Nursery
Hello and welcome to our new school year. We promise to make it an exciting one!
Your children have settled so well during their first few weeks of Nursery and we are very proud of them all and all that they have achieved already! It has been lovely to see their independence grow and their listening skills strengthen too as they begin to recognize and follow key parts of our daily routine with increasing independence.
As a class, we have been working hard to become good listeners, kind friends and to be helpful and respectful members of our class. We have been teaching our Golden Rules and giving lots of stickers and praise out for children who try their best to follow our rules. To celebrate hard work we have now also started to choose a 'Star of the Day' daily and each child gets the chance to win a certificate and a prize to take home to keep.
Our Pupil of the Week is another prize which all of the children are very keen to achieve, if your child is chosen as the Pupil of the Week they will get the opportunity to take Conker, our class Teddy bear, home for the weekend for a sleepover!
Here are a couple of things to help you to prepare your child for their school day that link to the lessons we have been teaching and supporting in school:
- Can your child recognise when they need to use the toilet and manage their toileting routine with increasing independence? (this includes undressing themselves, wiping, flushing the toilet, redressing themselves and washing their hands)
- Can your child put their coat on by themselves?
- Can they take their coat off independently and put their belongings in a safe place.
- Can they feed themselves at meal times and use cutlery with increasing independence?
- Can they help to tidy up once they have finished playing with something?
All of these skills are self-help skills which will help your child to become more independent learners, strengthen their muscles and co-ordination skills and they will also help your children to learn resilience and the importance of not giving up when something seems tricky at first.
Here are some reminders to help parents:
* Our school starts promptly at 8.50am and ends at 3.20 pm. Our EYFS teachers do open our doors 5 minutes early in the morning (at 8.45am) to greet your children, speak to parents who have any questions and support a happy transition at the start of the day. Any children arriving after 8.50am will have to go to the school Reception Office for a late mark.
* We are proud to announce that from this September Nursery children are now also allowed to join in with our School Breakfast club which is now fully funded. Please sign up on Parent App for your child's breakfast club place so that we can accommodate for them and make sure that there is enough food ready for everyone. Breakfast club opens at 8am and runs until the start of the day.
* Reading books are collected in each Thursday and each child will be sent home with a new book each Friday. Please always make sure your child brings their reading book and record to school on Thursday's so that our staff can change them for you.
* Keep in touch, if you need any extra support of if you have any questions about anything we are here to support you.
* Please check that your child has a warm, waterproof coat and spare clothes with them each day in case they get wet, dirty or have a toileting accident at school during the day.
* Please put your child's name inside of all of their belongings to help us to keep them safe for you, small children in Nursery especially find it difficult to look after their own belongings and they will often leave their jumpers or cardigans in the strangest of places! We want to save you money and keep your belongings safe, having a name inside all uniform items will help us to do so.
Reading websites -
* The website www.lovemybooks.co.uk has fantastic reading activities linked to popular books which are suitable for 3-5 year olds. The website is free to access and has art and craft activities and audio stories for your child to listen to.
* The website Oxford Owl has a free eBook library for you to access at home. You will need to make an account to access this library, but it is free to do so. There are over 1000 children's books in the eBook library for you to look at. Follow this link to view this online eBook library now. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/
* www.phonicsplay.co.uk gives parents access to online reading games. There are lots of free resources on here that can help your child to develop their early listening and attention skills.
* The web link https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/ will take you to an official Read Write Inc website which provides videos of how parents can support RWI learning and advises them on how to say the pure sounds correctly to support early reading.
Maths websites -
* The website Top Marks has free online games suitable for Early Years children. The games will help with number recognition, counting practise and also simple addition and subtraction problem solving https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/3-5-years/counting
Kind regards,
Mrs Starkie
