Welcome to Foundation Stage 1!

In our Foundation Stage 1 team there is Miss Lathwood, Mrs Booker, Miss Inglis & Mrs Stols

We are here to help you with child's first step of their learning journey.  You can always speak to us at the gate, leave a message with the school office or use Class Dojo.

                                 Your nursery business support officer is Miss Hayley Bosworth 

 Right from the start we encourage FS1 children to wear school uniform. Please make sure you write their names in permanent marker on a label or inside of the collar.

Red sweatshirt   black trousers   dress     black skirt    white top  Sturdy shoes & waterproof coat

The Big Dreaming

This half term we our learning will be based around a wonderful story ‘The Big Dreaming’ by Michael Rosen. On the 4^th of March at 10:30am Concerteenies will be coming in to help us perform the songs that we have been/will be continuing to learn. You can watch the full musical story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUXaIhm-KTc&list=RDfUXaIhm-KTc&start_radio=1 or just the songs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVEBnoQXX7E we will also be learning about the animals in the story. We will experiment with music and instruments throughout the half term. We will explore with colour, learn about mixing primary colours and create our own bear paintings.

 This half term we will learn about the Islamic traditions of Ramadan and Eid, we will also learn about the Christian traditions of Easter. We will celebrate Mother’s Day and talk about how special our Mummy’s are. This half term we are also learning about Water Aid and other charities that provide country wide and international aid. This will link to our UNICEF Rights Respecting learning.

We have PE on a Monday morning and a Friday afternoon. Please send children in their PE kit for those sessions.

We will continue to work on balls skills and talk about the healthy choices we can make for our bodies regarding our teeth, exercise and food.        

Events

• 23^rd of February – Children return to school
• 24^th of February - new children starter
• 4^th of March – Concerteenies Musical story of ‘The Big Dreaming’.
• 5^th of March – World Book Day
• 15^th March - Mothering Sunday
• 19^th or 20^th of March – Eid al Fitr
• 21^st of March – Comic Relief
• 27^th March – End of half term – start of school holiday
• 13^th of April – Children back to school

Parents story time

We would love for some of our parents to come and read a story or tell a story to our children at the end of the session. You can read a story or tell a story in your home language or in English. Please let me know if you would like to come and read a story for us. I’m sure your child would love to see you read to their friends in nursery!

Book bag

Sharing and reading books will help children become better readers and writers. We will send a book bag with your child’s name on it, it will have a book, which we will change every Wednesday. Please help us with this, by bringing the book back to change every Wednesday.

Labelled water bottles

Please make sure your child brings a reusable water bottle to school with them each day. We can only allow water in their bottles. Children are offered milk at snack time and are encouraged to drink from their water bottle throughout the session.

Spare clothes

Please make sure that you send your child to school with a bag packed with spare clothes. Although lots of our children are toilet trained it is still important to send spare clothes to school with them in case they get wet clothes while washing their hands, playing in the water or outside. It is important for you to send spare socks too! If you have any clean and undamaged clothes that are too small for yourself that you would like to donate to our spare clothes box we would be very grateful.

Class Dojo

Please continue to check Class Dojo regularly, ensure you look at the school story as well as our class story. There is lots of information on there that you do not want to miss out on!

Please provide your child a bag with spare clothes in, your child may be toilet trained but it is always good to have lots of spare clothes as nursery can be very messy!

We do not allow any mobile phones inside nursery, and we ask for parents to put their phones away when you walk through our school gate at drop off and pick up time. Please take the time to say goodbye to your child and greet your child when they come out of nursery.

• Each child is assigned a key person
• Ensures learning and individual needs are catered for
• Supports needs of parents of children in their care
• Refers parents to specialist support if needed e.g. speech therapy

Story time

Sharing a book with your child is very important not only for their reading journey but their journey in education as a whole. Reading with your child can support their listening and attention skills, it can teach them new words, it can provide you time for bonding without distractions, it can build on their understanding.

Encouraging a love of reading is really important to start from an early age. It is important to talk about the book, ask your child to point to objects in the book, point out an object, for example a tree and ask them to find another one, ask your child what they can see in the book, the things to talk about are endless! Turn over this sheet to see some ‘blank level questions’ these help to develop your child’s understanding of questions and the story.

Independence

In Nursery it is important for the children to be independent in as many ways as possible.

Teaching your child to do things for themselves helps them become fantastic problem solvers and helps to build on their learning skills.

Please teach your children to feed themselves, tidy away their toys, put on and take off their coat themselves and use the toilet independently by pulling down and up their pants and trousers.