We would like to introduce you to our Nursery Staff:

Mrs. Griffiths - Classteacher & SENCO

Mrs. Miceli - Early Years Practitioner

Miss. Harrison - Classroom Assistant

Mrs Pang - Special Educational Support Assistant

Nursery Staff hope you have had a wonderful Christmas and would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year. What a start to 2025 we have already had.

It is a new year and a new term and we have already started our new topic of: ‘Rumble in the Jungle.’

The children have been very busy accessing all areas of continuous provision and the children have enjoyed our new role play area ‘The Jungle explorers cave and campsite.’

Over the Spring term we will be looking at a range of jungle books as part of our learning: Dear Zoo, Giraffes can’t dance, Elmer, monkey puzzle, just to a name a few.

We will also be celebrating Chinese New Year, Pancake Day, Mother’s Day and Easter throughout the Spring Term.  The children will be taking part in a Mother’s Day Service and Easter Bonnet Parade.

Here are just some of the many activities that the children will be involved in during the next term:

*Learning new songs, for our Mother’s day service and Easter Bonnet

*Following Verbal Instructions.

*Listen to daily Jungle stories with increasing attention and recall

*Experimenting with mark making– letter and number formations– begin to form recognisable letters from our names

*Labelling animals

*using a range of media to create our own jungle animals

*Learn new jungle songs/ rhymes

*Design own animal prints

*Use instruments to recreate jungle animal sounds

*Explore the numbers 3-6 (Subitising, 1:1 counting, number recognition and composition of numbers.)

*Explore shapes including triangles, squares and pentagons.

*Height and length, Mass and capacity

*Exploring patterns

*Exploring different jungle animals and learning interesting facts

*Look at the different countries jungle animals come from

*Chinese New Year, Pancake Day, Seasonal changes in spring

*Life cycles of tadpoles, butterflies and chicks

*Growing

*Lent and Easter

In some cases, the activities will be guided by the children’s interests.

We all want the children to be happy and to have a very productive and enjoyable year.

We are always here for you, Mrs Griffiths, Mrs Miceli, Miss Harrison & Miss Pang.