Broadgate Primary School

In September, we welcome our new starters and welcome back our returning children! We have lots of fun as we make friends, settle in to Nursery life and try out lots of new and exciting opportunities! Together, we learn more about ourselves and one another as we all become part of our Nursery group! 

We then begin our new term with an exploration of Autumn! We watch as Summer becomes Autumn, looking out for the signs around us. We have lots of fun outdoors hunting for Autumn treasures, creating our own Autumn natural art and singing songs about this time of year! Our key text is 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' by Michael Rosen.

After half-term, we extend and develop our learning about Autumn by learning about the animals and wildlife around us at this time of year. We are introduced to what it means to hibernate and which animals sleep through the Winter. We enjoy creating our own shadow puppet shows based on our key text, 'Owl Babies' by Martin Waddell. Our Nursery calendar is also full of celebrations during this time of year, including Divali, Bonfire Night and Christmas! 

Throughout the term, we follow and develop children's interests as they emerge, through planning and provision. This allows children to explore and develop these interests in greater depth within a range of contexts. 

We begin the new year by welcoming new friends to our class and settling back in after the Christmas break. We think about our hopes and wishes for the year, and how we can make them come true!

Our first focus for the Spring term is 'When I Grow Up'! We learn more about our local community and the different jobs that people do. We think about what we would like to be when we grow up and take on the roles of different people from our community as we play! We even have a special visitor from our local community to teach us more about what they do!

After the half-term holiday, we enter the magical world of stories! We explore a number of different interesting stories and engage in a variety of activities to support our learning, which helps us to better understand the key events and characters. In both the indoor and outdoor provision, we use the resources on offer to retell these stories in a number of ways. We continue our story theme with some exciting World Book Day celebrations too!

We think about lots of celebrations from around the world this term including Chinese New Year, Easter, Ramadan, Eid and Holi.

Throughout the term, we follow and develop children's interests as they emerge, through planning and provision. This allows children to explore and develop these interests in greater depth within a range of contexts.

We welcome our final Nursery starters for the year at the start of the summer term! 

We begin our learning with an ‘In the Garden’ topic. As we enjoy playing outdoors in the warmer weather, we look out for the signs of Spring around us and enjoy looking closely at nature at this time of year. We learn about how caterpillars become butterflies by observing our own caterpillar cocoons! We also enjoy doing some planting in the outdoor area and learn how to help our plants grow! Our key text is 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle.

In our final half-term, our learning focuses on journeys as we look towards the summer holidays and the places that we might go! We enjoy learning about our world and holidays as we work in our very own travel agents! Our key text is 'The Train Ride' by June Crebbin. We also learn about how to protect our oceans by celebrating World Oceans Day. For our friends who will soon start Reception, we learn lots about starting school in preparation for September. We finish the year with a Sports Day and a party to celebtrate all of the fun we have had, all the friends we have made and all the new things we have learnt at Nursery! 

Throughout the term, we follow and develop children's interests as they emerge, through planning and provision. This allows children to explore and develop these interests in greater depth within a range of contexts.