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Welcome to Fielding Nursery
Outdoor Learning Space

We know how inviting our outside area is for the children, but please keep all children away from our outside equipment when you drop off or pick up your child. Thank you for your help and support.

Settling into Nursery

Settling into a new setting will take time. They are learning all about us and we are learning lots about all our Nursery children. Thank you for all your help and support during the settling in time. We know it can be hard when your child/children are upset when they are dropped off at Nursery. As we grow into the Autumn term the children will grow and develop and learn our routines and gain confidence. For some of our children the settling in process can take time but they will get there in the end.

Find out more about Wow notes this term
Values Ambassadors

To reward the Nursery children when they continue to make 'good choices', we place a picture of them on the 'Values Ambassadors' board. At the end of each week, we choose one girl and one boy who have been showing and demonstrating our Values and also following our 'Golden Rules'. Each child then receives a sticker, a small certificate to take home and a round of applause from their friends. With so many amazing children in the Nursery, it is always a hard choice.

Forest School 

Forest School sessions are led by Nursery Teachers and Mrs Watts who is a certified Forest School teacher as well as the class teacher for RF Reception class at Fielding. 

You will receive a message via your MCAS account on a Friday/Wednesday to let you know if your child is attending Forest School on Monday/Thursday. If you child is due to attend Forest School then please send them to Nursery with wellies or waterproof shoes. They will also need a raincoat/shower jacket as the weather does not stop us. 

The Fielding Forest School is located on our school field. Children will have the opportunity to explore the forest and take part in themed and seasonal activities.

For more information about Forest School please click on the link below. 

https://www.forestschoolassociation.org/what-is-forest-school/ 

Children Bringing Comfort Toys to Nursery

While the children are settling into the Nursery we understand that some children need to bring comfort toys to the Nursery to help them in their settling on process. We encourage the children to keep comfort toys in their bags so that they do not get lost.

If children mislay any items which they bring to Nursery we will attempt to find them and return them. Unfortunately we are unable to spend time looking for items during busy periods in the Nursery. If a child looses an item we will then look for it at the end of the session or at the beginning of the next day. We ask parents if they can please be patient to have items returned and not expect staff to look for items during the session

Using Cutlery 

We are encouraging to children to use a knife and fork when they eat lunch and tea in the Nursery. Children of Nursery age are able to use cutlery and with help they soon learn how to use a knife and fork correctly when eating. Some foods are harder to cut that others and they will still need help cutting up food before they eat it. Please encourage your child to use a knife and fork at home and model good cutlery use.

Thank you for your support.

Supporting your child during toilet training.

Please find links to a supporting document and website to help support your child with their toilet training. Please view the document and website and continue to encourage your child to use the toilet at home.

Supporting Children with Additional Needs

All children may experience some difficulties in learning from time to time during their school life. We aim to provide equal access to the whole curriculum for all children including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).  All nursery staff are involved in the learning and development of pupils with SEND with Parents/Carers involved at all stages.

Mrs Chadwick is the school SENDCo, and she works closely with nursery.

We place great emphasis on identifying pupils with additional needs as early as possible, therefore ensuring a differentiated curriculum to accommodate individual needs and allow maximum access to the curriculum. Where a child has a particular individual need, we will make reasonable adjustments to help them overcome their difficulties which may include additional support. Depending on the identified need this support may take place in class, in a small group or on an individual basis. On occasion, additional support is sought from an external agency such as;

  • School Health
  • Behaviour Support service
  • Educational Psychology Service
  • Speech and Language 
  • Occupational Therapy 
  • SEN Inclusion team 
  • Early Start 
  • Family support

You can also see an overview of our Special Educational Needs support by clicking here to see our whole school provision and local offer.

Early Pick Up during PM Sessions

If you are picking your child up from Nursery before 3.30pm please inform us by passing a message over to a member of our Nursery Team on the door or by phoning or emailing us. If you are picking up from the Ladybird class at 3.30pm then please be aware that the Ladybird children go to tea at 3.30pm till 4.00pm. We will have the children ready to go at 3.30pm if we know in advance. If we are unaware that you are collecting your child at 3.30 they may be on their way to tea and may be disappointed that they will miss tea. Thank you for your continued support and consideration.

