Nursery Unit

Nursery slideshow Home-School books Art and Work

Welcome to our Nursery page, where we will try to show you some of the fun we have at school.

Our Nursery curriculum is based on the Foundation Stage of the UK National Curriculum which guides what is taught in British schools. This is divided into six areas, namely :

• Personal, social and emotional development
• Communication, language and literacy
• Mathematical development
• Knowledge and understanding of the world
• Physical development
• Creative development

Our Nursery is a very happy and secure environment in which all of our young children are encouraged to take part in a wide variety of learning opportunities.

We like to maintain strong links with parents as it is vital that we work together to ensure that our children progress in their development and learning. We are always pleased to welcome parents into school to speak to us or to spend time with us during the day if they wish.

We follow topics which last for approximately half a term each. We also like to join in with whole school topics and invite the rest of the school to take part in some of our dressing up days. Keep an eye on our weekly home/school book for details of what we do on a week by week basis. Every Wednesday we have ‘show and tell’ when the children can bring in something small to show the rest of the class.

In the Nursery we try to encourage the children to become as independent as possible and therefore the following hints may be useful when you are buying clothes and items for school:

• Velcro fastening shoes are much easier than lace-ups for small children.
• Elasticised waists are easier to manage than buttons and belts when they start to use the toilet.
• Lunch boxes should be able to be opened by the children themselves as much as possible.
• All children need to have a change of clothes at school and everything should be labelled.
• Each child does have a labelled tray in which they keep their things.

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