"Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become

children of light.”

Ready;Respectful;Resilient

Mrs Cowell.       

Welcome to Class O

Mrs Sherlock

Mrs Dagnall                                                                              

We are the Robins and are made up of Nursery and Reception

Mrs Cowell is our teacher and Mrs Sherlock teaches us on Monday and Tuesday afternoon and Thursday morning.  She also helps with our learning when we have time with Sparrows in Class 2.

Mrs Dagnall will be teaching us for the summer term

We love to see our Robins' WOW Moments from outside of school.  If you have any images or thoughts please do send them to us...

cowell@kingsleystjohns.co.uk

We understand that your child is precious and a gift from God and that leaving them in our care can be a little upsetting, particularly at the start of the year.

Rest assured that we will love, cherish and care for your child each and everyday. Try to encourage your child to grow in their independence as the term develops and encourage them to enter school without parental support. Staff will be available at the classroom entrance every morning from 8:45 to discuss any news for the day.

'We love because God first loved us.'

1 John 4:19

Our classroom is unique - just like us.  And we have the most amazing outdoor learning environment to explore the world around us.                                                                

We love learning outside, exploring our wonderful woodlands and local environment; inventing in the mud kitchen, water, sand and playhouse; developing our physical skills riding bikes, climbing on the adventure playground, and playing with PE equipment. We love the large construction. Dressing up and performing with instruments is great fun! Our quiet learning area enables us to develop small world skills whilst getting plenty of fresh air. 

Inside, we enjoy our creative table and office, playdoh, construction activities, investigation area, small world, fine motor activities, phonics area and number area. We like quiet time in our reading corner and reflection area. We also love listening to stories, singing songs and playing with our friends.

We have daily phonics and numeracy small group sessions in which we learn to read, write, count and develop maths skills which we can then apply during our play

Summer Term 2024

During the summer term we will make the most of our beautiful outside areas as we investigate how environments have changed and explore the natural world. We will use our enquiry led question 'Why can’t we see a dinosaur in the zoo?' to lead our learning with our class text 'Gigantosaurus' by Jonny Duddle. Later on in the term we will explore what is precious to us and look at the seaside now and in the past with the book 'The Sea Saw' by Tom Percival as our prompt as we investigate the changing of the seasons 

We will look at our dreams and ambitions and our relationships as we move towards the end of the term and prepare for Year 1.

The summer term is full of whole school events and our Robins will take part in our Sports Day and Forest school sessions as well as sharing learning with our friends from feeder nurseries.

Phonics and reading

As Robin's we are starting to learn how different sounds have different meanings, sometimes that could be recognising different sounds in our environment (phase 1).  This continues in the Spring term to ensure we develop understanding of ryhming, alliteration, initial sounds and rhythm.  It is particularly important for Nursery children to prepare them for the next year of learning.

In Summer Term we continue to learn the different phonemes and graphemes we use to read and spell words (phase 2 and 3). We will have discrete phonics sessions at least once a day for all children.  We follow Twinkl Phonics which include interactive whiteboard work, tasks, games and reading books.

General information

Please ensure PE kits are in school each day. They can be kept in school and will be sent home at the end of each half term.

Please ensure earings and removed or covered for PE.

A change of clothes, in case of accidents or messy play, can be left in school.

Please bring drinks bottles daily for water. These must be labelled and not single use bottles.

Please clearly label all you child's belongings

Please ensure any hair longer that shoulder length is tied back.

A waterproof coat is essential as a large proportion of your child's day may be outside.

We meet up with Sparrows on Tuesday afternoon for Roundabout Worship and for PE on Thurdays.  We are also with Sparrows on Wednesday pm and Fridays completeing our own learning and enjoying time playing with them.