Our Nursery rooms

A nurturing and caring environment for the youngest of children with a maximum of twelve caterpillars per room to ensure the best individual care and education.
Music, PE and Learning Outside the Classroom (LOC) lessons taught by our specialist subject teachers.
Children are working on their communication and language development, Physical development and Personal, Social and Emotional development.
Many caterpillars begin to show an interest in toilet training and our staff will support parents in continuing strategies implemented at home.
We use mainly child-led and adult-led activities based upon a child’s interests and next steps of development, using the United learning curriculum.

Our children start doing phonic activities using Letters and Sounds.
Children develop listening and attention skills and number recognition along with taking part in specialist Modern Foreign Languages in addition to Music, PE and LOC lessons.
Children begin to extend their learning further in Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the world and Expressive Arts and Design.
Bumblebees are confident and independent learners. Their skills are being developed ready for the next stage of their learning.
There is a range of child-led and adult-led activities based upon a child’s interests and next steps of development, using the United learning curriculum.

We introduce daily Mathematics and phonics lessons which are structured to develop a child’s further understanding of letter sounds and how to segment and blend them into words.
Children improve their concentration skills, which involves mindfulness and small group work, and learning through activities of their choosing.
They continue to enjoy specialist Modern Foreign Language, PE, LOC and Music lessons as part of our curriculum.
In the Summer term, to help prepare for Reception class, our butterflies do a number of transition days where they explore the reception class and be with their new teacher.