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Summer Term
Nursery Curriculum Overview – Summer Term
🌿 Summer 1: We Are Nature Experts!
This half term, our nursery children will become Nature Experts, transforming our role play area into a vibrant garden centre and nature reserve! Through storytelling, imaginative play, and hands-on experiences, we’ll explore how to care for plants and animals.
We’ll rescue seeds, plant them with care, and investigate what they need to grow. We'll meet creatures like Colin the Caterpillar, who isn’t feeling very well after eating too many treats! The children will help him learn about healthy foods and what he needs to grow big, strong, and ready to become a butterfly.
Our young explorers will also:
Learn about life cycles
Go on bug hunts
Solve nature-based problems as they arise
Observe the signs of summer and how the natural world changes with the season
In Maths, we’ll be focusing on:
Sequencing events
Using positional language
Comparing quantities (more than/fewer than)
Exploring 2D and 3D shapes
Continuing to build our counting skills through everyday play and routines
🌍 Summer 2: We Are Earth Protectors!
In the second half of the term, our children will take on a new mission: to become Earth Protectors! Using stories, hands-on exploration, and teamwork, we’ll learn how we can care for our planet and protect the animals and environments we love.
We'll explore:
How pollution affects sea creatures
Simple ways we can reduce, reuse, and recycle
The message of Laudato Si: caring for our common home
The similarities and differences between life now and in the past, especially at the seaside
Our adventures will include:
Making recycled sea creatures from bottle caps, cardboard, and other materials
Creating a seaside in a jar
Investigating land vs. water
Discovering contrasting environments
Creating art inspired by Andy Warhol, using bright colours and repeated patterns
Choosing our own role play area linked to helping others and protecting the Earth
In Maths, we’ll deepen our understanding of numbers:
Focusing on numbers 1 to 5
Practising number order (before/after)
Using nursery rhymes and songs to reinforce learning
Engaging in practical activities and early number formation
Throughout both terms, we will continue to develop key social skills including sharing, taking turns, building friendships, and learning how to look after ourselves and one another.
We’re looking forward to a fun-filled half term, and we can’t wait to see where our learning adventures take us!
Homework
Each week, we’ll send home a story and a poem for you to enjoy with your child. Please take time to talk about the story and help them memorise the poem to perform in class.
Children will also bring home their shared story book each week, please return it every Wednesday.
Maths ideas for home will be shared weekly to support your child’s learning in line with our classroom focus.