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Nursery
Welcome to Nursery!
Dream Big, Dare to Fail
Welcome to the Orchard Primary Academy Nursery Class Page. We hope that you find the information on this page useful. If you have any further questions please speak to a member of Nursery Staff.
Our Class name is:
'Blossom'
At Orchard Primary Academy Nursery, play is at the heart of everything we do.
Play comes instinctively to children. Play is fun, immersive and crucial to child development. Children challenge themselves through play, explore how the world works, work through emotions and learn that other people have thoughts and feelings too.
Through play, children develop the characteristics to be able to thrive and become life long learners.
Staff
The Blossom class staff are:
Mrs Vokes
Nursery Room Leader
The Nursery Room Leader is also supported by:
Mrs Larter
Early Years Teaching Assistant
Miss Whitfield Mrs Cardus
Early Years Teaching Assistant Early Years Teaching Assistant
Important Information
At Orchard Primary Academy we value parental partnership. We understand that an effective partnership between school and home will have a positive impact on children’s learning.
We communicate with parents in various ways which include Arbor, Twitter, Facebook and Tapestry.
Arbor app allows us to send text messages, and letters to share information. You can also use this to pay for milk, trips and dinners. We will use your email address to activate your account.
Our Academy twitter account is also used to share information. The Academy twitter handle is: @OrchardPrimaryA
The Nursery twitter handle is:
@NOrchardpa
The Academy Facebook page can be accessed by following the link below:
Tapestry
At Orchard Primary Academy, we use an online journal provider called ‘Tapestry’ to collect and store your child’s electronic ‘Learning Journey’.
Tapestry allows you to login with a secure username and password so that you can view photographs, videos and observations of your child’s learning.
You can like and comment on observations that we add for your child. You can also add your own observations. Please click the image below to access Tapestry:
Important Information
Blossom Class PE Day: Friday
On this day, children can come to school in their PE kits for the whole session.
Please ensure your children has the following PE kit -
- Plain white T-shirt or polo shirt.
-Plain black shorts or black bottoms.
Key Dates
Monday 3rd November - School reopens to all children.
Friday 19th December - Inset Day. School closed to all children.
Nursery Rhyme Time
At Orchard Primary Academy, we learn a range of Nursery Rhymes throughout our time in the Early Years. Nursery Rhymes are important as they help us to develop key skills. This includes:
- Learning new words and extending our vocabulary
- Learning early Maths skills such as counting aloud using finger movements and actions
- Developing social skills such as turn taking
- Learning different beats and rhythms
- Develop positive relationships between children and adults.
This half term we will be focusing upon learning these Nursery Rhymes linked to the World Nursery Rhyme Week:
'Incy wincy spider', 'Twinkle, twinkle', 'Humpty Dumpty', 'When I was One', 'Five Little Elves' and 'Jingle Bells'.
This half term we will be learning ...
Our topic is called - Let's Celebrate!
We will be able to take part in traditional activities and customs related to familiar festivals and celebrations.
We will be able to name familiar festivals and describe how they are celebrated.
We will be able to observe and describe seasonal changes from Autumn to Winter.
Gross and Fine Motor Skills....
We will be mark making in a variety of ways to draw lines, circles, zigzags and we will be focusing on recognising and writing our first names.
We will be working on our fine motor skills through cutting, drawing, balancing, sorting and dough disco! getting ready to starting writing our own names.
Using these kind of skills are not only fun but help your child to strengthen their hand and finger muscles for not only writing/mark making but also important like skills such as zipping up their coat, fastening buttons and using a knife and fork to eat.
Author Focus
This half term we will be focusing on these books:
We will be reading and sharing the books - 'Room on the Broom' by Julia Donaldson, 'Bonfire Night: Firework poetry' by Sara Fox, 'Kippers Birthday' by Mick Inkpen and 'StickMan' by Julia Donaldson.
Links to try at home
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