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At Lenthall Nursery School our vision is to provide a happy, secure, stimulating, challenging environment, where your child's individual needs are catered for.
We aim for our children to:
* be happy and feel secure
* have fun and learn to develop new skills
* take turns, share and play co-operatively
* encourage children to show respect for others and their belongings
* become confident and independent.
The time of our two sessions is:
Arrival 8.45 am and Collection 11.45 am
Arrival 12.15 pm and Collection 3.15 pm
Our Nursery staff are:
Mrs Nicola Walker - Nursery Teacher
Mrs Gaynor Hancock
Mrs Debbie Barlow
The foundation stage begins when children reach the age of 3 and ends when the child leaves the reception class. The foundation stage curriculum is carefully planned in six broad areas:
** Personal, social and emotional development
** Communication, language and literacy
** Mathematical development
** Creative development
** Knowledge and understanding of the world
** Physical development
PLAYING AND LEARNING
There are many exciting toys and activities for your child to explore in the nursery. Children have opportunities to play alone, to play in small groups and to play with lots of interested adults. Nursery staff spend a great deal of time playing and talking with the children. For example, they help children to solve problems, enjoy stories, understand how things work and make new friends.
While playing, children learn in many different ways. In fact play is a very serious business and hard work for young children!
PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
In our nursery we encourage children to take turns, share and play co-operatively. We encourage them to have good manners and say 'please' and 'thank you' during snack time. We want all children in nursery to develop positive attitudes and gain independence.
COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY
We encourage opportunities for all children to talk and communicate in a widening range of situations, to respond to adults and to each other, to practise and extend the range of vocabulary and communication skills they use and to listen carefully.
We use an interactive scheme called jolly phonics to develop children's initial letter sound and to become familiar with the letter shapes. We provide a wide range of experiences to help develop children's pencil control skills.
MATHEMATICS DEVELOPMENT
We develop children's mathematical understanding through stories, songs, games and imaginative play, so that children enjoy using and experimenting with numbers. There is opportunity for children to develop skills in counting, sorting, matching, seeking patterns and working with numbers, shapes, spaces and measures.
CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT
Children experience creativity in various ways; music dance, role play, imaginative play and art. Through art children will be encouraged to make, paint, print, make 3D models, collage and textile work and clay.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD
In this area of learning, children are developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that help them to make sense of the world. We encourage children to become confident and competent with using ICT.
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Through physical development the children will gain confidence and control of the way they move and the way they handle tools and equipment. We follow a fun scheme for gymnastics called Funfit Reward Scheme. This allows each child to grow in confidence in using large and small equipment.
TRANSFER TO INFANT SCHOOL
Our nurse department is very much an integral part of the school. We meet together on a regular basis and the activities and experiences which are planned for the nursery children are specially chosen to develop the skills and abilities they will need to fulfil the 'Early Learning Goals' by the end of the Reception year.
They have been carefully matched to prepare the children for the requirements of the National Curriculum and to give them an excellent opportunity for continuity and progression.
Children who live within the 'normal' area for Lenthall School may automatically transfer straight into the infant department. Parents of children who live outside the 'normal' area may also wish their child to continue into our infant department; this is often especially so if a child has had difficulty "settling in" or has made special friends. If you are outside our 'normal' area but would like your child to continue into Lenthall Infant department, please see Mrs Wallace who will help you to make the necessary application to the school governers.
In their last term in the Nursery, children who are moving into our infant department are given several opportunities to get to know their new teacher, to visit their new class and to share an infant playtime.
Children are also able to stay for the experience of having a school dinner. They share in social and curriculum activities with the infants, as they approach their time of transfer, giving them the best opportunity we can to make a happy, confident and trouble free start to their full time schooling.
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