Nursery

Welcome to Nursery

Here you will find out about all of the fun learning that takes place in Nursery. 

Home Learning

With the current advice regarding self-isolation, we are compiling many useful resources that can be used at home if you are off. We want to continue to support children with their learning during this difficult time by offering support through revision and the revisiting of topics that have been covered so far this year. Please click below to access subject specific resources and activities that will help engage brains and support mental wellbeing.

Internet Safety

Adults please remember to keep an overview of your child’s internet / social media activity. Unless you have turned on privacy settings and parental controls, your child may be able to access innapropriate content or it may simply 'pop up' while your child is watching You Tube or on other sites. For older siblings, who may be allowed to use social media, there are also other dangers. Although there are many apps that allow live streaming and chat with friends, not all of them have an automatic “private mode”, and other, unknown people could be joining in chats. On our website e-safety page, we have all our newsletters, which take adults through many of the games and social media that our children have been using. Please help your children stay safe online.

Meet Our Teachers!

Nursery Class Teacher and  Foundation Stage Leader & Badger Group Leader

We are very lucky in Nursery to have three teaching assistants.     

Mrs Mckenna               Mrs Kennely            Miss Drummond

Fox Key Worker Group            Hedgehog Key Worker Group        Teaching Assistant

Please come and talk to use if you have any questions or queries or email EY@greenhill.leeds.sch.uk

Nursery Sessions

Morning Sessions: 8.30am until 11.30am

Afternoon Sessions: 12.10pm until 3.10pm

Rumble in the Jungle

Our topic for this half term is ‘Rumble in the Jungle’. We will have fun with jungle themed, stories. Great books help fire up the imagination, build empathy and improve vocabulary. Some of our key stories will be. ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell, ‘Walking Through the Jungle’ by Julie Lacome, ‘Little Monkey’ by Marta Altes, The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ by Judith Kerr and ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ written by Giles Andreae. We will learn about the jungle animals and explore pattern.

Maths – This half term we will focus our teaching and play based activities on counting. The children will learn key counting concepts and skills. We will focus on the following: saying number words in sequences; counting forwards and backwards from different start numbers; counting: tagging each object with one number word, carefully making sure we only say one number for each object; knowing that the last number counted gives the total so far, subitising: recognising small quantities without needing to count them all - playing dice games is a great way to learn this; numeral meanings: matching a number of objects to the correct number symbol and knowing that the number does not change if objects are rearranged.

Reading – Oxford Owl is a fantastic parent friendly website which gives lots of advice and resources linked to reading and phonics. The website address is: oxfordowl.co.uk. Top tips for getting your child ready for reading are: talking together about books, words and pictures, encourage them to join in with the bits that are repeated in stories, read favourite stories over and over, retell stories, read everywhere you go and sing songs and nursery rhymes together.

Fairy Tales

This term we will continue to learn about traditional tales. Our key books will be ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ and ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ and ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. The children will learn to retell these stories, talk about the main events and learn how stories are structured and will be encouraged to join in with repeated refrains and use story language supported by props. The children will dress up as story characters and act out the stories in our role play area.  Bedtime stories are a fantastic way to help your child develop a love of reading and help them with their language development so please keep reading and enjoying books.This term we will continue to learn about traditional tales. Our key books will be ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ and ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ and ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. The children will learn to retell these stories, talk about the main events and learn how stories are structured and will be encouraged to join in with repeated refrains and use story language supported by props. The children will dress up as story characters and act out the stories in our role play area.  Bedtime stories are a fantastic way to help your child develop a love of reading and help them with their language development so please keep reading and enjoying books.

Once upon a time.......

This term we will be learning about traditional tales. Each week we will focus on a different fairy tale e.g. The Gingerbread Man, The 3 Little Pigs, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Jack and the Beanstalk and Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. The children will learn to retell these stories, talk about the main events and learn how stories are structured and will be encourage to join in with repeated refrains and use story language supported by props. The children will dress up as story characters and act out the stories in our role play area.  Bedtime stories are a fantastic way to help your child develop a love of reading and help them with their language development.

                     Important Dates 

Bedtime Story Event Thursday 14th November 4.30pm.

Training Days (whole school) Friday 15th November and Monday 18th November 

Early Years Training Day (Nursery and Reception only) Tuesday 19th November 

Santa Train Trip (Middleton Railway)  Wednesday 4th December 

Christmas Fair Thursday 5th December 

Nursery Christmas Performance Wednesday 18th December 

Reminder: Nursery will close for the Summer holidays on Friday 12th July 2020!

Tapestry

Children's learning journeys

Please make sure that you signup to Tapestry so that you can view your child's learning journey. An email will be sent to you from Tapestry to link your email address to your child's profile. We will send out your child's learning journey at the end of September. 

 We welcome any comments, photographs or observations of your child at home. Please send an email directly to Tapestry once you have linked your email to your child's account. 

If you have and questions or would like any help with this please speak to a member of staff.

 Many thanks,

The Early Years Team