Nursery Curriculum Newsletter
Summer 1
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
We will be learning to
 recognise and talk about different feelings and emotions through
reading a selection of stories
 We will encourage the children to dress and undress themselves at
PE times
 show care and concern for others, living things and the
environment
Communication, Language and
Literacy
We will be
 Learning about voice sounds and
blending the sounds in simple words
as part of our Letters and Sounds
Program
 Reading stories and singing songs
about the jungle and its animals and
insects
 Reading non-fiction books about
plants, new life and how we grow and
change,
 Tracing pictures of Rainforest
animals and insects
 Listening to others and recalling our
own experiences at chat time
Growing
and
Living Things
Problem Solving, Reasoning
and Numeracy
We will be developing our
understanding of
 recognising numerals to 10
and selecting the correct
numeral to represent up to
10 objects
 estimating a number of
objects and counting them
 adding and taking away using
different groups of objects
 using mathematical
vocabulary i.e.
heavier/lighter,
taller/shorter, more/less
 using positional language
 using ordinal numbers
Nursery Curriculum Newsletter
Knowledge and Understanding of
the World
We will be finding out about
 plants, new life, growth and
change over time
 the natural world: looking at the
features of living things
 planting seeds and talking about
how they grow
 comparing what we can do now to
when we were younger
Creative Development
Our theme will be growing and living things.
We will also be
 developing our imagination and creating stories based
around our structured play theme ‘The Rainforest’
 creating pictures of animals that live in the rainforest,
exploring colour and developing our knowledge of the
natural world
 exploring music & dance, representing the sounds of the
rainforest and the animals found there
 Creating our own musical instruments
PLEASE NOTE
P.E.
P.E. will continue to be on a Monday.
Please send your child in shorts and a tshirt with their school jumper and skirt
or trousers over the top.
Please put your child in trainers in case
we do P.E. outside.
Summer 1

Please make sure your
child’s clothes are
clearly labeled with
their names to avoid
mix ups.

During the warm
weather, please put
sun cream on your
child and send them
with a water bottle
and a hat.