Welcome to Nursery
If parents or carers wish to request a change to their child's current nursery hours from 15 hours to 30, a formal request needs to be made by sending an email to nursery@thorpe.leeds.sch.uk
Nursery admission forms link is below.
Nursery staff
In Nursery, the teachers are Mrs Aird and Mrs Stephenson. Across the week, the support staff are Mrs Hodson, Mrs Green, Mrs Kaye, Mrs Whittaker and Mrs Hammond.
In Nursery, we will be building your child's foundation of learning and supporting them to become 'school ready'. Through exciting, purposeful provision and adult-led sessions, the children will access all 17 areas of learning. We have carefully designed a curriculum that caters for all needs, is inspiring and has taken into account local information. In Nursery, we will predominantly learn through play. It is essential that children learn through meaningful, playful experiences as this supports the development of the whole child. You can find the overview of our learning for this half term below.
Current Class book
In Summer 1 we will use other traditional tales to enhance and deepen our knowledge and understanding of our topics. This includes: The three little pigs, Jack and the beanstalk, Little red riding hood, The three billy goats gruff and more. We will act out stories, retell them, create artwork, construct houses for characters and more!
This half term we will also be exploring our senses further in science lessons, recapping what we have learnt in autumn term and building on that knowledge with new vocabulary and experiences. In music we will be learning about pitch and exploring our voices so we can make high and low sounds. In geography we are learning about our planet and how to look after it. We are doing this through stories such as "Dear Earth" and "Somebody swallowed Stanley".
In maths we will continue to use our maths mastery approach and cover number '5'. We will learn about 'more' and 'fewer' as well as cover 2D shapes, linking it to our knowledge of number.
In phonics we will be enhancing our listening skills further by tuning into words so we can blend and segment words, find initial and final sounds and clap syllables with ease. Children staying in nursery next year will also be developing their listening skills with phase 1 phonics where they will be tuning into musical sounds and instruments, clapping rhythms and singing nursery rhymes.
Photos of our classroom
We will record your child's learning through our online journal system called 'Tapestry'. On here you will find a weekly blog and any 'WOW' moments your child experiences in nursery.
Please remember sign up to your child's tapestry account! Thank you!
Early Years Curriculum
Below you can find a link to our Spring 1 curriculum overview and in the 'useful links' box you can find a more detailed version of our curriculum. You will see the topics we will be covering as well and vocabulary that will be introduced and exciting activities we will be planning.
Below you can also find a long term plan, too.
