Welcome to Nursery!

About us

A warm and welcoming atmosphere awaits your child. We have a range of excellent resources and activities to enable your child to grow, develop and engage in adventurous and imaginative play. We have access to an outdoor area including our wildlife garden, which children are encouraged to use ‘whatever the weather’!

Please ensure your child is suitably dressed for Nursery; clothes that you don't mind getting dirty! Open toe shoes/sandals are not allowed due to health and safety regulations. If you could please provide your child with a spare change of clothes and a water bottle, this would be most appreciated.

Each child will have received their own unique password to access an app called Dojo. We will use Dojo as a form of communication and also to send you observations/photographs of your child.

It is also a chance for children to share with us what they have been up to at home.

Session times

Children attend our Nursery for either five morning sessions per week or five afternoon sessions per week. Some of our children attend Nursery all day apart from on a Friday. 

Morning sessions run from 8.45am - 11.45am.

Afternoon sessions run from 12.30pm - 3.30pm.

All day sessions run from 8.45am-3.30pm (Monday-Thursday) 8.45am-11.45am (Friday only) 

PLEASE NOTE FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/25 WE WILL ONLY BE PROVIDING MORNING SESSIONS (8.45am to 11.45am)

PE 

Physical Development is a fundamental part of our curriculum. We have opportunities every day to access our outdoor learning environment to develop all aspects of the curriculum. To aid both our gross and fine motor we have weekly PE sessions in the main school hall. It is very important that children are dressed appropriately for PE therefor we ask that children come to Nursery in joggers, t shirt, trainers or pumps. We ask for no jewellery, including earrings and hair is tied up. 

Nursery staff

Our Nursery team is ran by our Teacher Miss. Kitt as well as our Teaching Assistant Miss. Ekins. Miss Kitt has time out on a Monday and Miss Weddle covers the class. Miss. Kitt is available on Monday by appointment only. Nursery has the fabulous Mrs Smith our Support Assistants who  helps children with intervention based learning. On Thursday Miss Kitt does her work in the office and Mrs. Eastham will teach us. 

We also mentor students who are on placement and volunteers.

We are always available to talk to you should you have any concerns about your child. 

Snack time and Keyworker time

We have just started to do a free flow snack time, which seems to be working well. Children can access fruit and milk at anytime during their session. We encourage children to try each of the fruits that we have.

Children are also taught about healthy practices, including washing their hands prior to eating and brushing their teeth twice a day. We also encourage our children to try a range of other healthy snacks such as toast, crumpets, cereals and even scrambled eggs! We are happy to celebrate children's birthdays and parents are welcome to bring cakes or a birthday cake into nursery. We will happily blow the candles out and sing Happy Birthday. We will slice the cake for the children to have at Keyworker Time.

Keyworker time is done half way through the session. Your child is allocated a keyworker within the first few weeks of starting nursery with us. In these sessions, we discuss different topics associated with the early years PSE objectives (personal, social and emotional development) and it is a time for children to listen and tell their own stories, or something that they have done at the weekend etc.

Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum

We follow the new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum which ensures that every child at Nursery age receives quality educational opportunities that support their development and learning.

In Autumn our topic is 'Me and my World'. We will be looking at a variety of stories, rhymes and non-fiction texts about ourselves, our family and the world around us. These texts include 'You'll soon grown Titch' by Pat Huchins as well as some Non Fiction texts about people jobs in the community. In Maths we will be learning to sort and match by colour, create ABAB patterns as well as finish patterns using movement and natural objects. We will celebrate Diwali as well as Bonfire Night, Remembrance Day and Christmas. In our Technology learning we will learn how to make Pumpkin Soup by following instructions as well as looking at how our bodies grow and change. We will create simple patterns using programs on the IPads and discuss a familiar journey. In PE we will go on an adventure with Pippa and Eddie working on our fundamental skills as well as developing our gross motor development in our garden. Learning how to negotiate space, climb the outdoor stairs as well as how to use the equipment in our garden. In our Expressive Art and Design learning we will focus on the skill of painting and learning about the Artist Herve Tullet. We will paint our self-portraits as well as learn how to make patterns using printing. We will learn how to make marks using objects such as marbles and cars when making our Diwali Firework Paintings. In our DT based learning we will talk about what we have made as well as learn how to use glue to stick materials to card. In our Geography and History based learning we will be talking about familiar and similar environments such as our Nursery, Mosque and Tesco. We will share our own experiences of celebrations and celebrate traditions of other children. We will explore the roles people around us have in our community and how our own family is similar and different to others. 

Useful Links

Here are some useful links to fun and educational activities you can enjoy with your children at home.

Our Curriculum

We are currently working on our Curriculum in line with the rest of school. As topic webs are developed, these will be added to our website. 

Parents Information Board

Please regularly check the Parents Information Board (which is situated just outside the entrance to Nursery) for reminders, notices and diary date changes. The board also consists of useful websites, stories and new key language, this is changed on a weekly basis.

We have worksheets printed weekly, to help with your child's learning. If you would like more support and/or information, please do come and talk to us.

There is also a parent's suggestion box outside of nursery. We would love to hear from you. If you have any ideas, your child's current interests or general comments, please drop us a note and we will do our best to make things happen.