Welcome to Albury Early Years
Albury Early Years consists of Pre-School, Nursery and Reception age children. Your child can join us in the Pre-School the term after they turn 2.
Albury Primary and Nursery school offers every child small class sizes and big opportunities. We have access to the use of wooden play equipment, a field and playground. The Pre-School, Nursery and Reception children also benefit from a recently refurbished secure garden area with spaces for play, digging, construction, story-telling and gardening. We also offer the Pre-School, Nursery and Reception children regular wellie walks in the local area.
Children in Pre-School, Nursery and Reception are given a variety of learning opportunities every day which range from daily phonics sessions, maths, literacy, RE and topic learning. We also have our own 'Toddler group' which runs every Tuesday morning from 9am- 10:15am where we welcome parents and children for activities including messy play, craft, singing and story-time. For more information on Albury Toddler group please visit Albury Toddler Group (Parents menu tab)
Pre-School and Nursery hours can be flexible dependent on parents needs and work situations. We offer 15 or 30 hours free childcare for 3 and 4 year olds and this can be taken as needed. We can also offer paid for extra sessions if your child doesn’t qualify for the 30 hours free childcare
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Meet the Team
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Ms EmeryClass Teacher
Ms Emery
Ms Emery teaches the Early Years at Albury. She is also Science lead teacher across both schools.
Ms Emery has 2 young children who take up most of her spare time when she isn't teaching!
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Mrs ColeTeaching Assistant
Mrs Cole
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Miss YoungTeaching Assistant
Miss Young
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Miss ButterfieldTeaching Assistant
Miss Butterfield
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Mrs GoddardClass Teacher
Mrs Goddard
New Parent Information- September 2022
New Parents Powerpoint 2022-2023
Early Years Curriculum
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PSED
PSED
We are using 1decision Early Years resources to meet the needs of Personal Social & Emotional Development in early years. The children will meet Blue Dilemma drops, Green Dilemma drops, Pink Dilemma drops, Purple Dilemma drops, Red Dilemma drops and Yellow Dilemma drops. Each of the Rainbow Drops face a range of dilemmas like feeling scared, learning to share, worry and adjusting to change, road safety, making friends, etc. Children will be involved in group discussions to share their ideas on how to help the Rainbow Drops. These group discussions will help children understand and develop their Personal, Social and Emotional needs.
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Communication and Language
Communication and Language
We have regular communication and language sessions including show and tell, circle time, rhyming games and role-play. We model good communication and language skills regularly through adult - child interactions.
We assess the children using the NELI tracker and support children to make good progress where needed.
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Physical Development
Physical Development
We have weekly PE and yoga sessions. We also go on regular wellie walks in the local area.
We provide the children with many fine and gross motor skills activities and work on pencil control and scissor skills.
The children are encouraged to be as independent as possible when changing clothing and shoes as well as putting their coats on themselves.
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RE
RE
Our RE topic for this summer term is Salvation. Children will be looking at what the Bible says about the last days of Jesus' ministry on Earth, from Palm Sunday to Jesus' resurrection. They will be learning about the importance of the cross and why do Christians put a cross in an Easter garden. We will be studying Easter symbols and customs connected to Jesus' death and resurrection that lie at the heart of the Christian Easter celebration.
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Literacy
Literacy
The reception children follow a programme called Read Write Inc. Children will learn the first 40+ sounds and start to blend these sounds into words. They will then to move on to learn to read the same sounds but with alternative graphemes, eg play, rain.
In the summer term Nursery children will start learning about initial sounds following the Read Write Inc scheme of work. They will also be engaged in activities to develop their understanding of rhythm and rhymes, alliteration, identifying and distinguishing different sounds; environmental sounds, instrumental sounds and voice sounds.
We also have focus books in Literacy linked to our current topic- Traditional Tales.
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Maths
Maths
In Nursery and Pre School, we develop children's understanding of number, shapes and measures by exploring through play and focussed activities like, measurement and counting in cooking, shapes and patterns in art, numbers and signs all around us, etc. Children are introduced to the concepts of mathematics through their experiences with concrete objects and pictorial representations.
This half term Reception children are learning about Shape and Space, Patterns, adding by counting on.
Shape and Space
This unit introduces positional language and the names and some of the key properties of common 2D and 3D shapes. These are important building blocks for the concepts of shape and space children will meet later in KS1 and KS2. Spatial awareness supports all aspects of maths and familiarity with shape builds confidence prior to using the mathematical properties and language met in KS1.
Exploring Patterns
This unit focuses on looking at patterns. Understanding pattern is one of the main foundations of all mathematics learning. When children are investigating patterns and their representations, they are forming valuable understanding that will enable them to make links in more complex mathematical concepts, such as the understanding of how numbers work and algebra.
Adding by counting on
This unit focuses on counting forwards from a given number in order to add. Counting on is far more efficient than some of the other methods of addition , therefore children need to become familiar and confident with this strategy.
April Maths Calendar - (reproduced with kind permission from https://alittlebutalot.com/)
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Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Knowledge and Understanding of the World relates to children's everyday lives, their homes, families, other people, the local environment and community, and the wider world. There are three main areas in this area of learning -
- Places and people (Geography)
- Time and people (History)
- Myself and other living and non-living things (Science)
Through different types of play, active, and experiential learning opportunities as well as practical activities, children will be provided with meaningful experiences. These will stimulate their senses as well as encourage them to ask questions, explore and wonder at their environment. They will undertake investigations that engage their interests, and develop awareness of the beliefs and views of others.Our current topic is Traditional Tales.
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Expressive Art and Design
Expressive Art and Design
- Exploring and using media and materials - children will sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of changing them. They safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
- Being imaginative - children will use what they have learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes. They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through the range of opportunities. provided, both during adult led and child initiated sessions.
Important Information- Planning and timetables - Autumn 2023
Medium Term Planning - All about me (Autumn 2023)
NELI
We are delighted to be able to offer the NELI programme at Albury Primary School.
As part of this DfE funded programme schools have been provided access to a tablet-based assessment called LanguageScreen.
LanguageScreen is a short (approx. 10 minutes) fun activity for children which gives useful information about children’s language skills. This assessment is used at the beginning to help schools decide who may benefit most from receiving the NELI intervention and again at the end of the school year to see how children’s language skills have benefited from the programme.
What we are learning this half term - Summer 2023
Our topic in Early Years for this half term is 'Splash'! This exciting and engaging theme gives children the opportunity to explore 'The Natural World' with a scientific and geographical focus using key texts based around water such as 'Snail and The Whale' 'Rainbow Fish and 'Shark in the Park'.
Home learning expectations
Homework
Reading
Reception children will be sent home with a library book of their choice at the beginning of the week. We ask that this is returned on a Friday, and they will have a new book the following week. They will also be sent with a reading book from the Read Write Inc scheme. This book will focus on the sounds learnt during phonics lessons and will give children an opportunity to consolidate their learning at home. This book will be changed weekly. As well as reading this book daily with your child we also ask that they are sharing a wide range of other stories to help develop their love of reading.
Please sign up to the Oxford Owl website which offers free books and activities https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Maths
Please try some of the daily challenges on the monthly Maths calendar. This will be uploaded onto the 'Maths' page of the website.
Please also support your child to try some of the School Jam activities on the app. These are linked to our current learning and follow the same scheme of work.
Children also have access to Mini Mash which contains games and activities. Please use your school login (contact us if you have issues accessing this) https://www.purplemash.com/sch/albury