Nursery

Welcome to Nursery...My name is Mrs Abnett, I am Nursery lead. Mrs Southern is our class teaching assistant.

In Nursery, children are encouraged to learn through exploration, risk-taking, and observation of their peers. We foster independence by providing opportunities for them to discover and engage with their environment. With 'free flow' throughout most of the day, children can freely explore a wide range of activities both indoors and outdoors, enhancing their learning experiences.

St Saviour’s Catholic Primary and Nursery School

Mission Statement

"Keeping Jesus at the heart of all we do."

In God's Name

In Autumn term we begin to introduce children to Religious Education through prayer, stories and discussions about God's love. We pray at different times throughout the day and encourage children to join in with our prayers. The children will begin their journey in RE by learning about what the Bible is and how it helps us to learn about God. They will begin to develop their relationship with God and learn about His creation.

The children will explore how God created our wonderful world and everything in it, including people, animals and plants. They will learn that God created us to belong to families and communities of friends who care for one another. The children will have opportunities to listen to Bible stories, engage in sensory and outdoor learning experiences, and explore their understanding through small world provision, songs, creative activities and whole-school celebrations.

Our Nursery Routine

Our routine is very flexible and we work around the needs of the children throughout the day. We do encourage the children to use the toilet regularly and nappies are always changed as and when needed, if outside of our scheduled changing times.

We ask parents to provide a healthy snack for the children, we all sit down together to eat snack to support good language and social skills at the table.

This is one of our favourite times of the day!

8:40: Welcome & Settling in time

8.50: Register & 'Hello' time

9:10: Continuous provision

10:30: Snack time

10.40: Continuous provision

11:40: Story time & Prayer

12:00: Home time (for morning children)

12.00: Lunchtime

1.00: Register and story time

1.10: Calm time (sleep time if required)

1.30: Continuous provision

2.30: Snack time

2.45: Story time and get ready for home

3.00: Home time

Autumn 1

This half-term, we will be learning all about ourselves as we begin our Nursery journey and settle into our new surroundings. We will focus on building friendships, developing independence and becoming confident in our daily routines.

The children will explore all areas of learning through a range of exciting, play-based activities. They will develop their communication and language skills by learning each other's names, sharing information about themselves and their families, and taking part in songs, rhymes, stories and group conversations. We will encourage the children to express their thoughts, feelings and interests as they grow in confidence within the Nursery environment.

Through our activities, the children will begin to understand classroom rules, learn how to take turns and share, and develop positive relationships with both adults and their peers. We will also spend time exploring our indoor and outdoor learning environments, helping the children to feel happy, safe and secure in their new setting.

Physical Development,

In Nursery, we work on our physical development by running, jumping, skipping, hopping, crawling, climbing and playing with others.

In Development Matters, children between birth and three will: clap and stamp to music, run, walk and climb, sit on a push-along bike, begin to pour drinks, begin to be independent in dressing, and begin to develop manipulation and control.

In Autumn 1, we will be developing our physical skills by practising moving confidently around their new environment, developing their fine motor skills through a variety of hands-on activities and becoming increasingly independent with self-care routines.

Communication and Language

In Development Matters, children between birth and three will: begin to use single words, begin to say how they are feeling, develop their pretend play, begin to develop conversations through play, copying words and gestures from adults.

In Autumn 1, the children will be supported in developing their communication and language skills through a range of exciting listening and speaking opportunities. They will learn to listen attentively during stories, songs and group times, follow simple instructions and begin to take turns in conversations. The children will be encouraged to talk about themselves, their families and their experiences, helping them to build confidence when speaking to adults and their peers. Through role play, discussions and vocabulary-rich activities, they will develop their understanding of new words and learn to express their ideas, needs and feelings more clearly.

Personal, Social and Emotional

In Development Matters, children between birth and three years will: find ways to calm themselves, manage transitions from home to school, grow in independence, express their feelings, show effortful control (waiting), develop friendships and begin to notice differences in others.

In Autumn 1, the children will also be supported in their personal, social and emotional development by learning the Nursery rules and routines, expressing their feelings, building confidence and learning how to play and work alongside others. Through exploring the world around them, they will investigate their new classroom and outdoor area, learn about seasonal changes and begin to notice similarities and differences between themselves and others. Their creativity will be encouraged through painting, role play, music and a range of imaginative activities.

Maths

In Nursery, we develop our maths skills mainly through continuous provision. We have puzzles, shape sorters, boxes that children can climb into and out of, blocks in the building area where we can use words such as big, small, tall, taller, short. We have water and sand trays where we can pour, scoop, compare weights. We also sing a lot! We have lots of number songs that we sing which encourage children to begin to recognise numbers when they are singing.

In Development Matters, children from birth to three years will: put objects inside others, take part in finger rhymes, compare amounts, begin to develop counting-like behaviour, count in everyday contexts, climb and squeeze into different spaces, complete puzzles and notice patterns

Literacy

In Development Matters, children between birth and three years will: enjoy songs and rhymes, enjoy sharing books with adults, respond to pictures, repeat words and phrases from familiar stories, begin to notice some print such as the first letter of their name, enjoy drawing freely, adding meanings to their marks.

In Autumn 1, In literacy, children will enjoy sharing stories, joining in with repeated phrases, recognising their own name and developing a love of books. In maths, they will begin to explore numbers through songs and practical activities, as well as sorting, matching and comparing objects in their everyday play

Learning through play

In nursery, all of our learning is done through play. We encourage children to explore new things. Pictures for Autumn 1 loading...

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Story time!

We provide lots of opportunities for children to enjoy stories throughout the morning. Our favourite books are displayed for children to access independently during their busy time and they love to look at the pictures with their friends, talking about what they can see! Each morning, when the children arrive, they will sit down and look at a book either independently or with their peers/an adult.

Before home time, we have a whole class story time to allow the children to unwind from our busy day.

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Nursery Rhymes...

Nursery rhymes are a fantastic way of building your child's vocabulary and language skills.

Children love to learn actions to go with their songs.

In Nursery we are learning to use Makaton signs, particularly when we sing.

Makaton is a sign language programme which was created to be used alongside spoken language, in order to promote communication and language development in babies and young children.

We sing Nursery Rhymes lots during the day, especially carpet times, before snacks and before home.

Some of our favourite Nursery Rhymes are:

Wheels on the bus

If you're happy and you know it

I'm driving in my car

Baa Baa black sheep

Twinkle Twinkle little star

5 little ducks