The Early Years unit at Fishergate offers part-time Nursery places in morning and afternoon sessions throughout the week and full-time places for all of the children starting in the school year that they are five. We provide a happy, caring, lively and exciting learning environment. Our aim is to provide a setting where, with careful nurturing, each child will learn to express themselves confidently and develop to their full potential.
The Early Years Team
Miss Dibden is the Early Years Phase Leader, and our teacher in the EYU. She is superbly supported by an amazing team of teaching assistants including Mrs Adkinson, Miss Edwards, Mrs Ensor, Mrs Fisher and Miss Murray.
The Start of the Day
The Early Years Unit opens its doors to full-time Reception children and part-timers who attend in the morning at 8:40. Please make sure that your child is present by 8:45 so that we can get on with all our exciting learning!
Early Years (part-timers)
There are two sessions for part-time children. The morning sessions will run from 8:40am-11:40am and the afternoon session runs from 12:15pm-3:15pm.
Early Years (full-time children)
Parents and carers of full time Reception children can bring their child to the Early Years classroom between 8:40am and 8:45am. The children normally go for their lunch at 11:45 and after lunch they can play with their friends on the playground until the afternoon session which starts at 12:45pm and finishes at 3:15pm. At the end of the day we generally open the doors a little early to facilitate parents and carers collecting their children in a calm, orderly way.
Learning at home…
There are a number of ways you can help your child to learn at home:
- Talk to your child about what they have been learning in school.
- Read daily with your child (Just five minutes a day can make a great difference!)
- Use the weekly learning information to support your child’s learning further at home.
- Play games with your children.
- When you are out and about, notice numbers, street signs and other interests around the environment. Use them to make learning purposeful and real!
Remember to share any learning or exciting activities that you have been doing at home with school! Please bring in any observations, photographs or work to stick into your child’s Learning Journey! Please put these named celebrations into the clear ‘Learning at Home’ Box in the main classroom and a member of staff will stick them into your child’s Learning Journey.
Useful Websites
www.topmarks.co.uk – This site has lots of fun and interactive maths games.
www.phonicsplay.co.uk – This has lots of useful information about phonics for parents and carers, as well as interactive games for the children to play. Buried Treasure has proved to be a popular game, which lets the children practise reading sounds they have learnt in their lesson.
www.discoveryeducation.co.uk – We use this site a lot in Early Years. It has lots of maths and phonics videos and games. Please speak to a member of staff for the login details.
Thank you!
The EYU Team
