Nursery and Reception - Seedlings and Saplings

A very warm welcome to our Early Years Foundation Stage Unit

Seedlings (Nursery) and Saplings (Reception)

Happy New Year! We hope that you have all had a lovely Christmas and can't wait to hear all about it. We also look forward to welcoming to Christ Church our new nursery children and their families

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 5th January - Spring 1 term begins.

Tuesday 10th February - Horus Birds of Prey experience.

Friday 13th February - Finish for half term.

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 'Starry Night'.

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 the word 'God' special for Christians?

In this unit, the children will find out about the Christian belief that God created the heavens and the earth. They will learn key events from the creation story and will find out that many Christians believe the earth and everything in it belongs to God and that God gave people the job of taking care of the world.

We care about your privacy