welcome to collis nursery a typical day in the nursery characteristics of effective learning letters...
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Welcome to Collis Nursery
A typical day in the nursery
Characteristics of effective learning
Letters and Sounds
Staffing – the Nursery Team
Ruth Birrell (Teacher)Abi Mcgovern (Teacher)Zoe Plunkett (Nursery Practitioner)Clare Sandy (Nursery Practitioner)Donna Maycock (Learning Support Assistant)Sophie Harrison (Learning Support Assistant)
Collis Aims and Values …
At Collis we celebrate excellence and achievementOur vision is that every child: Enjoys school Has high self esteem Respects and cares for others Is healthy and safe Achieves their potential
A typical nursery session …
Self registration; ‘free-flow’ learning
Focus group activities One-to-one activitiesWashing hands, toiletingSnack timeTidy-up timeWhole class teaching –
songs, stories, rhymesHome time routine
Our learning environment
A rich and wide range of activities and play experiences
Stimulating and accessible resources that foster open-ended play
Flexible indoor and outdoor space and resourcesCalm and orderly environment
Just playing?
Each day the children will feel like they are just playing and enjoying themselves … the emphasis in our curriculum is on learning through play.
Young children learn from everything around them: people, environment, atmosphere, routine and experiences
Children learn by having the opportunity to do things for themselves: by exploring, investigating, watching, listening, talking, discussing, creating, communicating … in other words – playing!
Children learn in different arrangements
In a small group with an adult directing the learning
In a group with other children in learning that the children initiate themselves
In a whole
class environmentOne-to-one with
an adultAlone
Playing and exploring - engagement
Finding out and exploring – developing curiosity, using the senses, interests, open-ended activity
Playing with what they know – pretending, imaginative play, acting out experiences
Being willing to: ‘have a go’ – seeking challenges, ‘can-do’ attitude,resilience and taking a risk
Active learning - motivation
Being involved and concentrating – maintaining a focus, attention to detail
Keeping on trying – perseverance, resilience
Enjoying achieving what they set out to do – enjoying the process of learning for its own sake and not just the end result, pride in their own achievement
Creating and thinking critically
Having their own ideas – finding ways to solve problems, new ways to do things
Making links – seeing patterns in their experience, making predictions, ‘I wonder what will happen?’, grouping, sequences, cause and effect
Choosing ways to do things:deciding how to do things, ‘plan-do-review’; ‘what do you like about …?’; ‘How would you do it next time?’
Working together:helping your child to learn
Talk with your childRead to your childSing with your childMake things togetherPlay simple gamesGet plenty of exerciseWords and numbers in the environmentBuilding and construction materials Imaginative and ‘small world’ toysTrips!
Children learn from everything around them: people, environment, atmosphere, routine and experiences
Learning to read
Unlocking the door
Read a book every day
ImaginationKnowledge of the worldVocabularyStory structure‘Book talk’ – cover, illustration, author, …Listening skillsConcentration skills
What books should I choose?Books with rhyme and repetition are great
as they encourage your child to join inLet your child choose the books they want
you to share with them – it will make them feel involved
Share books about things that excite your child like trains, football or fairies
Read your child’s favourite books over and over (and over!) again
Poetry books are fun too! (repetition, sounds and rhythm of the words)
Top tips for sharing books
Set aside some time Find somewhere quiet without any distractionsAsk your child to chose a bookSit close togetherPoint to the picturesEncourage your child to talk about the bookDon't be afraid to use funny voicesRelate a story to your child’s own worldAnd lastly and above all - make it fun!
Phonics in the nursery
Letters and Sounds: children have regular planned opportunities to listen carefully and talk about what they hear, see and do.
Each aspect has three strands Tuning into sounds (auditory discrimination) Listening and remembering sounds (auditory memory and sequencing) Talking about sounds (developing vocabulary and language
comprehension)
All activities are designed to help children: Listening attentively Developing vocabulary Speaking confidently Discriminate Phonemes Blending Segmenting
Supporting your child with phonics: seven phases of ‘Letters and sounds’
1. Sound discriminationSounds all around us..... When walking down the
road listen to different sounds, a car revving, birds singing etc. Try to remember the sounds when you get home.
Make a secret knock for entering rooms
Supporting your child with phonics: seven phases of ‘Letters and sounds’
2. Instrumental sounds Listen to different music
with your child and encourage them to move in different ways and talk about the instruments.
Make your own shakers/instruments putting different things inside.
Play guess what is inside the instrument.
Supporting your child with phonics: seven phases of ‘Letters and sounds’
3. Body Percussion:
sounds we make with our bodies... Listen to the sounds your feet make when
walking/running skipping stomping (develop sound vocabulary such as soft fast slow etc.)
Play clapping games; make a pattern for your child to follow
Sing action rhymes: ‘wind the bobbin up’
Supporting your child with phonics: seven phases of ‘Letters and sounds’
4. Rhythm and rhyme Bounce your child on your knee to the rhythm of a song
or nursery rhyme. Add percussion when singing nursery rhymes. Chant together ... “2, 4, 6, 8, hurry up or we’ll be late ...” Read books that rhyme.
Supporting your child with phonics: seven phases of ‘Letters and sounds’
5. AlliterationUse your child’s name to play with the same sound e.g.
Jumping Josie.Talk about everyday items e.g. shopping lovely luscious
lemons, sizzling slimy sausagesPlay games Old MacDonald had a farm everything
must start with the same sound e.g. sheep, shorts and shoes
Use the correct letter sounds stretchy sounds bouncy sounds
Supporting your child with phonics: seven phases of ‘Letters and sounds’6. Voice sounds Sing known songs using sounds e.g.. Twinkle, Twinkle to la,
la, la. Ask your child to guess the song. Read and tell sound stories such as ‘We Are Going On A
Bear Hunt’.
Supporting your child with phonics: seven phases of ‘Letters and sounds’
7. Blending and segmenting:
building words taking them apart!Play mummy/daddy says e.g. Mummy says touch
your n-o-se then say nosePlace a few objects in front of you and play I spy
using objects e.g. I spy with my little eye a h-a-t then say hat.
Off on our learning journey!