Welcome to Carle Class |
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Mrs B Larkin
Hello, my name is Beth Larkin and I have worked at Sandhill for 7 years. As I am Early Years trained, I have had the pleasure of teaching in nursery for the last 7 years and helping to settle our youngest children into school life at Sandhill! I am happily married and have a fur baby called Cheddar who runs the house! I am a massive foodie and have a huge sweet tooth! I drink way too much coffee and love pizza!
Mrs C Swift
Hello my name is Mrs Swift. I’ve worked at sandhill for the last 2 years. I absolutely love working in Early Years. In my spare time I enjoy doing arts and crafts, designing t shirts etc. I am married and have 3 children 2 boys aged 21 and 14 and a girl aged 19. I enjoy cooking but I most enjoy baking and eating cake. I enjoy walking my 2 dogs Willow and Kobi and snuggling on the sofa with my 4 cats.
Hello, my name is Beth Larkin and I have worked at Sandhill for 7 years. As I am Early Years trained, I have had the pleasure of teaching in nursery for the last 7 years and helping to settle our youngest children into school life at Sandhill! I am happily married and have a fur baby called Cheddar who runs the house! I am a massive foodie and have a huge sweet tooth! I drink way too much coffee and love pizza!
Mrs C Swift
Hello my name is Mrs Swift. I’ve worked at sandhill for the last 2 years. I absolutely love working in Early Years. In my spare time I enjoy doing arts and crafts, designing t shirts etc. I am married and have 3 children 2 boys aged 21 and 14 and a girl aged 19. I enjoy cooking but I most enjoy baking and eating cake. I enjoy walking my 2 dogs Willow and Kobi and snuggling on the sofa with my 4 cats.
We are named after:
Eric Carle
Some of their most famous books are:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?, The Bad Tempered Ladybird, The Very Busy Spider
What we are learning about this term:
In Autumn 1 our topic is All About Me. We will learn specific information about ourselves and what makes us who we are, our favourite things, our likes and dislikes, our family and friends and where we live. We will be reading a variety of fiction and non fiction text linked to this topic. Some of the books that we will read include;
Eric Carle
Some of their most famous books are:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?, The Bad Tempered Ladybird, The Very Busy Spider
What we are learning about this term:
In Autumn 1 our topic is All About Me. We will learn specific information about ourselves and what makes us who we are, our favourite things, our likes and dislikes, our family and friends and where we live. We will be reading a variety of fiction and non fiction text linked to this topic. Some of the books that we will read include;
- I’m Special, I’m Me
- Super Duper You
- Only One You
- The Growing Story
- Marvellous Me
- You Choose
In Autumn 2 our topic is Can’t You Sleep Little Bear. We will be learning simple facts about bears, such as their body parts, what they eat, where they live etc. We will be colour mixing to paint a simple representations of a Bear. Exploring night time and making comparisons between night and day and exploring woodland creatures. Some of the linked texts that we will read include:
- Owl Babies
- Where my Teddy?
- Lets Go Home Little Bear
- Goodnight Moon
- Peace at Last
Our Class Timetable
Each day children access free flow choosing time where children access provision areas both inside and outside throughout the session.
We have a number of short carpet session each day. Carpet sessions include welcome song, phonics, maths, topic work and story time.
We also gather on the carpet for whole class snack once each day.
We have a nursery rhyme of the week that we practise singing each day.
Other Useful Information
A baseline assessment of each child is completed within the first 3 weeks of them starting nursery.
We visit the library after Friday to change our library book.
We have a basket of story books in the nursery cloakroom if you would like to take an extra story book home to read with your child. Please return this story book when you have read it.
Each day children access free flow choosing time where children access provision areas both inside and outside throughout the session.
We have a number of short carpet session each day. Carpet sessions include welcome song, phonics, maths, topic work and story time.
We also gather on the carpet for whole class snack once each day.
We have a nursery rhyme of the week that we practise singing each day.
Other Useful Information
A baseline assessment of each child is completed within the first 3 weeks of them starting nursery.
We visit the library after Friday to change our library book.
We have a basket of story books in the nursery cloakroom if you would like to take an extra story book home to read with your child. Please return this story book when you have read it.
Learning in action this term