Welcome back to Spring 2

ONCE UPON A TIME...

is the name of our topic this half term.

We are going to have lots of fun learning about the traditional tales we all know and love. Stories like...

Goldilocks and the three bears

The three little pigs

The ugly duckling

Jack and the beanstalk 

and many more. 

What is your favourite traditional tale? share this with your little one.

Bev likes Little Red Riding Hood where Mrs Starkey enjoys Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

We will be talking about the different characters, their feelings and sequencing stories.

Our role plays are going to be 'The story cottage', castle and 'The Theatre'.

Leading up to Easter we will learning all about Lent and making our very own Lenten promise. In Nursery we promise to be super duper kind in everything we think and do and say.  

INTENT, IMPLEMENTATION and IMPACT

Intent: Why do we teach what we teach?

At St Mary's Nursery we place great value on the development of children as individuals and providing them with the skills, knowledge and understanding they need to prepare them for the challenges in Year Reception, Key Stage One and beyond. Our aim in the EYFS is to build strong foundations rooted in academic success as well as moral and spiritual development, so that ultimately our pupils can go on to be active citizens of society as well as happy, curious life-long learners. 

Our curriculum is designed to help our children gain the knowledge, skills and understanding they require for success through the Characteristics of Effective Teaching and Learning (Play and Exploration, Active Learning and Creative and Critical Thinking).

Implementation: How do we teach what we teach?

Our children learn through a balance of child-initiated and adult-directed activities.  The timetable is carefully structured so that children have rigorous directed teaching in number and phonics everyday with regular circle time sessions to focus on PSED. These sessions are followed by group work where children work with a member of staff who can systematically check for understanding, identify and respond to misconceptions quickly and provide real-time verbal feedback which results in a strong impact on the acquisition of new learning.  Our children are provided with plenty of time to engage in ‘exploration’ throughout the variety of experiences planned to engage and challenge them. The curriculum is planned for both inside and outside

Impact: How do we know what children have learnt and how well they have learnt it?

Our curriculum meets the needs of all our children since all staff spend time looking at and evaluating how children are learning. This is achieved through talking to children, looking at their work, observing their learning experiences and analysing data and progress. Evidence of a child’s learning is kept in paper ‘learning journals’.