Broadoak Backpack Character Values
Respect - Perseverance - Ambition - Kindness - Honesty - Co-operation - Empathy - Resilience - Acceptance - Gratitude -
Welcome to Nursery
Welcome to our Nursery page!
Here you will find regular updates and key information throughout the year, relating to everything that is happening in the Nursery. Below you will find details related to our curriculum, along with news, dates and important updates. You will also be able to see photographs and videos of the exciting activities that we have been doing in our lessons through our Twitter page - Window into the Classroom.
The Nursery Team
Yellow Group
2024 - 2025
Red Group
2024 - 2025
Blue Group
2024 - 2025
The Nursery Staff Team
Teaching Team: Miss Alford, Mrs. Mather, Mrs Edgerley, Mrs Fraine and Miss Croker
Lunchtime supervisor: Mrs Hodgkiss
Health and Well-being Team: Coach Kim and Coach Vicki
Key Stage Leader: Miss Samson & Mrs Moss
SENDCO: Mrs. Puckey
Deputy Headteacher: Miss Fairhurst
Headteacher: Mrs. Wild
Teaching Team
Key Dates and Reminders
PE: Every Tuesday - children will need to wear their PE kits on this day.
Homework: This is allocated, every Wednesday and should be completed and submitted each Monday.
Bedtime story books: We encourage children to have a bedtime story each night and to aid this the will children bring home two books of their own choice. Books are changed each Friday. One book will be selected from our '50 Brilliant books' box and one other.
(Quote from Albert Einstein - If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.)
Head Bump Protocol
If children have a head injury when at school, they will be assessed by a First Aider. Should the injury be a minor bump, parents/carers will receive a note to inform them that their child has bumped their head and their child will wear a sticker. If a child has a head injury which the first aider believes needs checking or the child is unwell after a head injury, a telephone call to parents/carers will be made and they will be asked to collect their child and advised to seek medical advice. In the most serious cases, medical assistance would be called to school.
Health and Wellbeing Team
Window into the Classroom - Twitter
To enable you to gain an insight into some of the learning and experiences that your child will have whilst in Nursery, we will tweet pictures, videos and work which you can use as a starting point for discussion at home with your child.
Handwriting
In Nursery we encourage children to take part in a wealth of gross motor activities which will help children develop to the postural control that is required for writing. Having efficient control of large muscle groups in the neck, shoulder and trunk is necessary to help children to maintain stability so that their fingers and hands can move to complete handwriting tasks.
We also plan many fine motor activities including 'Disco Dough', 'Write Dance' and 'Pen Disco' which help children to build the muscle strength in their hands and fingers which are so important in tasks such as writing.
Children in Nursery are encouraged to engage in mark-making activities when these are appropriate for them. We work with children to develop a comfortable and effective pencil grip which allows them to have good control when holding and using pens and pencils.
Children begin to learn to write the first letter from their name which is a capital letter then as they are ready they will learn the correct formation for subsequent letters.
Homework
Homework is handed out every Wednesday and will include a range of activities including phonics, maths and topic activities. We start homework after the October holidays.
Rewards and Celebrations
Star of the day: Children are chosen to be star of the day when they have exhibited excellent attitude, effort and achievement in focused or self chosen tasks following our Golden Rules or demonstrating one of the Broadaok Character Values.
Rainbow Treats: Children's name will be moved up onto the Rainbow to show that they have been brilliant exemplars of behaviour, attitude or effort. Children who are on the Rainbow on a Friday afternoon are able to select a treat from the rainbow treat box as a reward for their achievement.
*
Rewards and Celebrations
Sparkle and Shine Book: Each week we focus on one of our Broadoak Values. On Friday, one child is selected from each group for being a value ambassador for the selected value.
Star of PE: Our Health and Well-being coaches award 'Star of PE' to children who show a commitment to their physical and mental well-being.
The Nursery Curriculum
A bespoke curriculum for our Nursery children.
***
In Nursery, your child will follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum. We are committed to the overarching principles which shape practice in the early years.
These are:
- Every child is a unique child, who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured
- Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships
- Children learn and develop well in enabling environments with teaching and support from adults, who respond to their individual interests and needs and help them to build their learning over time. Children benefit from a strong partnership between school and parents and/or carers.
- Children develop and learn at different rates.
Nursery Broadoak Backpack for Life
To download the document, please click on the link above.
Nursery - Parent Curriculum Overview -Spring 1 2025
(Page 1)
Click on the link below to download the document
Nursery - Parent Curriculum Overview - Spring 2 2025
(Page 2)
Click on the link below to download the document
Phonics
In Nursery, phonic sessions are delivered daily and focus on the systematic teaching of 'Phase 1' Phonic skills.
Phase 1 phonics focus is primarily on developing speaking and listening skills. Speaking and listening are an important set of literacy skills that will create the foundation to children's future learning.
