Oakfield Primary
Nursery
Welcome to our Nursery
Nursery
Staff
Class Teacher: Mrs E Foster
EYP: Mrs K Taylor
Teaching Assistant: Mrs V Willerton
Sessions
We offer the following sessions for 15 and 30 hours funding:
Option 1: 30 hours funding
If you are in receipt of 30 hours funding, you will need to obtain a funding code from https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/ before a full-time place can be allocated.
Monday – Friday 8:45 am – 3:15 pm.
Option 2: 15 hours universally funded
Monday and Tuesday 8:45 am – 3:15 pm and Wednesday 8:45 am – 11:45 am.
Option 3: 15 hours universally funded
Wednesday 12:15 pm – 3:15 pm Thursday and Friday 8:45 am – 3:15 pm.
Top up hours are available should you wish your child to attend extra sessions. The cost is £13.50 for a half day (8:45 am – 11:45 am) or £27.00 for a full day (8:45 am – 3:15 pm). These sessions are subject to availability and must be paid for in advance.
Nursery Funding and New Starters Information
All children are entitled to 15 hours nursery education the term after their third birthday. Some parents may be entitled to a further 15 hours extended funding if they meet the eligibility criteria.
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If you would like to apply for a place at our Nursery please either contact the school office on 01724 842246 to ask for more information or fill out an Initial Interest Form and email this to admin.oakfield@northlincs.gov.uk and a member of staff will be in contact.
Our Learning
In Nursery we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum.
We are committed to developing each child as a unique individual, allowing opportunities for playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically.
We do this through following our children’s interests. We listen, observe and follow the direction that our children take us in.
We then enhance these interests and facilitate extra opportunities to further their learning, this makes their learning meaningful, powerful and above all engaging for the child.
The children choose which activities they would like to use in their independent learning and are also involved in adult led work. During observations adults make, children are encouraged to take on adult initiated challenges to extend their learning. During our Autumn Term this is linked to our topic ‘Nursery Rhymes’ and we use core stories to help our learning. The children also have the opportunity to have educational visits, and visitors in school to enhance their learning.
Our Learning Environment
Reading Area
Creative Area
Role Play Area
Investigation Station
Home Corner
Construction Area
Playdough Area
Sand and Water Area
Nursery
Home-school Link
We are proud to have strong home-school links at the heart of our ethos. Alongside our open door policy, we use Class Dojo to communicate with parents and carers. We also use home-school link books to set challenges at home, which link with our in school learning to embed skills and knowledge.
Each week we send a newsletter via Dojo informing parents and carers of the activities on offer. We also send home star ‘wow’ moments to encourage parents and carers to inform us of their child’s home learning and achievements.
Nursery
Timetable
Story Sacks
Each week a variety of story sacks are sent home with our children, these contain books, resources and ideas to inspire children and parents to participate in shared reading!
A few words from our parents.
“We told (child) the story and he enjoyed explaining the story afterwards in his own words.”
“(Child) has loved having the story sack at home… mostly he has had so much fun with his sister and using his imagination playing with the 3 bears and goldilocks.”
” (Child) enjoyed bring the story sack home… She loved playing with the teddy animals and acting out all the thing the animals would do and making the noises of each animal.”
To further support your child at home we recommend talking and sharing stories highly.
The links below are to the Phase 1 phonics scheme that we use within the Nursery which helps the children to learn to listen in preparation for later reading and the lists of core texts that we follow in Nursery.