Wheldon Infant School & Nursery

Early Years

 

Welcome to the Early Years section of our school website!

Here you will find out lots of information about our Nursery and Reception classes, we hope you find it useful! 

Nursery

Here are some photos of our current nursery children learning through play...

Science Week 2024 - Nursery

Nursery and reception explored this year's theme of Time and learnt all about something which happened a long, long time ago... Dinosaurs!  

Reception

Here are some photos of our current reception children learning through play...

Science Week 2024 - Reception

Nursery and reception explored this year's theme of Time and learnt all about something which happened a long, long time ago... Dinosaurs!  

Exciting news!

March 2024 - Our Reception outdoor are is getting a makeover! Keep watching here for the updates! 

Spring 2024 Collaborative Art 

The children in nursery and reception worked together to make some amazing artwork. 

 

Learning Journey

In Nursery and Reception we use Tapestry, this is an online learning journal. Parents are able to link to their child's online journal and when their teacher records a "WOW moment" in school they can see this at home. Parents are also able to send observations from home of things they want to show their child's teacher. 

Please see the "documents" section at the bottom of this page for our Parent's Guide to Tapestry. 

Curriculum

Throughout Early Years we use Development Matters to support our  Early Years Curriculum. Our curriculum has been developed to meet the needs of our children using the documents above.This includes the Educational Programmes in the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework 2021.

Marvellous Me

We use Marvellous Me to send out electronic badges for when children impress the adults in their class. This might be for working hard on an activity, for being a good friend, for improving on something they find tricky, for being polite and lots of other things! 

We also use Marvellous Me to send messages and reminders for example if there is a dress up day, if we have a trip or special visitor or to send an activity for children to try at home. 

Parents can sign up to Marvellous Me so they don't miss out on messages, activities and celebrations of their child's learning. 

Please see the "documents" section at the bottom of this page for our Parent's Guide to Marvellous Me.

Documents

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 marvellous-me-parent-information.pdfDownload
 tapestry---parents-guide.pdfDownload
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Information for Parents regarding using dummies 

Please see below some facts from the NHS about dummies. There is also a short video from Children's Speech & Language Specialist for your information. 

Top Tips for Speech and Language Development in Under 5s: Tip 4 - YouTube

Early Years Policy

Welcome to Reception Parent Booklet

Welcome to Nursery Parent Booklet