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 X 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.
Please visit our page at: @Broadoak_Nurser
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.
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.
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.
As a team we are proud to
share the achievements
of the children.
The Nursery Curriculum
A bespoke curriculum for our Nursery children.
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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
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Nursery - Parent Curriculum Overview -Summer 1 2025
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Nursery Summer 1 Curriculum Overview
Nursery - Parent Curriculum Overview - Summer 2 2025
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Nursery Summer 2 Curriculum Overview
Phonics
In Nursery, phonic sessions are delivered daily and focus on the systematic teaching of 'Phase 1' Phonic skills or Basics 1.
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.
Home - Supersonic Phonic Friends
How can I support my child with Phonic development at home?
Environmental sounds: Go on a listening walk. When walking down the road, make a point of listening to different sounds: cars revving, people talking, birds singing, dogs barking. When you get home, try to remember all the sounds you heard.
Instrumental sounds: Play instruments that you have access to. Make your own musical instruments, using cardboard rolls, tins, dried peas, beans, stones. Shake these loudly, softly, as you are marching, skipping or stomping.
Body percussion: Learn some action rhymes, such as ‘Wind the bobbin up’ or’If you’re happy and you know it.’
Rhythm and rhyme: Get into the rhythm of language by bouncing your child on your knee to the rhythm of a song or nursery rhyme and marching or claping to a chant or poem such as ‘two, four, six, eight, hurry up or we’ll be late’.
Alliteration (words that begin with the same sound): Play around with your child’s name, for example, say: ‘Gurpeet get the giggles’, ‘Carl caught a cat’, ‘Jolly Jessie jumped’. Encourage other family members to have a go, for example: ‘Mummy munches muffins’, ‘Daddy is doing the dishes’.
Voice sounds: Repeat your child’s vocalisations, fun noises and nonsense words. Say words in different ways (fast, slowly, high, low, using a funny voice). ‘Sing’ songs using only sounds (for example, ‘la, la, la’) and ask your child to guess the song.
Oral blending: Being able to hear separate sounds and then blend them together to make a word is really important when learning to read. Say the separate sounds (phonemes) of a word aloud, in the correct order then merge them together into the whole word. For example, the adult would say c a t makes the word cat.
Oral segmenting: Being able to hear the separate sounds within a word and then say them in the correct order is really important when learning to write and spell. For example, the adult would say cat that is a c a t.
Other Top Tips to Support Reading at Home
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbxby9q
For online stories, songs and fun, please explore:
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/storybooks-and-games/
Our Commitment to Embedding a Life Long Love of Reading to ALL children
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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.
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It is our aim that all pupils-irrespective of their needs, abilities or background- will be able to:
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- 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 a weekly 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.
During the Summer Term, the children begin to take part in 'Guided Reading' sessions. In groups the children look at books without words from Broadoak's reading scheme.
How can I support my child reading at Home?
Parents play a vital part in their child's learning and progress. Parents can support by: encouraging children to tell stories or talk about this weeks guided reading text; reading and following the ideas in the Supersonic Phonic Friends Newsletter each week; 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.
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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
Online Safety Rules
myHappymind
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
Farmyard Hullabaloo
By Giles Andrae and David Wojtowycz
Week 4 Key Text
Bugs
First Facts
Week 2 Key Texts
Farmyard Hullabaloo
By Giles Andrae and David Wojtowycz
Week 5 Key Text
Mad About Minibeasts
By Giles Andrae and David Wojtowycz
Week 3 Key Text
The Tiny Seed
By Eric Carle
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 to solve farm problems using simple mathematical strategies. They will use language such as tall, taller, tallest or short, shorter, shortest to compare animals of different sizes. Children will also describe routes we have taken using positional language.
EYFS Addition Strategies
EYFS Subtraction Strategies
EYFS Multiplication Strategies
EYFS Division Strategies
Nursery Annual Life Skills Curriculum Overview
