Wharton's Nursery 2024-2025

Welcome to our Nursery at Wharton Primary School! 

Please log into seesaw via the app to receive daily updates about your child's individual learning journey and also key messages from the nursery team and any whole school announcements.

Information will also be sent via Parent Pay.

 

Our Nursery Team includes:

Class Teacher: Miss Clancy
Support Staff: Miss Joanne, Miss Jess and Miss Sally.
Early Years Lead: Mrs Richardson

Key Dates: 

Tuesday 29th October 24- Return back to school. 

Thursday 31st October 24- Pumpkin Competition (See Parent Pay for further details).

Thursday 31st October 24-  Halloween dress up and afternoon party.

Tuesday 5th October 24- Nursery Family Coffee Morning

Friday 15th November 24- Children in Need- Non Uniform

Wednesday 11th December 24- Christmas Jumper and Christmas Dinner Day

Week Beginning 9th December 24- Nursery and Reception Christmas Singing Assembly (more information will follow).

Trip to the local park TBC

Trip to the local library TBC

Wednesday 18th December 24- Break up for Christmas

 

 

What we are learning over Autumn 2...

The children have settled beautifully into the school routine. It has been an absolute pleasure to start the learning journey with the children. We are looking forward to sharing different festivals and celebrations around the world including Halloween, Diwali, Christmas and more this half term... 

We will also be focusing on reading, learning letter sounds within our names and creating our own stories using images and sequencing. Alongside this, we will be starting our phonics groups and learning all about the numbers 1, 2 and 3. 

 

The areas of focus are also:

Self Help Skills (Personal, Social and Emotional Well-being)- We will be learning to use the toilet correctly, hand hygiene, how to put on and zip up our coats, begin to use cutlery correctly and sharing lots of talking time learning all about emotions and feelings.

Physical Development (Movement and Writing)- Throughout this half term, we will introduce the children to dough disco and squiggle.. We also include 3 active hours of movement a day.

English (Literacy)- We will begin by sharing lots of stories, songs and rhymes throughout the school day.

Mathematics- In maths, we will explore colours, rote counting, matching and sorting objects. The children will be exposed to the numerals, subitising and counting. We will be learning lots of lovely number nursery rhymes to enhance the children’s memory and understanding.

Science (Understanding the World)- We will be using all of our senses to explore a range of sensory materials.

Art and DT- (Expressive Arts and Design)- Throughout the term, the children will be exposed to music, dance, movement, expressive arts materials and a range of equipment for the children to develop their self-help and creative imaginative skills.

Geography- (Understanding the World)-We hope to take our mapping skills around the school grounds to complete autumn hunts and more around our environment. We will be using virtual mapping skills to follow the number trails.

RE- Exploring different cultures and points of view. During the term, we will also be sharing a range of stories to share and celebrate different cultures and traditions from around the world.

 

Our Nursery Provision

All of our nursery sessions are planned with a balance of child initiated and adult led activities (including carpet times). Although we run our setting with stories, themes and topics, we very are very much inspired and led by the children’s ideas and interests. With this, all of our resources are introduced throughout the year to support children in the seven areas of learning both through self-directed play, and with adults supporting and extending their play.

Each day and within all weathers, your child will have access to the indoor and outdoor areas of provision. During our short carpet sessions, the children will enjoy and listen to stories, learn to sing songs, take part in phonics and mathematics activities. They also have the opportunity to listen to adults and to listen to each other for information and ideas.

Squiggle Time and 'Flipper Flappers'-

We use part of each day to cross our mid-line to prepare our children for mark making and writing. These are active sessions and show clear progression throughout the year! The children really enjoy this physical session, which develops with a specific programme throughout Nursery up until the end of Year 1!

Disco Dough-

Each morning we start the day by diving straight into strengthening our fine finger muscles and developing our gross motor movements. We complete every morning by warming up our hands and developing onto manipulating each muscle in our hands to support each child's development. This supports balance, muscle development, communication, mark making, handwriting, and much more! We use the Dough Disco programme by Shonette. If you would like to continue this activity at home- you can find all of her videos on YouTube.

Snack Time-

During Morning snack time, all children have toast with water or milk and during afternoon snack, the children have fruit and a drink of juice or water.

Lunchtime-

At 11:45, we prepare for lunch and go into the infant Hall to eat our lunch. If your child has a school dinner, please ensure you pre order your child's lunch on the School Grid site.
Packed Lunch friends eat with the other children - please ensure that all food sent into school does not contain any traces of nuts as we are a nut free school.
At lunchtime children are encouraged to eat using knives, forks and spoons. Social eating and drinking are an important part of your child's personal, social and emotional development.

 

Nursery Areas of Provision...

Each area in Nursery is carefully laid out to allow children to access the resources they need to play, linking both their own learning needs and interests to the current Nursery theme.
Linked to our whole school phonics scheme, Supersonic Phonics, we have a phonics area with resources currently linked to the phase 1-7 phonic aspects. This includes books, musical instruments, puppets, talk buttons, mirrors and microphones.

A mark making area, with resources for drawing, writing and mark making which includes flat working spaces, vertical easels and belly writing to strengthen all areas of the body to prepare your child to mark make and begin to form letter shapes.

Our role play area is a domestic home corner. We use this style of role play as it is an area that most children have prior language, knowledge and modelling of to encourage and enhance imaginative play. Later in the year, we enhance the role play with both topic and child led ideas.

A mathematics area is filled with puzzles, puppets, rhymes, numbers, scales, colour sorting and much more!

Our wet and dry sand area is open ended to explore textures and to manipulate different types of sand for different purposes. The area contains various resources such as spades, buckets, sticks and small world toys, sieves, spoons and more.

The wet and messy area contains various resources such as slime, gloop, jelly, water, beans etc. This area enhances sensory play. It includes a variety of resources such as funnels, containers and small world toys, which allows the children to pour, fill and empty containers and play imaginatively.

A painting and creative area for children to access a range of tools such as glue, paint, chalk, textiles, collage, scissors, hammers, hole punches, stamps and more is used to enable and encourage children to use their own imaginations and become expressive learners.

Our calm and sensory book tent contains books related to our current focus, as well as a wide range of information, fiction and poetry books to choose from. This area also includes microphones, writing opportunities, finger puppets and small world figures to engage story telling.

The large construction areas include large and small construction toys, transport vehicles, small word figures, natural materials, tools, and role play opportunities. Included in this area is reading, writing and mathematics opportunities.

 

Thank you,
Miss Clancy and the Nursery Team