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Nursery Home Learning Activities
Please scroll down to our Learning Blog for links with home learning.
A new challenge will be added each day.
Look for the white text...
Why not plan your homeschool routine around some of these fabulous daily activities...
Welcome to our Nursery Class page.
We are so glad you found us!
We are very lucky at St John's to be able to provide education for children from aged 3 within our EYFS unit.
Our popular Nursery class has become well established within the community. If you would like to arrange a tour of school, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
If you are interested in a place at our Nursery, please contact the office and leave your details and Mrs Hanson, our Early Years Lead will contact you to discuss this further.
Our Curriculum
Our Curriculum Intent - Early Years Long Term Planner
Working families may be eligible to receive support with childcare with the 30 hours scheme.
Please note that additional costs would be incurred to cover lunchtime periods and providing lunch for our Nursery children who stay for full days.*
Lunchtime - Cost of additional childcare £10 per week (payable fortnightly in advance and non-refundable in the event of absence)
Cost of School Meals - £12.50 per week
These payments will be set up via our School Money App
To see if you qualify for the 30 hour code, please visit the link below.
*Full charges would be incurred where codes lapse or applications are late, see website for details
⭐️Our Class⭐️
Meet our Team
Mrs Hanson - Nursery Class Teacher
Mrs Knight - HLTA
Miss Semeniuk - Nursery Teaching Assistant
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| Monday | Mrs Hanson / Mrs Knight |
| Tuesday | Mrs Hanson / Mrs Knight |
| Wednesday | Mrs Knight |
| Thursday | Mrs Hanson |
| Friday | Mrs Knight |
Please keep checking back regularly to keep up to date with our current learning blog 
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PE and Library (pumps and book bags please) |
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Show and Tell |
Our learning blog... 👀
Spring 2 2020 'What the Ladybird Heard'
Please click the link below to view our half termly curriculum newsletter
A great resource from TTS for Early Years children. Feel free to try some ideas out at home.
Home Learning Challenges!Monday 30th March
Why not try out some simple Spring craft.
Look at some of the links here for inspiration and away you go...
Friday 27th March - When will it be Spring?
Watch the story 'When Will it Be Spring?'
Go on a short walk and see if you can spot any signs of Spring!
Can you find everything on the nature detectives checklist?
Look at the photos you took – name some Spring things
All about Spring...
Thursday 26th March
Number songs today! Time for some Learn It's.
How many fingers on one hand?
Two hands?
How many toes on one foot?
Two feet?
Count the feet in your house. Now count the toes!
When you're done, why not share the lovely story of counting by feet 'One is a snail' just scroll down.
Wednesday 25th March
Can you guess whose feet are whose? Do you have some pets? How are their feet different?
How many toes on one foot? Two feet? In your family?
Who has the biggest/smallest feet in your house?
Order some shoes by size. Sing the song 'This Little Piggy' and find out who is ticklish!
Tuesday 24th March
It's Doodle Tuesday!
Let's Doodle a ladybird with Lydia Monks, the author of 'What the Ladybird Heard'.
We'd love to see your artwork 
Scroll down for a drawing inspired guessing game too!
Look 👀 who I found in my garden today! See if you can find any on yours too 🐞
Monday 23rd March
Watch Rosie’s walk and create an obstacle course in garden/around your home.
Why not use words like over, under, through and around. Have fun!
If you are going out for some exercise, why not look for some animal tracks in the mud? Share your learning with us on Tapestry 
Friday 20th March 2020
Watch and listen to the video 'I know a Chicken'
Can you make a shaker from materials in your home? Upload your videos to Tapestry
Fast and slow...
Thursday 19th March
Watch and join in with the story of 'What the Ladybird Heard'
Can you make the sounds of the farmyard animals?
What were the two crafty robbers plotting to do?
How did the ladybird help to foil the plan?
Who’s on the farm? 🐄🐓🐐🐎🐈🦆
World 🌎 Book 📚 Day 2020
Bee 🐝 & Me
This beautiful text has got us all talking.
Great to see our children using inference from pictures so early in their reading journeys! ♥️🐝
Great to see our children using inference from pictures so early in their reading journeys! ♥️🐝
Making pancakes 🥞 ⛪️
Ash Wednesday ✝️
Our Lenting Box 📦
Nursery are counting down the days of Lent to Easter.
