Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Literacy
Understanding the world
What we do at school;
» Provide games and activities that promote cooperation
» Enjoy the responsibility of carrying out small tasks
» Settle back into the Nursery routine and remember the rules
You could help support this at home by…
» Doing activities together such as jigsaw puzzles
» Encouraging your child to help around the home
» Following a regular morning routine so that you come to school
every day and arrive on time
What we do at school;
» Provide books, props and role-play areas to
support retelling of stories.
» Model writing poems and short stories with
the children
You could help support this at home by…
» Retell very familiar stories together without
using the book, understanding the order in
which events happen.
» Share when you write for a purpose and
encourage recognising familiar letters e.g.
shopping lists, cards, letters, and notes.
» Recognise familiar logos on shops and
packaging.
What we do at school;
» Provide opportunities to talk about ourselves and our
families.
» Provide maps to enhance small world play.
» Use simple equipment to record and playback sounds and
stories eg video recorder and camera.
You could help support this at home by…
» Make an “All about me” box to share in school.
» Look at local area maps, bus routes, and talk about how
you get to where you’re going.
» Look at the symbols on recording equipment and
understand what each button does.
Communication and Language
What we do at school;
» Provide activities where we listen carefully to
different speech sounds, especially the similarities in
sounds at the beginning of words
» Encourage children to re-enact events and stories,
using talk and action
» Lots of oral story telling and listening to stories
without pictures
You could help support this at home by…
» Sing songs and share rhymes, especially listening for
words which start with the same sounds
» Talking through the order in which you do things, eg
first, next, then
» Bringing your child’s library bag every Friday so that
they can choose another book to take home.
Remember, you keep the book for a week so make
the most of the story, act it out and talk to your child
about their opinion of the story.
Nursery Spring 1 2017
Traditional tales & Nursery rhymes
What we do at school and how you can help.
These are some of the things we may be doing.
Planning is flexible and will be tailored to the
children’s individual interests and needs.
Mathematics
What we do at school;
» Realise that anything can be counted such as eg jumps,
claps, hops.
» Compare and use the language of size, length and weight
when comparing objects.
You could help support this at home by…
» Find opportunities to count every day; How many steps on
the way to school? How many lamp posts? How many
friends can you see?
» Talk about how big or small, long or short, heavy or light
objects are.
» Cook with your child to help them develop their
understanding of measures.
» Look for numbers on your way home e.g. on doors, buses,.
Physical development
Expressive Arts and Design
What we do at school;
» Provide junk modelling to enable children to create
props to support role-play
Provide opportunities for wood work to make models
and learn key skills
You could help support this at home by…
» Build something together with your child and bring to
school to share.
» Save your empty packets, milk bottle tops, and boxes
for the children to use at school
What we do at school;
» Provide construction toys that fit together by twisting, pushing, slotting or magnetism
» Practise movement skills through games with beanbags, cones, balls and hoops
» Talk with children about the importance of handwashing
You could help support this at home by…
» Play with Lego and other construction toys.
» Do jigsaw puzzles together.
» Encouraging walking up and down stairs with alternate feet.
» Dressing and undressing themselves especially putting on their coat and shoes.
» Encourage a good handwashing technique, rubbing soap all over and between fingers.