Welcome to our Wharton Nursery!

Meet the team:
Class Teacher: Mrs Toolan
Support Staff: Miss Joanne, Miss Stacy and Miss Debbie

Here at Wharton Primary School, we are proud to offer a nurturing Nursery that provides children with the opportunity to play, learn, and grow in a stimulating and caring environment.
Our approach follows the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), which focuses on developing essential learning skills such as listening, speaking, concentration, persistence, and co-operation.

We also place great emphasis on building strong foundations in communication, literacy, and numeracy, helping our children prepare confidently for their transition into Reception.
Throughout their time in Nursery, children enjoy a rich and varied curriculum that encourages them to:

• Explore the world around them
• Express their ideas creatively
• Build friendships and work together
• Practise and refine new skills through play

At our Nursery, every child is valued as an individual. We believe that learning through play fosters curiosity, independence, and a lifelong love of learning

Phonics
This term, we will be starting our Phase 1 Phonics. We follow the Supersonic Phonics programme. Through fun, play-based activities, the children will confidently develop early phonological awareness.

Phase 1 is all about developing children’s listening and speaking skills, helping them tune into the sounds around them and laying the foundations for reading and writing.

The programme is split into seven aspects of learning:

Environmental Sounds – listening for sounds in our surroundings
Instrumental Sounds – exploring sounds made by musical instruments
Body Percussion – using our bodies to make sounds and rhythms
Rhythm and Rhyme – enjoying rhymes, songs, and rhythmic patterns
Alliteration – listening for words that start with the same sounds
Voice Sounds – experimenting with different sounds our voices can make
Oral Blending and Segmenting – beginning to sound out and blend sounds together in preparation for reading

PE
PE will take place on a Thursday morning for our Nursery children. They do not need to get changed into a PE kit.

We also take part in ‘City in the Community’ on a Monday afternoon. This is a Manchester City charity supporting young people across Greater Manchester through football led activities.

Seesaw
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