Early Years Learning

About Me

Hi
My name is Jackie.
I’d like to give you a brief insight and welcome into my nursery setting.
We are a teaching and learning environment led by me, an early years teacher.
Our teaching combines the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) alongside the holistic Montessori method of education and teaching, which together enhances our aim to stimulate a fascination for learning. Both teaching methods are centered around learning through play.
Our aim is to provide a welcoming, nurturing, stimulating and enabling environment, where your child can grow and learn in all areas of their development.
I’m passionate about children’s learning and development. My aim, hope and aspirations for the children in my care is to “give each child the very best start in life and to inspire a love of learning.”
I have an excellent reputation for a progressive and inspirational method of teaching that offers the highest quality of care and education for children.
Our nursery setting is a very large space, combined with a large outdoor garden equipped with a variety of physical resources, that are both fun and challenging.

We have an open door ethos when it comes to parents consultations/meetings. So, whenever a parent would like to have a meeting, or the keyworker thinks a meeting would be beneficial, then one can be arranged.

Below is a brief description on our learning environment, what we do and how we do it.
But, on coming to see the nursery, parents will receive a prospectus that will explain everything about us and everything you need and want to know, in detail.

We work around a monthly themed topic, which are chosen for learning/development and interests.
January - Animals from around the world
February – Our Body
March – Jobs People Do
April – Different Seasons
May – My World
June – Types of Food
July – Tactile and Visual
August – Other Living Creatures
September - Fish and Their Environment
October – Planets
November – Festivals, Cultures and Celebrations
December – All about Christmas

Our Daily Routine
7.30 – 8.30 - Breakfast
8.40 –10.00 - Focused one to one curriculum activities are carried out alongside child led activities, which include computers, role play, continuous provision and messy play. Child led activities are encouraged and supported during morning & afternoon sessions spontaneously. Creative activities; crafts, artwork & cooking are started & continued throughout the day with children’s choice and interest taken into consideration.
Children can self-select activities from low level shelving.

Each theme encompasses the Montessori method of teaching and learning.
Each focused activity has the child’s interest incorporated within it.
Monday Communication and Language Linking to Literacy
Tuesday Mathematics
Wednesday Personal, Social and Emotional
Thursday Expressive Arts and Design or Physical
Friday Understanding the World

10.00 - 10.30 Tidy Up Time – Story Time, Songs and Rhymes
10.30 - 10.40 Snack
10.40 - 11.00 Circle Time or Drama
11.00 - 11.30 Outside Play
11.45 - 12.45 Lunch

1.00 - 2.00 Children who only come in for the afternoon session will do the focused
one to one curriculum activity of that day. For children that do not sleep, , the
focused activity from the morning will be revisited. Children will lead the activity
using their recall, knowledge, understanding and imagination.

2.00 - 2.30 Snack
2.30 - 3.00 Circle Time or Drama
3.00 - 3.30 Outside Play
3.45 - 4.30 Teatime
4.30 - 5.00 Music, Dancing, Exercise, Instruments, Group Games etc.
5.00 - 6.00 Child led activities + adult led questions and answers – How was your day?
Would you like to change anything from today? What would you like to do
tomorrow? Story time, songs, rhymes etc.

Children that do part time, will have their own learning plan, so as to ensure they cover every curriculum area.

A menu is displayed in the nursery and in the prospectus.
It has pictures of meals provided and details of all the ingredients used.

Parents are kept updated with their child's progress by;
Weekly - One of the seven Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum areas documented.
Three monthly - Reports on all seven areas of the curriculum and next steps.
A Two Year Progress review will be done when a child is between the ages of two and three years old.

Parents can access their child's profile, personal information, observations, reports and much more, on the Tiney App. It's also a great and efficient way to communicate between parent/nursery and vice versa.
Let me tell you a little bit more about the Tiney App.
All parents benefit from the Tiney App, some of which are these amazing rewards:
- Online GP support for you and your family, including prescribing services.
- Discounts with Tiney partners including; play makes sense, farewell and much, much more!
- Access to Tiney’s counselling, SEND, & financial services support lines and more!
- End of contract export from your child's journal to ensure all photos, information and media
can be passed over to you.
- Access to Tiney tips, for under 5’s.
- Access to parents webinars and expert talks.
- An enhanced in-app welcome pack and settling in guide.
- Streamlined experiences with the Tiney parents App, including digital.
billing/invoices/payments and high touch customer and payments support.
There is so much parents can access on the App. It's very interesting, informative
and a great asset to have!