Phase 1 phonics is split into seven aspects: environmental sounds; instrumental sounds; body sounds; rhythm and rhyme; alliteration; voice sounds; oral blending and segmenting.
Supersonic Phonic Friends is the scheme that is used by staff to deliver high quality, engaging and interactive daily phonic sessions.
For More information follow the link below.
**
Speaking and Listening
Being able to understand and communicate are fundamental skills for Nursery children. The Speaking and listening goal is one of our prime areas of learning and we focus a lot of time to ensure that children master these important skills.
The Salford starting life team has launched some Top tips for helping your child to speak and listen.
Get face to face with your child because:
- You feel like you are playing together
- You can see what your child is interested in
- They can see you are enjoying your play
- You can both hear each other better
Follow your child's lead because:
- It can reduce frustration and your child will play with you for longer
- It gives them confidence to try things
- Your child is more likely to learn if he/she is interested
- It shows you are interested
Make comments about what your child is doing rather than asking lots of questions because:
- Unlike questions, commenting doesn't put your child under pressure to talk
- You give your child language as they are experiencing it
- It shows you are interested
Keep the language that you use simple because:
- You make it easier for your child to understand
- They can hear the sounds in words clearly
- You're not bombarding them with too many words
Repeat, repeat, repeat because:
- Practice makes perfect
- The more a child hears a word, the more likely they are to understand it, then use it
It's good to wait because:
- You give your child time to talk and to express their interests and feelings
- Your child has your undivided attention
- You don't take over and control the conversation
- You take into consideration the feelings, needs and curiosity of your child https://www.speakupsalford.nhs.uk/children---zero-to-five
Our Commitment to Embedding a Life Long Love of Reading to ALL children
*
What is Reading at Broadoak?
*
At Broadoak Primary School, we want all children to develop a lifelong love of reading that will become an integral part of their future. As a school, we believe that creating a culture of reading is a vital tool in ensuring our children are given the best life chances. Cultivating readers with a passion for a wide range of reading materials, will ensure that children’s love of reading will extend far beyond the classroom and allow them to build on their skills independently through a real curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
*
It is our aim that all pupils-irrespective of their needs, abilities or background- will be able to:
*
- Read with confidence, fluency and understanding
- Develop the pleasure of reading widely and often and appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
- Use higher order reading skills including retrieval and inference through the use of text referral, assessment of author’s intentions, justifications of their opinions and judgements and in the pursuit of critical awareness
- Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.
In Nursery we have weekly a book focus to frame children's learning through high quality key texts. Children have a daily DEAR (drop everything to read session) where staff read to the children. A range books are included in our continuous provision areas, allowing children to look at their favourites as part of their play. The children choose two books to take home each week to enjoy as a bedtime story and the book selection includes Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books.
Reading at Home - Support for Parents
Parents play a vital part in their child's learning and progress. Parents can support by: sharing bedtime stories; modelling reading for pleasure as an adult; reading a range of examples of print in the environment; taking children to the library plus much more.
Sharing a book with a child is fun! It's a time for affection, laughing and talking together – and it can also give children a head start in life and help them become lifelong readers.
Online Safety Rules
myHappymind
As part of our Apprecaite module, the children will explore thankfulness and gratitude through the story of Arabella and her friends as well as learn songs and complete various reflective activities. Throiugh the realte module in Spring 2, the children will learn about friendships and being a good friend.
For more information, please see the attachment. You can also visit the school website Broadoak Primary School - Mental Health Provision - myHappymind for more information.
https://broadoakprimary.sites.schooljotter2.com/mental-health-provision
Week 1 Key Text
Can't you sleep little bear?
By Martin Waddell
Week 4 Key Text
Bear Hunt
By Michael Rosen
Week 2 Key Texts
Old Bear By Jane Hissey
The Red Sledge By Lita Judge
Week 5 & 6 Key Text
Goldilocks and the three bears
Traditional Tale
Week 3 Key Text
Bear Snores on
By Karma Wilson
Over the course of the term, we will also learn a number of songs and rhymes and listen to different stories each day.
Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books - Nursery
Mathematics
This term the children will be taught about numbers through number rhymes, number songs, finger counting and simple counting activities. The children will also learn to subitize through dice and domino patterns.
The children will talk about and explore 2D and 3D shapes in the Nursery environment.
We will also be making simple comparisons about an objects size introducing the vocabulary big and small.
Finally we will be using simple positional language.
EYFS Addition Strategies
EYFS Subtraction Strategies
EYFS Multiplication Strategies
EYFS Division Strategies
Our Full / Wider Curriculum Offer
A Virtual Visit to our Nursery Unit
**
Click on the door to explore the provision available to children in our Nursery Unit.
(Coming Soon)