We have thought about giving things up for Lent but also about giving as an act of kindness.
We have begun collecting items for our Lenting box and have been overwhelmed by the generosity of our parents.
Porch boxes will benefit our donations and these boxes support families in our local area 👍🏻♥️
Spring 1 2020 'Supertato'
Supertato by Sue Hendra is our new exciting Power of Reading text
Our Learning - Supertato (Please click the link to see our half termly newsletter)
Week 1 exploring the new text, learning about titles, character and making predictions...
Week 2 Book blurb, Supertato's catchphrase and creating characters for storytelling 🥔 🍎 🍐
Week 3 - Find the Evil Pea!
Where could he be? Let's look around whilst we learn our positional language.
Why not sing our new song to learn 'on, in, under, by'.
The hunt continues...
Nursery are unhappy with Evil Pea's antics.
First he trapped and wrapped the fruit, then he drew on the fruit and vegetables.
Their faces showed they weren't happy!
First he trapped and wrapped the fruit, then he drew on the fruit and vegetables.
Their faces showed they weren't happy!
Well spotted Isabelle!
We looked all over the classroom and eventually found him!
Then he bounced away again! Will we ever catch him!
Then he bounced away again! Will we ever catch him!
Setting traps!
Rebekah had a great idea...
"If he comes back in through the window, I will catch him in this basket. I'll put a cushion on top. He won't escape then!"
"If he comes back in through the window, I will catch him in this basket. I'll put a cushion on top. He won't escape then!"
Week 4 - The freezing of Evil Pea! After many attempts at escape, Nursery decided that we must freeze the Evil Pea to stop his shenanigans! The children problem solved where we would put him, how we could freeze him and how long we needed to leave him in the freezer! We even made signs to warn others not to open the freezer door, just in case he defrosted again!
He's out of the freezer...and he's defrosting❄️☀️
Week 5 Local History Week - School in the Past. We are thinking about what school would have been like in 1915 when it was built and how it has changed over time.
Our walk 👫 to look at school and our local streets
What was school like 100 years ago?
Old fashioned games with Mrs Knight...
PE with Coach Sean!
Superheroes Assemble! Healthy eating and fun with coach Sean made Superhero Day the best!
Exploring balance with Coach Sean! High progressions this week!
Early Years Christmas Party! 🎉 🎅
Autumn 2 2019
What will we be learning about in Autumn 2? 'Whatever Next!' Click on the link to our Newsletter to find out more...
Story predictions 💭
Enhancing our roleplay ready for retelling! We collected the items we need for the story and even made a fireplace for Baby Bear 🐻 to begin his adventures!
We have been exploring shapes to create some 3D rockets! 🚀
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Interfaith week
Autumn 1 2019
We'll be exploring what it is to be unique with the David McKee classic Elmer!
What will we be learning in Autumn 1? Click on the link below to view our newsletter...
Autumn 1 - Week beginning 4.9.19 - Welcome to our new Nursery children! We are getting to know each other and learning what we can learn in our new environment. We are lucky to have four learning spaces in EYFS. The Busy Bee room, The Hive, The Workshop, and of course, the great outdoors!
Autumn 1 - Week beginning 9.9.19: Nursery are settling well and love their new and improved learning space. We have welcomed more new friends this week and are keen to show our new friends how to use our classroom.
Autumn 1 - Week beginning 16.9.19: Nursry have begun to explore their new topic and have been thinking about what makes them unique. We looked at our faces and drew what we could see! We then made some yummy biscuits to look like us!
This is Me!
Autumn 1 - Week beginning 23.9.19: Nursery have explored their body shapes using Tap-A-Shape. We learned that we have one head, one body, two arms, two hands, two legs and two feet. We even know that we have five digits on each hand and each foot! We remembered where to place them to build ourselves using the pieces. We took care to use the hammers and pins carefully.
Week beginning 30.9.19 - Homes and Families
Whole School D&T week.
Nursery and Reception worked on using tools (including our hands!) purposefully to make delicious food and sensational crafts!
Find the ⭐️ icon on our class page gallery to find out what the whole school have been learning for Design and Technology week!
Week beginning 14.10.19 - D&T week linked with Autumn 🍂
