We encourage the children to develop their speaking and listening skills by interacting with others, enjoying stories, songs, poems and rhymes and by expressing their feelings and ideas.

The Nursery provides a language-rich environment, with book corners, writing tables and role play areas. This is also extended in the outside provision

Nursery provides many opportunities for your child to be active and to develop their co-ordination, control and fine and gross motor skills through indoor and outdoor learning, PE sessions, Activate, Story Dough, Write Dance and Forest School. We also help children to understand how their bodies work and what they need to do to be healthy.

This is crucial in all aspects of a child’s life and we aim to provide plenty of experiences to develop these vital skills.

We encourage children to form positive relationships and develop respect for themselves and others; to learn about the importance of friendships; to co-operate with those around them and to understand appropriate behaviour in groups.

We encourage children to become as independent as possible and not rely on adults to do something for them that they can do themselves.

The children’s foundation skills for literacy are laid in Nursery.

We have lots of activities to encourage the childrens’ love of reading including a reading corner, story focus of the week, early mark making, as well as sharing books and reading.

Phonics

• Phonological awareness activities
• Phonics Scheme – Read Write Inc
• Children are taught ‘pure sounds’
• Children learn to read and write sounds (lower case), not letter names (upper case/capitals)
• Look out for our Phonological Awareness Parent Workshop!

We provide the children with practical and enjoyable opportunities, both inside and outdoors.

These develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, describing shapes and measures and identifying and making patterns.

This helps the children to make sense of the physical world around them and their community.

We provide opportunities for the children to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment. They will be encouraged to solve problems, make decisions, experiment, predict, plan and question.

We ensure that children can choose to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials both indoors and outdoors, including mud!

They are encouraged to share their thoughts, ideas and feelings through art, design and technology, music, movement, dance and imaginative and role-play activities.