Nursery

In Nursery we plan carefully for each stage of reading, ensuring children develop a love of books, have many opportunities to listen to stories, tell their own stories, begin to recognise familiar print around them and start to play with letters and sounds.

• Develop a love for books and story language
• Develop a sense of rhythm and musicality
• Play listening games, silly soup, Georgie’s gym, bears picnic
• Join in with familiar books using words and actions
• Differentiate between words and illustrations
• Begin to recognise familiar print in the environment
• Use letters and sounds in our play

In Nursery we plan carefully for the different elements of mathematical learning. We hope to develop an enjoyment for number and number sense whilst encouraging the use of mathematical talk. The children will also be able to engage in shape, space and measure work through construction activities, baking and playdough club.

• Use numbers in our play
• Begin to count objects, actions and sounds
• Use the language of quantity
• Play dice games and recognise the pattern (subitise)
• Use language involved in shape, space and measure when constructing
• Begin to recognise numerals
• Begin to recognise numerals

In Nursery we are dedicated to promoting language and social communication. These are the basics skills required for learning.

• Ready, steady, go activities that require children to ask for more
• Offering a choice between two and encouraging a child to orally say one before giving it to them
• The unexpected – putting a hat on hands, putting a banana in a cup
• Adults playing alongside and commentating on play
• Singing nursery rhymes
• Playing cooperatively and negotiate ideas