Inside the Classrooms
In Nursery we are all three years old and some of us will turn four in the course of the school year. Our first Unit of Enquiry for this school year was “Who am I?” and we have had a lot of fun learning about ourselves, our families, and how we change and grow. We learn mainly through English (80%) and our Catalan and Spanish teachers support and plan our programme together with our classroom teacher.
In Mathematics we have been exploring the world around us through colours, shapes and forms that we see every day. We sing counting songs and rhymes and play lots of games through numbers. We are constantly developing our understanding of mathematics through hands-on activities and structured play.
Our first steps in literacy are made by listening to stories, singing songs, sharing experiences in circle time each day and beginning to learn about the shapes of letters.
Painting, experimenting with textures, using playdough and other media to make models, are all part of our ongoing creative activities. We learn how to share and play together using construction material, puzzles, games and fantasy play equipment.
Our physical education programme includes structured activities which develop specific areas of our co-ordination and unstructured activities, where we get to explore P.E materials ourselves.
‘Celebrate!’ is our next unit of enquiry and will allow us to recognize important personal and cultural events through celebrations and traditions.
ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English
National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K.
experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish integrated in the
Programme.
