Nursery

Nursery children have been making rosemary and pine cone tea in their outdoor provision this morning. The children were using their senses to smell the rosemary as they added it to their special tea.

They have been using their gross motor skills to mix up the tea, and using good hand eye coordination when using the ladles to pour it into the tea cups.

This morning some of our nursery children have been very busy within our construction area. They have built a den so they have an exciting new space to read our favourite stories.

We have also been making a car so we can explore lots of places, the girls said they are off to visit the Blackpool tower.

There might be some tired pre schoolers and reception children with achy legs after all the walking up Warton Crag with Outdoor Education North West. Great views from the top though and great fun had by all!

Welcome to Nursery

Please find below the school expectations for particular ages when your child starts with us here at St Michael's. We have created age typical learning maps for 2-year-olds and 3-year-olds. As you will see, we like to be ambitious and want only the best for our children.

Spring 1 2023 - Our Heroes! (People Who Help Us)

Welcome to St-Michaels nursery, during this Spring 1 half term, our focus topic is 'People Who Help Us'.

This topic children invariably find absorbing! It offers opportunities to explore diverse aspects of life experiences, some close to home and others within our community.

We have linked into this topic with some relevant stories that will help us to have some good discussions about ourselves and our families to support our all about me topic, these include:

Going to the doctor

A Superhero Like Me

Mega Boy

Superworm

During this topic, our children will be learning about real-life superheroes, people who help us within our community, from doctors, nurses, and other medical and healthcare professionals, the police, and firefighters, teachers, and our parents and carers. We will discuss the roles of these professionals and how they help us, and we will discuss if any of our own families are real-life superheroes.

Within nursery the majority of our learning comes from our continuous provision, this is constantly changing to meet the needs of the children and enhanced to develop the children's learning.

We aim to continually support all 7 areas of learning within the EYFS, with the 3 specific areas being the main focus of everything for the nursery children.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development:

Children come to develop confidence in who they are and what they can do and in expressing their own ideas. The children will help to change the role play area into a doctor's surgery, where they will use their knowledge of their own experiences. We will have visitors come to visit the children from various roles within our community. We will also discuss our family and friends are there for us and are there to help us when we need them.

Communication and language:

With our topic being people who help us, we have had lots of discussions about ourselves and our families. We will learn lots of new vocabulary by naming the roles and the tools used by people who help us such as paramedic, air ambulance, life boat, stethoscope, fire hose etc.

Physical Development:

Children will learn about their bodies, body parts, what our body needs to thrive. The children will explore the roles of these professionals and be active within their play, for example waving their arms as if they are holding a fire hose to put out a fire. They could be swimming to save someone in the sea.

Each Thursday is our P.E day, please make sure the children come in comfy clothes suitable for lots of physical activity.

Mrs Renton, Mrs Peters and Mrs Williamson are looking forward to helping all of our nursery children shine brightly!