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What will my child be learning about this week?

Week Beginning 15th September

This week we will be continuing to support the children to settle into the Nursery.   Most children are already settled and are getting used to our routines and expectations. For some children it may take a little longer but we will always be there to help them.

This week we will be starting our first Curriculum Challenge of : Who Lives in my house?

Our Question of the week is: What is special about my family?

Our Words of the week are:

Mum, Dad, Brother, Sister, Auntie, Uncle, Grandmother, Grandfather

This week we will be beginning to find out about the children's language skills so that we can plan their next steps. Through our interactions and observations, we will be collecting information across the EYFS seven areas of learning: Communication and Language, Physical Development, Personal-Social and Emotional Development, Literacy, Mathematics, Exploring Art and Design and Understanding the World. 

This week we will be reading the stories:

     Lost and Found (The Boy Series Book #2) | PDF

We will be asking questions about what happened in the stories and helping children say our words of the week.

Our Poem of the week is:

We act out and say our poem each day during carpet time.

 

Nursery Curriculum Challenge 

 

 
What does my child do at Nursery?

We give feedback about your child's progress during our Parent Consultation meetings. We will not be able to give parents daily feedback due to the numbers of children we have attending each day. If we need to chat to you about anything we will always phone or email. 

A day in the life of a Nursery child 

We thought you might like to know what an average day is like for your child. All timings are approximate and will change sometimes according to the needs of the children.

8 am -9.10 am Children arrive in Nursery.

9.10am - 9.15am Dough Gym

9.15am -9.30am  Carpet Story/ Mathematics

9.30am-9.40am Milk

9.40am-11.15am Free flow. Children explore indoors and outdoors and adults support children in their learning and exploring.

11.15- 11.30 Wash Hands

11.30am-12.30pm Children Eat Lunch

11.50am -12.45pm Free flow. Children explore indoors and outdoors and adults support children in their learning and exploring.

12.45-1.00pm AM children go home, full time children story time.

1.00pm-1.10pm PM Children arrive.

1.10pm-1.20pm Dough Gym.(Dragonfly Class)

1.20pm -2.45pm Free flow. Children explore indoors and outdoors and adults support children in their learning and exploring.

2.45pm -3.00pm  Children Wash Hands.

3.00pm-4.00pm Children's Tea Time

3.30-3.45pm: Story Time.

3.45pm-5.00pm Free flow. Children explore indoors and outdoors and adults support children in their learning and exploring

5.30pm -6.00pm -Tidy and story time.

 

Our Golden Rules
 
 
Fielding Nursery Staff 

Tracy Cherry

Nursery Manager & Operations Lead (DDSL)

Terry McEvoy

Assistant Head, Nursery & Ladybird Class Teacher

Sam O'Neill

Dragonfly Class Teacher

Jenny Eastwood

Nursery Admissions & Attendance

Dina Malil

Early Years Practitioner, Ladybird Class

Neelma Ahmed

Teaching Assistant, Dragonfly Class

Regina Belaid

Teaching Assistant, Ladybird Class

Sarabjit Sahota

Teaching Assistant, Ladybird Class

Jolanta Serrano

Teaching Assistant, Dragonfly Class

Karima Dahbi

Playworker, Ladybird Class

Afiya John-Charles

Playworker, Dragonfly Class

Bushra Noordin

Playworker, Ladybird Class

Nalini Ramnath

Playworker, Dragonfly Class

Savannah Wong

Playworker, Dragonfly Class

Michelle Nem

Early Years Practitioner, Dragonfly Class 

Emelia Boyd-Joseph

Early Years Practitioner, Dragonfly Class 

Sabirah Kaur Hayre

Teaching Assistant Dragonfly Class

Suvita Kumar

Teaching Assistant, Ladybird Class 

Neide Da Silva

Playworker Ladybird Class

Martina Drury-Hunte

Playworker Ladybird Class

Samra Farooqi

Playworker Dragonfly Class

Reema Rathod

Playworker Ladybird Class

Laxmi Singh

Playworker Ladybird Class

Hazera Rahim

Nursery Cover Teaching Assistant