Nursery

Our Nursery Team

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

Mrs Hooson: Teacher

Mrs Huckle: Classroom Teaching Assistant (AM/PM )

Mrs Simpson: Classroom Teaching Assistant (PM)

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

Summer Term

This half term we are learning about mini beasts. We will read ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and learn about and observe the life cycle of a butterfly with the help of our class caterpillars.

Also will be going on lots of bug safaris and bug hunts in our garden and school grounds.

As part of our creative work we will be learning about the illustrator Eric Carle and making our own art works in his style.

As well as this we continue to 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.

Also weekly Squiggle while you Wiggle activities will take place in order for the children to develop their fine and gross motor skills in readiness for writing.

Our younger children will continue to follow 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.

Our older children will be starting our whole school Read, Write, Inc phonics programme where they will begin to learn the different sounds and the letters which represent them. This is done in a fun and practical way through lots of games and activities.

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.

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