St James' CE Primary School
Miss Matthews and Miss Heaps help us to learn in nursery.
Things to remember for Nursery
Our School day
Nursery doors open from 8:35. Our morning finishes at 11:40am.
It is important that the children arrive in plenty of time. Please encourage them to be independent in finding their own coat peg, taking off their coats and hanging up their own things. The children need to find their own name card and self-register. Please encourage them to put their book bags in their coloured book box.
Snack Time
We have a healthy snack each day. The children have the opportunity to try a range of healthy food and drinks. Snacks and drinks do not need to be brought in.
Uniform
Please make sure that children are in their uniform and that all items have their names in. It is important that the children come to school in the correct school uniform. They will need a warm coat and appropriate footwear. Nursery children can wear dark or navy tracksuit bottoms as part of their uniform.
Book Bags
Please make sure your child brings the book bag provided to school every day. Check your child's book bag often for any homework, letters or things they have made whilst at school.
Contact
Please feel free to email the Nursery teacher, Miss Matthews, with any questions or queries at admin@st-james-ash.tameside.sch.uk
To help at home
Here are some ideas of things you can do together at home to support your child's development and learning:
- Learn to recognise their own name. You could show things with their names on or write down their names for them.
- Practise writing their first name.
- Practise counting. This can be counting birds in the park, counting plates for dinner time or counting objects they can find.
- Encourage drawing, colouring, using chalks, painting - mark making is very important for early writing.
- Sing Nursery Rhymes and counting songs.
- Spot patterns, compare sizes, find shapes and use fingers to show numbers to practise maths skills.
- Point out numbers when you are out and about, like door numbers or on buses. Ask or tell them what numbers you can see!
- Read simple stories often. Allow your child to learn the story and repeat it as you read.
Later in the year we will learn the picture cards from Read, Write, Inc. This is the phonics programme used throughout Early Years and Key Stage 1. You can practise these picture sounds at home with your child. Show your child the picture cards and ask them to name the picture. For example, for 'a', your child might say 'apple', 'a-a-apple' or 'round the apple, down the leaf'. This is perfect!
We learn all our picture cards before we learn pure sounds, like 'a', and before we write the letters.
