Nursery 2024 - 2025

Meet the Team

Miss Clark, Mrs Sweet and Mrs Marsh

If you have any questions, please speak to one of our Nursery staff or email:

nursery@almapark.manchester.sch.uk

If you have any questions about Nursery admissions please email:

admin@almapark.manchester.sch.uk

If you are new to Nursery please click here to view the Introduction to Reception for Parent/Carers presentation.

Welcome

Welcome to Nursery! We recognise that Nursery is an important milestone for children and their families. We look forward to working in partnership with you throughout the year, supporting your child on the first step of their academic journey. Our Nursery is a nurturing and caring environment, with rich opportunities for children to play, explore, and develop their independence.

What's happening this half term and how you can help your child.

Maths:

• Sorting by colour, size or item
• Looking at things that are the same and different
• Joining in with rhymes up to 5
• Looking at different patterns
• Reciting numbers to 5

English:

Talk for Writing units:

Happy To Be Me by Emma Dodd

• Encourage your child to hold a mark making tool in a tripod grip

• Learning how to hold a mark making tool to create lines and shapes.
• Giving meaning to the marks I make
• Hearing and identifying sounds
• Blending letter sounds to hear words

We work with the Little Wandle Phase 1 Rhymes in our nursery setting click here for more information. 

The children begin to learn their letter sounds in Reception. If you would like to know how to make the letter sounds correctly click here. 

Topic: Happy to be me 

We will be learning about each other and our differences. We will use mirrors to see what colour our eyes and hair are. The children will be making self-portraits that we can display in our classroom.

We will talk about people who help us in school like the lunch time staff, the headteacher, and class teachers, as well as people in our daily lives such as parents, grandparents and siblings.

We will begin to explore people who help us with regards to our health such as the dentist, doctors and nurses.

We will look at changes in our local environment as summer turns to autumn. For example: leaves changing colour and the weather becoming cooler.

Here are the skills we are encouraging each half term at school.

Autumn Term

Spring Term 

Summer Term 

Reading books:

In class we are currently reading stories about friendship and feelings. Once all the children are settled we will send a reading book home. More information will follow.

Homework:

Our purple Brainbuilder books are given out each Wednesday. They can be returned to school when the work is complete but we do ask that they are back in school the following Tuesday. 

Spare clothes:

Each child in Nursery has their own tray. They are learning to keep their belongings in it. Please make sure you send in a spare set of clothes in a bag that we can hang on your child's peg. Please make sure all items have your child's name on them. 

Independence:

Learning to become independent is central to children’s development in Early Years. To help your child become independent, please encourage them to put their own coat on, wash their hands, and begin to tidy away their toys.

Wellcomm

In nursery we follow the Wellcomm program that helps children to develop their language skills. The children have specific targets to work on and we share these with you so that we can work together to aid your child's development. We understand and value that many families may speak a language other than English at home. This is something to be celebrated and is important for your child's laguage development and understanding. 

For tips on how to help your child to develop their langaueg, understanding and speaking skills please see the links below. 

• BBC Tiny Happy People - Tips and Advice - This is for parents to get ideas and tips on working with their children at home. There are different catagories for you to choose from explaining how you can work with your child if you are looking for information on; language development, routines, being bilingual, getting outdoors and many more. Click Here 

• Rhyme Book - to share with children at home. In this booklet traditional rhymes are shared but then also changed to make them more relevant to your child and where they live. They are a great way to explore langauge and have fun together. Click Here