Nursery
Welcome to Grange Nursery!
Our wonderful Nursery is run by an experienced EYFS teaching team; Mrs Roberts, Mrs Lawson and Mrs Gill.
Mrs Roberts, EYFS lead and Nursery teacher
Mrs Lawson, Teaching assistant
Mrs Gill, Teaching assistant
At Nursery, we love to learn through play and spend lots of time exploring the outdoor environment. We pay particular attention to children’s interests and enjoy creating wow moments for your child to capture their enthusiasm and love of learning.
Each half term, our learning is based around high quality texts, chosen to capture your child’s imagination and build a solid foundation of skills and knowledge. More information can be found on our yearly overview below.
It is very important that your child comes to nursery in correct nursery uniform and suitable footwear. As we head into Autumn, please make sure your child brings a waterproof coat with them every day. Please make sure all items are clearly named.
On a Thursday, the children will enjoy a P.E. session with Mrs Lawson. For this, they should wear a plain white or yellow top, black leggings or joggers and trainers.
Important Notices
Every child should arrive at Nursery on time and be ready to learn.
We have two sessions per day, and offer spaces to those receiving 15 and 30 hour childcare support. The morning session runs from 9:00am-12.00pm. The afternoon session runs from 12:15pm-3:00pm. For children attending for 30 hours, the Nursery day runs from 9:00am-3:00pm.
Please ensure you sign up to WEDUC at the start of the year as we do not want you to miss any important information.
Please contact the office if there are any changes with personal details e.g., new address or change to mobile phone numbers.
Diary Dates!
- 16th and 17th October – Parents Evening
- 25th October – Break up for half term
- 4th November – INSET day
- 5th November - Back to school
Tapestry
We use Tapestry to capture children’s learning at Nursery. We regularly upload photos and observations of your child, giving you an insight into their learning. Many parents comment on this fantastic app and love being able to talk to their child about their day.
Bedtime books
Reading to your child is a fundamental part of their early development which helps them to develop a wide range of skills such as language development, comprehension and vocabulary.
On a Tuesday and Friday, children will have the opportunity to select a nursery library book to bring home. We ask that you share this story at home and return it to nursery to be changed.
More information and top tips can be found via the link below.
Tips for reading with your child | BookTrust
Snack money
All children receive a healthy snack during each session at Nursery, this includes a choice of fruit and a carbohydrate such as a biscuit, cracker, breadstick or toast. Please remember to pay your snack money, in cash to the Nursery team, for each half term. This is charged at £1 per week for part time children or £1.50 per week for full time and can either be paid in half termly or weekly instalments.
Children should bring a drink, in a clearly labelled bottle, with them every day, this should be water or sugar free squash.
What do we learn in Nursery?
Click here to download our Nursery Curriculum Overview
Please read this half-term newsletter to see how you can support your child's learning at home.
End of Nursery Expectations
Here you will find information for parents and carers on the end of year expectations for Nursery children. These are skills outlined in the Development Matters 0-5 document.
All the objectives will be worked on throughout the year and will be the focus of direct teaching. Any extra support you can provide in helping your children to achieve these is greatly valued.
If you have any queries regarding the content on this page or want support in knowing how best to help your child please talk to your child’s teacher.
Communication and Language
- Enjoy listening to longer stories and can remember much of what happens.
- Pay attention to more than one thing at a time.
- Use a wider range of vocabulary.
- Understand a question or instruction that has two parts.
- Understand 'why' questions.
- Sing a large repertoire of songs.
- Know many rhymes, be able to talk about familiar books.
- Develop their communication, but may continue to have problems with irregular tenses and plurals.
- Develop their pronunciation of sounds.
- Use sentences of four to six words.
- Be able to express a point of view using words as well as actions.
- Start a conversation with an adult or friend and continue it for many turns.
- Use talk to organise their play.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Select and use activities and resources, with help when needed.
- Develop their sense of responsibility and membership of a community.
- Become more outgoing with unfamiliar people.
- Show more confidence in new social situations.
- Play with one or more children, extending and elaborating play ideas.
- Find solutions to conflicts and rivalries.
- Increasingly follow rules, understanding why they are important.
- Remember rules without needing an adult to remind them.
- Develop appropriate ways of being assertive.
- Talk with others to solve conflicts.
- Talk about their feelings using words.
- Understand how others might be feeling.
- Be increasingly independent in meeting their own care needs.
- Make healthy choices about food, drink, activity and toothbrushing.
Physical Development
- Continue to develop their movement, balancing, riding and ball skills.
- Go up steps and stairs using alternate feet.
- Skip, hop, stand on one leg and hold a pose.
- Use large muscle movements to wave flags and streamers, paint and make marks.
- Start taking part in group activities which they make up themselves.
- Increasingly able to use and remember sequences and patterns of movements.
- Choose the right resources to complete a task.
- Collaborate with others to manage large items.
- Use one handed tools and equipment.
- Use a comfortable pencil grip with good control.
- Show preference for a dominant hand.
- Be increasingly independent as they get dressed and undressed.
On-line safety
More and more children in early years have their own tablets or borrow their parents' devices to play games, use apps and watch their favourite TV shows. See advice on simple things you can do to make sure they are staying safe on-line.
To see how Grange Primary School safeguard your child on-line whilst they are at school, please click on the link below to our on-line safety page.
Toilet training
It is important that your child is toilet trained when they start Nursery, however we understand that for some children this skill may take longer to master.
Support information and a 3-step approach to toilet training can be found on the ERIC website.
Derbyshire Families information service - FIS
This service provides free, impartial information and guidance to any family caring for children or young people aged 0-19 years. This includes:
- Help on eligibility for child care funding
- Finding family support services locally
- Health & Wellness: information on maintaining family health, supporting mental well-being, and finding healthcare resources.
- Information about local family activities and events across Derbyshire.
Please follow the link below if you wish to access this resource.