Buckstone Primary School- Nursery Class Buckstone Primary School- Nursery Class Delivering a Curriculum for Excellence

Aims of the session Life long learning and the Curriculum for Excellence Explain the new Ejournals How you can access the Ejournals What you can expect to see Sharing the learning and partnership with parents Opportunity to see examples of numeracy and literacy group activities Communication Nursery day Questions

Lifelong LearnerSocial Being A sense of self worth

Buckstone Values 4 Respect Responsibility Reflection Resilience Resourcefulness 5 Rs

Curriculum for Excellence Confident Individuals Successful Learners Responsible Citizens Effective Contributors

PLP Personal Learning Portfolio A home / school partnership An ongoing record of your child’s learning and development Planning of Next Steps Not a photo album Record of your child’s significant progress in each area of CfE A recognition of the interests and wider achievements of the child A transition document for P1 reflecting the Early Level of CfE

What are we doing now? Easy, Online Learning Journals

What does this mean to you? The purpose of the portfolios hasn’t changed since introducing Ejournals. Different - you can log in and see the latest observations that have been made and comment on them at anytime. The home page on the ejournals is an opportunity for you to share the children's learning from home. We also use news time

Newstime On a weekly basis we will share news/achievements from home Staff will also share things they have seen at this point We will make sure that at some point every child will have something mentioned If you complete the slips of paper and post in the box.

How does it work?

Log in details Enter your user name and password Enter your pin number You will only be able to access information on your child

What will you see when you log in

Security Every account is set up on it's own sub-domain of yourlearningjournals.co.uk, meaning to login you will have to go to nurseryname.yourlearningjournals.co.uk. Each subdomain has its own TLS certificate. These let web browsers know that the site is protected by encryption to provide security. In addition to this every user account can only be access with 2 forms of authentication, a password and PIN number. Information taken from Learning Journals user manual

Photos of children using ejournals

Numeracy & Mathematics Bee Bot Measuring Puzzles ComparingShape

Numeracy & Mathematics Identifying Number Number line Computer number games Counting

Numeracy & Mathematics Focus Numeracy & Mathematics group time Numbers all around us in and out of doors and exploring number sequences and quantities Through daily routines e.g. snack, line up Exploring time and seasons

Number is fun! Numbers all around – be a number spotter Writing numbers Using numbers Money, money, money Don’t forget zero Helpful fingers

Listening & Talking Role Play Problem Solving Whole class discussion Listening to and following instructions

Reading and Writing Mark Making Scribing Identifying letters and sounds Independent writing

Literacy Focus Literacy group time Word of the week Book of the week Sound of the week Rhyme in all context

Reading is fun! Sharing books Don’t forget Nursery Rhymes Letters and sounds Not just books – print all around us

Writing is fun! All sorts of writing materials Drawing Be a good model – let them share our writing What is writing? Handwriting plus being able to put ideas and information on paper What about spelling?

Nursery Day AM session Soft start Core Learning time PM session Core Learning time Soft finish

Communication Sharing Planning (Curriculum Board and website) Homelink The Staff Sharing information Open Door Policy Daily -Notice Board, children’s pouches, Curriculum Display Set times- Ejournals, Cuppa Chats

Partnerships Involvement of parents is vital Woodland Learning Reading Rota Bedtime stories Maths Sacks Sharing talent or time Nursery Representative Mrs Morag Place morning Mrs Louise Logan afternoon representative

Big Thank You Please spend some time looking at the literacy and numeracy resources that we use in nursery and at group time. Post its are available for you to give us your feedback on this session