Welcome to Seedlings (2 year olds Nursery)
Our two year olds begin their school journey in Seedlings class. Seedlings classroom is equipped to meet the specific needs of our two year olds. In our classroom you will find:
Mrs Leffler ( Nursery Teacher)
Miss Bradley (Teaching Assistant – Seedlings room leader / Key Worker)
Miss Kellett (Teaching Assistant / Key Worker)
Welcome
This term we will be settling into our Nursery environment and building relationships with both our adults and other children in the room.
We will focus on the prime areas of learning making sure your child is secure in these areas:
Communication and Language development
Personal, Social and Emotional development
Physical development
This year we have a new Early Years framework which we use for guidance to teach your children. We will use a mix of Development matters and Birth to 5 to support your child’s development and learning. For more information about these documents see the links below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/development-matters–2
We will have a key book to help focus our learning, this will be “Ten Little Dinosaurs”. The children will learn this story through the Talk for Writing approach where we use drama, actions, story maps and visual prompts to help us.
We will be learning all about what dinosaurs and developing our math skills by counting to 3.
Along side our story we will be singing our favourite nursery rhymes too.
What we do each day
Key worker system
Key workers develop close relationships with children and their families to make sure needs are met and that children are able to make good progress. They help children to work towards their next steps and record their progress in their learning journey books. Key workers maintain a calm and nurturing environment for children to flourish.
Communication and Language
Communication and Language is one of the Prime Areas of Learning in the Early Years Curriculum.
We teach the three aspects of this, Speaking, Understanding and Listening and Attention throughout all of our adult directed and child initiated sessions. Communication and Language skills are important for learning across the whole curriculum so it is vital that we get this right for our children.
If you would like to see the expectations for your child’s Communication and Language skills please see the attached “Small Talk” document.
We may talk to you in the first half-term if we believe your child could benefit from some extra support from Warrington’s Speech and Language services. Please feel free to ask any member of the Early Years team if you have any questions.
