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In the Night Garden

You should have received an email this week giving you information about our 'In the Night Garden' event. We do hope that you will be able to join us on Friday 7th February. Please ask a member of the team if you have any questions about the event.

Nursery Parent Workshop

Thank you to those parents who were able to attend the workshop on Saturday. I will be hosting a phonics workshop in the Spring Term.

I have attached the slides below as a reminder of what was covered. Thank you.

CL and PSED in the Early Years.pdf

Nursery pick up and drop off

Please discourage your children and older siblings from using the Nursery outdoor area during pick up and drop off times. Children are not allowed to use the outdoor play equipment unless they are supervised by a member of the Nursery Team. Thank you for your help and support.

Forest School

Nursery children will have an opportunity to spend a half hour session every two weeks in the Fielding Forest. The Fielding Forest is located on the edge of the school field. The sessions will be led by Mrs Watts, who is a Reception Teacher at Fielding and also a qualified Forest School teacher. You can find more information listed below. You will receive an email informing you when it is your child's turn to attend the forest session. Children should bring with them boot/ wellies and a waterproof coat when it is their turn to attend a forest session. Your child will attend Forest School on a Monday or Thursday every two weeks.

Settling into Nursery

Settling into a new setting will take time but you will be glad to hear that for the majority of their day the children in the Ladybird and Dragonfly class are happily exploring the indoor and outdoor areas. 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 with learning our routines and gaining confidence. For some of our children the settling in process can take time but they get there in the end.

Use of our Interactive White Board during Nursery sessions.

Interactive whiteboards are used to support the Nursery children in their understanding and learning linked to out Nursey Curriculum. Many aspects of the Early Years Foundation Stage are used via videos/stories/songs and visuals to give the children in the Nursery a variety of ways of learning key concepts and embed learning.

Clips and videos are carefully chosen to enable the children to deepen their understanding building on from the physical provision both indoors and outdoors which the children use throughout the day. This resource also develops the children's language skills by enabling us to show pictures of objects and locations talked about in the stories we read.

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.

Ready-or-not-when-to-start-toilet-training-your-child-paediatric-Bladder-Bowel-UK.pdf

ERIC Potty Training

Settling into Nursery

For those children who are finding the transition difficult we will always be there to support and work together with parents to help their children feel happy at our Nursery.

Wow notes.

As part of the children’s development in the Nursery, we collect examples of how they are progressing through the Seven Areas of Learning: Language and Communication, Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development, Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design.

To support your child’s development and to help the accuracy of our judgements, please try to complete four of these ‘wow’ moments per half term. A ‘wow’ moment would be your child doing something for the first time or showing confidence while taking part in an activity with you. Write a brief description of what your child did on one of the cards, cut it out and bring it into Nursery. We will then stick the ‘wow’ moment into their learning journey and use it to support our understanding of their development

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

Parent Wow notes.pdf

What will my child be learning about this week?

Week Commencing 20-01-25

This week we will be continuing our new curriculum challenge of 'What can we find in the winter garden?' You can find the link below for the key questions we will be thinking about over the coming weeks. The Curriculum challenge questions are for your information as we will be talking over each question each week with the children in the Nursery.

Our 'Question of the week' this week is: 'Why is there ice on the cars?'

This week in Mathematics we will be looking at objects which contain 10 things and look for any other numbers we can see inside 10. This would mean the children finding the numbers from 1 to 10, by making collections of objects from a group of 10 objects.

This week our NELI lessons will focus around the book ' Don't wake up the tiger!'

Our words of the week linked to NELI are:

float

hurry

stroke

worry

Poem of the week

Each week we learn a different poem. We practice the poem every day and carry out actions as we read the poem.

In our 'Listening Skills' lessons. We will be using the listening skills of the NELI program:

- 'Look.'

-' Listen.'

-'Sit still.'

-'Be quiet'

We will be playing circle time games to help the children understand each listening skill.

NELI weekly information

home_learning_link_week_1-protected.pdf

Home learning link Week 2.pdf

Home learning link Week 3.pdf

Nursery Curriculum Challenge

Autumn 1 Curriculum Challenge Who lives in my house.pdf

Autumn 2 How do colours make you feel? .pdf

Autumn 2 How does Father Christmas deliver his presents.pdf

Spring 1 What can we find in the Winter garden ?.pdf

Key Oral Health Messages:

Key message for schools and early years settings.pdf

Our Golden Rules

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.

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.