Little Elvers Nursery

Primary Knowledge Curriculum Unit

This half term, our Primary Knowledge Curriculum unit is called ‘Growing and changing’. We will learn what plants and animals need to grow. We will also learn about the seasons. We will look in depth at how people grow and change. You can find a knowledge organiser here: Growing and changing

Characteristics of Effective Learning

The children will be engaging and playing with the learning resources in our indoor and outdoor areas. We will be supporting the children to ‘have a go’ at new activities and persist with activities when challenges occur. We will also support the children to make links to prior learning and to create their own ideas. 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

We will be learning how to share resources and find solutions to problems they may encounter during play. We will be using “stop please.” with a raised hand to help the children communicate with others. We will continue to learn about our school rules of Safe, Ready and Respect in depth. We will also cover pausing and thinking about how other people may be feeling.

Physical Development

We will be exploring gross motor skills including large-scale mark-making and fine-motor skills. A range of outdoor equipment is available to help the children develop their gross motor skills. Different fine motor skills activities are available for the children to try, as well as a large variety of other learning resources that use fine motor skills.

Communication and Language

We will be exploring how to talk to friends politely and how to manage play in a kind and considerate way. We will be learning the words ‘change’, ‘grow’ and ‘seasons’ through our Primary Knowledge Curriculum Unit. 

Literacy

In Little Elvers, we have a lovely reading nook with a large variety of fiction and non-fiction books. We have a daily story time in which a book is shared with the children. We will be exploring the stories The Hungry Caterpillar and Jack and the Beanstalk this half term. Mark-making opportunities are always available for the children to explore. We will be encouraging the children to start forming the letters of their name to label their creations. 

Maths

We will practise reciting numbers to 10. We will make a start at delving deeper into each number to really understand what each number means and how you could represent it. Alongside this, we will start to build our understanding of 2D shape.

Understanding the World

We will be learning all about animals and plants through our PKC unit of work (see above). 

Expressive Arts and Design

The children always have access to a variety of craft materials in order to express themselves and have fun creating! We will have lots of fun during arts week, taking part in dancing workshops, flower pressing, painting and creating using oil pastels.