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Nursery and Reception - Seedlings and Saplings

A very warm welcome to our Early Years Foundation Stage Unit

Seedlings (Nursery) and Saplings (Reception)

Welcome to the Spring Term. 

Below you will find useful information for both Seedlings and Saplings. If you need help with anything further please do not hesitate to ask a member of our EYFS team. 

Mrs Nicholson, Mrs MacKay and Mrs Severs.

 

Just a reminder we are a NUT FREE school. Please ensure your child isn't bringing anything containing nuts in their lunchboxes!

 

                                   Play, Learn and Grow Together

Key Dates

Monday 23rd February - Spring term 2 begins.

Thursday 12th March - Mother's Day Stay and Play

Monday 30th March - Easter Wiggle Worship at church 2.00 - 3.00pm

Wednesday 1st April - School closes for Easter

 

 

 

 

Key Information

Arrival and collection points for Seedlings will be the main entrance to the unit located opposite the main school reception.
Saplings will arrive at the main entrance and be collected at the classroom door leading onto the main playground.

EYFS main entrance doors open at 8.30am for Nursery and 8.45am for Reception. Collection at the end of the day is 3.25pm for Reception and 3.30pm for Nursery.

Children should be collected by someone over the age of 16. If someone different is collecting your child, please let their class teacher know.

At the end of the school day, any children who aren't collected after ten minutes will be popped into After School Club which is located in the portacabin.

For arrival and finish times, please see our The School Day page.
For Transition and Early Years policies please see our Policies page.
For useful links to educational resources, including videos, activities and ideas to try at home, please go to our Home Learning page.

Please clearly label all items of your child's uniform. 

Saplings - please ensure that your child brings their water bottle everyday to school. This should only have water in it, not juice please.

 

PE Days:

Tuesday - Saplings

Thursday - Seedlings 

On PE day, Seedlings can come into school wearing their trainers.

Saplings will be getting changed for PE and need a PE kit (clearly labelled with their name).

Please can all children bring a warm, waterproof coat in daily.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nursery and Reception Curriculum

Our theme for this half term is 'Ready, Steady, Grow'.

We follow the Revised Foundation Stage Curriculum 2021 which is currently split into 7 areas:

Three Prime areas:

  • Communication and Language
  • Physical Development
  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Four Specific areas:
  • Literacy
  • Mathematics
  • Understanding the world
  • Expressive arts and design
 
Phonics

Seedlings - The Seedlings will be following Phase 1, Experiencing Phonics. The children will take part in daily activities taken from the seven strands which are:

  • Environmental Sounds
  • Instrumental Sounds
  • Percussion
  • Rhythm and Rhyme
  • Alliteration
  • Voice Sounds
  • Oral Blending and Segmenting

Saplings - The Saplings will consolidate phase 2 of our phonics scheme and continue to learn phase 3.

If you have any questions about phonics and reading or would like further information about how to support your child at home, then please speak to Mrs Nicholson or Mrs MacKay.

 

For a detailed overview of our themes please take a look at our EYFS Curriculum Intent.

 
RE for Saplings (Reception class)

Spring 1 Unit  - Why is Easter special for Christians?

In this unit, the children will recognise and retell stories connected with the celebration of Easter. They will find out about key events from Palm Sunday to Easter Day and will learn to recognise some symbols Christians use during Holy Week, e.g. palm leaves, cross, eggs etc., and make connections with signs of new life in nature. They will say why Easter is a special time for Christians.