Early Years
Early Years Curriculum
Early YearsThe Nursery School accepts boys and girls from the age of 2 years 9 months and has a staff ratio of one adult to eight children. In the Nursery children learn to play constructively and co-operatively as they are encouraged to take part in a variety of activities. There are plenty of opportunities for physical play in the outdoor play area. At the appropriate time, the children spend a greater proportion of the day in Pre-Prep where they receive a thorough grounding in the basics of reading, writing and number work. Each child is encouraged to develop at his or her own pace, and small groups ensure much individual attention.
News from Early Years
Early Years
Children in Early Years have been very busy over the last few weeks. Some beautiful art work has been produced for the recent Festival of Arts and a special well done to Reception for this. All classes have been busy planting various vegetables and flowers and we are hoping for a bumper crop this year! Nursery & Pre Prep have planted tomato plants to grow on. We also have some larger plants already producing fruit much to the delight of the children and there is no shortage of little people willing to eat the very sweet little tomatoes!
Easter Bonnet Parade
Art & Design | Early Years | SMC | Key Stage 1
The close of the spring term was marked with the Lower Prep’s Easter Celebration and Bonnet Parade. Classes from Nursery to Year 2 entertained one another with songs, dances and stories celebrating Easter. Children and parents had put much energy and creativity into an amazing array of Easter Bonnets, raising further funds for the Good Shepherd Appeal and making it very difficult to decide the competition winners.
News from Early Years
Early Years
This half term has got off to a very busy start with Early Years children making some wonderful fireworks pictures. There was paint flying in all directions when Pre Prep and Nursery children made splatter painting pictures and they also made some wonderful rockets. We also enjoyed a surprise story time with a recent visitor. Rehearsals are now well under way for the forthcoming Nativity productions and there are many budding actors and actresses hoping for an Oscar! The next few weeks will be filled with lots of activities focusing on Christmas with ever increasing excitement.
N&PP Harvest Lunch
Nursery | Pre-prep | SMC
Nursery and Pre-Prep had a wonderful day celebrating Harvest this year. We started the day joining the Prep School in celebrating at the Harvest service. The children delighted in seeing all the produce displayed and watching the older children perform. The highlight of our day was welcoming many of the parents to our informal Harvest lunch. There were 30 children & approximately 25 parents and siblings celebrating together and it proved to be a delightful occasion. We had perfect weather, enabling us to all share lunch together with the children on the decking. The children behaved beautifully and really enjoyed their extra special lunch consisting of a Ploughman’s, home made cakes and apples from the Sisters’ garden. Thank you for taking time to share in our special day.
Creative Colours Afternoon
Art & Design | Early Years
Today the early years department made the most of the Autumn sunshine and joined together for an afternoon of creativity and fun based around the theme of colours. Children from each of the three classes were encouraged to participate in a range of activities that enabled them to explore different colours and their properties, whilst investigating the effects of colour mixing. The children particularly enjoyed the outdoor activities which included welly boot painting and bottle swinging, whilst opportunities to do marble painting, make a colour wheel spinner and explore light and colour on the OHP were firm favourites amongst the indoor activities.
