Welcome to Nursery!
Meet our team!
When your child joins Nursery, add yourself to the Class Dojo app for updates.
Timetable
These are examples of our weekly timetables for morning and afternoon nursery sessions:
Planning
Spend a day with us in Nursery and see how much we learn!
Look at the progress we have made in our ‘Draw a Person’ drawings since September!
The children love our provision and have a lot of fun learning through play!
We have a rich learning environment and enhance the areas with books, vocabulary and challenges.
Click the link below for additional information regarding the National Curriculum for Nursery or have a chat with Mrs Scholes or Mrs Payne. Please see the Early Learning Goal progression maps below and on the EYFS subject page for a breakdown of skills the children will be learning.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework–2
Things to Remember
PE Kit
Am children: Please wear your PE kit to school on a Wednesday.
Pm children: Please wear your PE kit to school on a Wednesday.
Ensure any jewellery is removed on these days including earrings. Your will need to come to school dressed in their PE kit on their set PE day.
Our school PE kit is as follows:
- Navy polo shirt with optional logo
- Black shorts
- Suitable trainers (Velcro if possible)
In colder months alternatives can be worn to keep your child warm such as:
- Black / blue leggings or joggers
- Black / blue hoodie or jacket
Reading at Fairburn View Primary School
Phonics
As your child moves through school, they will learn to read following the ‘Little Wandle Foundations for Phonics‘ Programme. This programme is designed to support the rigorous and systematic approach to teaching synthetic phonics. Our caring teaching staff plan exciting lessons to meet the needs of all individual children.
Please follow this link to find out more about Little Wandle phonics: https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/
Below is an example of the kind of phonics your child will be covering in Nursery:
Reading
There is a focus on reading across school and there is huge benefits to children reading at home. As part of school policy, we ask for children to look at books at home and listen to bedtime stories. You can help your children by hearing them retell stories, but also checking their comprehension. Ask the questions about what they have just heard, what they think will happen next and explain what they think of the books they are reading. It is important for children to listen to and read a range of texts as this makes them well rounded excellent readers.
Inside school, we have carefully placed books throughout our provision and our experienced adults make time to share books with individual children and as part of a group. The children have Story 4 Story time at the end of each session where there is an opportunity to listen to stories uninterrupted and develop a love for reading. The children will vote for their favourite story of the week and listen to this again before leaving on a Friday. This enables the children to know a range of familiar stories, develop vocabulary and answer questions about the things they have heard.
We appreciate your help and support in the matter.
Writing at Fairburn View Primary School
All children work through the various stages of writing at their own pace. Before learning to write all children need to develop their muscle strength and spend lots of time developing their fine motor skills.
You can support your child with their writing by:
- Giving them access to mark making materials including paints, pencils, crayons, felt tips and chalks
- Read, read, read
- Be a writing role model (let your child see you writing rather than typing)
- Provide authentic writing opportunities for your child such as writing cards and shopping lists
- Providing playdough opportunities. Playdough is a great finger-strengthening activity
- Explore fine motor activities such as threading, weaving and manipulating small items with tweezers
- Using scissors. Scissor skills help to develop fine motor muscles. Have long strips of paper available and draw a mixture of pattern lines on them (wavy, zigzag, straight). Invite your child to cut along the lines to complete the pattern.
- Provide sensory opportunities such as squirting shaving foam onto a smooth surface and add some paint.
Children can use their fingers, paintbrushes or sticks to make marks in the shaving foam.
Pencil Grip Development
It is important to allow your child to develop a comfortable pencil grip in their own time. There is no need to force your child to hold a pencil in a certain way – their grip should naturally develop and progress as their muscles and posture strengthen and develop.
Please see the poster below for common pencil grips.
Please see the EYFS page of the website to see an Early Learning Goal Progression breakdown. We use this to assess the children’s development.
Parent Partnerships
We welcome any opportunities for parents to share their skills and knowledge.
Please share any photographs and WOW moments you have at home through our tapestry app. The children enjoy sharing news with their friends and the constant dialogue between home and school helps us to understand your child and their interests.
Thank you for your support.
| Title | Content | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bunny hop | Here are some videos from our Easter school fundraiser: | 2023/03/30 | 2023-03-30 15:45:00 |
| Red Nose Day | This half term we took part in Red Nose Day. We helped fundraise for people … | 2023/03/30 | 2023-03-30 13:44:13 |
| Easter buns | This week we made Easter buns. We loved experimenting with chocolate! We discussed how we … | 2023/03/30 | 2023-03-30 11:32:23 |
| World book day | Reading for pleasure from an early age benefits children throughout their education and beyond. This … | 2023/03/25 | 2023-03-25 15:31:23 |
| Chicks | There is no better classroom experience than witnessing the birth of a living thing right … | 2023/03/25 | 2023-03-25 13:38:35 |
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