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Getting Ready

for Nursery

2020

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Transition - a time of change

Dear Parents, Grandparents and Carers,

Transition into Nursery and school life is exciting, but it can also be quite a

challenging time for your child and yourselves. There is a lot of information to

digest! This booklet has been designed to share with your child through the

Summer Holidays, to help them get a feel for what will happen each day and

the places that they will play in.

We hope you will enjoy sharing it together. There is a page at the back where

you can write down any questions that you or your child may have and we can

answer those during our stay and play session in September. If you are

concerned about anything, please do not hesitate to ask or share your thoughts

via email to the school (admin@greatmoor-inf.stockport.sch.uk )

Our partnership with you, to support your child, is absolutely crucial to your

child’s enjoyment and progress and we look forward to working with you.

With our best wishes,

The Nursery Team

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Dear Friend,

This book will help you get to know about Nursery at Great Moor Community

Infant School. I hope you enjoy looking at it with your family.

This is the nursery team. We will all work together to have lots of fun and help

you learn.

Mrs Stebbing Mrs Davidson Mrs Humphries

Mrs Hart Mrs Chorlton Mrs White

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Mrs Ekford Mrs Wheelen

This is Mrs Ekford and Mrs Wheelen. They will help you at lunch time to eat your lunch and follow our rules. They are very kind and lots of fun

to be with. They will look after you between 11:30am until 12:30pm

while you eat and then have stories, play circle games or even watch a little program such as Numberblocks on the interactive whiteboard until

the afternoon session begins.

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Leaving Mummy or Daddy or Carers can feel a bit worrying to begin

with…..but we will help you and it won’t take long before you feel happy to come into nursery and play by yourself.

So what happens in nursery?

First, you will put your lunch box on the side with all the other lunchboxes. You

will need to bring a drink in your lunch box. You will also need to bring a water bottle to keep at our water station in case you get thirsty during the session.

Please don’t forget to put your name on your lunchbox and water bottle.

You will have your own peg with your photograph on which we will take on

your first day of nursery. On the peg you will put your coat and a bag with spare clothes if you would like to bring some. Don’t forget to put your name on

your coat! You can then go and have a play in the inside area.

Next, you need to take your apple off the apple tree and take it to the other

tree. This is a really good way to start to recognise our own names.

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We then play for about 15 minutes until everyone has arrived. A grown up then

shakes a tambourine to give everyone a 2 minute warning before “carpet time.”

This is a really good time to try to go to the toilet and tidy away the toys that have been played with.

We then go and sit on the carpet in our groups. We remember our nursery rules

of good sitting with our legs crossed, good listening, good looking, lips closed

and putting our hands up to talk. (We put our hands up and take turns to speak otherwise we can’t hear each other if we all talk at once!)

We have Register time.

We will say “Good Morning” and you can say “Good Morning” or later in the day, “Good Afternoon”. We will take the register and talk about the day ahead

and what will happen. We will share our news together. In nursery we have wow moments that can be filled out by your grown-ups when you do something

fantastic- eg getting dressed by yourself/ sharing toys/ riding your bike for the

first time etc. We love sharing these with our friends.

We then have choosing time, where you can play inside or outside. The door to the garden is open and there is a grown up outside and a grown up inside. The

grown-ups will come and play with you and may ask you to come and join their

activities.

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Some activities we do several times a week include-

Dough disco where we build our hand strength and hand eye coordination. We put on our favourite song and sing along while we are doing it.

Dough Disco

PE indoor and outdoor

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During our free flow time you are welcome to help yourself to a piece of fruit at

the fruit table.

Some of the outside activities may include going on a shape hunt, throwing

bean bags into hoops, helping the fairies in the Fairyland, playing on the bikes or enjoying the trim-trail.

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There are always lots of things to play with in the inside area. These include the

water area, sand area, playdough, small world and creative area.

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Sometimes a grown up may be doing a fun activity and they will help you learn. Below children are making dragons using counting blocks and we are making

up a story by drawing it.

Later in the session we will put the tidy up music on, have a super tidy and then

it will be time for story and carpet session.

During the carpet session there will be a story, some of our favourite books

include ‘SuperTato’, ‘The Naughty Bus’ and ‘Nobot the Robot with No Bottom!’ We will also make our stories using objects which have been taken out of a bag.

As the year progresses we will do more numeracy and phonic activities.

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These are our toilets. We will need to wash our hands at the start of the

day, when we have been outside, after going to the toilet and before we

have lunch.

After story time in both the morning and afternoon sessions the children

will sit at the table and have either a cup of milk or water. This is a lovely social time, a chance to chat with their friends and

develop new friendships. Drinking lots is very important to help our

bodies grow.

We copy the timetable of the morning session again in the afternoon with register and carpet time, free flow play and learning time, tidy time and story

time.

When it is home time an adult will open the nursery gate and grown-ups

will come and collect you. You will be sat on the carpet and you have to listen for your name, when it is called you can come and meet your

grown-up.

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Mrs Calvert, Mrs Stone and Mrs Goss work in the school office by the main entrance to the school. Your grown-ups will need to go and see them to return

forms and to let them know of any changes in medical information or contact

details.

Mrs Calvert Mrs Stone Mrs Goss

Mrs Dobson is the Head Teacher!

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Here are our rules in school;

We have kind hands and kind feet – we do not hurt anyone.

We say kind words.

We share our toys and take care of them.

We use our quiet voices inside.

We take turns to speak. Put your hand up to ask a question or answer a question.

We walk in school.

We have good manners – we say please and thank you.

We tidy up in our classroom when the tidy up music comes on.

Over the Summer, before you start school, would you like to

make a picture collage of pictures of you and your family and

your favourite things – your pet if you have one, your favourite

colour, animal, food, game, tv programme…..?

We will be able to be together soon! I hope you have enjoyed this book.

Love from

The Nursery Team

Note down any questions you or your child may have while reading this booklet

so you don’t forget them when you come for your stay and play session!

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