Welcome to Afternoon Nursery!

The Nursery Teacher is Mrs. J. Welsh.

The Teaching Assistants are Mrs. Z. Treweek and Mrs. P. Fawcett.

Admissions

We admit children in  the term following their 3rd birthday in January and April.

Times

The session times are 12.30 - 3.30pm.

Nursery Curriculum

In the Nursery we follow the government's Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum.

This offers lots of opportunities to learn through play. These include creative activities, small world, messy play, games, construction,  music, maths and literacy activities. We  place a strong emphasis on  outside play, both for its learning opportunities and physical well-being. We value the importance of healthy living with a healthy daily snack.

In Nursery we provide a stimulating, nurturing environment which encourages the children to learn valuable social skills  such as  sharing, co-operation, and independence.

Topics

We plan our activities on a half-termly basis. Copies are on display on the Parents' noticeboard.

Achievement Display

We have an achievement display titled "Look what the afternoon children can do!" This celebrates any achievement at home. It can be anything, big or small, from learning a new skill to good behaviour.  Please complete a leaf and we will display it on your child's flower.

Libraries

We have children's and parents' library boxes.  The children's box is full of favourite books. The parents' box has lots of ideas to help your child's learning at home. These are 'serve yourself'. Please write your details in the books when you borrow and return items. 

Happy Holiday! 

After the holiday our first topic is Space. If you have any resources we could borrow, we would much appreciate them. We are also collecting kitchen roll tubes to make rockets, and silver foil containers for our space scene!

We'll also be practicing hard for Sports' Day on the 15th June!

The children were fascinated by our very own real butterflies! After having a good look at them we released them into the garden........

This week we have been welcoming our  8 new children. The older group have  done a good job of helping to look after them!

Our next topic is dinosaurs. If you have any resources at home which we could borrow, we would love to see them. Thank you!

Topics

This term we are learning about Spring, life-cycles and Easter. 

New Starters

Our January starters are all now happily settled. It's lovely to see them coming through  the door with smiling faces, eager to play!

We've been learning about colours. This has been linked to Elmer the elephant, which the children love. They're very proud of their Elmer pictures on display. Don't forget to look!

At the moment our topic is "All About Me". We are focusing on what's important, such as our families, our favourite things, and number 3! We're also looking at our names, especially the capital letter at the beginning.

As it's Chinese New Year we're also  finding out a little about China. We're looking at  where China is, the food, writing etc. 

Dates for your diary

We finish for half-term on Friday 12th Feb.

We return on Tues. 23rd Feb. (We are closed on Mon. 22nd Feb for Inset Day).

Tuesday 23rd Feb. is Parents' Evening 4 -6pm.This is an opportunity to chat about your child in Nursery. Please sign on the sheet in Nursery against your preferred time.