Easby Nursery

Welcome to Easby Nursery

2024-2025

Our Curriculum

We use Development Matters to support learning in Nursery.  Your child will be learning skills, acquiring new knowledge, and demonstrating their understanding through 7 areas of learning and development. Our first priority for children in Nursery are the three prime areas.

These are:

Communication and language

Physical Development

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

 These prime areas are most essential for your child’s healthy development and are the building blocks of all future learning. As your child grows, the prime areas will help them to develop skills in the four specific areas.

These are:

Literacy

Mathematics

Understanding the world

Expressive arts and design

Children in EYFS learn by playing and exploring, being active, and through creative and critical thinking which takes place both indoors and outside. The 7 areas of learning as set out by Development Matters are used to plan your child’s learning in school. You can find more information about this on our long-term plan below:

Important information

Clothing/belongings

Please make sure that your child’s belongings are clearly marked with their name so that they can be easily recognised. 

Snack time/Water bottles

The snack table is available to children throughout the day. They can enjoy fresh fruit, water, and milk.   Children are encouraged to have a drink from their own water bottle – please ensure that this is sent in daily and has your child's name on it.

Physical Development

Physical development is part of our daily routine, however, we do have an allocated time slot in which the children participate in an additional physical educational activity. This takes place every Monday and Friday Please ensure your child comes to school dressed in their PE kit and has the correct coloured top on for their house team. 

Autumn Term Immersion Week

Spring Adventures in Learning

Autumn 2023 - Adventures in Learning

Who am I and Where do I come from?

Easby Nativity 2023

We had a wonderful immersion week in Nursery as we began our new topic, Amazing Animals! We had a visit from the mobile zoo where we were able to meet and stroke a rabbit, tortoise, guinea pig, skinny pig, and snake. The children learnt how to take care of the animals by asking lots of questions to their carer!

Following our zoo visit, we voted for our favourite animal and made a pictogram to find the most popular one. We loved the rabbit the most because if its soft and shiny black fur. On Wednesday we learnt more about how to care for rabbits! We now know that they need food, water, a safe home, love and care to keep them happy and healthy.

We have also been investigating how the eggs in frogspawn turn into frogs! We have loved watching how they first turn into tadpoles, before growing their legs, losing their tails and eventually climbing onto the log.

As part of our computing learning, we learnt how to stay safe on the iPad when searching pictures of our favourite animals. The children know that they must only search things with a grown up, always check with a grown up before clicking on something, and always tell a grown up if something has made them feel upset. Once we had found our favourite animals, we used the interactive whiteboard to draw pictures of them! We carefully chose the colours for our animals and added details using the whiteboard pen.

As we explore this topic more we will be using clay to make sculptures of animals inspired by Jeff Koons! We will also be focusing on the story Dear Zoo. Keep an eye out for our wonderful work!