Welcome to Nursery Little Stars 2018/2019

• Miss Kitson – Nursery Teacher Staffing We hope you all love coming to our Nursery. Our Nursery staff are here to help you. • Miss Kitson – Nursery Teacher • Mrs Glover – Nursery Nurse Mrs Kola – PPA Teacher (Wednesday mornings)

AFTERNOON SESSION – 12:15 – 3:15 Session Times Playground gates open at 8:30 for the start of the school day. Classroom doors open at 8:45 for the start of morning session and 12:15 for the start of afternoon session. Playground gates open at 3:05 for the end of the school day. Children should be collected at 11:45 promptly for the end of morning session and 3.15 promptly for the end of afternoon session. MORNING SESSION – 8:45 – 11:45 AFTERNOON SESSION – 12:15 – 3:15

Absences Children should attend everyday unless not well enough to do so. Children arriving after 8:50 for the morning session and after 12:20 for the afternoon session, will be marked as late. Appointments should be made outside of school hours where possible. Please phone school before 9:15 if your child is not attending school to let us know. Our telephone number is 01924 455593.

Uniform Children must wear their school uniform every day, including sensible black shoes and plain white or grey socks/tights. Please provide wellies and a coat for outdoor play. We recommend polo shirts rather than formal shirts for the younger children. Please ensure all uniform is name labelled. Please provide spare clothes and underwear, in case of accidents. Only stud earrings and watches may be worn.

Book Bags Please ensure book bags are in school on Monday and Friday for book changing.   Reading Books Reading books are changed on Monday and Friday. These books are intended for you to share with your child. Please share your reading experiences with a comment in the Reading Records.

Baking/cooking Fund Each half term we will collect a £1 contribution from parents, for our baking/cooking fund, so we can make some tasty things to eat. (SHOW PARENTS HOW TO ACCESS THE SCHOOL WEBSITE/CLASS WEBPAGE AND USE THE EDUCATIONAL INTERACTIVE WEBLINKS)

Early Years Curriculum In Nursery, we follow the Early Years Curriculum and Development Matters. The children learn through play. “Play is the highest form of research” Albert Einstein

Learning through play is a term used in education and psychology to describe how a child can learn to make sense of the world around them. Through play children can develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments.

Early Years Curriculum Each area of learning is implemented through planned play experiences and through a mixture of adult led and child initiated activity. Children are encouraged to move freely around Nursery, indoors and outdoors, using different areas of provision where they can select resources independently.

These areas of provision are; construction creative (painting and craft) fine motor(lacing, threading, pegs, jigsaws) malleable (playdough, clay, sand etc.) mark making Movement/gross motor music reading role play small world (cars, farm sets, dinosaurs etc) water sand outdoor

Areas of learning Your child will mostly be taught through independent and adult led games and play. The prime areas of learning are: communication and language physical development personal, social and emotional development literacy mathematics understanding the world expressive arts and design

Profile Files Each child has a 2Simple Online Profile. The profiles contain work your child is proud of, work the Nursery staff feel demonstrates good learning and observations of your child by the Nursery staff. The profiles will be sent to you every half term, please take time to look at the profiles with your child. We would also like you to contribute to your child’s profile, by sharing experiences from home. (THIS IS WHERE I WILL DO 2SIMPLE PARENT TRAINING)

Thank you for listening!

Please come to the main entrance and then go to the hall. EYFS Parent Meeting Thursday 27th September 2018 5:00pm – 6:00pm Please come to the main entrance and then go to the hall.