LET'S CELEBRATE!

AUTUMN 2

Everyone loves to celebrate, especially here at St Mary's nursery. That is why this half term is soooooo exciting!

We are still celebrating our beautiful season of Autumn, and all the natural changes that surrounds us. We will be celebrating the colourful Hindu festival of light called Diwali, Bonfire Night and Remembrance. We will be celebrating the first story in the Bible, IN THE BEGINING' when God created out world and all the beautiful things he put in it. We all love a party, we are going to be partying with Kipper (a character from the Oxford Reading Tree, which is one of the reading schemes used in school) and his toys. We will be making the cake shown in the book 'The Toys Party'. Its yummy! that is if you like jam, cornflakes, beans and more as the ingredients. We will be celebrating 'World Nursery Rhyme Week'. We love to sing Nursery Rhymes in nursery and do have a 'Nursery Rhyme of the Week' chosen by the children. We will let you know what this is on 'Library Wednesday' . 

The biggest celebration this half term is going to be learning about the best story ever...

THE FIRST CHRISTMAS! 

We are going to have so much fun celebrating! 

Mrs Richards, Mrs Murray, Mrs Starkey, Miss Davies, Mrs Cemereh

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’.