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

Spring Term

This half term we are learning about Winter and one of our focus stories is ‘The Three Little Pigs.

In Maths we will be learning all about the numbers 3, 4 and 5: counting sets of objects, recognising numerals and the composition of number.

Also we will be learning about Chinese New Year and celebrating this through a wide range of new and traditional activities. For example: arts and crafts (mask making), food tasting, dancing, mark making and role play activities.

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.

As part of our PSED we will take part in Mental Health Week and complete lots of activities to boost our health and wellbeing! For example running the daily mile track and Cosmic Kids yoga.

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.

Finally, this half term we will be continuing with the Bedtime Story Bag and introducing our Nursery Lending Library for our children.

T​opic Web - Spring 1