Nursery

Hello and welcome to nursery! In nursery, my aim is to ensure your little ones start their learning journey in the best possible way. I aim to develop a love of learning through play and taught, child centred sessions. I want your early learner to develop confidence, resilience and feel safe in my class and I will work alongside you to help achieve this goal. Together, we can nurture your littles ones future learning success!

Maths

In nursery, we have a short, daily taught maths session. We focus on numbers 0-5, to make sure children have a secure understanding of number. We do this through hands on, interactive sessions, where children participate and enjoy learning about maths. In our nursery environment, we have a dedicated maths area, where children can explore number independently and we make use of our online maths programme, Ten Town, to further embed mathematical learning and development.

Phonics

Phonics lessons are delivered each day to our nursery children. We primarily focus on Phase 1, which is centred on general sound discrimination (including environmental sounds, instrumental sounds and body percussion), rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and oral segmenting and blending. During our summer term, we then progress, if children are ready, to Phase 2 and the introduction of first sounds. Our sessions are always lots of fun and we aim to really develop children’s listening skills so they have the best opportunity to become fluent, capable young readers.

Reading

We encourage children to read every day at home. We expect the children to read at least 3 times a week at home and they must bring their reading book and diary in to school every day! They receive reading miles for doing so and could win the reading miles prize at the end of the year. We introduce a small, guided reading session in nursery, where we read a different book each week and discuss all of the things we have read about and seen in the pictures. We really want children to develop a love of reading and so we also have a story session at the beginning and end of each nursery session.