Welcome to Nursery with Miss Robinson, Mrs Wisinger, Mrs Williams and Mrs Jones 2025 - 2026

In the Early Years at Highfield, we use Tapestry to keep parents up to date with how and what the children are learning. You may also use this to communicate with us and we will always try to answer your queries as soon as we can.

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We LOVE seeing what the children have learned at home! Please feel welcome to upload your photos and observations about what the children are doing. If you would like to do this, we have added a guide to the files below named 'How-to guide for creating observations' which tells you step-by-step what to include in your observations.

Reading in Nursery

Your child will come home with two books. One will be a library book and the other a scheme book. The scheme books have no words. They are for you and your child to talk about the illustrations. What are the pictures describing? Make up a story by looking at them. This helps your child to decipher what they can see, the start of early reading skills. Write in your child's reading record every time you read, we ask for five times a week. You can add comments and share information with us about what they have liked or something they have said. Your child's book changing day will be either Monday or Thursday. It will be written into the front of their reading record. Your books do not have to be returned until your child's changing day. However, we do ask that you bring in a named bag, each day, to put in any pictures they may have drawn.

Points to note

Swimming lessons- We have swimming lessons on Friday morrnings until the end of the summer term. Sessions will swap to Tuesday mornings in September. Please dress your child in jogging pants and either a school polo shirt or a PE top, and school jumper. You may wish to send them in our school PE tracksuit which you can purchase from Uniformity in Handbridge. Please can you send you child in shoes they can try to put on themselves. Please no shoes with laces, unless your child can tie them.

Forest School- Nursery will be having Forest School on Tuesday mornings until the end of the summer term. Children DO NOT need to wear school uniform. They should come dressed in comfortable layers that covers arms and legs and bring in wellies and waterproof trousers and jacket, or an all in one. Bring in two named waterproof bags, one for dirty footwear and the other for clothes. Remember to bring a pair of shoes to change into for the afternoon session, if they stay all day.

Extra websites you might like to try are:-

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=37

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/numberblocks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cosmic+yoga

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-songs-index/zhwdgwx

Offline

Tapestry have provided recommended activities you can do with your children which you can find in the 'Files to Download' section below.

http://www.tts-group.co.uk/on/demandware.static/-/Library-Sites-TTSSharedLibrary/default/vaea75f5663a038b8658d258fd198e57ce70b35d6/images/homepage/Early_Years_Home_Learning_Collection.pdf?version=1,584,037,589,000