Butterflies
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My name is Mrs Willits and I would like to welcome you to our Butterflies Nursery. Together, with Mrs Brandon and Miss Murphy, I will be helping our Butterflies play, learn and have fun.
We want every child to feel happy, secure and valued from the moment they join us. Our aim is to help each child develop confidence, independence and a lifelong love of learning from the very beginning. Through play-based learning, creative activities and exciting experiences, children have plenty of opportunities to follow their interests, make friends and develop new skills.
Please check Class Dojo regularly to see what we are up to each week and to keep up to date with notices.
Phonics - We follow the Essential Letters and sounds (ELS) phonics programme. This is a DfE validated scheme that helps children learn sounds, blend words for reading and segment words for writing in a structured and engaging way.
In our daily phonics sessions we will develop the children's understanding of vocabulary and language. We will develop their listening and communication skills and their awareness of the sounds both within our environment and within our language.
Maths - We believe that maths is all around us! Children develop their early mathematical skills through fun, playful and hands-on experiences every day.
We encourage children to explore numbers, shapes, patterns, sizes, quantities and measurements through activities that are meaningful to them.
We have a lovely indoor space with lots of open ended resources to enable the children to become independent and develop their imagination. These areas are enhanced in different ways throughout the year and with different resources, depending on the children's interests, current learning, topics and themes.
We are very lucky to have the most wonderful outdoor play area, with bikes to ride, a lovely climbing frame, musical instruments, a large sandpit and lots of construction blocks.
