Seedlings and Saplings Nursery and Reception | Christ Church Primary School Walshaw

We are holding open days! Please spread the word to anyone who is looking for school and nursery places in 2023. We also have places available currently in our nursery and Reception classes.

Open Days 2022

A very warm welcome to our Early Years Foundation Stage Unit

Seedlings and Saplings

We hope you have enjoyed a lovely summer break and the children are looking forward to starting school for the first time or returning to school after attending nursery, we certainly are! You will find lots of information regarding topics, general information and key dates in the Autumn Newsletter which you will find below. Please take the time to have a look.

We look forward to welcoming you on Monday 5th September.

Thank you

The Early Years Team

Arrival and Finish Times

Nursery/Seedlings Arrival Time	8.30am and 12.30pm afternoon children
Nursery/Seedlings Collection Time	3.30pm
Reception/Saplings Arrival Time	8.45am
Reception/Saplings Collection Time	3.25pm

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.

Reception Baseline Assessment Useful Documents

Letters and Information

Policies

Key Dates

School opens on Monday 5th September (please see your letter for your childs start time)

Curriculum

Our topic for the next half term is 'It's Good to be Me'

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

Communication and Language

Physical Development

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Literacy

Mathematics

Understanding the World

Expressive Arts and Design

Phonics

Seedlings- In the Seedlings we 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- In the Saplings we will be settling in and revisiting aspects of phase 1 in the first two weeks. We will be beginning Phase 2 at the beginning of week 3. A parents meeting to explain teaching of early reading and writing will be held in October.

Mathematics

Seedlings- The focus this half term is ''

Saplings- The focus this half term is 'Number and Place Value to 5'.

This half term our themes for RE will be 'I am Special' and 'Harvest'.

EdStart will be continuing to working with our children each Thursday morning. Sapling children will not require a PE during the first half term. Seedlings do not need a PE kit but are able to come to school in their trainers on Thursdays.