Broadgate Primary School

In September, we welcome back our returning children and welcome lots of new friends too! We have lots of fun as we make friends, settle in to Nursery life and try out lots of new and exciting opportunities! 

We begin the term with an exploration of Autumn! We observe seasonal changes, looking out for the signs around us and noticing colour and patterns in nature, having fun outdoors hunting for Autumn treasures and creating our own pieces of Autumnal art.
We have lots of fun singing songs about this time of year, exploring rhythm and rhyme as part of our early phonics learning and mathemtical learning.

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!  

As well as our learning thmes, throughout the term we also 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 and help 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 continue to 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 build on our phonics awarness by listeing to sounds in the environment and singing songs to practice rhythm, rhyme and repetition.