F1 - Nursery
Welcome to F1!
Teacher: Mrs Ochiltree
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Hooley-Rice
Thank you to all who attended our Welcome to F1 Parent Meeting.
Please see below for the slides shared in the meeting.
F1 Homework
Monthly home learning challenges are set via Class Dojo for activities linked to our learning in school that you can do at home to support your child's understanding. You can send these back to school by attaching a photo or video and a comment to your child's Class Dojo portfolio.
In F1 we try to foster a love of reading for pleasure. It is really helpful if you can read stories regularly with your child. Have a look at the document attached for some pointers on supporting early reading skills.
Below are a few websites that are great for supporting children's learning at home online.
Encouraging Independence
It is really helpful if children can begin to have a try at self-care routines before starting Nursery. Of course, staff are always on hand to help, but if your child is already familiar with having a try at these things themselves it is a really big help. It also gives them more confidence in the classroom and allows them to get on with their day without having to wait for someone to help.
Here are some things that you could encourage independence with at home:
putting on their coat
(At school we encourage the 'hoods on first' method as shown above for children who cannot yet put their coat on independently)
doing up their own zip
going to the toilet
washing their hands
eating with a knife and fork
drinking from a cup
Recommended Books to Share
Autumn 1
Our theme this half term is 'Enchanted Woodland'.
Our core texts are Owl Babies and The Gruffalo. We will be learning about the stories and exploring lots of vocabulary.
Maths
This term in Maths we will be singing number songs, recognising colours and sorting and comparing items.
Phonics
We will be developing our listening skills and ability to discriminate between sounds.
We will be exploring environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body percussion, voice sounds, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration and oral segmenting and blending.
We will also begin introducing some sounds from RWI when the children are ready.
Understanding the World
The Foundations Of:
RE – This half term we are using NATRE- National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, to look at creation and prayer. Our key question is "Why is the word God so important to Christians?".
History– We will be talking about who is in our family and who our friends our. We will talk about who helps us at school.
Geography- We will be talking about where we live and where our school is.
Science- We will be talking about our body, finding out about ourselves and what we are made of.
Computing- We will be learning about technology around us making links with Science. We will be thinking about What makes it move and how does our toy work?
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
The Foundations Of:
PSHE - Living in the Wider World: Communities. We will be talking about people who help us and how they keep us safe. We will be beginning to explore the roles of people in our community.
My Happy Mind - Meet your Brain. Children will learn that their brain helps us with lots of different jobs, they need to look after their brains for them to be their best and when they learn something new their brain will remember it for next time.
Expressive Arts and Design
The Foundations Of:
Music- Charanga: Bounce into action! The children will be learning to find the beat of music and develop their fine and gross motor skills.
Art- Collage. We will be exploring the work of Andy Goldsworthy and creating collages using natural resources.
We will also be practising our scissor skills and making snips in paper.
Physical Development
We will be developing our gross and fine motor skills through activities such as dough disco and squiggle while you wiggle.
We will also be using our outdoor area to develop our gross motor skills. The children love to practice their running, moving, climbing and throwing skills and have access to our outdoor area every day to practice these. Children should come dressed appropriately to play outside every day in all weathers.
Key information
In F1 we go out in any weather so please make sure your children are dressed appropriately. We suggest your child has a puddlesuit and wellies in school to keep in their drawer.
We send home a book to encourage reading for pleasure each week. This book will be changed every Friday so please ensure their books are in their bags on this day.
When the children have settled into F1 we will hopefully be going down to Forest School one day a week. Further information will be released about this at a later date.
