Achieving Success Together
Welcome
Headteacher: Mrs V. CamposNursery/FS1
Ideas for outdoor activities will be posted on our Forest School page - please remember to read the guidelines during this Covid 19 outbreak thanks.
Find Forest School page under - Children
Guidance for schooling at home during the coming weeks/months
Easter Holidays
Summer Term
Dear Parents and Children
Welcome back to the Summer Term. We are sorry we are not with you. Please see our message on the home page of the Website. Hope you had a good break and did some fun things! Please find the learning links for this term below. Updates will be posted weekly. There will also be learning links on Tapestry for you.
May Half Term
Hi Parents
There are some ideas in the Google Drive folder for half term if you want to use them. Also I will put a video on here of me reading a story. The children can then create their own mini-garden using an old recyclable container/food container/tray. Feel free to post your pictures of these on Tapestry. I would love to see them.
Ideas for week 1
Some free activities for you to try
Have a go at making your own puffy paint
https://tinyurl.com/u38hglv
Ideas for week 2
Some really good free interactive maths lessons here for you to try.
Some daily speaking activities and if your child is keen you can encourage children to use their phonics to write a sentence using the picture as a prompt. Encourage them to
Whilst schools are closed Amazon are providing audible books for free for children. You can download from here.
https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
Useful websites to support you with ideas and resources for home learning in the coming weeks
Twinkl - download activities/ resources for free at the moment
www.phonicsplay.co.uk
Phase 1
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk › naturedetectives
Nursery Applications open on Monday 3rd February
We will be offering 30 hour places.
Lunch clubs and afternoon sessions available in addition to 15 hour places.
Please do call the office to arrange to come and see us or for an application form.
We would love to show you round!
Nursery Staff
Our Nursery teacher is Mrs Lucy Daviss
Our Nursery practitioners are Mrs Avril Alexander and Mrs Lisa Long
Your child will develop more rapidly during the first five years of their life than at any other time.
Please see the booklet attached below for information about what you should expect from your child as they move through the Early Years Foundation Stage.
We use an online service called Tapestry for our journals. This will allow you to log in and see what your child has been up to whilst busy at Nursery. You can also add information about your child to this.
Useful links for you:
Your local children's centre for parenting advice and support:
https://www.hertsfamilycentres.org/family-centres.aspx
E-safety information. Please take the time to consider how you will keep your child safe online. The NSPCC website has some great information about this, along with other issues facing our children:
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
A Typical Day at Boxmoor Nursery
Busy Finger Activities
The children are brought into the classroom by their adult and settled to an activity.
Adult Led Class Time
Introductions to the day, themed learning and mindfulness activities.
Group Time
The children will enjoy some learning activities with an adult.
Active Learning
The children can explore inside and outside and enjoy snack. They will have fun and play.
Adult Led Class Time
Stories, songs and finishing off our day.
Home Time
Wednesdays - PE
Friday - Welly Walk
Amey Zoo and the not-so-minibeasts!
Autumn Welly Walks
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
There are 7 areas of learning that make up our curriculum.
There are 3 Prime Areas:
Communication and Language
Your child will be involved in activities that encourage speaking, listening and understanding. They will enjoy stories, songs, poems and rhymes and develop their recall. Your child will have a role play area linked to their interests and opportunities to communicate in a variety of situations.
Physical Development
Your child will be supported to develop their independence ready for school.
PE lessons and outside play will develop their gross motor skills.
Busy Finger morning sessions along with other activities will support their fine motor control.
The children will have access to a healthy snack and we will have opportunities to cook and prepare food.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
We will spend lots of time developing this area through learning to relate to others, taking turns and sharing. Our small group times will support the children to develop their confidence.
There are 4 Specific Areas:
Literacy
We will be using our communication and language skills to develop our phonics, mark making and story knowledge.
Maths
We will be counting using a variety of resources, playing games and learning about numbers, shape, pattern and measures. We will use all of this to solve problems.
Understanding the World
Exploring the world around us and asking and answering lots of questions!
Expressive Arts and Design
This will see us using our imaginations, role playing, building, singing, playing music, painting, modelling and much more.
All of this will be delivered in a fun way, led by the interests of the children.
Characteristics of Effective Learning
These explain how children relate to their learning and relate to all areas of learning. This is something we consider when assessing the children.
Playing and Exploring (engagement) - finding out and exploring, playing with what they know and being willing to have a go.
Active Learning (motivation) - being involved and concentrating, keeping on trying, enjoying achieving what they set out to do.
Creating and Thinking Critically (thinking) - having their own ideas, making links, choosing ways to do things.