If you have a child turning 3 and are interested in joining our Caterpillar Nursery, please follow this link to the ‘New Starters’ page

Welcome to Caterpillar Nursery!

We are looking forward to welcoming our new starters this half term. Although it is a shorter half term than usual we still have lots of exciting activities planned, and with the warmer weather we will be outside lots too.

This half term our theme will be "Let's Go For a Walk". We will be looking at journeys and sharing stories with the main character on a journey and will be linking lots of our learning and exploring to the themes with these stories. The stories we will be sharing are:

• Rosie's Journey
• The Dress in the Window

Over the next five weeks our older children will continue to learn a new phoneme each week (k, u, b, f, e) and will be listening for these sounds in words. We will play games to help them hear the sounds that they know and try to put phonemes together to make words (e.g. b-u-n makes bun). Our younger children will be listening to stories with different animals and objects that make different sounds. They will be encouraged to listen to these sounds and repeat them. They will also be joining in with songs and rhymes and listening to rhyming words in books.

We will be planting in our outside space and looking at the growth of these plants. Children will learn about caring for plants and finding out what a plants needs to help it grow big and strong. Linking to our journeys, we will look at Radcliffe on Trent village and consider a journey to the shops and park. We will also be looking at some old photographs of the village and compare them to how it looks today.

Our nursery rhymes we will be learning and singing in class will be:

• 5 Little Speckled Frogs
• Little Bo Peep

In our Maths work this half term we will be exploring patterns, starting with singing rhymes with repeats and listening to stories with repeats in them (e.g. the gingerbread man). Children will start to make simple patterns with colours and objects (e.g. red/blue/red/blue etc).

Please remember that our Forest School sessions are every Wednesday throughout the year. Please dress your child appropriately for these sessions and ensure that they have waterproof footwear (preferably wellies). We have a weekly PE session in the school hall on Thursday, where children will need to wear trainers as there will be lots of running about.

In Nursery we aim to follow the children's interests, allowing them to explore the provision independently through play and we ensure they spend equal amounts of time in the provision both inside and outside. Due to the changing weather please ensure you send your child is in warm clothes with suitable shoes and with a waterproof coat. During the warmer months, children will require a sunhat (preferably with an all round brim) and applied sun cream before attending nursery.

We are really looking forward to working closely with you and your child. If you have any questions, concerns or queries please do not hesitate in contacting a member of the Nursery team. 

Thank you for your continued support. 

Nursery Team - Mr Hughes, Miss McLoughlan, Miss Knight

Key Dates:

Monday 21st April - School closed (bank holiday)

Tuesday 22nd April - Back to school

Tuesday 22nd April - Rainbow Values Day

Tuesday 22nd April - Earth Day

Wednesday 23rd April - St George's day

Monday 5th May - School closed (bank holiday)

Thursday 8th May - VE Day

Thursday 8th May - Outdoor Learning Day

12th - 16th May - World Mental Health Week

19th - 23rd May - Walk to School Week

If you like the look of our Caterpillar Nursery, please send in an application for a place by clicking this link!