*We offer a 39 place Nursery class of 15 hours each week.

*Our Nursery is open 8:40-3:15 on Monday and Tuesday and then 8:40-11:45 on Wednesday.

*Nursery children stay for lunch on their full days and can have a school lunch or bring their own packed lunch.

*Nursery is part of our main school building and is very much part of our wider school.

*Nursery children access all areas of our Early Years Curriculum, which fully prepares them for the next steps in their learning journey at Westerhope.

The Nursery Day

The Nursery classroom is a lovely, large and open plan space.  The children access a range of indoor and outdoor learning experiences across each day.

Our indoor areas include...

The Nursery children are organised into key groups and are allocated a key worker within the first few weeks of their time at Nursery.  The children will enjoy small group times and special experiences with their key workers, but, will have opportunities to work with all of the children and other adults across the day.

Within the Nursery day the children will have opportunities to;

*take part in whole class and small group learning sessions,

*play with friends and adults both indoors and outdoors,

*access adult led learning activities,

*share snack times and lunch times together,

*enjoy stories, rhymes, singing, dancing and talking with adults and friends.