Nursery

Places will be limited to two per family. Sign up sheets will be available at classroom doors from Monday 20th November. For those children who do not attend Nursery on the day of the show, or attend only pm sessions, you will bring your child to the Sports Hall on the morning of the show and then take your child home again afterwards.

You will have the choice of seated of standing room while the show takes place. The shows will take place at approximately 9.10am, please make sure that you are seated by this time and if your child attends Nursery on that day that they arrive at Nursery at 9am at the latest.

You will not be able to personally congratulate your child at the end of the show due to the numbers of children and parents in the hall. If you wish to take photo's and video's of your child's performance, please do so but be mindful of posting images of other children contained in your footage on social media.

We look forward to our Christmas show.

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

Parent/Carer Workshop

We will be running two parent workshops this year to help you to support your child/children in their Nursery Year.

Thank you to those parents and carers who were able to attend the workshop on Saturday 18th. We are glad you found the session useful. I have included a pdf of the presentation below. Thank you

The next Parent/Carer workshop will be on:

Phonics

Saturday 23rd March 9.30-10.30am Sport Hall

The events will be adult attendance only and no creche facilities will be available.

Language and Personal, Social and Emotional Development in the Early Years.pdf

Forest School.

Please look out for a message via MCAS to let you know when it will be your child's turn to attend the Forest School session. Full details about Fielding's Forest School are listed below.

Settling into Nursery

It has been wonderful to meet most of our new Nursery children and it has been fantastic to see how many of them have settled into the routines of starting a new Nursery so quickly. You will be pleased to hear that although some of you have left your child crying with us, in no time at all they have calmed down and are happily playing and exploring in the 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

Nursery Curriculum

Click here for more details

Curriculum Challenge Autumn 1

Who lives in my house.pdf

Curriculum Challenge Autumn 2

How do colours make you feel

Curriculum Challenge Autumn 2

Nursery-Autumn-2- How does Father Christmas Deliver Presents.pdf

What will my child be learning about this week?

Week Beginning 04-12-23

This week we will be continuing our next Curriculum Challenge of: How does Father Christmas deliver presents?

Please see the Curriculum Challenge pdf above for our focus.

Our question of the week is: How does the postman or postwoman know where to deliver the presents?

This week we will be performing our Christmas songs on the 4th and 5th of December. Please see the document below with all the song words to the songs we will be singing for our Christmas Show.

This week we will be starting our next 'Talk for Writing' book, 'Stickman'.

This week we will be continuing our 'Listening Skills' circle time games. The children will be joining in with circle time games to learn the listening skills of:

-'Sitting Still'

-'Staying quiet'

-'Looking at the person who is talking'

-'Listening to all of the words'

This week we will be thinking about how we can work and play alongside other children

This week we will be continuing to find out how well the children can retell one of their favourite stories. We will be asking the children to use a story book or story map to retell a story. While the children are retelling the story we will be listening carefully to the language they are using, so that we can develop the next steps to support their communication and language development.

This week our poem of the week is: Away in a manger

Nursery Christmas Songs

Nursery Christmas Songs.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-11.00am 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.

1.20pm -2.45pm Free flow. Children explore indoors and outdoors and adults support children in their learning and exploring.(1.20-1.35pm Phonics for afternoon children)

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
Behavior 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.