Latchmere School

Nursery

SPRING TERM

We hope that you had a lovely Christmas break and would like to wish you all a happy new year. Welcome to the spring term where we look forward to continuing our partnership with you to make the children’s nursery experience the best it can be.

Talking and Reading Together

This term, we are planning more exciting story-based opportunities to promote a love of stories and to make them irresistible to children.   We strive to encourage conversations about the stories we explore with the children and for them to learn a selection of ‘wonderful words’ from our ‘inside out’ stories. We will use these words in other situations which will help children to eventually use them in their own talk.  We will make you aware of these words so that you can also use them at home with the family.  Revisiting a story over time will help children to remember repeated refrains, to understand the structure of the story and to talk about the stories they enjoy.  Different playful story telling approaches and links will be used to make learning enjoyable, such as acting out stories around the school and making houses for the 3 little pigs. 

This is a selection of stories that we will explore this term:

  • Who Lives Here?
  • This is Our House
  • The Gingerbread Man
  • The Three Little Pigs
  • Sharing a Shell

Maths

Our curriculum is based on the ‘Mathematics educational programme’ in the ‘Statutory Framework for the EYFS 2024’ and is informed by the ‘White Rose Maths Programme’. The children have opportunities to match, sort, count and subitise using real objects, counters and Numicon in their play and will have regular short and active maths activities. 

This half term we will be focusing on ‘subitising’ in different ways, which is knowing how many objects there are in a small group without counting them and seeing smaller numbers within bigger numbers.  We will be counting sounds and spotting the numerals 1 to 5 in the world around us.  We will learn about shapes and measures in our play and sing number rhymes.

Curriculum Highlights

This half term we will be learning about where we live and where our families live.  We will be looking at different houses and building our own with different materials.  As part of this focus, we are planning to go for a walk in our local environment to look at the features of different houses. 

In Spring 2 we will be learning about ‘Animals’, including those who live on farms and we will observe and talk about the life-cycle of a frog and a duck.

You can find out more information about the spring term learning by looking at the overviews and programmes of study on the school website.

Thank you in advance for all of your support in the year ahead,

Best wishes from Mrs Booth, Ms Leung and the nursery team

Key Dates

Wednesday 28th January – Singing Hands Workshop will be visiting us for lots of fun!  The children will learn how to sing a selection of songs and rhymes using Makaton signing.

A walk in the local environment is planned for this half term.  Dates are to be arranged.

Monday, 11th March – Our ‘Incredible Eggs’ arrive today!  What will be inside?


Updates and Reminders  

Morning routine

Thank you for your support in helping your child to come into nursery on their own at the beginning of term.  We know this can be tricky after a holiday.

Please remember to name your child’s clothes, snack pots and water bottles. 

Using ‘Seesaw’ to record children’s learning

As we start the new year, we will be posting more photos of children’s learning.

Snacks

Please remember to send in fruit and vegetables only or a plain biscuit if your child does not eat fruit.  These are the only snack foods we have in nursery in order to keep children who have allergies safe.  We are also a NUT-FREE zone.