Nursery 2024 - 2025
Miss Clark
Meet the Team
Miss Clark, Mrs Sweet and Mrs Marsh
If you have any questions, please speak to one of our Nursery staff or email:
nursery@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
If you have any questions about Nursery admissions please email:
admin@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
Welcome
Welcome to Nursery! We recognise that Nursery is an important milestone for children and their families. We look forward to working in partnership with you throughout the year, supporting your child on the first step of their academic journey. Our Nursery is a nurturing and caring environment, with rich opportunities for children to play, explore, and develop their independence.
What's happening this half term and how you can help your child.
Maths:
- Sorting by colour, size or item
- Looking at things that are the same and different
- Joining in with rhymes up to 10
- Looking at different patterns
- Reciting numbers to 10
- Subitising numbers up to 6
English:
Talk for Writing units:
Mad about Minibeasts by Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz
Fran's Flower by Lisa Bruce
- Encourage your child to hold a mark making tool in a tripod grip
- Learning how to hold a mark making tool to create lines and shapes.
- Giving meaning to the marks I make
- Hearing and identifying sounds
- Blending letter sounds to hear words
We work with the Little Wandle Phase 1 Rhymes in our nursery setting click here for more information.
The children begin to learn their letter sounds in Reception. If you would like to know how to make the letter sounds correctly click here.
Topic: Growing & Insects
We will be learning about growing plants and insects. We will learn lots of interesting facts about creepy crawlies that live here in the UK and abroad. We will also talk about seeds and learn how plants grown. We will learn about the different parts of a plant and which parts grow first. We will plant seeds in school and watch seeds germinate in plastic wallets so that we can see their root systems start to grow. Amazing!
We will also be learning about different kinds of bears when we read Golidlocks and the Three Bears. We will look at brown bears, like the ones in our story, as well as other types of bears from different countries. We will learn bear facts and investigate how they are the same and different. The three bears enjoyed eating porridge so we will be making some porridge of our own in nursery. The children will get to try plain porridge and sweet porridge, then talk about which one they liked best.
We will continue to explore how we are the same and different during our circle times. We will talk about kindness and listening to our friends. We will think about how we can talk to each other to solve problems and disagreements together.
We will look at changes in our local environment as Spring turns to Summer. For example: Blossom changing to growing fruits, lighter morning and nights and the different activities we do in summer.
Here are the skills we are encouraging each half term at school.
Reading books:
We have now sent our reading packs home. The books are changed on a Tuesday so that they are ready to give out on Wednesday. Please read with your child every day. This book is for you to read to your child.
Homework:
Our purple Brainbuilder books are given out each Wednesday. They can be returned to school when the work is complete but we do ask that they are back in school the following Tuesday.
Spare clothes:
Each child in Nursery has their own tray for the children to keep their belongings in. Please make sure you send in a spare set of clothes in a bag that we can hang on your child's peg. Please make sure all items have your child's name on them.
Independence:
Learning to become independent is central to children’s development in Early Years. To help your child become independent, please encourage them to put their own coat on, wash their hands, and begin to tidy away their toys.
Wellcomm
In nursery we follow the Wellcomm program that helps children to develop their language skills. The children have specific targets to work on and we share these with you so that we can work together to aid your child's development. We understand and value that many families may speak a language other than English at home. This is something to be celebrated and is important for your child's laguage development and understanding.
For tips on how to help your child to develop their langaueg, understanding and speaking skills please see the links below.
- BBC Tiny Happy People - Tips and Advice - This is for parents to get ideas and tips on working with their children at home. There are different catagories for you to choose from explaining how you can work with your child if you are looking for information on; language development, routines, being bilingual, getting outdoors and many more. Click Here
- Rhyme Book - to share with children at home. In this booklet traditional rhymes are shared but then also changed to make them more relevant to your child and where they live. They are a great way to explore langauge and have fun together. Click Here