Welcome to Nursery
If parents or carers wish to request a change to their child's current nursery hours from 15 hours to 30, a formal request needs to be made by sending an email to nursery@thorpe.leeds.sch.uk
Nursery admission forms link is below.
Nursery staff
In Nursery, the teachers are Mrs Nichols and Mrs Wright. Across the week, the support staff are Mrs Green and Mrs Hammond.
In Nursery, we will be building your child's foundation of learning and supporting them to become 'school ready'. Through exciting, purposeful provision and adult-led sessions, the children will access all 17 areas of learning. We have carefully designed a curriculum that caters for all needs, is inspiring and has taken into account local information. In Nursery, we will predominantly learn through play. It is essential that children learn through meaningful, playful experiences as this supports the development of the whole child. You can find the overview of our learning for this half term below.
Current Class book
In Autumn 1 we will be looking at 'Owl babies'. This story is linked to our autumnal theme in science and also dives into learning about characters and settings as an early reading skill. We will be looking at emotions through this story, family connections and local wildlife. We will learn the story through a visual story map and begin to understand the vocabulary really well, orally rehearsing the story and learning it from memory.
We will also read a range of high quality texts, discuss new vocabulary such as names of things/places, describe settings/characters and also draw on the children’s life experiences so far such as discussing what they like and don’t like and what they’d like to be when they grow up. We teach the children what an author and illustrator does and about the orientation of books.
Through circle times, children will begin to understand and observe similarities and differences between them and the others in their class. We will celebrate how we are unique and explore what special skills we have.
In music, we will explore instruments and begin to understand basics like pitch and dynamics by experimenting with sound, showing an awareness to the differences in sound with each instrument. Adults will model how use construction equipment (bricks/duplo) to design different structures such as a house. The children will learn about colours including naming colours, sorting into colours and matching colours together using paint, pens, crayons and more.
We will start by looking at families and family photos, discussing similarities and differences and significant events from these photos. We will also discuss people’s jobs. We will be talking about what our aspirations are so we will learn about inspirational people in the community like police officers, nurses, firefighters and dentists etc.
We will begin to notice signs of autumnal changes and talk to the children about these observations. We will do this through an autumn walk where we will collect natural objects and take photos, reminding children how to be respectful of our environment.
The children will have a range of opportunities to mark make with a variety of resources in order to gain some tool control. Through scribble club we will engage in playful experiences alongside the children. We will develop our motor skills so we can begin to hold a pencil effectively.
This half term we will start by learning some well-known number songs (5 little ducks, 3 blind mice etc.), before moving on to activities around naming and matching colours. We will then begin to look at the number 1 in different forms and representations.
In science, the children will be able to talk about what their senses are and use them to describe/name materials. They will have opportunities to collect natural resources to look closely at and observe. We will be learning all about autumn, too.
During space week, we will begin to understand the history of the inspirational people: Mae Jamison and Neil Armstrong.
Photos of our classroom
We will record your child's learning through our online journal system called 'Tapestry'. On here you will find a weekly blog and any 'WOW' moments your child experiences in nursery.
Please remember sign up to your child's tapestry account! Thank you!
Early Years Curriculum
Below you can find a link to our curriculum overviews and in the 'useful links' box you can find a more detailed version of our curriculum. You will see the topics we will be covering as well and vocabulary that will be introduced and exciting activities we will be planning.
Below you can also find a long term plan, too.
