About our nursery, by Mrs. Hunsdale.

Our nursery provision caters for children aged from 2 years old and is led by a qualified Early Years Teacher and an experienced early years practitioner, both of whom have the necessary expertise and experience to ensure that the curriculum offered to each child prepares them for their next steps in education.  Mrs Hunsdale is the Early Years Teacher, who oversees all individual learning developments of the children and strives to provide high quality teaching and learning experiences linked to the development standards of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

At Stoke-on-Tern we provide a safe, supportive, and stimulating, multi-sensory learning environment which provides a secure foundation for all children to enable them to become happy, confident, well-rounded individuals who achieve personal success and develop a life-long love for learning. We plan and implement high quality teaching and learning experiences, through a mixture of teaching strategies such as adult-led learning, child-led learning, planning in the moment and free-flow activities, each closely linked to the children`s interests, and the Reception curriculum ensuring that every child progresses towards meeting the Early Years Learning Goals which are expected of them at the end of the EYFS. We respect and recognise that each child will develop at their own pace and in their own way physically, socially, intellectually, and emotionally and provide a flexible approach to the daily routine to ensure that the individual needs of the children are catered to.  A typical day at nursery involves, circle time, rhyme time, phase 1 phonics/talk boost, early maths, snack, lunch, story time and numerous spontaneous activities.

The nursery children are taught alongside the Reception class in a large, well-equipped, adjoining classroom and integrate with the older children on a daily basis providing them with a gradual transition into school where they can become familiar with the routines of school life and the expected ways of working and behaving at Stoke on Tern.  The children have direct access to a safety fenced outdoor area with grassed, barked, and hard play surfaces, a raised sandpit, a fully functioning water station, an outdoor classroom with a wide range of equipment linked to the seven areas of the EYFS to ensure that at all times the children can enhance their individual learning potential.

The nursery children are also fortunate enough to have access to the entire school facilities including the large playing field, the playground and the wild woods allowing them to “let off stream”, run and climb and explore the wider environment.

A typical day in our Nursery Class

Below, you can see a plan of a typical day in Nursery:
A typical day in Stoke on Tern School Nursery

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