"The Early years leader and her team are highly skilled"
" Children in the early years make good progress"
"Children's behaviour in early years is impeccable"
Ofsted 2018
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
Our early years unit combines nursery and reception children. They thrive in our warm, inviting and stimulating environment. Mrs Turnbull is our EYFS lead teacher and teaches Tuesday - Friday, Mrs Wilson, teaches EYFS on Mondays. Mrs Moffat and Miss Prior are our teaching assistants.
We currently have a 15 place reception intake and 15 place morning nursery and 15 place afternoon nursery for children over 3 years old. We also offer the 30 hours provision.
If you do not qualify for 30 hours provision and where there is space, we can offer full day places for our nursery children at an additional cost of £10 per session (excluding lunch).
See Mrs Newton in the school office for more information.
Reception & full day nursery sessions - 8:45am and finishes at 3:15pm - please drop off and collect your child from the EYFS entrance.
Morning nursery session - 8:45am - 11:45am
Afternoon nursery session - 12:15pm - 3:15pm
Nursery children may pay for a hot school lunch at £2:20 per day or bring a packed lunch
All reception children are entitled to a free school lunch (infant free school meal grant)
All children are entitled to free school milk until the term they turn 5 years old
Please make sure your child has a water bottle (water only no juice)
We provide free fruit each day for every child but your child may bring their own if they wish.
All staff who work directly with children in YEFS have the Level 3 Paediatric First Aid qualification.
Have a little peek at our Early Years Unit...
Here are some great sites you can visit simply click on each link below;
Oxford Owl
People who help us...Police
Over the past two weeks the children have enjoyed taking part in some 'police' related learning.
We had a crime scene involving Humpty Dumpty to assess and write about. The children also enjoyed 'fingerprint' calculations and 'secret writers'. We finished off our learning with a visit to Police Station. The children thoroughly enjoyed the quality experience that the officers at Berwick Police Station gave us. This again gave was an excellent stimulus for writing...
World Book Day
Early years have enjoyed dressing up as their favourite characters and visiting the library.
Reception 'Super Reading Heroes'
Read 5 times a week at home to become a hero!!
We LOVE the snow!
What fantastic learning fun the snow brought us...
- Creating art work through exploring the effects of powder paint on the snow.
- Constructing our snowmen and snowladies.
- Using materials to develop a working sledge.
- and so much more!
A child gave us an amazing learning opportunity when they asked...
"would we be able to take our snowman inside?"
"...Well why not!" Mrs Turnbull said, so we did! We had to think carefully about how we could move the snowman safely - led by the children using their problem solving skills we got him into our classroom on our home made sledge in two pieces! The children showed great ability in working together and overcoming problems as they went, through a process of exploratory thinking, talking and doing.
Once indoors, a child suggested we turn off the heater as she was worried he might melt....We hope we can keep our snowman forever but we will have to keep an eye on him to see what happens next...
Home Time Hooray Certificates
The children have been so proud of their learning achievements from home and they absolutely love to share and celebrate their achievements with us all. It is so important that we recognise when they learn something new or are beginning to apply or master skills in everyday situations. Experiencing achievement and success is key in education as it gives the children a thirst to learn even more.
Parents, please feel free to help yourself to the certificates which are available from our notice board, and get ready to capture and record the amazing learning steps your child is making. We love to hear about them and it helps us to build up a fuller picture of your child's learning and development. We absolutely appreciate all your contributions! Thank you!
Sharing learning achievements from home.
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The children are very proud to share their certificates with everyone in class.
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'Home Time Hooray' certificates (available on our notice board) - Help yourself!
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Place a piece of work, comment or certificate in our 'Bear Share' basket for your child to share with us.
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Have a look at some of the maths activities and learning we have been doing recently...we have been very busy!
Shape
Naming and describing 2D and 3D shapes and making arrangements, pictures, constructions and patterns.
Adding
Knowing we are finding more unless we are adding 0!
Finding 1 or 2 more than a given number including careful counting using counters, our fingers, counting on and using a number track or line.
Doubling: Knowing we are adding together the same amount.
Making 5 and 10 (number bonds): Arranging amounts in different ways and becoming aware that the total always stays the same.
Recording and explaining our calculations.
We have also been practising our scissor skills and in doing so we have been learning about length as we cut. Measuring, short, shorter, shortest, long, longer, longest, comparing, sorting and ordering according to length and even finding the difference between lengths. The children also discovered centimeters.
We have been looking at the story of 'The Little Red Hen'.
We could not believe our eyes when we came into school on Monday morning...what a mess we found!
The police cordoned off the area and asked us to investigate the scene by carrying out a full report.
Have a look at the pictures below...
What a mess we discovered this Monday morning!
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The police cordoned off the area and asked us to investigate the scene.
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We found lots of evidence.
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We wondered how this red feather got here...
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and these footprints...
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The evidence gave us clues as to what had happened and who had been here.
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We set to work...
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Lots to see and think about.
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"I wonder?" was a question on everyone's minds.
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We couldn't believe our eyes...Mrs Turnbull was a little cross that such a mess had been made!
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What do you think has happened here?
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We discovered left over dough.
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We found prints! Some thought these could be dinosaur, squirrel or wolf prints...we needed to investigate further.
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The boys particularly loved their official investigation and produced some fantastic reports.
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We began to draw and write about our findings.
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The police wanted us to fill in an official report.
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There was lots to investigate but we worked hard.
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Trying to do our very best handwriting.
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The evidence gathered suggests that the 'Little Red Hen' had been in our school over the weekend. She baked some bread and left an awful mess!
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However the bread tasted delicious.
Thank you Little Red Hen!
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Thank you Little Red Hen!
The boys thought that the 'Little Red Hen' might still be in school and be hiding in our cupboard as they could see red through the key hole...
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We are beginning to retell the story of 'The Little Red Hen' through 'Talk4Writing' We are busy creating our story maps to help us.
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We are really enjoying this story...
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We visited the Hirsel Estate where we learned all about how bread is made from field to fork.
We had lots of fun and learned so much too. Have a look at our photographs below!
The Reception children led a class worship outdoors in our prayer garden.
The worship linked to our school Statement of the week ' Simple things can make us happy'
One child suggested our mission should be to "Share a smile with everyone"