Welcome to our new EYFS page for the academic year 2024-25!

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Welcome to Nursery!

Session Times for Nursery Children:

Morning nursery: 8.30am – 11.30am (Doors open at 11.20am) 

30 hours places 8.30am -3.10pm

In Nursery we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum.

This consists of 7 areas of learning and development. 

The Prime Areas are:

• Communication and Language
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Physical Development

The Specific Areas are:

• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understand of the World
• Expressive arts and Design

Click on the link to find out more.

https://foundationyears.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/What-to-expect-in-the-EYFS-complete-FINAL-16.09-compressed.pdf

Characteristics of Effective Learning

As well as Early Learning Goals we also observe the 'Characteristics of Effective Learning'.

The Characteristics of Effective Learning describe learning as a process and not as an event.

The three characteristics of effective teaching and learning are:

-Playing and exploring - children investigate and experience things, and have a go

-Active learning - children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy achievements; and

-Creating and thinking critically - children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things.

We plan to meet the aims of our curriculum through child centered learning alongside our wonderful learning environment - indoors and outdoors.

Activities:

We plan wonderful small group times with activities that help to meet the needs of our children and our curriculum. These include:

-Dough disco and Funky Fingers

-Helicopter stories

-Squiggle whilst you wiggle

-Story Dough

-Squiggle Club

-Story time

-Maths activities

-Circle time (PSED based)

-PATHS

-RWI Phonics

Indoor and Outdoor Learning Environment

Our environment includes:

• Sand play
• Water play
• Construction area
• Cosy reading area / calm corner 
• Playdough area
• Arts and crafts area
• Painting area
• Role play area / home corner 
• PSED Area
• Messy area
• Sensory room
• Bike area
• Staged area for performing
• Music wall
• carpet area for group times 
• sensory room 

We are also proud to say that we are an ELKLAN Communication Friendly Spaces Award winning school and are currently involved in The NDNA Maths Champion prograame 2025. 

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Maths Champions Programme - NDNA

Here is a tour of Seedlings Nursery. we hope you enjoy it!