Welcome to Chestnuts!
Pre-school is run by Mrs Trigg. Mrs Trigg is in Pre-school every day and will be joined by Mrs Smith on a Monday morning to assist.
We have our main forest school session on a Wednesday afternoon where we join up with Willow class. During the rest of the week we aim to spend sometime in Forest School for outdoor learning, for those who don't attend our main Forest School session.
The children will be having a PE session on a Monday afternoon with Progressive Sports.
We use the online journal Tapestry to take observations of the children’s development and share them with you and we also use the schools Instagram account for sharing photographs of our learning.
A typical day looks like this:
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8.30 - 10.15 |
10.15 -11.45 |
11.45 - 12 |
12 - 1 |
1 - 2.45 |
2.45 - 3.00 |
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Arrive, register, Child initiated play (CIP) and Maths activities |
Tidy up and snack time, Phonics activities and CIP in playground or EYFS area |
Story, singing and tidy up ready for lunch |
Lunchtime in hall, CIP in Chestnuts room and EYFS outside area |
Forest school (Wednesdays with Willow Class). CIP and tidy up time. |
Story time, singing and getting ready for home. |
Our Curriculum
In Chestnuts we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage. Our curriculum is organised thematically, using a book or traditional story as our inspiration. We plan activities linked to the book as well as planning to follow children's interests. A theme usually lasts a term, with a focus book lasting a fortnight which allows children enough time to become familiar with a text (especially if they are part time attenders).
Our themes for the Spring Term are:
Spring term 1 - Hairy Maclary ...
- Hairy Maclary from Donaldson Dairy
- Hairy Maclary Bone
- Hairy Maclary Slinky Malinki
Spring term 2 - Hairy Maclary .....
- Hairy Maclary Caterwaul Caper
- Hairy Maclary Rumpus at the vets
- Hairy Maclary showbusiness
If you have any of these stories at home, feel free to read them with your child during the weeks that we are focusing on them.
We will also be focusing on a different nursery rhyme each fortnight, to build up the children's repertoire during their time in Chestnuts.
Spring Term 1
- Hickory, Dickory Dock
- Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
- Five Speckled Frogs
- One finger, one thumb keep moving
- Ten Fat Sausages
- One, two buckle my shoe
- Hey Diddle Diddle
- Here we go round the mulberry bush