Welcome to Nursery

Class Teacher: Mrs Underhill-Jones

Learning Support: Miss Lees-Griffiths and Miss Hill

Communication:

Schoop - the school ID is 17699

Twitter - @StDavidsCiWPrm https://twitter.com/StDavidsCiWPrm

Email: nursery@stdavidsprm.cardiff.sch.uk

HWB

Please add your child to our Hwb class page using their Hwb details as soon as they have been given in September. Use the link below to find our page.

https://hwb.gov.wales/go/oyncon

Important dates

Autumn Term 1

23rd October - end of half term

Half term holiday 24th October until 1st November

Autumn Term 2

November 2nd - Children return to school

This week's VIP goes to this young lady for having such a great week coming in to school!

Context for learning

What is special about me? How do we show that we care? In this topic, we’ll learn about love, families and how people are the same and different. First, we’ll look at babies and ask lots of questions. We’ll pose for photographs and recognise ourselves, our names and our friends from a photograph display. We’ll look at our reflections and talk about what we can see. In our cosy home corner, we’ll care for dolls and teddies. We’ll enjoy sharing books about love, feelings and families. Outside, we’ll practise following instructions and think about how our brilliant bodies move. We’ll create ‘All about me’ scrapbooks full of lovely writing and photographs. Using our mathematical skills, we’ll measure and compare our hands, feet and heights. We’ll count candles and think about why we celebrate birthdays. Getting creative, we’ll make amazing artwork of people we love. We’ll make delicious foods to share and draw pictures of ourselves with our families.

Homework

Click on the link below to see this term's homework grid. Children may do as many homework tasks as they like and bring them into school to share with the class whenever a task has been completed.

    Christian Values  

Our school Christian Value for this term is Thankfulness

We will look at why being thankful is important and discuss what the children were thankful for in their lives.  Christians believe that God loves and cares for them in many different ways in all aspects of their life. Christians know that their response to this provision should be one of thankfulness and praise.

Thessalonians 5:18 Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Psalm 107:1 Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Ephesians 5:20: Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

What do we do in school in response to thankfulness?

• We show our appreciation for pupil’s achievements by giving praise, stickers, Dojo awards and certificates to them.
• We know that having food, clothes and lovely things is a blessing and not a right.
• We show our thankfulness through our support to charities that help others who are not as fortunate as ourselves.
• We give thanks to God through our hymns and our prayers.
• We learn to be thankful for the skills of others and the ways in which they enrich our lives.
• We say thank you to each other and know that saying thank you is important and polite.

Literacy

https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/ 

This is an online resource where you child can learn new sounds, words and practise the skill of reading through storytelling and games. 

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ 

This is an online resource where your child can read online books, play phonics and CVC word games as well as activity inspiration for practical activities inside and outside the house. The resource is free to use and has lots of advice for parents.

Username: mrsunderhilljones

Password: nursery

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ 

Phonics Play is an interactive game that we use in the classroom daily. There are lots of activities for CVC words- our favourite is Obb and Bob. When selecting activities please select Phase 2. 

(This activity needs flash player)

Username: march20

Password: home

Numeracy

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/maths/

Oxford Owl has some lovely mathematics games, including shape, addition, subtraction and even time. They also have downloadable resources including worksheets and wonderful advice for parents.

P.E.

P.E is on a Friday.  Your child will need black shorts, house colour or white t-shirt and trainers, labelled clearly with their name. They may also wear black jogging bottoms and a school hoodie for outside activities. 

Real PE

Real PE is a unique, child centred approach that transforms how we teach PE to include, challenge and support EVERY child.

Jasmine - your real learning platform, provides 1000s of hours of fun activities and challenges that will help you to keep your children and family fit and healthy 

The website address is: home.jasmineactive.com 
Parent email: parent@stdavidsci-1.com
Password:  stdavidsci

Snack

Snack money is £1.50 per week, and should be paid via ParentPay before 8am on Monday mornings. We are a healthy eating

school and children can only eat fresh fruit or fresh vegetables for their snack. We provide a wide variety of choice including

apples, oranges, bananas, melon, pineapple, plums, peaches and carrots sticks when in season. If you prefer, you may send in

fresh fruit or fresh vegetables from home for their snack.

Children may bring a bottle of water with their name clearly labelled to school to drink. We are happy to refill their bottles for them during the day.

Uniform

Nursery Girls:

• Black skirt/pinafore dress/shorts/trousers

• White polo shirt either plain or with school logo

• Green sweatshirt or cardigan, either plain or with school logo (without a hood)

• Plain black knee length socks or black tights

• During the summer green and white checked dresses with plain white short or knee length socks

Nursery Boys:

• Black shorts or trousers (no jogging bottoms)

• White polo shirt either plain or with school logo

• Green sweatshirt or cardigan, either plain or with school logo (without a hood)

• Plain black socks

Children need a change of clothes and footwear for P.E (for health and hygiene reasons) and a draw-string bag in which to keep the kit at school. All school uniform and P.E. kit must be labelled with your child’s name

Weekly Updates

W/C - 7/9/20

This week we have had fun in our outdoor area. We have played with the bikes and scooters, played football, built train tracks and made food in our outdoor kitchen.  We have explored our role play area inside, built towers with wooden bricks, played with toy horses and investigated our discovery area.  We have enjoyed mark making and counting and joined in with lots of story time and songs. 

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