Nursery

SUMMER TERM 2026

Personal, Social and Emotional

Our theme in Summer 1 is ‘Growing’, and we will start by reading the story ‘Errol’s Garden’. One of the main themes within this story is the importance of working together as a community. We will use this opportunity to collaborate with our local church St Anne’s to help develop the Nursery garden. We will also visit St Anne’s garden to help plant some bulbs. Our ‘Journeys’ topic will support children with their transition to Reception, which will help the children understand growing and changes. We will continue to talk about expressing our feelings, and continue to explore the zones of regulations.

Physical Development

Fine motor development is another main focus area; therefore, we will support the children to increase control when using various mark making tools. During ‘Dough Gym’ we will be continuing to build the muscles within our fingers, and regularly practise writing our names to prepare for Reception. We will also support children to use the big playground equipment safely. This term we will also learn about the importance of eating a healthy range of foods to keep us physically fit and well.

Communication and Language

To help develop the children’s oracy skills, we will continue to encourage children to stand and use a ‘Loud and Proud’ voice when sharing their ideas. This term we will introduce ‘Buddy Time’, and each child will have a talk partner.  This will not only help the children develop their conversational skills, but their listening and attention. We will focus on using language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations.

Literacy

On a daily basis, we will share a range of rhymes, books and stories. Our focus stories are going to be: ‘Errol’s Garden’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, ‘A Lion Inside.’  From these stories, we will continue to recognise familiar letters, words, signs, revisiting rhyming words and recall parts of the stories. To prepare for Reception we will be orally blending short words, and practise hearing and saying the initial sound in words.

Mathematics

We will be continuing to incorporate appropriate positional language within the environment during learning sessions and outdoor play. We will continue to practise counting with objects and actions; combined with recognising corresponding numbers (1-5). Finally, we will be talking about and identifying repeating patterns and shapes in our environment, developing language to describe what we see.

Understanding the World

When reading ‘Errol’s Garden’ and ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ we will continue to explore the theme of growing and gardening. We will use this as an opportunity to develop our own Nursery garden and explore making bird homes and feeders. We will be talking about post and how to send mail, learning about the journey of a letter.

Expressive Arts and Design

We will be exploring  different media and find out what happens when we mix various materials such as sand, paint and sawdust. We will also use music to help the children initiate new combinations of movement and gestures. This term we will become familiar with a  range of new songs and number rhymes.  

RE

This term we will find out about VE Day and become familiar with the traditions used to celebrate.
Trips and Special Events
Local walk to the post box- sending letters.
Local trip- Visit to St Anne’s garden- planting bulbs
Rose Theatre trip – The Lion Inside - Friday 

Reminders

Please bring water bottles, sunhats and apply sunscreen when the weather is hot.