Nursery
In Nursery we follow the ‘Early Years Foundation Stage’, which consists of the following areas of learning:
Prime Areas:
Communication and Language
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Physical Development
Specific Areas:
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design
Children in Nursery learn through focused groups with an adult and through child initiated activities. The classroom’s extra provision is planned to match our current topic or book we are reading.
The teaching Staff in EYFS
Our EYFS Lead is Mrs Dexter.
Our Class Teacher is Miss Jennings.
Our Teaching Assistant’s are Mrs Pawlowska, Mrs Cartlidge and Mrs Calpa-Fleming.
Timetable
All children in Nursery have daily sessions of Maths, singing, phonics, counting songs, communication and language activities and personal, social and emotional activities. They also follow a weekly timetable of focused tasks consisting of the following:
Monday – RE
Tuesday – Communication and Language/PSED
Wednesday – Literacy
Thursday – Topic – Understanding the World and Expressive Art and Design
Friday – PE
In EYFS our ethos is to allow the children to always have access to free flow activities both indoors and outdoors in all weathers. We therefore ask that all children come to school with the following items:
- Wellington boots
- Waterproof suit/trousers and coat
- Gloves, hat and scarf for cold weather
- Sunhat for warm weather
- Sun cream for warm weather
Discovering Dinosaurs
In Nursery, we go on an exciting adventure to learn all about dinosaurs and the world they lived in a long, long time ago.
The children explore different dinosaurs and begin to notice that some were big and fierce, and some were small and gentle. We also find out about volcanoes, fossils, and what the world looked like in prehistoric times. We enjoy learning about animals from the past, including early reptiles and cavemen.
We share lovely stories together such as Cave Baby by Julia Donaldson, Dinosaur Roar, and Dear Dinosaur. We also look at simple non-fiction books all about dinosaurs and volcanoes to help us learn new and interesting facts.
The children love becoming little explorers and scientists. They dig for fossils, talk about dinosaurs, and take part in fun science experiments, like making a volcano erupt!
We learn lots of new words together and use them in our play, stories, and discoveries as we explore the amazing prehistoric world.
RE
In Nursery, our RE topic “To the Ends of the Earth” introduces children to the story of the early Church in a simple and meaningful way.
We learn that after Jesus went back to heaven on Ascension Day, something very special happened at Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came to help Jesus’ friends. We begin to explore how the early Christians worked together, shared, and told others about Jesus.
Through simple stories, pictures, songs, and play, the children begin to hear about these special events and think about ideas like friendship, kindness, and helping one another. We talk about how we can be kind and caring, just like the early Christians.
This topic helps children begin to understand that people can belong to a community and care for each other, as they start their journey learning about the early Church.
