St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Learning for Life"Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." (Luke 18:16)Our associated values are: Thankfulness, Respect, Honesty, Love and Resilience
At St Mary's Early Years Centre we provide our children with a creative and stimulating environment, designed and led by a qualified teacher. Children are happy, engaged, challenged, nurtured and feel safe. Here, your child will develop a curiosity and love for learning through self chosen play and adult guided activities. We ensure children leave us ready for school and the next stage of their learning. We provide spaces for children from the age of 2 in our Rosen Classroom led by a qualified practitioner and we offer both funded and fee paying places.
Hours
We offer flexible hours in our 3 and 4 year old room, opening at 8:30am until 3:30pm. We offer 30 hour full time places for 3 and 4 year olds from 9am-3pm with the option to extend from 8:30am-3:30pm. We also offer 15 hour places across Monday to Friday. These have to be taken as either 5 morning sessions from 8:30am-11:30am or 5 afternoon sessions from 12:30pm-3:30pm.
We accept 30 hour childcare codes. Please obtain your code from the website www.childcarechoices.gov.uk.
For further information please contact Miss Edwards on 01322 665212.
Please look at our video resource page for a video to look around our garden.
Come and Play in our Early Years Foundation Stage
Lots of our activities are set up using tuff trays, here are some examples of ones we have used.
Developing gross motor skills are very important, as children need to master these skills to help them to write and form letters. These muscles are developed by encouraging the children to take part in physical activities, such as climbing, balancing, dancing and crawling.
In nursery we do lots of 'Funky Finger' activities, this helps the children with their fine motor skills. These activities help the children to develop the muscles in their fingers, which will help the children develop their writing skills.
Term 4 - Spring is on its way so we will be exploring minibeasts and their environments and how minibeasts and flowers grow. Our first book is 'The Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle, then we will read 'Handa's Surprise' by Eileen Browne and our last book is 'Anna Hibiscus' by Atinuke.
Hopefully we will be able to grow some plants this term to make our garden look better.
Mrs McGarrigle came to help us to write
Today we made number bond men
We had lots of lovely costumes for World Book Day
We talked about our favourite Julia Donaldson books and voted for the one we enjoyed the best
We made masks for World Book Day from The Gruffalo written by our favourite author
Our first story
Today we played number bond dominoes remembering to wait for our turn and that the dominoes had to equal 5
We had a minibeast tray set up inside so we could still search for bugs
Today it was sunny so we went on a minibeast hunt, we found lots of bugs and we looked at the flowers to see if any bugs were hiding
We have played dominoes and ladybird numberbonds to 5
We ordered our story using pictures
Making cocoons and decorating butterflies
Term 3 - Welcome to term 3 we hope you all had a lovely Christmas. This term we are exploring Dinosaurs, we will be learning lots of facts about them. The first book we are reading is 'Cave Baby' by Julia Donaldson, our favourite author. Our next book is 'Mad About Dinosaurs' by Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz, it tells us lots of information about dinosaurs.
We made dinosaurs in the style of Andrew Goldsworthy, we used dinosaur templates and natural materials
Seby printed on his dinosaur
Our dinosaurs made from a paper plates are fabulous
We had a great 'Number Day', we made posters of our favourite number and found things in the playground to match numbers
We have been exploring height and length, so today we put ourselves in order of height to see who was the tallest and who was the shortest, then we laid down to see if the same person was the longest and the same one was the smallest
Sierra-Leone was the tallest
Samantha was the shortest
We have been measuring dinosaurs using cubes
Garrett has been working really hard on his number bonds, we are really proud of him
Today we enjoyed a ballet lesson
We built skeleton dinosaurs
We did observational drawings of dinosaurs
Making fossils using play dough and dinosaur bones using clay
We made 2D shape dinosaurs
We have been using dinosaurs to help us with our literacy
Term 2 - This term we are looking at traditional tales, we will be reading 'The Enormous Turnip', Goldilocks and the Three Bears' and 'The Three Little Pigs'. Then we will be celebrating Christmas, making lots of decorations and learning lots of Christmas songs.
All ready for our pamper day
Foot spas ready
We enjoyed relaxing in the foot spas while watching a Christmas film
Time for popcorn !
We enjoyed making reindeer food to make sure Santa's reindeers fly high on Christmas Eve
Next we visited the beauty salon for nails and hair
We finished our lovely day making reindeer cakes
Today we decorated biscuits and a gingerbread house for our cake sale tomorrow
We enjoyed our Christmas dinner today, the 2 year old room joined us.
We have been doing Christmas maths and literacy
It snowed !!!
We decorated bags ready for all the Christmas decorations we are going to make
We made different flavoured porridge and we tried them all and then we decided which one we liked the best
One of our flavours
Another flavour
We added sugar to plain porridge
We needed milk
We had bowls
We used spoons
This is what our porridge looked like
We added milk
It cooked in the microwave
This was our instruction sheet
Oliver had his porridge made with water
We have been talking about Diwali and rangoli patterns. We made our own diva lamps and had lots of goes at making patterns
We have made lots of poppies for Remeberance Sunday to remember all the soldiers
We have done lots of firework pictures using different techniques
Using all the vegetables we had drawn we made soup with them
These were our vegetables
Stock cubes
We made our stock
We used these tools to cut our vegetables
Our chopping board
Our soup maker
Chopping our vegetables
Our chopped vegetables
Chopped onion
All our vegetables chopped and ready
We poured our chopped vegetables into the soup maker
Adding the stock
We had to wait 19 minutes for our soup to be cooked
We drew pictures of lots of different vegetables
We have made pictures using fruit and vegetables in the style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Term 1 - Welcome back and a big welcome and hello to all our new children that are starting.
This term our topic is 'prepositions'. For the first 2 weeks we are learning about ourselves, we have been talking about our families and were we live. We are going to read 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' by Michael Rosen and the last book we are looking at this term is 'Rosie's Walk' by Pat Hutchins.
We went on a bear hunt. First we went over the grass
Swishy swashy, swishy swashy
Then we went through the mud
Squelch squerch
Squelch squerch
Squelch squerch
Then we went through the river in our wellies
Splash splosh
Splash splosh
We then reached the forest
Stumble trip
Stumble trip
stumble trip
Stumble trip
Oh no a snowstorm
Oh no we found the cave
A BEAR !!!!!
Back through the snow storm
Hoooo woooo
Hoooo woooo
Back through the forest
Stumble trip
Stumble trip
Back through the water
Splash splosh
Back through the mud
Squelch squerch
Squelch squerch
Squelch squerch
Back over the grass
Swishy swashy
Swishy swashy
Home to bed ! We are never gong on a Bear Hunt again !!
We have drawn our own Bear Hunt maps
Our Bear Hunt tuff tray
We are reading 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt', we have been making paper plate bear faces and we made a bear using 2D shapes
We drew pictures of who lives in our house.
We have talked about ourselves, the colour of our skin, eyes and hair, then we painted portraits of ourselves
This week we have been exploring our new nursery and having a go at lots of different activities
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