Rift House Primary School

Class 1 Nursery

Welcome to our Nursery class. The staff in Nursery this year are:

Miss Wainwright

Early Years Lead

Nursery Teacher

Mrs Sargeant

Support Staff

Miss West

Support Staff

Mrs Taylor

Support staff

Miss Foster

Support staff

From a child's very first day in Nursery, all the way through to Year 6 we support children to make the right 'CHOICES' to enable them to grow into well-rounded, motivated individual.

We know this is such an important time in your child’s school life, where routines are established and relationships are built between home and school. We will always do our best to work closely with you, to ensure that your child has a smooth start to their school career in such a way that you as well as the children feel comfortable, supported and respected.

Indoor Environment

We have a lovely open-plan environment which has a wide range of different areas to be accessed during child initiated play. These allow children to develop lifelong skills such as, co-operation, perseverance and independence. Some of the areas include a water area, creative area and reading corner.


We enjoy sharing stories in our reading den.	We enjoy building train tracks.	We have lots of fun in our maths corner.	We enjoy playing in the home corner. We make food and look after the baby.	We like to play musical instruments and sing songs.


We have lots of small world areas. We build our own worlds using all of the different resources.	We enjoy playing with the garage and the different vehicles.	We access fresh drinking water independently during our nursery session.	We like to build and pour in the sand.	We like to colour, draw, write and cut at the mark making table.

Outdoor Environment

We also have a fantastic garden which is accessible from the classroom and is extremely beneficial in allowing us to extend our learning outdoors.

Yearly Overview and Medium Term Plans

Timetable

At Rift House we aim for your child to participate in a broad and balanced curriculum. Our timetable shows various opportunities that your child will access daily, including opportunities for mindfulness through Primary Movement and the brushing of teeth.

Supporting at home

Things you can support at home with this half term:

Sharing stories and encouraging your child to talk about what is happening.

Singing number songs and counting how many are left each time.

Practising putting on, fastening and taking off coats.

Older Nursery children are practising their name writing in preparation for starting school in September.

Older Nursery children are learning their letter sounds and practising hearing initial sounds in words. You can support with this at home by locating print in the environment and playing games such as 'I spy.'

Reminders

Morning Nursery session

Doors open at 8.30am and close at 8.45am

Parents are invited to join their child in Nursery for the first 15 minutes of each session.

Doors open again for collection at 11.30am

Afternoon Nursery session

Doors open at 12.15pm and close at 12.30pm

Parents are invited to join their child in Nursery for the first 15 minutes of each session.

Doors open again for collection at 3.15pm

For more information on Nursery sessions, 30 hour entitlement and paid places please click here.

Staff will be available before and after each nursery session, if you have any questions, concerns, or queries please don’t hesitate to talk to us.

Please let us know in advance if your child is going to be picked up by someone other than the agreed adults.

Home Reading

All children will bring home a book to share every Monday. Books need to be returned to Nursery by Thursday.

Homework

Older Nursery children will be given suggested activities to support with learning at home. These activities will be shared with parents every Friday and will be linked to the learning that has taken place each week.

What we have been up to...

Autumn 1 2022

The Three Little Pigs

We enjoyed sharing the story 'The Three Little Pigs.' We joined in with the repetition in the story and answered some questions to show we understood what happened. We drew and painted pigs and wolves and made a pig biscuit. We used different recources to help us retell the story of 'The Three Little Pigs.'

Autumn 1 2022

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

We enjoyed sharing 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears.' We joined in with the repetition and answered simple recall questions. We made bears using play dough and used props to retell the story. We used the words 'big' and 'small' to talk about the bowls, beds, chairs and bears from the story and we also made and tasted some porridge.

Autumn 1 2022

The Gingerbread Man

We shared the story 'The Gingerbread Man'. We joined in with the repetition and answered recall questions. We decorated gingerbread men and named the different ingredients we used. We made gingerbread men using the play dough and used props to retell the story.

Autumn 1 2022

Parental Engagement

Morning Nursery parents joined us for a shared story session.

We shared 'The Gingerbread Man.' The children thoroughly enjoyed showing their parents what we do during story time.

Autumn 1 2022

Autumn and Harvest

In Nursery we shared the story book 'The Very Helpful Hedgehog' and the non fiction books 'Autumn' and Harvest.' We explored the Autumn and Harvest objects and made hedgehogs using the play dough.

