Little Elvers Nursery

Primary Knowledge Curriculum Unit

This half term, we will learn ‘All About Me’. We will learn the names of the parts of the face and body, how their bodies have changed since they were born, who members of our family are and who the people that help us in our local community are. You can find a knowledge organiser here: ‘All About Me’. 

Characteristics of Effective Learning

The children will be getting settled into our lovely environment. They will be engaging and playing with the learning resources in our indoor and outdoor areas. We will be supporting the children to ‘have a go’ at new activities.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

We will be learning how to say hello, how to make new friends, share resources and find solutions to problems they may encounter during play.

Physical Development

We will be exploring gross motor skills including large-scale mark-making and fine-motor skills. A range of outdoor equipment is available to help the children develop their gross motor skills. Different fine motor skills activities are available for the children to try, as well as a large variety of other learning resources that use fine motor skills.

Communication and Language

We will be exploring how to talk to new friends and how to manage play in a kind and considerate way. We will be learning the words ‘family’, ‘community’ and ‘emergency’ through our Primary Knowledge Curriculum Unit. 

Literacy

In Little Elvers, we have a lovely reading nook with a large variety of fiction and non-fiction books. We have a daily story time in which a book is shared with the children. Please see our weekly news flashes below to see which books the children have enjoyed that week! Mark making opportunities are always available for the children to explore.

Maths

We will practice reciting numbers to 5. We will make a start at delving deeper into each number to really understand what each number means and how you could represent it. Alongside this, we will start to build our understanding of 2D shape.

Understanding the World

We will be learning all about our bodies, our families, our school and the community around us. We will also be learning all about the emergency services that help us. 

Expressive Arts and Design

The children always have access to a variety of craft materials in order to express themselves and have fun creating! We will be creating self-portraits using paper plates, making play dough families and creating emergency vehicles in our junk modelling area.