Welcome to Alveley Primary School

Welcome to 'Little Squirrels ' Nursery page!

In EYFS at Alveley we aspire to help each child to enjoy school, be enthused and motivated and  be prepared and ready for the next stage of their learning journey into KS1.We encourage independence and responsibility in our learners through the clear structures and routines in place in Nursery and Reception and develop good learning behaviours that prepare the children well for learning in KS1 and beyond. We aim to teach and provide learning and real life experiences which ensure that all our children at Alveley start their life at school by benefitting from a full range of academic, spiritual, moral, social and cultural activities.

Our Autumn Term 2024 Learning

Nursery have had a brilliant start to the new school year. Lots of new faces have joined and the group have all settled in well, making lots of new friends. Our topic for this half term has been ‘all about me.’ As part of this children have been thinking about themselves, their families and their friends. They have also been learning about feelings and how their feelings can change. One of the focus stories this half term has been Owl Babies. The children talked about how the baby owls felt at different part of the story. Miss Ordidge paid Nursery a visit with her baby daughter and talked to the children about how to look after and care for a baby. Children were keen to share stories about when they were younger. Nursery have also been learning about ‘people who help us.’ This has been an exciting topic with children having opportunities to meet some of these people. The local first responders team and a local vet visited the group to discuss their job role. Children have also learnt the names of many other people who help us and now know what they can do to help others.

Our Summer Term 2024 Learning

Early Years have enjoyed our Summer Topic 'Beside the Sea' this half term. We have looked at lots of different photographs of beaches and made comparisons between the beach in the past and how it is now, this included peoples clothing, accessories, and weather.
We have read lots of lovely seaside stories such as The Snail and The Whale and The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch and have used the stories to write about in our literacy, we even had a go at writing our first poem!
Everyone enjoyed our Seaside afternoon, we had a great seaside picnic and a fantastic water fight in the court yard despite the weather not quite being summer!

Our Spring Term 2024 Learning

This half term in EYFS we have explored the theme of” farms”. We have enjoyed looking at wheat and reading The Little Red Hen, making our own farms using small world toys, and looking at different types of farms around the world in our Understanding the World sessions. We discovered there are cucumber farms and rice farms! We turned our role play area into a farmhouse and farm shop and enjoyed pretending to buy farm produce.

 To finish our topic, we had a special trip to the local shop to buy some foods which are produced by farms or from farm products-milk, butter, eggs, bread and vegetables. We wrote a shopping list to take with us and all went around the shop together to find everything on our list. We paid at the till, waited for our receipt and then the very kind shopkeeper gave us some sweets to share as we had been so good doing our shopping! When we went back to school, we made toast with the bread and had a glass of milk with it.

Our Autumn Term 2023 Learning

This half term we have enjoyed our topic of Traditional Tales. We have explored stories including The little red Hen, The Gingerbread man and Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. We have made our own bread like the Little Red Hen and baked gingerbread men to eat too. We had a wonderful trip to the Chapel tearooms where we met Grandma from Little red riding Hood! She read us a lovely story and we had some squash and cakes before we went back to school. On the way we, looked out for the Big Bad Wolf hiding in the bushes! When we read the story of Goldilocks we decided to make our own porridge to taste, and design our own toppings for Baby Bears porridge.In literacy we wrote sorry letters from Goldilocks to the 3 Bears and our own recipes for gingerbread men. Towards Christmas we started practising our Nativity and learnt new songs and all enjoyed dressing up to perform for our families and friends at the church.