Welcome to Nursery

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Starting Reception Document

Welcome to Reception 2025

Welcome back to those children continuing their Nursery journey and welcome to the children who are just beginning theirs! We hope you have had an enjoyable Christmas holiday.

During the spring term the children who are re-joining us will be encouraged to build upon their achievements from their last term in Nursery whilst settling back into their Nursery routine. All children will have lots of opportunity to develop their critical thinking skills and actively learn through play and exploration.

Our Nursery sessions run each morning from 8:45am-11:45am and each afternoon session from 12:30pm-3:30pm. We operate an open-door policy, so please do not hesitate to speak to a member of the Nursery team if you have any questions or messages.

The children will extend their learning though a mix of adult led and child-initiated sessions indoors and outdoors. The theme for the beginning of our term is ‘Let’s Play’ where we will be learning all about the importance of sharing and looking after our toys before moving onto different types of toys such as construction toys, toys that move and games.

After our half term break we will then move on to our next theme, ‘Jurassic Park!’. It will be very exciting to learn all about big and small dinosaurs, what happened to them, and we might even discover some fossils too!

We also have lots to celebrate this term and will be learning all about Chinese New Year, Mother’s Day, Red Nose Day and of course Easter.

As part of each school day is spent outdoors, we would appreciate it if your child brings a suitable coat every day to wear for outdoor activities (wellingtons for wet weather).

Please remember that our ‘Wild Tribe; Forest Fridays’ will continue every week so please ensure the children are dressed appropriately every Friday.

PE uniform should also be worn on our PE days

Morning Nursery – Thursday

Afternoon Nursery - Tuesday

If you do have any queries or concerns regarding your child, please do not hesitate in contacting us. We are looking forward to getting to know you all. It is going to be a fun-filled term of learning with you and your child.

Nursery Staff

Mrs A Sadler

Nursery Lead

Mrs L Harding

Mrs M Williams

Key Workers

Mrs A Biney

The workshop was very interactive and informative. This communication between parents and school shows why Elston Hall Early years is rated Outstanding. I think all parents will change the way they interact with their child or at least take something away from the workshop which will benefit them. I pulled out all the bedtime stories tonight! I don't know how the staff found the time to organise it all! Well done! Absolutely fantastic team. We all had such a wonderful time. Ibrahim's parent Nov 2025

The staff are really good,

experienced and

welcoming!

Kriday's parent

Parent Feedback

I loved seeing how my child learns in Nursery

Skye's parent

NurseryCO

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Early Years have had SO much fun celebrating World Nursery Rhyme Week! We joined together as a Trust to sing our favourite nursery rhymes to each other via TEAMs — it was wonderful to see everyone joining in with such enthusiasm. The children looked absolutely fantastic in their costumes and loved every moment of their special day! Even the teachers got involved, dressing up as their favourite nursery rhyme characters.

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