose.

Physical: The children have been practicing gross motor movements outdoors balancing on boards and crawling through tunnels. Indoors we have been developing our hand muscles by spreading jam on toast, marking making and applying pressure to use the hole punchers.

 

Black history Month 

The children enjoyed taking part in our black history carnival parade. We congo style danced around the nursery to Trinidadian soca, played on steel pans. The children learnt about the steel pan and used sticks and similar shaped bowls to recreate the steel pan sounds. We watched a video of children wearing costumes from Notting Hill carnival. 

We all had a fun time 

 

Morning Carnival parade	Afternoon Carnival Parade
“Wow, they are beautiful. I want to wear that one”  Said Teddy-James	All ready for Carnival

 

Our social skills 

We have been working together with our peers to construct during play; taking turns, listening to others ideas whilst having so much fun.

  

Nursery rhyme of the week

Our nursery rhyme of the week is: One, two buckle my shoe

A big thank you!

We would like to say a big thank you to Lujah’s dad, Jimmie, for taking time to visit and help us plant some lovely flowers in our nursery garden. The children had lots of fun helping.

Key Information

Important dates: 25th October: Havering Half Term (Nursery closed) 2nd November: Nursery reopens Christmas Holidays (Nursery closed):  20th Dec (Back 4th Jan 22)   INSET Days; Nursery closed to children: 1st November 2021 4th January 2022 21st February 2022 6th May 2022

 

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

The Nursery Team