Welcome to F1C – our Nursery class at Huntingdon Academy!
| Teaching Staff | |
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| Mrs Carrette | Mrs Mather |
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| Mrs Rahim-Amin | Mrs Elbaruni |
In our nursery class we have Mrs Carrette who currently teaches the class Monday Tuesday and Wednesday and Mrs Mather who teaches Thursday and Friday. We also have Mrs Amin and Miss Elbaruni, who are both teaching assistants and support the nursery children from Monday-Friday.
Class Author
At Huntingdon Academy, we encourage all children to foster a love of reading. Our class ‘F1C’ is named in honour of one of our favourite authors! Eric Carle who you might know for the following stories:
Nursery Sessions
We have a morning group that runs from 8.45am-11:45am and an afternoon group from 12:30pm – 3.00pm. We can have a maximum of 26 children in each session. We also accept 30 hour codes, providing we have the space in both sessions.
We run a lunch club that is available to all day children and children who attend afternoon sessions. Please talk to the nursery teaching staff if you are interested in your child attending at lunch times.
Our EYFS curriculum
Our curriculum and provision is guided by the prime and specific areas of development:
| Prime Communication and Language Physical Development Personal, Social and Emotional Development | Specific Literacy Mathematics Expressive Arts and Design Understanding the World |
Each of these areas are reflected in our learning areas both indoors and outside. The children will have the opportunity each day to explore the different learning areas independently, as well as take part in guided groups with an adult.
Each half term we have carefully chosen different topics that will provide the children with lots of opportunities to develop in the prime and specific areas. These include: Colourful, Wonderful Me! My Celebrations and Me! The Animal Kingdom and Me! The Great Outdoors and Me! A Grand Adventure and Me! My Superpowers and Me!
Curriculum – Autumn 1
Wonderful, Colourful Me!
This half term our topic is ‘Wonderful, Colourful me!’. We will start by learning all about colours and then move on to our ‘All about me’ topic. We will also be investigating Autumn changes around our environment. We focus our learning and our provision around a different and exciting book each week and celebrate this learning on seesaw and in our floorbooks.
Take a look at some of the key texts we will be focusing on in Autumn 1:
Timetable – Autumn 1
Our main priority as we settle into the new academic year is ensuring that those children who have already been with us at nursery, settle back into the routine of the day, whilst our new children begin to feel happy and settled with us.
Each day the children have the opportunity to explore the different learning areas within our continuous provision and can choose to enjoy their learning within our classroom or our courtyard. We have milk and fruit time together, whilst enjoying listening to a story and taking part in circle time activities. We all spend time on the large playground together once in the morning and once in the afternoon, where the children will have access to the climbing frame, large sand pit, bikes and lots more! In the Spring and Summer term, the N2 children will start to have focused group activities in the morning, to prepare them for their learning in F2.
| F1 Timetable AM | |
| 8:45am | Registration and head count |
| 9:00am | Children sit on the carpet and sing the good morning song |
| 9:15am | Children play within the continuous provision, inside and outside |
| 10:15am | Children tidy away resources |
| 10:30am | Story/song time followed by milk and fruit |
| 10:45am | Play time on the large EYFS playground |
| 11:15am | Show and tell followed by home time routines |
| F1 Timetable PM | |
| 12:30pm | Registration and head count |
| 12:45pm | Children sit on the carpet and sing the good morning song |
| 1pm | Children play within the continuous provision, inside and outside |
| 1:50pm | Children tidy away resources |
| 2pm | Story/song time followed by milk and fruit |
| 2:15pm | Play time on the large EYFS playground |
| 2:45pm | Show and tell followed by home time routines |
| Additional activities |
| Wednesday – PE Make and bake – 3 per half term |
Parent communication
Seesaw – Each parent is given a seesaw log in that they can use at home to see photos of activities that the children have taken part in. These will include a description of the activity and next steps for learning. Key messages and information will also be available to view on seesaw. Parents can comment on the posts with a message to their children, or ask any questions they have for the teachers.
Parents’ evenings – We have 3 parents’ evenings each year, one at the end of each term, where parents can book an appointment with their child’s teacher.
Newsletter – Every Friday, we put a newsletter on seesaw. This celebrates the work that the children have done during the week and also has key messages and information about events for the next week. The office team will be sending out half-termly sway newsletters which will inform you of information relating to the learning for that half term, alongside key messages and dates.
We know that after a half term break, coming back to nursery can seem quite overwhelming for our nursery children, we welcome parents and carers to stay for the first hour to support this transition back into the provision for their child.
Admissions
We welcome applications all year round and offer places for children the term after they have turned three. Please complete an admissions form available from our school office and once this has been handed in, we will be in contact to let you know if we currently have any places available and when your child can start with us.