Ace Acorns

Nursery

Ace Acorns

“Play is our brain’s favourite way of learning.”

 

Welcome to Ace Acorns. We are Foundation stage 1 children, aged 2-4 years.

 

Here you can find out all about our Nursery class and the learning that takes place. Information is also put onto Dojo weekly.

 

In our EYFS unit we intend for children to be ready, respectful and safe. Ready for the next stage in their learning journey. Ready to be challenged and to challenge themselves. 

In Nursery we teach the children to be respectful of others and of the many wonderful differences that make each child unique. We support children to feel safe through our positive relationships and our stimulating environment. We aspire for all children to feel safe to explore, manage their own risks and to make safe choices. 

We are determined for our children to be confident, independent and to believe in themselves. 

Miss Birch

Nursery Teacher

Mrs Ragu

Nursery Teaching Assistant

Mrs Flemming

Teaching Assistant

Mrs Korzeniewska

Teaching Assistant

We are very lucky to have a large learning area for the children to use. We have an indoor area where the children can play with the construction materials, make and create, build up their hand strength using the play dough, be imaginative in the home corner, have snack and be investigative.

The children also have access to an outdoor area that is share with Reception. Here they can practice all their gross motor skills.

 All of these areas are where the children will choose their independent learning through play.  

Every class has at least one school councillor to help share their classes’ views and make changes across the school. 

Every class has at least 1 dojo master. The dojo masters help show visitors around school and explain what they are/have been doing in class.

Click on the tabs below to find out more information about each topic. Throughout the year we will also add pictures of memorable experiences and hooks! 

During this topic the children will learn all about traditional tales. We will be learning about the characters, baddies and goodies and different homes in traditional stories. Also during this half term our topic work will include talking about feelings and our families. We will also be doing lots of learning about how to tidy and look after our environment, following our rules: Choose it, Use it, put it away.

The Enormous Turnip

For this half term we will be focusing on orally retelling the story of The Enormous Turnip.

Hook

This half term we are continuing with our topic – I wonder how the story will end? This is so the children continue to develop their understanding of how stories are structured and the excitement that stories create.

We will also learn about important dates and different celebrations during this half term including Remembrance day, Diwali, Children in Need, Bonfire night and Christmas.

Quality Text

Our quality text for this half term is the ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff. This term we will learn to use actions and a story map to help us retell the story.

Hook

This term in nursery we will be exploring what happens when they fall asleep. They will think about animals that are Nocturnal and have chance to take part in a virtual reality space experience day.

 

 

 

Quality Text

In Nursery we are learning the story ‘Owl Babies’. Children will learn to retell through actions and words and learn repetitive phrases.

Memorable Experience

In Nursery this term we will be learning about animals that live on a farm.

Quality Text

Our Quality text this term is “A Squash and a Squeeze” We will be looking at adding a new character to the story and retelling the story in their own words.

Memorable Experience

Coming Soon

In nursery this half term we will be investigating different types of minibeasts with a focus on the caterpillar and its life cycle.

Quality Text

We will be looking at ‘The hungry caterpillar’.

Hook

Coming Soon

Memorable Experience

Coming Soon

I wonder what a reflection is?

This term we will be learning about reflections, mirrors and symmetry. We will also be investigating photography and crating our own self portraits.

We will also be looking at transition to reception and get a change to go to our reception class for the day.

Quality Text

Poetry

Experiences

coming soon

Experiences and Opportunities

Parents dates:

17th September- Meet the Teacher

5th November- Parent Meetings

11th December- Christmas Crafts

18th/19th/20th March – Parent Meetings

Date to be confirmed May- Parent activities

Date to be confirmed July – Graduation Ceremony and Party

Things you need to know.

Information will be put onto Dojo on a weekly basis to enable you to support your child with home learning.

For this half term Nursery 2 children will be learning the story the ”The Three Little Pigs” and then ‘ Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. Please check Class Dojo where you will find a video of the story with the actions and a list of all the Key vocabulary your child needs to know.

Our Maths will focus around colours and sorting. Please see class dojo for some ideas to help your child.

Physical activity is vital in children’s all-round development, enabling them to pursue happy, healthy and active lives. By creating games and providing opportunities for play both indoors and outdoors, adults can support children to develop their core strength, stability, balance, spatial awareness, co-ordination and agility. Gross motor skills provide the foundation for developing healthy bodies and social and emotional well-being. Fine motor control and precision helps with hand-eye co-ordination, which is later linked to early literacy. Repeated and varied opportunities to explore and play with small world activities, puzzles, arts and crafts and the practice of using small tools, with feedback and support from adults, allow children to develop proficiency, control and confidence

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Firs Primary School
Raven Street
Derby
DE22 3WA
Telephone: 01332 346230
Fax: 01332 200782
admin@firsprimary.derby.sch.uk

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