Teachers -Mrs Gill, Ms Quinn
TA- Miss Gregory, Miss Austen
Spring term 2026:
Communication and language and literacy
This half term has been full of wonderful experiences for Nursery. We have enjoyed exploring our focused texts Farmer Duck and Daisy and the Egg. We celebrated World Book Day, sharing books that made us happy and being authors of our own ‘happy’ books. We invited parents in for another ‘Story and Toast’ morning and shared stories with our grown-ups. We have been practicing listening carefully and following instructions. In Phonics, Nursery have been practicing alliteration, rhythm and rhyme and voice sounds.
Maths
In Maths we have continued to learn through Mastering the Curriculum, with a focus on 5 and 6 as well as height and length, mass and capacity. We are working hard at subitising and being able to show numbers in different ways.
Understanding the World
We have learned all about Spring and have been finding out about the life cycles of a hen as well as learning which animals come from eggs. We know the names of lots of different animals and their young and we had a brilliant time at Smithills Farm meeting all of the different animals such as donkey’s, llama’s and alpaca’s and finding out some interesting facts about them.
Expressive Art and Design
This term we have focused on ‘Painting’ and ‘Drawing’. We have been learning and experimenting with colour, colour mixing, colour shading, painting Pete the Cat and the Owl Babies, as well as making firework pictures and autumn pictures. We have also made self-portraits and drawings of our families.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Children have continued learning through Think Equal and understand that everyone has feelings and they might be different to their feelings and feelings can change throughout the day. They have been learning how to connect their emotions and emotion words to colour (linked to Colour Monster). They have also continued their daily practices of mindfulness and meditation to help them to be calm and happy learners.
Physical Development
This half term we have continued with Write Dance and Dough Disco to focus on strengthening our fine motor skills, as well as continuing to develop our gross motor skills through outdoor play and also making patterns of movement to music. We have also been practicing proprioception exercises to promote calmness, self-regulation, and increased focus.
| TOPIC NAMES |
Understanding the World |
EAD (Expressive Arts and Design |
PSED |
RE |
Physical Development |
Literacy (Reading and Writing) |
Maths |
| Nursery
SUMMER
ICT ARTICLE 17 |
SUM 1: Journeys and Transport
(ART 13)
SUM 2: Summer in the Garden (ART 29)
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Sculpture- Sum 1
Collage – Sum 2
Music and Movement Identifying songs and music Parachute games End of year performance
Role play- Transport role play- bus, station, Minibeast garden.
Additional- SEE NURSERY CURRICULUM DOC. |
Think Equal
SUM 1: The Tale of Baby Beetroot Lara the Yellow Ladybird My Voice Healthy Minds C: What else can we do when we are upset? Healthy Minds C: Forgiving Myself Mindful movement in the hall
SUM 2: Kitchi’s Moccasins Helping Hands Diego’s Great Idea Head, Heart and Hands My Amazing Brain Healthy Minds D: Forgiving Others Healthy Minds D: Gratitude for People or things in my life
TRANSITION
Additional- SEE NURSERY CURRICULUM DOC. |
LIVING: Where do we belong?
Values- Faith, Hope and Love |
Gross Motor Skills
§ Begin to refine movement of walking and running § Begin to refine climbing skills § Begin to refine balancing skills § Learn to skip § Continue to develop riding skills § Continue to develop ball skills § Use large muscle movements § Remember some sequences and patterns of movement related to music and rhythm § Take part in some group team activities § Match developing physical skills to tasks and activities in setting § Choose the right resource to carry out chosen plan § Collaborate with others to manage large items
Fine Motor Skills § Use one-handed tools and equipment. § Eat independently using a knife and fork § Be increasingly independent getting dressed and undressed § Use a comfortable grip with good control when holding pens and pencils.
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Phase 1 Phonics / Reading
§ Develop phonological awareness
ð Join in with P1 activities, aspects 1 to 7 – Listen, remember & talk about different sounds with increasing vocabulary: □ Environmental □ Instrumental □ Body Percussion – Talk about rhyming words and begin to create rhyming strings – Hear and say initial sounds in words – Explore and talk about different voice sounds, enunciating some phoneme correctly – Participate in oral blending/segmenting activities – Clap syllables in words § Engage in extended conversations about stories and non-fiction texts, learning & using new vocabulary
§ Use the five key concepts about print: ð Identify a word in a sentence and understand it carries meaning ð Identify a letter in a word ð Name parts of book and show awareness of page number … page number ð Continue to develop understanding of word / letter ð Follow print, know it is read from top to bottom & use 1:1 correspondence § Read own name in a variety of fonts/context
Writing § Use knowledge of print / letter knowledge in writing
ð Recognisable letters ð Left to right / top to bottom directionality ð Top to bottom directionality
§ Begin to match some letters to phonemes e.g. m for mummy § Engage in purposeful early writing Write name, from memory, with correct letter formation |
SUM 1: Sequencing
Positional language More than/Fewer than 2D Shape 3D shape
SUM 2: Number Composition What comes after What comes before Numbers to 5
Additional – SEE MASTER THE CURRICULUM Planning
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Homework Leaflet- Homework leaflet
