Welcome to Panda Class, our teacher is Mrs Bolt

Term 5

Down at the Bottom of the Garden

This term, in nursery, our topic is called ‘Down at the Bottom of the Garden’. First, we will be sharing the story ‘One Springy Day with the children to help them learn about the change of season. We will also talk about how ‘Percy the Park Keeper’ looks after the animals in the park. We will think about when each of the animals come out to play and even talk about special words like ‘nocturnal’.

Next, we will then share ‘Supertato’ stories to introduce different vegetables and produce, talk and about how we treat our friends and how we can help each other. We will start to explore gardening and growing to plant our own vegetables and herbs.

Then we will share ‘Errol’s Garden’ to help the children think about planting, how things grow and what we can grow in our own garden at nursery. There will be many opportunities to explore our new garden area to create a pumpkin patch, vegetable plot and new herb garden.

We are also really starting to focus on preparing the children for the transition to big school. We will start visiting the big classrooms over at the school, have the reception teachers come to read us stories and play with us and start conversations about what school might be like and see if they have toys and resources in big school, just like nursery.