Earlsmead Primary School - 2 Year old Nursery
Autumn term
What is my child learning at school this term?
Personal Social and Emotional Development
Children should learn to;
Develop friendship with other children.
Feel strong enough to express a range of emotions.
Grow in independence, rejecting help (me do it). Sometimes this leads to feelings of frustration and tantrums
Communication & Language
Children should learn to;
Understand simple instructions like “give it to nanny”, or “stop”.
Recognise and point to objects if asked about them.
Generally focus on an activity of their own choice and find it difficult to be redirected.
Listen to other people’s talk with interest, but can easily be distracted by other things.
Physical Development
Children should learn to;
Fit themselves into spaces, like tunnels, dens, and large boxes and move around them.
Enjoy starting to kick, throw, and catch balls.
Walk, run, jump and climb – and start to use stairs independently.
Earlsmead Primary School - Nursery
Autumn term
What is my child learning at school this term?
Personal Social and Emotional Development
Children should learn to;
Select and use activities and resources, with help when needed. This helps them to achieve a goal they have chosen, or one which is suggested to them.
Play with one or more other children, extending and elaborating play ideas.
Increasingly follow rules, understanding why they are important.
Communication & Language
Children should learn to;
Enjoy listening to longer stories and can remember much of what happens
Pay attention to more than one thing at a time which can be difficult
Understand a question or instruction that has two parts, such as “Get your coat and wait at the door”
Develop their pronunciation but may have problems saying some sounds: r, j, th, ch and sh.
Develop their communication, but may continue to have problems with irregular tenses and plurals, such as ‘runned’ for ‘ran’, ‘swimmed’ for ‘swam’
Physical Development
Children should learn to;
Continue to develop their movement, balancing, riding (scooters, trikes and bikes) and ball skills.
Go up steps and stairs or climb up apparatus, using alternate feet.
Skip, hop, stand on one leg and hold a pose for a game like musical statues
Use large-muscle movements to wave flags and streamers, paint and make marks.
Collaborate with others to manage large items such as moving a long plant safely, carrying large hollow blocks.
Use one-handed tools and equipment, for example making snips in paper with scissors
Literacy
Children should learn to;
Understand the five key concepts about print: print has meaning; print can have a different meaning; we read English text from left to right and from top to bottom; the names of the different parts of a book; page sequencing.
Engage in extended conversation about stories, learning new vocabulary.
Phonics
Autumn 2 - Aspect 1 & 2 (Environmental sounds discrimation / Instrumental sound discrimation)
Maths
Children should learn to;
Develop fast recognition of up to 3 objects, without having to count them individually (‘subitising’)
Recite numbers past 5.
Show ‘finger numbers’ up to 5.
Make comparisons between objects relating to size, length, weight, and capacity.
Select shapes appropriately: flat surfaces for building. A triangular prism for a roof etc.
Understanding of the World
Children should learn to;
Use all senses in hands-on exploration of natural materials.
Talk about what they see, using a wide vocabulary.
Begin to make sense of their own life-story and family’s history.
Begin to understand the need to respect and care for the natural environment and all living things.
Talk about the differences between materials and changes they notice.
Expressive Arts & Design
Children should learn to;
Take part in simple pretend play, using an object to represent something else even though they are not similar.
Make imaginative and complex ‘small worlds’ with blocks and construction kits, such as a city with different buildings and a park.
Explore different materials freely, to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make.
Join different materials and explore different textures.
Create closed shapes with continuous lines and begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
Explore colour and colour-mixing.
Sing the pitch of tone sung by another person (pitch match)
Sing the melodic shape (moving melody, such as up and down, down and up) of familiar songs.