Welcome
A very warm welcome awaits in the Bramley Vale Nursery classroom. The children are supported and nurtured by Mrs Foston – the class teacher and the very experienced Teaching Assistants – Mr Jones and Mrs Dutton.
In Nursery our aim – First and foremost – is focused on settling the children into a predictable routine where they feel safe and happy. We use a creative and structured approach to delivering a play based learning curriculum where our children learn and thrive.
Our children are at the centre of all that we do with particular emphasis on their communication skills, physical, social and emotional well-being, personal health and learning. We consider connections with family, communities, cultures and the natural world and how we can meet and respond to the needs of the child today and how we can lay strong foundations for their lives in the future.
Important reminders for parents
To facilitate the smooth running of your child’s learning in school and to maximise their potential we ask that you please ensure the following:
- School uniform should be worn every day. You may place orders on school app. or visit the main office
- Nursery children need to come to school wearing PE kit on each Tuesday.
- Reception children need to come to school wearing PE kit on each Monday and Tuesday.
- Snack money is 20p a day. Please ask your child to post monies in the yellow money box.
- Please ensure your child has a complete change of named clothes in school and named wellies!
- Name all your child’s belongings including: water bottles, shoes and clothes to avoid loss and disappointment.
- EYFS Library day is Thursday- we swap books weekly. Please ensure library books & reading diaries are in school on Thursdays, so we count up home reading for the Reading Olympics. Your child is working towards earning pins and prizes!
- Weather appropriate clothing is essential- a coat /hat , as we enjoy considerable time outdoors- no matter the weather!
We are always happy to discuss your child with you if you have any questions or concerns. We have an open door policy so do just come and see us! To also keep yourself updated, please check the school newsletter each week for upcoming events and the school blog on our website.
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Our Learning Journey
Getting to know you
The beginning of the Autumn term has seen the arrival of many new families to our Bramley Vale School family. This has been a time for us to get to know one another and to begin to understand our place within the amazing family that is our school. The children have been building new friendships and have been understanding the rules and boundaries that are necessary for learning to happen. I am delighted to say that ALL of our children have taken to school life wonderfully and are remembering our class charter very well! They are using their listening ears, using their manners, showing kindness and sitting wonderfully on our carpet.
Maths in action
We have all been mastering numbers! The nursery children have been busy sorting, counting and singing lots of number rhymes. They are hearing and seeing numbers all around them and have loved joining in with the action songs. We are continuing to work on our sorting skills and have been looking at different ways that we could do this and are continuing our focus on spotting and making patterns of our own. The Reception children have been looking at the cardinal principle- how many there are in total and the true meaning of a number- that there are this many altogether. they have also been looking at patterns and found many ways to create their own including using potato stampers! Just like nursery they have been sorting objects too, but have been looking into the properties of the objects they sort such as size, colour, shape and how many they could share a group of objects.
Stickman Runs Again!
Our school’s CRAVE curriculum for the second Autumn term has lead us into Design and Technology and we have been very busy learning about materials- both man-made and natural. Our literary text – Stickman written by Julia Donaldson, is supporting our topic coverage and will take us to Christmas. With lots of repetition, the children will become very familiar with the text and its repeated refrains.
We have been looking at different materials and have been making our own choices about how we can use them. We have been junk modelling shoebox habitats and are learning all about and naming the animals that live in the Ocean, the British Woodland, the African Savannah and the Polar Regions. Lots of new skills are being developed to help us to be emerging designers such as holding scissors efficiently, using tools such as stencils, templates, hole punches, stampers and brushes. The children are also having a go at designing their own makes by either drawing them independently or describing what they would like to do. The children have also been learning about the weather and the seasons and the clothing we would wear at different times of the year.
