Our Wonderful Woodheys
Tour of Nursery Classroom
We are delighted with our new outdoor area, this has just been completed (April 2021) ready for some amazing and creative learning.
Tour of Reception classroom
Tour around the school
Year 1 Zen Garden
Entrance to school and EYFS playground
Welcome to our Nursery Page
We would like to tell you all about Nursery and the exciting things we do. We will update this webpage to keep you informed of the exciting things we do and to give you some tips on how you can support your child. Please use your child's Tapestry account too!
- Mrs Howarth Teacher
- Mrs Taylor Teaching Assistant
- Mrs Knight Teaching Assistant
Organisation of our Nursery Class
Nursery offers 52 nursery places and these are provided through 15 hour (part time) and 30 hour (full time) places. Part time places are offered through AM and PM sessions. Nursery have their own allocated classroom with a door leading towards our outdoor environment which is shared with Reception.
If you would like to apply for a nursery place at our school, please follow this link!
Our Aims
At Woodhey’s our aim is to provide children with a wide range of stimulating, creative and challenging early learning experiences within a secure, caring and inclusive environment, both within the classroom and outdoors. Our school values of together we achieve more, challenging ourselves to grow and flourish,happy and passionate to learn and caring for and respecting others are at the heart of what we do.
We provide children with opportunities to explore and enquire: developing their understanding of the world around them through 'real life' experiences, stimulating resources, and adult led and child-led activities.
We aim to offer every child a consistent and personalised learning experience to ensure that all children who attend our EYFS department make good progress from where their learning journey started and are not left behind. During carpet sessions and continuous provision, we focus upon each child's personal next steps to ensure they are given the best possible opportunities to excel within our environment and achieve their age-related expectation.
Please find more information in our EYFS Policy.
Our Curriculum
Our early years setting follows the curriculum as outlined in the 'EYFS Statutory Framework' and the 'Development Matters' guidance material.
The EYFS framework includes 7 areas of learning and development that are equally important and inter-connected. However, 3 areas known as the prime areas are seen as particularly important for igniting curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and for building children’s capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive.
The prime areas are:
- Communication and language
- Physical development
- Personal, social and emotional development
The prime areas are strengthened and applied through 4 specific areas:
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the world
- Expressive arts and design
Parent- School Relationships
We strongly believe that positive parent-school relationships can influence a child's school experience and ensure they continue to flourish. We aim to keep parents up to date with their child's learning through a variety of ways. These include:
- Tapestry (Online Learning Journey that has at least 2 observations added each week)
- Personalised Next Steps that are released 4 times a year (Autumn, Spring and Summer Term)
- End of Year Report (Summer Term)
- Parents Evenings (Autumn and Spring Term)
- Parent Workshops ( Autumn, Spring and Summer Term)
- Stay and Play Sessions (Spring and Summer Term)
- Weekly Parent Home Learning Guides
- Reading Records that are updated weekly (Summer Term)
- Daily Contact at the start and end of school
- Home Library System
- Tree-mendous Behaviour Leaves (Home Learning Link)
- Golden Certificates from our Celebration Assemblies
Parental Support
Tapestry Workshop (September)
For those parents who would like to recap on our parent workshop or who were unable to attend, please find a copy of our parent workshop Powerpoint below. Click on the link below to open up the PowerPoint.
Please remember to check your child's bag for their weekly home guide.
Our News
Please use Tapestry to keep up to date with our news and your child's personal learning journey.
School Closure Home Learning Tasks
It is our priority to support parents with their child's home learning. Each day your child will have a phonics, reading, writing, mathematical, physical and creative task that they can complete. Please see the below tasks that have been allocated for your child and use them as you feel appropriate: