Nursery

Welcome to Nursery...My name is Miss Thomson, I am the Nursery lead. Miss Price is our class teaching assistant.

In Nursery, we learn through play. We have opportunities to learn both indoors and outdoors, as well as having teacher-led activities.

We have a variety of areas in nursery including;

The reading corner,

Construction area,

Role play corner,

Creative table

as well as our palace and much more.

St Saviour’s Catholic Primary and Nursery School

Mission Statement

St Saviour’s is a caring school family of God’s children, keeping Jesus at the heart of everything we do.

Everyone is helped to grow in love and respect;

listening to, praying with and supporting each other.

Through forgiveness and love in a safe environment, we help each other to be what God created us to be and to be confident and independent people in His world.

St Saviours School Prayer

Thank you for St Saviour’s School,

where we care and share,

where we play and pray.

Respecting each other as we learn and love,

with Jesus in our hearts.

Amen.

In God's Name

In Nursery, we introduce children to RE. We pray at different times of the day and read stories from the bible multiple times a week. We encourage children to join in our prayers.

Our Nursery Routine

Our routine is very flexible and we work around the needs of the children throughout the day. We do encourage the children to use the toilet regularly and nappies are always changed as and when needed, if outside of our scheduled changing times.

We ask parents to provide a healthy snack for the children, we all sit down together to eat snack to support good language and social skills at the table.

This is one of our favourite times of the day!

Morning Session:

8:40: Welcome & Settling in time

8.50: Register & 'Hello' time

9:20: Busy time with focused teaching

10:00: Outside - free flow

10:20: Snack time

11:00: Nappy Changing/Toilet time

11:10: Busy time - Free flow 11:45: Story time & Prayer

12:00: Home time

Learning through play

In nursery, all of our learning is done through play. We encourage children to explore new things. Take a look at some pictures of us learning as we have fun!

Educational Quotes About Learning Through Play - Quotes for Mee

Story time!

We provide lots of opportunities for the children to enjoy stories throughout the morning. Our favourite books are displayed for the children to access independently during their busy time and they love to look at the pictures with their friends, talking about what they can see! Each morning, when the children arrive, they will sit down and look at a book either independently or with their peers/an adult.

Before home time, we have a whole class story time to allow the children to unwind from our busy morning.

Nursery Rhymes...

Nursery rhymes are a fantastic way of building your child's vocabulary and language skills.

Children love to learn actions to go with their songs.

In Nursery we are learning to use Makaton signs, particularly when we sing.

Makaton is a sign language programme which was created to be used alongside spoken language, in order to promote communication and language development in babies and young children.

We sing Nursery Rhymes lots during the day, especially carpet times, before snacks and before home.

Some of our favourite Nursery Rhymes are:

Wheels on the bus

If you're happy and you know it

I'm driving in my car

Baa Baa black sheep

Twinkle Twinkle little star

5 little ducks

We also like listening to songs on the iPad, here are a few we have been listening to over the last few weeks-

Going on a Bear Hunt - THE KIBOOMERS Preschool Songs for Circle Time (youtube.com)

Hop Little Bunnies | Sing A Long | Action Song | Hop Hop Hop (youtube.com)

Shake Your Sillies Out ♫ Brain Breaks Songs for Kids ♫ Kids Action Songs by The Learning Station (youtube.com)