Nursery
We are Mrs Burrow and Mrs Luby, we are the teachers in the nursery. Our nursery is a calm and happy place, where children can explore, play and develop a lifelong love of learning. We are so excited to be teaching your children and supporting their growth and development this year!
What to bring to Nursery each day:
- A waterproof coat
- Spare clothing: underwear, socks/tights, t-shirt/jumper, trousers/leggings
- Filled water bottle (named)
- Healthy snack (if not having morning toast)
- Cold weather - gloves, hat
- Warm weather - sun cream (pre-applied), sun hat
To keep at Nursery:
- Wellies
- Puddle suit
**Please make sure all items of clothing are clearly labelled**
Summer Term
Our topics throughout the Summer Term are The Seaside, Space and Emergency Vehicles.
The texts to support our learning will be:
- Sharing a Shell
- Whatever Next
- Astro Girl
- 999 Emergency!
- Zog
Phonics
We use the Monster Phonics scheme at Saint Mary's. In Nursery, we teach Phase One and Pre-Phase Two. Phase One activities are arranged under seven aspects:
1. Environmental sounds
2. Instrumental sounds
3. Body Percussion
4. Rhythm and Rhyme
5. Alliteration
6. Voice Sounds
7. Oral Blending and Segmenting
Phase One phonics activities support children to listen attentively, grow their vocabulary, speak confidently, discriminate phonemes, audibly reproduce the phonemes they hear, and use sound-talk to segment words into phonemes.
Below is a useful video for teaching pure sounds:
