Welcome to Nursery!

St Anne
 

Hello and welcome to St Patrick’s Nursery! We hope you and your child will be very happy here. Here at St Patrick’s we use the Early Years Foundation Stage to provide a wide range of activities and experiences to motivate, excite and drive the children to learn whilst playing, as well as helping them to develop an extensive range of skills throughout the seven areas of learning.

We cover the seven areas of learning from the Statutory Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage. These are:

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Communication and Language,
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding of the World
• Physical Development
• Expressive arts and design

The themes we will be following are: 

Me, myself and I 

Seasons and celebrations around the world 

People who help us  

In the Jungle  

Living things and Minibeasts 

The Seaside and Pirates  

We provide a safe and stimulating environment staffed by a highly qualified team to ensure the best for your child. We have a free flow continuous provision system where children can initiate their own learning, alongside some focus activities where children are supported to develop specific skills. In all our provision areas, children can investigate and enhance the Characteristics of Effective learning.

We also have daily carpet times together where we sing songs, listen to a story, celebrate our 'Pupil of the Week’, work on different skills together and build on our knowledge. Children in Nursery have access to our provision both indoors and outdoors.

Each child is allocated a key person which helps the child, and their parents/carers, to develop a good relationship with a specific member of staff. The key person will, alongside the rest of the team, help your child to settle into Nursery, track your child's learning and development, and support you and your child on their journey through Nursery eventually preparing your child for the transition to Reception at Primary School.

St Patrick’s Nursery are committed to Safer Recruitment; all volunteers and staff are vetted thoroughly and DBS checked (previously CRB) before and whilst working at the Nursery.
Parents/carers are encouraged to be part of the Nursery and you are very welcome to come and spend some time in the setting with your child, join in with activities, read to the children, bake cakes, etc. We will send out letters with more information about these sessions. This gives the opportunity to see your child within the setting and to offer ideas/suggestions on how we can develop our Nursery.

Every term all parents/carers receive a newsletter, either in a paper or electronic copy. This is to ensure all parents and carers know what is going on and are fully informed.  It includes a variety of information such as what we have planned for your children that term, dates for your diary, communication from the team and so much more. 

We aim to help your child prepare for the world of education and value your support and collaboration (after all no-one knows your child as well as you do!). If you have anything you want to talk to us about please do; one of us is always available at the start or end of sessions so don't hesitate to speak to us.

We look forward to working with all of our children and their families.