Settling In…
Welcome to Nursery School. It is such a privilege to get to get to know your brilliant and inspiring children. Children have been working hard to manage feelings about parting with families as we explore new spaces and learn new routines. Relationships with key people are crucial to this transition and settling in. Thank you for inviting us into your homes so that we can start getting to know you and find out about your family. This helps us to connect with your children at nursery and to build trusting relationships.
Some of our staff are settling in too; we welcome Imogen as Early Careers Teacher in Room 1, and we welcome back Hannah as she returns to St Pauls after her maternity leave.
Your amazing children have been exploring, making connections, imagining and problem solving. They are showing us what fascinates them and using these fascinations to help them settle into their new nursery home
Sensory Exploration
We have been using our senses to explore our world and help us to feel calm: water, paint, playdough, cornflour. All this wallowing has supported our emotional regulation and is developing absorption as we get into a state of FLOW.
Role Play
Your children have been keeping home and family in mind by recreating roles and playing with what they know in the home corner. There has been cooking, being a family, nurturing and being babies.
Story
We have been using story to support settling and transitions. Owl Babies has been teaching us that our families come back for us, that we may experience lots of different emotions and that we can develop resilience. Dear Zoo, has been teaching us language and vocabulary through repetition and recognition of familiar animals. This helps children to attend and listen to story while in key groups and capitalising on this learning throughout the day.
Autumn
We have capitalised on the apples in our nursery garden by using them to create mandalas. We sliced, and pushed to create shapes in them, then arranged them to make patterns.
Loving Our Nursery Home
We have been learning to be responsible at nursery and look after our new resources and our environment. We are demonstrating how to ‘tidy as we go’ and collaborate as we tidy together at Tidy Up Time.
