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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 back to the last half term of the school year! We hope you have had a relaxing break and have enjoyed the lovely sunny weather. 

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 22nd June - EYFS trip to 'Imagine That'.

Thursday 25th June - Parent information meeting for Reception class 2026-2027. 6.00pm.

Thursday 9th July - EYFS sports/stay & Play afternoon - 1.45pm - 3.15pm

Friday 17th July - Finish for summer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

On hot sunny days, please provide your child with a sun cap/hat and apply suncream.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nursery and Reception Curriculum

Our theme for this half term is 'Sunshine and Flowers'.

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 3 of our phonics scheme and continue to learn phase 4.

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)

Summer Units  - Which places are special and why?   Which stories are special and why?

The children will think about places that are special in their own lives and will find out about places that are holy and important for many Christians and Muslims. We will also be thinking about stories that are special to them and giving reasons for why they are special. The children will encounter stories from different religious worldviews and find out why these might be special to a believer.