Autumn 1 2022

Parental Engagement

Morning Nursery parents joined us for an Autumn and Harvest celebration.

We sang some songs for our parents and they joined in activities with us.

Autumn 1 2022

A trip to the library

Morning nursery children visited the local library.

We shared a story, sang some songs, played some instruments and made a craft frog.

Autumn 1 2022

A trip to Summerhill

Morning Nursery children enjoyed a visit to Summerhill.

We made wands, shared 'Room on the Broom' and played games in the forest.

Autumn 1 2022

Parental Engagement

Older Nursery parents joined us for our 'Physical Friday' activities.

Autumn 1 2022

Parental Engagement

Afternoon parents joined us for a 'stay and play' session.

We enjoyed showing our parents what we do during our nursery sessions.

Autumn 1 2022

European Day

We celebrated European Day in Nursery. We learnt about Spain. We can now say 'hello' and 'goodbye' in Spanish. We also tried Spanish food, made Spanish flags and danced to Spanish music.

Autumn 2 2022

A trip to Rossmere Forest School

Morning Nursery visited Rossmere Forest School.

We made leaf wreaths, bird feeders and toasted marshmallows and apples.

Autumn 2 2022

A visit from the librarian

Pam, the local librarian, visited Nursery.

We are taking part in the Bookstart Story Time sessions. We shared a story and made a craft. We sang songs and played musical instruments.

Autumn 2 2022

A trip to the library

We went to visit Pam at the local library. We sang some songs and played some musical instruments. We shared a story and made a craft.

Autumn 2 2022

A trip to Summerhill

We visited Summerhill to take part in some Christmas activities. We made a calendar and toasted some marshmallows in the forest. We also hunted for the missing bears in the woods. We had a super time and it even snowed when we were there!

Autumn 2 2022

A trip to Forest School

We visited Jo at Forest School to take part in 'A Christmas Epxerience.' We made reindeer dust to put on our doorsteps on Christmas Eve and we also made jingle bells. We had a visit from Santa and we also went hunting in the forest for Rudoplh's 10 missing bells. We toasted marshamallows and drank hot chocolate. We had a fun morning.

Autumn 2 2022

Happy Christmas

Parents and grandparents joined us for some Christmas songs.

Spring 1 2023

Whatever Next

We shared the story 'Whatever Next.' We used props to help us retell the story and talked about the story events. We explored what it is like on the moon and practised flying in our rockets and counting backwards from 10 to 0. We made a picnic and flew to the moon just like Baby Bear did.

Spring 1 2023

Chinese New Year

We have enjoyed finding out about and celebrating Chinese New Year. We shared the story of the animals and the race and we read non fiction books to find out about Chinese New Year. We made cards and lanterns. We counted golden coins for our red 'and pow' envelopes and all took a chocolate coin home. We sang a song, danced to Chinese music and watched dragons dancing. We celebrated with a Chinese New Year party and tasted some Chinese food.

Spring 1 2023

The Enormous Watermelon

We enjoyed reading 'The Enormous Watermelon.' Old Mother Hubbard, from the story, sent melons into nursery for us to try. They were huge and heavy but very tasty.

Spring 1 2023

Bookstart Storytime Session

We have enjoyed some more Bookstart Storytime sessions with Pam from the local library. We share stories, sing songs, play musical instruments and make a craft.

Spring 1 2023

The Tiger who Came to Tea

We enjoyed reading 'The Tiger who came to Tea.' We drew pictures and made paintings using the correct colours and shapes. We made tigers using the dough.

Spring 1 2023

The Tiger who came to Rift House Cafe

We visited the local cafe with the tiger. We selected and paid for a drink and shared some biscuits.

Spring 1 2023

Parental Engagement

Stay and Play

Parents and Grandparents joined us for our 'Stay and Play' session. We enjoyed showing everyone what we enjoy doing in Nursery.

Spring 1 2023

Parental Engagement

Physical Friday

Parents and Grandparents joined us for our 'Physical Friday' ativities. We enjoyed showing them how we are developing our fine motor skills.

Spring 1 2023

Happy Birthday Barnaby Bear

We celebrated Barnaby Bear's birthday in Nursery. We played party games and shared party food and a birthday cake. We talked about our own birthdays and how old we are.

Spring 1 2023

A trip to the Library

We had another super trip to the local library. Pam read us a story and we made a craft. We also sang some songs and played the musical instruments. We also got our certificates for completing our Book Start Story Time sessions.