Welcome to our nursery page!

Adults in our nursery:

Miss Natalie Lewis                          Dr Anna Sandfield        Mrs Claire Lloyd                  

EYFS Lead and Class Teacher        Class Teacher (M-W)    Learning Support Assistants

Miss Isabel Pile                      Miss Tanjum Choudhury

Our learning: 

Here at Little Elvers, we have lots of fun following the children's interests to guide our learning. The children love learning through play in our engaging indoor and outdoor environments. We also use the Primary Knowledge Curriculum to enhance the children's learning. 

Autumn Term 2 - Journeys

Primary Knowledge Curriculum Unit

This half term, our Primary Knowledge Curriculum unit is called ‘Journeys’. We will learn about different types of transport that were used in the past and are used in the present. We will also look at different maps of our local area.  You can find a knowledge organiser here: "Journeys". 

Characteristics of Effective Learning

The children settled in beautifully last half term. We will continue to practise our routines to help the children feel increasingly settled. 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 and persist with activities when challenges occur.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

We will be learning how to share resources and find solutions to problems they may encounter during play. We will be using “stop please” with a raised hand to help the children communicate with others.

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 friends politely and how to manage play in a kind and considerate way. We will be learning the words ‘journey’, ‘transport’ and ‘explorer’ 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 different types of transport that are used and why.  

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 vehicles in our junk modelling area and large scale vehicles for our role play corner.

 

Weekly newsflash: 

W/C: 04.09.24 and 09.09.24

We had a fantastic first week in Little Elvers. The children have settled into nursery and are having a great time exploring the new environment. This week, the children have really enjoyed exploring a wide variety of arts activities including using stencils, colouring pencils, felt tip pens, paint and play dough. The children have enjoyed exploring our small world area and working together to create towers with our wooden blocks. Outside, the children have really enjoyed creating obstacle courses using balance steps, wooden walk ways, cones and hula hoops! It has been lovely to support the children in making new friends and settle into the new routine of nursery. Well done for a brilliant first week!

 

W/C: 16.09.24

The children have continued to settle in this week. We have been looking at each of the areas in our classroom and how to use them. The children have enjoyed learning about how to use the book corner, construction area, small world area, home corner and water station. We look forward to exploring our other areas next week! The children are being reminded about how to follow our school rules of "ready", "respect" and "safe" whilst learning at Little Elvers. In our together times, we have started to cover our Primary Knowledge Curriculum unit of "All About Me". The children have started to name different parts of their body and talk about what they are used for. Well done Little Elvers!

 

W/C: 23.09.24

This week, the children have loved listening to the story "Owl Babies" and "Dino-Baby". These stories have helped us in our "All About Me" unit. The children have enjoyed learning some nursery rhymes too! We have learned and practised "Five Fat Sausages", "Wind the Bobbin up", "I'm a Little Teapot", "The Grand Old Duke of York" and "The Big Ship Sails" since the start of term. We are getting very confident now! We have also started to use our "Recognition Tree", where the adults name children who have been following our school rules and show great examples of "ready", "respect" and "safe"! Another excellent week in Little Elvers!

 

W/C: 04.11.24

It was lovely to be back at school in Little Elvers this week, we have been revising our important rules, 'safe', 'ready' and 'respect' and learning more about the community that we live in. We have been reading stories and talking about people who help us in the community, what an emergency is and how the emergency services help people. This week we have talked about how firefighters help to keep us safe and read the story 'Fire Engine is Flashing' and we have been learning about the police, using road signs in our play and talking about how police officers help people to be safe. We have also listened to and joined in with the story 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' (this version by Mara Alperin) and we have been practicing our storytelling using our troll voices! 

W/C 11.11.24

This week we have been learning more about our community and people who help us. On Monday we talked about Remembrance Day and remembering brave people who have fought in wars. We created some beautiful poppy art. We have been reading from the emergency vehicle books by Peter Bentley, this week our focus has been 'Ambulance in Action'. We have been finding out about how paramedics can help us in an emergency and their important role, working alongside other services to ensure that all the people in our community are safe and well. On Wednesday, we were very lucky, a paramedic visited Little Elvers with an ambulance and we were able to explore what it is like inside an ambulance. We found out more about what paramedics do and continued to explore our ideas about the emergency services through dressing up and role play.  

 

WC 18.11.24

It has been another brilliant week here in Little Elvers. We have been making the most of the frost and ice outside, which has given lots of opportunities for us to explore!

We have also started to look at different modes of transport the children have used before, which links to our Primary Knowledge Curriculum unit of “Journeys”.

We have been continuing this sharing of ideas in our role play and in our mark making.

We have enjoyed the story “Lost and Found” by Oliver Jeffers, linking the colder weather and our start to “Journeys”.