Welcome to Nursery
Look what we’ve been up to in NurseryAt Southwick Community Primary School, we understand the importance of providing children and families with a secure learning environment emphasised by our professional, approachable and friendly staff.
Our Nursery staff for 2024-2025 are:
Mrs Pattison (Nursery Teacher)
Miss Livingston (Teaching Assistant Penguins & Polar Bears)
Miss Dryden (Teaching Assistant -Penguins)
Mrs Everett (EYFS Support Assistant – Polar Bears)
Spring Term 1 2025
This half term our topics will be “Wonderful Winter” in which we will be exploring the winter weather, freezing and melting and reading ‘The Stick Man’. We will also celebrate Chinese New Year and end by learning all about the real life super heroes in our ‘People who help us’ topic.
Star of the Week
This weeks superstars are
Penguin group : Miss Livingston
Polar Bear Group: Mrs Everett
Dates for your Diary
Tuesday 7th January
Back to school
Thursday 30th January to Friday 7th February
National Story Telling Week
Monday 3rd to Friday 7th February
Children’s Mental Health Week
Friday 7th February
Whole School Reading Festival
Tuesday 11th February
Internet Safety Day
Wednesday 12th February
Valentine’s Disco-more information and tickets will be available closer to the time
Friday 7th March
World Book Day in school
Monday 10th to Friday 14th March
British Science Week
Our School Day
The nursery is split into various learning areas including; sand, water construction, writing, reading, math, role play, art, creative, playdough, small world, fine motor, music and sensory. These areas are called ‘continuous provision’.
Our learning environment and activities stimulate and challenge the individual needs of all of the children.
Your child will have the opportunity to work in these areas every day where they will be able to use a wide range of resources to develop skills, knowledge and understanding in all areas of the curriculum.
Throughout the year there will be whole class teaching times, small group times, and individual work for children in our setting. There will be a balance of adult initiated activities and child initiated activities. We aim to foster a sense of independence and will provide developmentally appropriate activities for children.
The children have access to the outdoor learning environment throughout the school day.
Ongoing Assessment
Your child’s progress and achievements in all areas of the curriculum will be observed and assessed. Staff will focus on strengths and areas for development that children may encounter, to enable them to make progress toward the next stage of learning.
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
Our curriculum covers the seven areas of learning stated in the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework. These are:
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Physical Development
- Communication and Language
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts and Design
At Southwick we recognise that learning through play is a natural process for young children and aim to build upon their natural curiosity. We want to ensure that learning is rewarding and enjoyable whilst recognising that children learn best when their interests are followed.
Things to Remember
- Send your child in to school with their book-bag every Monday. These will be used in school and returned home on a Friday with a library book inside for parents to read to children at home over the weekend.
- Children to bring a water bottle to school every day (no juice or milk please).
- Ensure that everything, including coats, water bottles and shoes, have name labels on them.
- Send children with weather appropriate clothing. Always send your child in with a coat for our very unpredictable weather!
- In the summer, sunscreen and a hat are essential! Please apply sunscreen at home and if needed we can reapply from a bottle with your child’s name on it.
Our Day
Morning Session: 8:45am – 11:45am
Afternoon Session: 12:30pm – 3:30pm
Full Day Session: 8:45am – 3:30pm
P.E
Nursery’s PE day is every Monday.
Nursery children do not need a PE kit. Children will remove their jumpers/cardigans, shoes and socks before their PE session. For safety reasons no ear rings to be worn at all on a PE day.
