Clowne Infant & Nursery School
‘We take our children on a journey of discovery, giving them aspirations and engaging them in lifelong learning’
Welcome
Nursery Information
Welcome to our Nursery
The Teachers in nursery are;
Mrs Barnett and Mrs Horvath
The Teaching Assistants in nursery are;
Mrs Burrell (HLTA), Mrs Bexton (Nursery Nurse),
Miss Kelly (Teaching Assistant), Miss Sherlock (Nursery Nurse),
Miss Jenkinson (Teaching Assistant), Mrs Kelly (SENTA) and Mrs Bird (SENTA)
Our fifth topic this year is 'What do animals need to live?'.
We will be talking about what animals need to live, where animals live, what animal babies are called and life cycles. We will be learning about where animals live, playing in our vet role play area and learning how to look after animals.
We will be reading the books -
Owl Babies
The Magic Porridge Pot
A Good Place
Find Out About Animal Babies
Lulu Gets a Cat
and
Who Is In The Egg?
Our fourth topic this year is 'How do things grow?'.
We will be talking about what plants and flowers need to grow, different types of plants and flowers, the artist Vincent Van Gogh and Easter. We will be planting and painting sunflowers, playing in our Garden Centre role play area and learning about Spring.
We will be reading the books -
Seasons
Jack and the Beanstalk
Fruit and Vegetables
Daisy, eat your peas
The Little Red Hen
We learnt the songs;
*Sleeping Bunnies
*Little Peter Rabbit
*Easter Bunny
*Here Is The Beehive
*The Growing Plants Song
Alongside many traditional nursery rhymes.
Nursery Rhymes and Songs - A to Z - BBC Teach
Our third topic this year was 'Where In The World Do I Live?'.
We discussed how we travel to and from school, space, Chinese New Year, the weather where we live and in different places we have been to, and traditional stories. We designed and created houses made from junk materials and looked at the different types of homes people live in.
We read the books -
One Day On Our Blue Planet
Love Our Earth
Mini Rabbit Not Lost
The Marvellous Moon Map
The Owl and the Pussycat
We learnt the songs;
*5 Little Men in a Flying Saucer
*Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
*Wheels on the Bus
*2 Little Dicky Birds
*Our House
Alongside many traditional nursery rhymes.
Nursery Rhymes and Songs - A to Z - BBC Teach
Our second topic this year is 'What makes a magical place?'.
We will be learning about Bonfire Night, Remembrance Day, Diwali, our feelings and emotions, and Christmas. We will be creating firework pictures using a range of different skills and media, we will be pretending to be firefighters in our role-play area, and learning about different traditions we celebrate in our own families.
We will be reading the books -
'Kind'
'The Magic Crayon'
'Feelings'
'How Do You Make a Rainbow'
'Kitchen Disco'
'The First Christmas'
and 'Stickman'
We are learning the songs;
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, When Santa Got Stuck Up The Chimney, Funny Little Snowman and On Christmas Day Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey.
Alongside many traditional nursery rhymes.
Nursery Rhymes and Songs - A to Z - BBC Teach
Things to look out for this term
*Christmas Concert
*Home visits
*Christmas Fair
In our Curiosity Box we will be looking at how to keep our teeth clean.
Our first topic this year was 'Who is in my family?'.
We discussed our families, and who we live with. We created self-portraits to display in nursery, role-played in the house area and looked at similarities and differences between us and our friends.
We read the books -
'Harry and The Dinosaurs Go To School'
'Peace At Last'
'Guess How Much I Love You'
'The Enormous Turnip'
'Goldilocks and The Three Bears'
'The Leaf Thief'
and 'We're Going On a Pumpkin Hunt'.
We learnt the songs;
Tidy up time, If You're Happy and You Know It, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Make a Face, Dingle Dangle Scarecrow, and Big Red Tractor.
Alongside many traditional nursery rhymes.
Nursery Rhymes and Songs - A to Z - BBC Teach
In nursery we have a Curiosity Box which during the year has a variety of different items in for the children to look at, and wonder about. These items will be things the children may not have seen before and we will be asking them the questions “I wonder what it is? I wonder what it does” and recording their answers.
In Autumn 1 are currently exploring a disposable camera.
Click here to visit our nursery information page which shows what we have planned for the year.