Welcome to
Stockwell Nursery Class
Morning Session 9am-11.30am
Afternoon Session 1pm- 3.30pm
We strive to build partnerships
with parents/ carers, as this fosters a positive learning
environment in which children can succeed and achieve
their best.
Our aim is to provide a happy
and secure environment in which your child will learn and
develop through playing with other children and learning
with adults. Play is a most important part of the nursery
education, as it is through play that the child learns to
mix socially, to communicate and share with others.
Each day there is wide variety
of activities which are carefully planned, with specific
aims in mind to help the children's development. Most
activities demand co-operation; some physical
co-ordination; others encourage intellectual development,
language, observation and investigation, early reading
and early number skills.
The children are encouraged to
ask questions, to talk and to think about what they are
doing. Stories, rhymes and songs are an important part of
the day and help to enrich vocabulary and encourage
language development.
Through our focus on
celebrations around the world, throughout the year, we
encourage respect, tolerance and understanding of other
faiths and cultures.
A rich diversity of language,
faith and experience is present in the nursery, which we
draw out and share with one another.
We aim to recognise every child
as an individual, with different physical, social,
emotional and cognitive needs and to help each child to
develop to his/ her full potential. Boys and girls are
positively encouraged to participate equally in all
activities.
| Morning
Session |
Activities |
Afternoon
Session |
| 9.00 |
Children
arrive. |
1.00 |
| |
Put bookbag in
box. Find name from table and put in basket.
Thereafter free play from selected and planned
activities. These will include adult led activities. |
|
| 10.10 |
Big Book time
and alphabet focus. |
2.10 |
| |
Class
discussion and drink . Change of home reading book.
|
|
| 10.20 |
Children have
choice to explore outside activities |
2.20 |
| 10.55 |
Tidy up time. |
2.55 |
| 11.00 |
Stories, songs
and rhymes time. |
3.00 |
| 11.30 |
Parents/ Carers
come in and collect their children. |
3.30 |
Opportunities for developing skills
and understanding in all areas of the curriculum through the
provision of:
Books- picture books, story books,
information books, home-made books, big books, dual language
books and story tapes;
Small world play- dolls houses, play
people, train sets, wooden village, cars, garage, zoo/ wild/
farm animals;
Large construction- large plastic
bricks, large wooden bricks, mega blocks etc;
Small construction- small wooden
bricks, duplo, lego, mobilo, constructo straws, polydron,
sticklebricks etc;
Mathematics- sorting and matching
games, sets of objects, counting games, number/ shape and
colour puzzles, pattern making equipment, beads for
threading, pegs and boards;
Imaginative play- dressing up
clothes, home equipment, shop, cafe, office etc;
Cooking- real cooking equipment,
ingredients and recipes from a range of cultures;
Science and environmental resources-
natural materials ie: water, sand, soil, sawdust, shells,
stones, feathers, plants, cones, leaves etc; also magnifying
glasses, simple microscopes, batteries, torches etc;
Technology- computers, calculator,
old typewriters, tools, junk materials, adhesives, card;
Art & Craft- painting, collage,
fabric, junk, modelling, woodwork, playdough, plasticene.
Music/ Sound- bought/ home-made
instruments, songs/ rhymes, tapes, records- all from a
variety of cultures;
Writing/ drawing- paper, range of
tools, envelopes, labels, stamps, computers, clipboards.
Opportunities for developing
skills and understanding in all areas of the curriculum
through the provision of:
climbing,
jumping, sliding, rolling, hiding, running, throwing/
catching;
water, sand,
soil, leaves, plants, grass, trees;
- Things to move around
and build with -
tyres, boxes, bricks,
tubes, ladders, tunnels;
wheeled toys, bikes,
scooters, buggies, carts, trolleys;
- Large scale
imaginative play -
homecorner, cafe, doctors,
fire/police stations, bus depots, picnics;
chalks, large paper, rolls,
decorating brushes, woodwork;
ring games, chants, action
games, from a variety of cultures.
Records are kept on each child
covering all areas of learning experience. There are
parent/ teacher conferences throughout the year. We
consider the knowledge that parents/ carers have about
their child to be very important. We record this
information within the child's 'Record of Achievement',
alongside our own observations on the child's development
A copy of this is available to parents/ carers, with the
original being forwarded to the child's next class when
they leave the nursery.