Nursery

Welcome to Nursery - The Nest

Summer Term 2025

English

We will be starting a new topic ‘Holidays.’ We will be reading the book ‘Anna Hibiscus Splash’ by Atinuke. Children will become familiar with the story, the setting, events and characters and we will focus on their oracy skills to be able to talk about these. Children will learn to retell parts of the story as well as adding their own ideas and make predictions. Children will continue to learn that text on the page is read from left to right and tells the story. They will know about the front cover, title page and author and how to turn the pages of a book, whilst handling the book with care. Children will discuss likes, dislikes, and favourite parts.

Maths

This half term we will continue to explore the composition of numbers to ten and finding different ways to make 10 (number bonds). Children will consider the place value of these numbers (where they fall on the number line – greater than/less than) and show ways to represent these numbers. Children will consolidate number facts within ten to ensure they have a secure foundation of number knowledge. Later in the half term, we will also be developing our understanding of 2d shape and spatial reasoning skills. We will be working on puzzles and patterns such as tangrams and using shapes to create our own pictures.

Theme

We will be starting a new topic ‘Holidays’ and will be reading the book Anna Hibiscus Splash by Atinuke. Children will be learning about holidays and discussing where people might go on holiday. This may include the seaside, camping, caravaning, holiday houses, days out, places in this country and also other countries. Children will learn about why people go on holiday, where they go and what they do when they are there.

Autumn Term 2024

English

In Nursery children will focus on nursery rhymes using the key text ‘My First Mother Goose.’

Children will be encouraged to join in with nursery rhymes, fill in missing words and complete actions to the rhyme.

This half term children will be listening carefully to sounds in the environment and identifying what these are.

Children will also be creating sounds with musical instruments and body percussion.

Children will be exposed to a wide range of fiction and non- fiction books and will be encouraged to talk about their favourite parts, key characters, and events.

Maths

Children will be using numbers in play - matching, sorting, comparing objects according to size and comparing quantities using ‘more’ and ‘fewer.’

Children will be learning about numbers, recognising the symbol, counting objects, making marks, and using numicon and number blocks to support their understanding.

Theme

We will be using our key texts as a stimulus to explore and share about our own lives and the lives of others, including places we live, foods we like to eat and our favourite animals. Our Geography sessions will focus on where we live, our school environment and the immediate surroundings of our school. Our science sessions will focus on investigating woodland creatures and their habitats, exploring the concept of nocturnal animals, and thinking about seasonal change too.

Websites

Nursery rhymes to sing and watch https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06kbsbz

Counting games https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/3-5-years/counting

Listening to sounds https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/list/phonics-games-phase-1

Letter formation http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/skyWriter/index.html

Shape recognition https://www.topmarks.co.uk/early-years/shape-monsters

Stories to listen to https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories