Welcome to Nursery
Look what we’ve been up to in Nursery
At Southwick Community Primary School, we understand the importance of providing children and families with a secure learning environment emphasised by our professional, approachable and friendly staff.
Our Nursery staff for 2025-2026 are:
Mrs Pattison (Nursery Teacher)
Miss Haley (Teaching Assistant )
Miss McNamara (Teaching Assistant)
Autumn Term 2 2025
What colours can you see?
This half term we will be learning all about the different colours in our world. We will do this by exploring Bonfire night, Remembrance, Nursery Rhyme week and Elmer the Elephant, finding lots of ways to identify, describe and make colour.
Christmas will then be our big finale to the year, learning all about Jesus and The Nativity, as well as having a Christmas show visit us in school, a parent work shop where an adult can come and work with us, a Christmas party and lots lots more.
Dates for your Diary
Monday 8th December
Clumsiest Christmas Elf Show
Morning children in at normal time.
Afternoon children 9.30 – 10.25 (main entrance of school)
Wednesday 10th December
Christmas Jumper Day
Thursday 11th December
Parent (Elf) Workshop
AM parents — 9.45—11.15
PM parents —1.30—3.00
Monday 15th December
Christmas Party Day
Thursday 18th November
Pyjamas & Movie Day
Friday 19th December
Last day of term
Tuesday 6th January
Nursery Returns
Our School Day
Morning Session (Penguins): 8:45am – 11:45am
Afternoon Session (Polar Bears): 12:30pm – 3:30pm
Full Day Session: 8:45am – 3:30pm
The nursery is split into various learning areas including; sand, water construction, writing, reading, math, role play, art, creative, playdough, small world, fine motor, music and sensory. These areas are called ‘continuous provision’.
Our learning environment and activities stimulate and challenge the individual needs of all of the children.
Your child will have the opportunity to work in these areas every day where they will be able to use a wide range of resources to develop skills, knowledge and understanding in all areas of the curriculum.
Throughout the year there will be whole class teaching times, small group times, and individual work for children in our setting. There will be a balance of adult initiated activities and child initiated activities. We aim to foster a sense of independence and will provide developmentally appropriate activities for children.
The children have access to the outdoor learning environment throughout the school day.
Nursery PE
Nursery children take part in PE every week, however, they do not need a PE kit.
Children will remove their jumpers/cardigans, shoes and socks before their PE session.
For safety reasons no ear rings to be worn at all on a PE day.
Penguins – Monday
Polar Bears – Tuesday
Things to Remember
Children to bring a water bottle to school every day (no juice or milk please).
Ensure that everything, including coats, water bottles and shoes, have name labels on them.
Send children with weather appropriate clothing. Always send your child in with a coat for our very unpredictable weather!
In the summer, sunscreen and a hat are essential! Please apply sunscreen at home and if needed we can reapply from a bottle with your child’s name on it.
Reading books will be changes on a Friday, please ensure children’s books are in Nursery with them so they can be changed.
Ongoing Assessment
Your child’s progress and achievements in all areas of the curriculum will be observed and assessed. Staff will focus on strengths and areas for development that children may encounter, to enable them to make progress toward the next stage of learning.
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
Our curriculum covers the seven areas of learning stated in the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework. These are:
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Physical Development
- Communication and Language
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts and Design
At Southwick we recognise that learning through play is a natural process for young children and aim to build upon their natural curiosity. We want to ensure that learning is rewarding and enjoyable whilst recognising that children learn best when their interests are followed.
