St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy

NURSERY UNIFORM       

There is no compulsory uniform for our Nursery children, however we strongly recommend our parents/carers send their child in:

• dark blue jogging bottoms
• white polo shirt
• dark blue jumper/cardigan/sweatshirt
• white socks
• sensible trainers or shoes (no sandals/open toed shoes – bear in mind they will be climbing)
• waterproof coat

  TOPIC  Why Do Spiders Eat Flies?

This half term we will be exploring how spiders and other minibeasts feed and grow. We will investigate life cycles and the way some creatures change over time like the caterpillar. We will discover how spiders and other minibeasts move  in different ways, how they find food, water and shelter and escape from danger. We will find out about different habitats and the small creatures who live there and why. Most importantly we will learn how to respect and take care of small creatures and to do them no harm.

Summer TERM                EVENTS THIS TERM               

• Monday 8th April - School Opens
• Wednesday 24th April - Father Michael visiting Nursery
• Monday 6th May - May Day - School Closed
• 7th-10th May - Parent's Day for New Starters and Rising 3's this week
• 13th-17th May - Parent's Day for Leavers this week (further information about appointments will be given out nearer the time)
• Friday 24th - School Closes

 ON Topic                          

Our BOOKS  This term we will be          and lots of others!

     Reading At Home                                                                     

• Read stories, poems, traditional tales and rhyming stories with your child.
• Encourage them to listen carefully and join in with repeated rhymes and refrains.
• Can they recall some of the events in the story ?
• Can they describe where the story took place ?
• Who were the main characters in the story?    What was their favourite part ? Why ? What happened ?                                         

          Magic Maths                         

     This half term we will be: 

• Counting out loud 1-10 +,
• counting objects 1-10+ pointing to each object and saying the number
• Using our fingers for counting 1-10
• Recognising numbers 1-5  5-10
• Matching numbers to amounts 1-5, 5-10
• Making marks to represent numbers
• Using 3D shapes to create

 ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP                                        FUNDRAISING             

Our class charity is SENSE   

Sense is a national charity in the United Kingdom that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deafblind.

Last Year the class raised £159.62 for their chosen charity making Christmas cakes and filling hollow Easter Eggs with loose change. Thank you to all the parents and children, your donation was gratefully received by the SENSE team.

Watch the page for upcoming events for fundraising.

 MINI CHRISTMAS CAKES

This term the children raised £33.00 for Sense by decorating and selling Christmas cakes. Thank you for helping.

Our Happy Class Family Board - being kind to each other, doing kind deeds and helping others. When we do something kind and helpful we add a heart to our happy class family board.

Leadership Roles

 Tidying up and looking after our classroom toys and equipment.

We have leadership roles where we will take it in turns to have an important role during the Nursery day. These jobs will incorporate looking after classroom areas. 

     LIBRARY DAY is Thursday

Don't forget to let your child choose a book on a Thursday morning and you can enjoy it together at home. A big thank you to all the parents who have kindly donated books to our library, this wonderful resource would not be available without your constant support. If you haven't donated a book and would like to, please talk to a member of the Nursery Team.

BOOKS, BOOKS and more BOOKS ..........reading is the best !!!

Please try and read with your child daily. We try to foster a love of books and stories in the Nursery and your child will gain so much from having you read with them and show them that books and reading is important and enjoyable.

We LOVE books!

So your child has as much fun as possible and gains as much independence as possible, please remember

• Dress your child in clothing and coats that they can manage themselves
• Sensible footwear, no sandals, flip flops, crocs or open toed shoes
• Trousers or shorts to be able to access roktagons and outdoor climbing
• No expensive clothing or coats they will get dirty
• Wellingtons in winter or wet weather- you can leave labelled wellies at Nursery
• NAME LABELS IN ALL CLOTHING- WE CANNOT FIND MISPLACED CLOTHING IF IT HAS NO NAME
• Encourage your child to become independent in using the toilet, it boosts their confidence and self esteem and gives them independence in the Nursery

Our School Mission

God asks us to

This half term we will Alliteration

Tune into Sounds- To develop an understanding of alliteration

Listen and Remember Sounds- To listen to sounds at the beginning of words and hear the difference between them.

Talk about Sounds -  To explore how different sounds are articulated and extend an understanding of alliteration.