The Nursery Department

The Nursery is for 3 – 4 year old siblings of current pupils, and is based around morning and afternoon sessions. It is housed in a fully equipped separate building close to the main school with its own garden and safe play area. Opportunities to meet the other infants and staff are available during the term, so that integration into the main school is made easy.

The classrooms are bright, cheerful and always full of fun. The Nursery teachers and assistants provide a programme of activities which offer variety and are flexible enough to be appropriate, developmentally, to each child’s age and maturity.

The children will develop skills in communication and literacy, mathematics, art and craft, drama, music and physical education whilst their knowledge and awareness of the world around them develops too.

Activities are organised to allow the children choice, and the opportunity to work at their own pace. They are given time to explore and investigate, and are encouraged to set up and tidy up their own work projects – thereby teaching them to care for their own environment.

Children are taught individually, in small and whole class groups. The class works on themes throughout the term, using the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework. These themes allow the children to learn by building on their own interests and their understanding of the world.

Pre-reading and pre-writing skills are introduced in our Nursery. All children enjoy every opportunity to discover a love of books through stories, poems, songs, rhymes and story-telling.

The Nursery is an integral part of the school and uses its facilities to the full. Above all, our main priority is to make the first years an enjoyable and productive start to school life.