CHURCHTOWN PRIMARY SCHOOL
PARENTS’ INFORMATION
AFTERNOON NURSERY
KEY SENIOR STAFF:
Mrs Payne Headteacher
Mr Dowd Assistant Headteacher EYFS &KS1
Mr Miller
Interim Deputy Headteacher
Mr Bowen
Interim Assistant Headteacher (Year 3/4/5)
FAMILY SUPPORT & PASTORAL CARE:
Mrs Tudor SENDCO
Mrs Haury Pastoral TeamLeader
Welsh Attendance Officer.
Mrs Sutton Assistant to SENDCO
Mr Bateman
Pastoral& BehaviourManager
Mrs
NURSERY STAFF
Buttercups
Mrs Mallett
Teaching Assistants
Mrs Rigby/Mrs Ward
Mrs Beigan
Mrs Andrew
Our corevaluesare currently being revampedafter consultation with ELT, staff, pupils and parents.
Nursery Curriculum
Autumn – All About Me &Let’sCelebrate Spring – Once Upon aTime &ComeOutside Summer – Growing & People Who Help Us
PSED
In the Early Years, Personal Social and Emotional development is broken down into 3 areas:
• Self regulation
• Managing self
• Building relationships
We put a strong focus on this area of our curriculum throughout the whole year. It is importantfor children to learn to be part of the nursery and the larger school community before any further learning can take place.
Personal, Social & Emotional
Development: Totalk about the different feelings and emotions as the childrenbeginto settle into Nursery. To support the children grow in confidence to leave their carers and enjoytheir nursery experiences.
Understanding the World: The childrenwill bake on a regular basis, including bread linked to The Little RedHen. We will explore the ingredients and how they change.
Maths: Learning how we can matchshapes and objects usingcolour, size and shape. The children will sing simple mathsongs and games to practise their counting.
Physical Development: Spending time outdoorsusing the balance bikes and scootersto develop gross motor skills through moving and playing outdoors. Develop fine motorskillswith earlymark making and Practice throwing and catchingusing beanbags and soft balls.
West Lancashire Coachestake PE twice a week.
Nursery Autumn 1: All About Me’
RE: The children will explore the importance of friendship and kindness. We will also explore Harvest and visit church forourHarvest assembly.
Communication & Language: Children to spendtime insmallerkey worker groups to developtheir confidence to talk with adultsand friends. Encouragingthem to talk about their familiesas well as listen to stories and talkabout them.
Expressive Arts: Small world and role play areas are available at all times. Adults will model and support childrenas theyexplore these areas.Childrenwill be encouragedto joinin with a range of actionsand rhyme songs and variouscraft activities.
Literacy: We will enjoysharing multiple books daily, with a focus on specific books includingThe Colour Monster, The Invisible string and The Little RedHen. The children will be introduced tothe different partsof a book and how we hold and use them. We will use listening gamesto develop the children’slistening skillsand using theirown voices to replicate sounds.
We use Read Write Inc Phonics,to supportwith the developmentof readingand writingatChurchtown.
Children will have a dailyPhonics lesson,beginning with early listening skills,with a member of staff. As the children’s skills developwe move on to identifying initialsounds in words and some children may be ready tobegin ourRWI scheme before leaving nursery.
READING
One of ourkey priorities is developing READING. We strongly believe reading underpins our children’s successes across the curriculum.
Children in nursery are read tomultiple times each day,where we encourage predictions,recall ofkey facts as wellas howthe story canmake the children feel. We modelhow toreadandlook after the books andencourage childrento freely access books in allareas of ourclassroom. We alsoprovide additional resources which the children can use toactoutandenhance their story telling.
Please readto your childas often as you can! This is a fantastic way of spending time with your childas well as developing alove of reading.
A Typical Day in Nursery
Dailyphonicslessons. Initially thiswill be taught in keygroups, moving towards streaming later intheyear.
Learninghappensboth inside and outside through our carefully balanced curriculum using adult ledlearning groups aswellas continuousprovision.
Weekly musiclessonwithMrs Hibbert.
OnMonday, Wednesday and Friday thechildren will havean assembly.
Thechildrenwill have2x daily snackssuchastoast, brioche, yoghurtsas well asfruit and milk.
Lunchtime – 11:15am
PE sessionswith our WLSP coachesonaTuesdayand Wednesday. Trainers to be worn every day.
In EYFSweuse theapp SeeSaw to offer a windowinto theclassroom. Staffinschool use SeeSaw to journal the children’s learning and parents have the opportunity to accesstheir child’s individual portfolio. The amount ofposts per week will entirely depend on whatthe children have beenup to and howthe week’s work has beenevidenced.
Your child will havealready been transferredinto theirnew class, soyouwill already beable to view their learning journey so far! Please remember theCode ofConductwhich yousignedwhen allowing access to SeeSaw lastacademicyear regardingtheuseofthese images. If you wish to seethis again, pleaseask atthe school office.
UNIFORM
Nursery children towearthefollowing:
Navy blue jogging bottoms(shortsin summer)
Navy bluesweatshirt, Yellow polo t-shirt
Black (Dark coloured)trainers(velcro)
Please put yourchild’s name in all oftheir uniform!
• Bookbag
THINGS THEY WILL NEED!
• Bag ofspareclothing andunderwear (to be keptin nursery) in alabelleddrawstring bag. NORUCKSACKS PLEASE.
• Wellingtonboots
• Waterproofsuit(Buy alarger size)
PLEASE LABEL EVERYTHING!
SEND
(SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES)
If you have any concerns about your child’s progress or wellbeing, the first point of call will always be to talk to the class teacher.
From this point, it may be that further provision is required, whichthe class teacher will organise and implement.
After this period of time, if there are still concerns, the SEND team (Mrs Tudor and Mrs Sutton) are always there to support and offer guidance for the children.
PROPOSED TRIPS
In Nursery we are hoping to visit Martin Mere in our Summer term as our Educational visit.
KEY REMINDERS
• Parent's evening 13.11.24
• School snacks(nut aware)
• Freeschool dinnersuntil year 3
• Water bottles
• Medication – school office
• Playground: nobikes/scooters
• Nodogson school premises (Excepttherapydogs)
• Morningmessages:handlewithcare
• EntranceandExit Doors
• Contact ClassTeachers via the School Office
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