Nursery

Our Nursery Team

In the Nursery class we have a teacher and classroom teaching assistant.

Mrs Hooson: Teacher

Mrs Huckle: Classroom Teaching Assistant

Mrs White: Classroom Teaching Assistant

Nursery Sessions

We have a morning and afternoon class and the session times are as follows:

AM – 8.30-11.30am

PM – 12.30-3.30pm (currently for children eligible for 30 hours nursery provision)

30 Hour Provision

Parents living and working in England, 3 and 4 years olds may be entitled to 15 additional hours of free childcare.

(To check eligibility go to: https://www.gov.uk/get-tax-free-childcare)

If your child is eligible, and there are places available, then their day will start at 8.30 and finish at 3.30.

Early Years Foundation Stage

We follow the ‘Early Years Foundation Stage’ (EYFS) curriculum which is divided into 7 areas of learning.

• Communication and Language
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Physical Development
• Mathematics
• Literacy
• Understanding of the World
• Expressive Arts and Design

Also we plan our activities to focus on the ‘Characteristics of Effective Learning’ as they help the children to develop important life skills and attitudes.

• Playing and Exploring
• Active Learning
• Creative and Thinking Critically

A​utumn 1

Autumn Term (Sept-Oct) This half term we will be welcoming new friends to our class, as well as greeting our returning children from last year. During this important settling-in period, we will be learning our daily routines, getting to know each other, and exploring the nursery toys and equipment together.

To help everyone feel happy, secure, and confident in class, we will also be learning about our Nursery Class Promises: Ready, Respectful, and Safe. These will be introduced through fun activities, stories, and discussions. Some of the books we use to support this learning include Owl Babies and the Miss Beanie series.

Alongside this, we will be exploring the seasonal changes of Autumn through creative activities and outdoor experiences. We will also play games to help the children learn the names of their new friends and begin to build positive relationships with their peers.

Reading and books play a big part in Nursery so this half term we will introduce some ‘shared home reading’. The children will be given a story book to keep at home for a week to read and share with family members. Also we have a ‘bedtime story’ book bag which the children will have the opportunity to bring home.

As well as this we sing daily, as nursery rhymes and songs are crucial for developing children’s communication, language and literacy skills. Other benefits include early maths skills and physical development through learning and copying actions. This half term we will be focussing on nursery rhymes, action and number songs.

Even though we plan specific activities for the children a lot of what we do in Nursery has a child centred approach. We observe the children in their play and base activities around their interests linking them to the EYFS curriculum.

We will be following the Letters and Sounds programme too. In particular, the phase 1 activities as these help to develop the children’s speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for phonics work.

For our Maths work we follow the White Rose Maths Nursery Scheme. This half term our topics include: colours, matching, sorting and number.

T​opic Web - Autumn 1