St Maria Goretti

Mrs Cooper introducing the class Author

FS1

Nursery

Welcome to Nursery at St Maria Goretti

Nursery Staff: Mrs Stone, Mrs Bowyer, Miss Preece

Dear Parents - Welcome to FS1

Settling in presentation - Autumn 2020

Our Class Author – Mick Inkpen

Summer Reading Challenge

Please take a look at the information on the attachment below regarding the library’s Summer Reading Challenge. We can’t wait to hear about your reading adventures in September!

Summer Reading Challenge

Induction Leaflet

Our Learning - Autumn Term 2020-21

Religious Education: This term we will be learning all about:

• Creation
• God The Father
• God’s Family
• Advent

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

We will be learning to

• Aware of own feelings, and knows that some actions and words can hurt others’ feelings.
• Confident to talk to other children when playing, and will communicate freely about own home and community
• Seek out others to share experiences

Physical Development:

We will be learning to

• Show control in holding and using jugs to pour, hammers, books and mark-making tools.
• to use three fingers (tripod grip) to hold writing tools
• Imitate drawing simple shapes such as circles and lines.
• observes the effects of activity on their bodies

Communication and Language:

We will be learning to

• Follow simple instructions
• Listen to our adults and our friends
• to understand ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions
• Build up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of our experiences.
• Uses talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play, e,g, ‘This box is my castle

Literacy

We will be learning to

• Suggest how the story might end.
• Listen to stories with increasing attention and recall.
• Describe main story settings, events and principal characters
• Distinguish between the different marks we make
• Gives meaning to marks as we draw and paint

Maths Number

We will be learning to

• Make comparisons between quantities.
• Use some language of quantities, such as ‘more’ and ‘a lot’. •
• Know that a group of things changes in quantity when something is added or taken away.
• Recite numbers in order to 5 and then 10.
• Know that numbers identify how many objects are in a set.
• Represent numbers using fingers, marks on paper or pictures.

Maths Shape, Space and Measure

We will be learning to

• Understand some talk about immediate past and future, e.g. ‘before’, ‘later’ or ‘soon’
• Show interest in shapes in the environment
• Begin to talk about the shapes of everyday objects, g. ‘round’ and ‘tall’

Understanding The World

We will be learning to

• Understand that they have similarities and differences that connect them to, and distinguish them from, others
• Talk about significant events in our own experience
• Show interest in different occupations and ways of life
• talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects
• Show skill in making toys work by pressing parts or lifting flaps to achieve effects such as sound, movements or new images.

Expressive Arts and Design

We will be learning to

• Tap out simple repeated rhythms
• Use various construction materials
• Engage in imaginative role-play based on our own first-hand experiences.
• Uses available resources to create props to support role-play

Important information: 

We are asking that all children bring in a water bottle to school every day. Please can this be clearly named and the children will be able to access their drinks as they want them throughout the school day.

We love to learn outside in ALL weather! So please ensure that your child has a waterproof coat and wellies in school at all times so they do not miss out. Please ensure that your child is in a warm coat with gloves and a hat available at all times.

Accidents happen, so it is important that all children have a spare set of clothes along with wet wipes in a plastic bag, named and on their pegs.

Please ensure that you read with your child at least 3 times per week and that you sign and comment in their reading diary when you do so.

Our PE kit is the school blue jogging trousers and school sweatshirt. We will notify you of our PE day later in the Autumn term.

Pupils MUST use a book bag to transport books and homework to and from school. Large rucksacks will not be allowed due to lack of storage space.

Phonics Websites:   

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

Maths games:          

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=1

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/numberblocks

Oxford Owl – videos to help you support your child with their learning at home:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/parent-how-to-videos/

Tapestry:                            

https://tapestryjournal.com  

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