Nursery 2024 - 2025

WELCOME TO OUR NURSERY

At St Peter's, our Nursery department prides itself on exceptional pastoral care and guidance. Our trained Nursery staff ensure a carefully monitored programme of activities that are focused around improving your child’s learning and development. The early years of a child’s life are crucial. At our Nursery we work hard to make every day special for our young children in preparation for the transition into the main school.

St Peter's Nursery staff monitor the progress of their children through the Early Years Foundation stages (EYFS).
As part of the Early Years Foundation Stage, we complete work within 7 areas of learning and development. These are divided into prime areas (Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development and Communication and Language) and specific areas (Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design.)

With access to dedicated facilities both indoor and outdoors, staff create a learning bond that allows children to grow and develop safely, reassuring parents that their child is in a safe learning environment and will be academically confident as they transition into mainstream education.

Welcome to the Spring Term, our topic this half term is Journeys. Our first story will be ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’ by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury, followed by ‘The Train Ride’ by June Crebbin. Children will be encouraged to talk about journeys that they have taken and name some of the things that they have seen on the way. They will also learn about positional language using words like under, over, up and on top.  Throughout this term we will continue to listen to stories, singing nursery rhymes, learning to recognise numbers 1-10, counting a number of objects, counting forwards and backwards, recognising and copying our names. These are all things that children should be practising at home.

This half term our RE topic is, ‘Why is the word 'God' so important to Christians?’, we will be learning all about the creation story and how we can look after God’s world. The children will be busy painting God’s creations, writing prayers to thank God and starting a litter pick in our outdoor area to look after God’s world.

We will continue to send home a weekly library book for the children to share with their family.  Reading with your children in very important as they learn new words and improve their literacy skills.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to any of the Nursery team.

Thank you for continued your support.