Silver Tree Primary School

Durham Road Ushaw Moor DH7 7LF

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Home / Nursery

Nursery

Welcome to Nursery!

View our room tour on our Facebook page:

www.facebook.com/Silvertreeprimaryschool 

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COVID-19 Home Work Information

If your child has been asked to isolate, has symptoms or someone in their home is displaying symptoms; they must isolate until they receive a negative test or they have isolated for 10 days and have no further symptoms.

If your child is working from home, please work through the below subject areas as they will not be able to complete the work they have missed when they return to school.

The links from our Class Dojo page should automatically send you to the tables below, if they haven’t, please scroll down to find your work.

Online Learning

Your child will need access to an electronic device (such as an iPad, tablet, mobile phone or laptop) to access the following links. If you do not have any of these devices or would like a Kindle Fire tablet to use at home; please contact the school office and they will arrange for you to loan one for the duration of your child’s absence.

If you do not have access to the internet contact school.

Over this half term our Topic is all about ‘Farm’. Here is a topic web to help support your learning Medium term Plan- Nursery Summer 1 activities

Family Farms Continue to Power U.S. Agriculture | USDA

 Maths – We are practicing our counting and measuring.

Counting – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/3-5-years/counting 

Enjoy some counting songs such as: 12345 Once I caught a fish alive, 5 little ducks went swimming one day, 5 little speckled frogs.

Measures – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/3-5-years/measures 

Can you find something that is long? Short? Tall? Small? Same size as you?

Phonics/Literacy – In phonics we will be focusing on Phase 1.

Aspect 4- Rhyme and rime –

For rhymes please continue to explore a variety of Nursery rhymes from the website:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-counting-songs/zn67kmn 

Practise some syllable work too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlBc703kYMg 

Aspect 5 – Alliteration – Collect some things from around your house and play a game of I spy.

Aspect 7 – Oral blending – Find some objects around your house. Ask an adult to speak these in robot talk. Can you find the object they are looking for? E.g. S-o-ck, sp-oo-n, b-ow-l, f-or-k,)

Physical – We are practising our ball skills. Can you practise some throwing and catching. If you don’t have a ball maybe try a balled up pair of socks!

Religious Education – We are learning about Christian Baptism.

Look at this Christening outfit.

Have you seen one of these before?

Have you been to a Christening before?

Have you been Christened?

Christening Gown - Viviana / with bonnet | Baby christening gowns, Girl christening dress, Baby baptism dress

Planning information

Year 2020/2021

Medium term Plan- Nursery Autumn 1 activities

Medium term Plan- Nursery Autumn 2 activities

Medium term Plan- Nursery Spring 1 activities

Medium term Plan- Nursery Spring 2 activities

Medium term Plan- Nursery Summer 1 activities

Medium term Plan- Nursery Summer 2 activities

Nursery Long term plan 2020 2021

Autumn 1 Newsletter

Autumn 2 Newsletter 

Spring 1 Newsletter

Spring 2 Newsletter

About us

Silver Tree Primary School and Nursery opened a 26 place nursery provision in April 2019 for children aged 3 and 4.

The school controls its own nursery admissions, ensures quality provision and gives flexibility in staffing. Children in our nursery are provided with the same level of good quality education as the rest of the school with a qualified teacher in the Early Years Team.

In Nursery, the class teacher is Miss Whitworth. Our Early Years Team Lead is Miss Ray. Miss Ray is the Reception class teacher with assistance from Mrs. Lewins and Mrs Hedley.

Please contact the school to arrange a meeting with the Headteacher, Mrs Maughan, to discuss further details and arrange a visit or complete the application form below and return it to the school office.

Nursery-Application-Form

15 or 30 hours Free Childcare – Am I Eligible?

Parents can check whether they could be eligible for a range of government childcare offers, including 30 hours, via Childcare Choices here or the Childcare Calculator here.

Nursery Breakfast Club

If you require childcare before nursery school starts, please complete the Breakfast Club section on the above application form and return to the school office. Breakfast is served from 8am onwards and costs £4 per session.

Please ask the school if you require after school provision.

Further Information

Further information about our nursery and a Nursery Application Form can be found by clicking the links below:

Nursery Information Leaflet

 

Other activities to support our learning are:

Maths

Our maths planning is very simple for this half term. We are focussing on

Number songs and rhymes, Positional language, Modelling number language, size and pattern.

Here is game where you can practise pattern making:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

Here is a link for some number songs:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-counting-songs/zn67kmn 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/numberblocks  

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers (Numbers to 5)

Literacy

This half term we are focussing on enjoying looking at stories, recalling some information and talking about what might happen next. This could simply be something like:

What was that character called? What was this story called?

What do you think might happen next?

How did that make them feel? Why?

To access reading books online please use the Oxford Owl free online learning

Oxford Owl Online Learning Hub

Phonics

For support on teaching your child phonics please access the following:

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/list/phonics-games-phase-1

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/1

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-listening-skills/zbc4y9q

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Durham Road

Ushaw Moor

Durham

DH7 7LF

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