I am Miss Lankester and I am the Nursery teacher! Our nursery is a calm and happy place, where children can explore, play and develop a lifelong love of learning. I am so excited to be teaching your children and supporting their growth and development this year by learning through play!

Mrs Borg-Heffernan will be supporting Nursery this year. Miss Manley will be teaching Nursery on a Monday morning.

To enquire about a place in Nursery, please click here.

What to bring to Nursery each day:

• A waterproof coat
• Spare clothing: underwear, socks/tights, t-shirt/jumper, trousers/leggings
• Named water bottle with water
• Weather appropriate clothing (cold weather - coat, gloves, hat; warm weather - sun hat, please apply sun cream at home)

To keep at Nursery:

• Wellies
• Puddle suit

**Please make sure all items of clothing are clearly labelled**

Summer 1

Our Summer 1 topic is Explorers. We will be learning through the following high-quality texts:

- The Very Hungry Caterpillar

- That's My Flower

- Pip and Egg

- Dinosaur Roar

- We're Going on Bear Hunt

- Hugasaurus

We will be learning about dinosaurs and fossils, plant and caterpillar life cycles, journeys and Spring. We will be getting our very own caterpillars and will see them grow into butterflies! We will also be completing activities to celebrate World Art Day, Earth Day and World Bee Day. You can help support your child's learning at home by reading stories and using key vocabulary 

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:

Monster Phonics Pure Speech Sounds (youtube.com)