Nursery

Summer 1 - Growing (Plants and Animals)

Welcome back to you all. This half term, our theme is called “Growing”. We will be using books and stories to cover the theme of “Growing”.

The imaginative role play area has become an Eastwood Garden Centre, where the children can dress up as gardeners for example, gardening is a great physical development activity. Children can practice locomotor skills, body management skills and object control skills while they move from one place to the other carrying tools, soil and water. Gardening requires children to practice and hone in on their fine motor skills. Planting seeds, scooping dirt and watering plants all help to improve motor skills, which can in term help to improve their concentration and learning capabilities.

This half term our mini bus adventures will be going to Woodbank Nurseries in Wilsden to the Garden Centre. Also, we will be going to the allotments for a walk along the canal tow path to look for signs of spring and also seeing what is growing in the school allotment.

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Nursery - 10 Things to do at Home - Summer 1

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Spring 2 Review - Knights, Castles and Dragons!

For this half term the children have really enjoyed the theme Castles, knights and Dragons. They were able to dress up as kings and queen. We were able to explore Skipton Castle from outside. We looked at the ancient building there. We modelled out how people live in castles and how they became a knight. During reading, we have been continuing to make predictions, ask questions and explore new vocabulary.

Mostly the children have loved the book called “There’s a dragon in your book”. They experience going outdoor learning and sequencing the story by finding an egg. Then making the nest and suddenly, it cracked and out came an orange fiery dragon. We enjoyed several stories over the course of the half term, focusing on a theme about castles. The most popular story was “Cinderella”. This is because Cinderella went to a ball. At the end of the week the children could dress up in their prince and princess clothes and go to the ball. We made invitations and made face masks.

Spring 2 - Castles, Knights and Dragons

Welcome back to you all. This half term, our theme is called “Castles, Knights and Dragons We will be using books and stories to cover the theme of “Castles, Knights and Dragons.

The imaginative role play area has become an Eastwood Castle, where the children can dress up as a knight who lived in the Castle and how they lived in medieval times. They can grow their imaginations and practice using new vocabulary. There will be opportunities to apply newly learned literacy and mathematical skills in purposeful situations.

We will be designing and created our helmets, hats and shields, used our team building skills to look at how a castle is built and how we might make it safely across the moat.

We will be making our own castles using junk model materials, cardboard boxes and toilet/kitchen roll tubes.

For Outdoor Learning we will be going to new place like e.g Skipton Castle, Cliffe Castle and East Riddlesden Hall.

Please take a look at the 50 things link where you will find lots of great ideas that are mostly cost free and exciting for both you and your children to share.  Please ask a member of the team for any further advice, we are always happy to help.Try joining the app.

Nursery - 10 Things to do at Home - Spring 2

Nursery - Thematic Planning - Spring 2

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Spring 1 Review - It's Cold Outside

We have enjoyed learning the story of A Dot in the Snow and The Gruffalo. There were lots of re-telling of the story in their own way using props to help them. They have had the experienced indoor and outdoor play in all weathers which they have enjoyed. For outdoor Learning we went to the woods where we explored the environment and looked for “The Gruffalo”. The children absolutely enjoyed the experience finding out about the Gruffalo but at the end of the week they all said “There is no such things as a Gruffalo”. We went to Prince of Wales and Low Woods in Riddlesden park to look at the water cascade.

For their speech and language, we encouraged the children to develop their listening and attention skills by talking aloud to the class and the other children as a talk activity. E.g what features has a Gruffalo got? The children could say it has a poisonous wart on his nose. We made Gruffalo’s using plasticine to do this activity. They have abled to use their cutting skills more this half term to be independent of using scissors.

Spring 1

Welcome back and a Happy New Year to you all. This half term, our theme is called ‘Its Cold Outside! We will be using books and stories to cover the theme of “Its Cold Outside.”

The imaginative role play area has become a Winter shop where the children can dress up in waterproof clothing also wearing hats and gloves for the cold weather to keep themselves warm.

In maths we will be learning about 2D shapes and use the language sides e.g corners, sides flat, straight and round

We will be focusing on keeping warm by zipping up our coats independently, putting on gloves and hats by ourselves and finding ways to keep warm outside by running around and jumping. We have planned trips to visit Prince of Wales Park in Bingley and Riddlesden woods this half term.

Spring 1 - Thematic Planning

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Autumn 2 Review - Pat a Cake Pat a Cake

We have enjoyed learning the story of The Little Red Hen and Red Riding Hood. There was lots of re-telling of the story in their own way using props to help them.  We went to our local supermarket which is Asda to buy ingredients to make dough for our own bread. Children were smelling, looking, touching, and asking lots of questions about the bread dough.

We had an EYFS Great Outdoor open day with many parents attending. We Safety made our own campfire where we had hot chocolate with oat biscuits and pink tea for the parents. 

The children have been very good at telling the adults what they want for snack sharing their own preferences of what they like and dislike. The children were able to say please and thank you as we sat down in a circle for snack time.

In our Pastoral group we say our names slowly in its natural rhythm, then say our names and clap each syllable as you do. For e.g Mrs Sameera. Then say Mrs Sa-mee-ra clapping as you say each part.