Nursery

Depending on the parents preference, the children will attend nursery either for a total of fifteen hours or thirty hours a week. The number on role each term can differ depending on the number of hours the current children are attending the setting for. We stipulate that children with us do a minimum of three sessions per week with us to help build familiarity and relationships.

Nursery Session details: 

	Timings	Length	Cost
Morning	8.30 – 11.30	3 hours	Included in funded hours or £24 per session (£8 per hour equivalent)
Lunch	11.30 – 12.30	1 hour	£6.60 per session £3.00 for a paid hot meal
Afternoon	12.30 – 3.30	3 hours	Included in funded hours or £24 per session (£8 per hour equivalent)

Nursery Curriculum

The combination curriculum that is used in Reception is also used in Nursery and the staff assess the children under the same areas. In Autumn term, there is a significant focus on developing the children’s key skills within the three prime areas and these are revisited regularly throughout the year.

The three prime areas are

• Personal Social and Emotional Development- Building relationships, managing self and self-regulation
• Communication and Language- Listening, attention and understanding and speaking.
• Physical Development- Gross motor skills, fine motor skills.

The four specific areas are:

• Literacy- Reading comprehension, reading (words) and writing.
• Mathematics- Number and numerical Patterns.
• Understanding the world- People, culture and communities, natural world and past and present.
• Expressive arts and design- Creating with materials and being imaginative and expressive.

Our Foundation Stage provides a balance of play based and adult led learning, which is promoted through enabling environments and positive relationships.

Children do not compartmentalise their learning but learn holistically.  Each child in our school is unique with the vital role of play, child development and the characteristics of effective learning being understood by all members of staff.

These characteristics describe factors which play a central role in a child’s learning. They run through and underpin all 7 areas of learning and development and represent processes rather than outcomes.

The Early Years Foundation Stage is based around four Key Themes
The themes are:

• A Unique Child - Every child is a competent learner from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.
• Positive Relationships - Children learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure relationships with parents and/or a key person.
• Enabling Environments - The environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children's development and learning.
• Learning and Development - Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates and all areas of Learning and Development are equally important and inter-connected.

 

Our nursery is currently under construction, but this is what you can expect to see when we open...