WELCOME TO NURSERY

Nursery Class Teacher -Mrs N Arnold

Nursery Teaching Assistants- Miss S McManus / Miss L Cullen

Curriculum

All children in our Nursery class work towards the revised Early Learning Goals 2021 (ELGs) and develop their Characteristics of Effective Teaching & Learning (COETL).  This builds our curriculum - which is designed to help the children become successful, well-rounded and eager learners throughout their lives.

The children learn through play both in the indoor and outdoor classrooms – sometimes this is adult-led but most of the time it is child-initiated where children learn through exploring their own interests and having their own ideas.  Adults in the setting strive to provide a stimulating and engaging environment that allows the children to develop at their own pace by provoking and guiding learning based on the interests of each child.  Adults assess progress against the revised Development Matters Document, Birth to 5 matters document and the ELGs.

Phonics

In Nursery we focus on listening to sounds for the Autumn and Spring terms involving Nursery rhymes, music and environmental sounds, moving onto the whole school Phonics programme; Read Write Inc in the Summer Term, which supports our teaching of reading and writing. 

We have inputs each day and each session follows a set format in which children practice their previous phonic knowledge, learn new phonemes and digraphs. They practice to read and write letters from the new sounds they have learnt.  Phonics activities are also set up in our indoor and outdoor classrooms through continuous provision. 

Please see the phonics section of the website for more detail about Read Write Inc phonics.

Homework

We provide a pick and mix style homework for each term where children can select which activities they would like to do. The tasks cover a range of the different EYFS areas of learning. Children will receive dojos for any tasks that they complete and evidence can be written down or photographs /videos can be sent to nursery@eastcroftpark.co.uk

Home Reading

All children will bring home a Nursery library book that they can cuddle up and enjoy with an adult at home. These books will be too difficult for your child to read independently and are meant to enjoy together and discuss as you read with your child. 

Children will also receive reading books weekly from the Early Talk Boost programme in the Spring term. 

Maths

In Nursery Maths is taught by daily Nursery rhyme/counting songs and we also use Master the Curriculum ( this is continued throughout  your child's time at EastcroftPark Primary),which is based on White Rose Maths. This Mathematics programme involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, subitising, understanding and using numbers, calculating, simple addition and subtraction problems; and to have an understanding of numerical patterns. 

We teach mathematics three times a week as a carpet input session, to ensure coverage throughout the year builds on fundamental skills. We also have regular maths focused adult led tasks.  Work may be recorded through photographs/termly learning journey etc. 

We also have an indoor maths area for children to learn and play in. Continuous Provision and challenges always reflect our weekly maths learning. For example; if we are learning about number 3 a number 3 tray/resources would be placed in the maths area along with challenges for that week.

Snack

In Nursery we have continuous snack. Healthy snacks such as fruit, toast, breadsticks, dried fruit and crackers will be provided by school using the class funds that are paid for by parents and carers. Children will have access to the snack during the continuous provision session. Children do not need to bring in a snack from home but are welcome to bring their own labelled water bottles. Children with allergies will be catered for. Sometimes children will also make their own snack as well as trying different topic based food and seasonal/celebratory snacks.

We ask for a 50p a week or £1 (for 30 hr children) contribution towards snack costs. Thankyou!