1. Mid Calder Nursery Class
Meet the Teacher 2017
Thursday 7th
September
WELCOME!

2. Staff
Mrs Leanne Murray
Mrs Lynn Findlay
Mrs Mary Aikman
Mrs Donna Murphy
Mrs Shona Williamson

3. Helpful Hints!
•Your child has been allocated a peg and a
shoe box.
•Can you please ensure that all your child’s
belongings are clearly named.
•Independence is important – velcro shoes
and clothes they can put on/off by
themselves.
•If your child has a nursery bag, hang that up
on the peg first, with their coat on top.

4. Helpful Hints!
•Outdoors – waterproofs and
wellies!.
•Labelled change of clothes.
•Check your child’s box file!

5. Snack
•Varied snack which the
children help to choose and
prepare.
•Keep an eye on the board to
see what they have had that
day!
•Please pay snack on iPay or
see the school office.

6. Nursery Curriculum
•Learning in the nursery comes through
play and interaction with other children
and adults.
•Our planning comes directly from the
children and the things they show an
interest in.
•We aim to provide a balance between
free play and structured activities.

7. Learning in Action
Counting outside!
How many
people are
on my
bus?
Still Life
Number
games
Taking turns
Writing a
menu for his
restaurant!

8. Nursery Curriculum
•Consultative Planner – please give us
feedback!
•Daily Floorbook
•Please have a look at these in the
cloakroom area. They are updated regularly.

9. Parent Helpers
We welcome parent helpers in to our
nursery.
•‘Pop in and Play’ days – 22nd
November
2017
•Trips
•Area of expertise!!
Talk to the office about getting a disclosure
form

10. Daily Overview
• Please ensure all children are in the
nursery by 8.40am/11.55am
• Group Time with key worker
• Free play learning/snack
• Group story time and tooth brushing
• Pick up (am – by 11.10am and 11.33am on Fridays)
• (pm – 3.50pm or 4pm for full day children)

11. Online Learners Journey
• Your child’s journey through nursery is tracked
using the Online Learning Journals.
• We aim to record the significant learning moments
that your child has with us in the nursery, across all
curricular areas.
• You will also be able to add achievements from
home to the journal.
• After September break all journals will be activated
and at least one observation will be uploaded.

12. Communication with home
• Online Learning Journals
• School blog – QR code in
cloakroom
• Consultative Planner
• Floor books
• SWAY
• Talk to a member of staff

13. Other Activities
• Adventure Ted
• Nativity
• End of year trip
• End of year Leavers Assembly
• Transition – assemblies, visits to
school, buddies

14. How to help at home -
Literacy
Writing
•Recognition of their name
•Begin to form some letters of their name
•Encourage correct pencil hold
•Painting, colouring in, threading, play dough
and finger gym are all activities that help their
fine motor control

15. How to help at home -
LiteracyReading
When reading regularly with your child please
point out and discuss the following:-
•Title, author, illustrator
•The front and back of the book
•Where to start to read and the direction you
follow when reading
•Discuss the pictures and story, listen to your
child’s ideas about the story and why they liked
it
•Play letter and sound games

16. How to help at home -
LiteracyGames to play
•Eye Spy
•Rhyming songs and stories
•Looking at sounds at the beginning of words
•Magnetic letters and boards
•Use lots of different materials to write with
Reasons for reading and writing
•Shopping lists
•Notes
•Cards

17. How to help at home - Numeracy
• Counting on and back in ones 0-10, orally,
using number tracks and starting and
stopping at different points
• Reading numbers 0-10 – practice in
environment
• Begin to write numbers 0-10
• Positioning and ordering numbers 0-10
• Smaller and larger numbers
• Counting collections by touching, moving,
putting in to rows and without touching

18. How to help at home - Numeracy
Suggested activities:-
•Count going up/down stairs
•Count buttons on clothes
•Count red cars
•Numbers on buses
•Number songs –1,2,3,4,5, Five currant buns,
Five Little Men in a flying Saucer
•Number Games – Snakes and Ladders,
Dominoes, Orchard Toys
•Websites – Education City, Top Marks

19. How to help at home –
Listening and Talking
Children learn a lot from listening and talking.
As your child is playing ask questions:-
•What are you doing?
•What happens next?
•How did you build/do that?
•How can I help you?
•How do you feel?
Encourage your child to tell stories or retell an
event.

20. How to help at home – Listening and
Talking
Listening Games:-
•Stand quietly – what can you hear?
•Tap or clap out sound patterns – can your
child copy you?
•Give your child silly instructions. Can they
follow them? – put your gloves on your feet
•Put noisy objects out. Can your child tell you
what is making the noise with their eyes
closed?

21. Thank you for
coming and
showing your
support.