Saplings Nursery Reception
Early Years Childcare at The Willows
We are pleased to offer flexible early years childcare arrangements across our nursery classes with options for mornings, afternoons, early week or late week sessions. Early week sessions run from Monday morning to Wednesday lunch and late week sessions run from Wednesday lunch to Friday afternoon.
Sessions are £18 (from Sep 25) Lunch time care is charged at £5 per day for children who stay for a full day (from Sep 25). Parents are required to provide a packed lunch. The same charges apply for any sessions that parents request which are over and above their funded hours given by the Government.
Sessions are chargeable even if a child does not attend; including for sickness and any other circumstantial absence including term time holidays.
All payments (sessions and/or lunch clubs) must be made in advance of the child attending the sessions (on the Sunday before the start of the week). If payments are not made in advance, the child’s place will be cancelled.
If we have vacancies available, bookings can be made via the school office and are set for a term at a time. If we do not currently have vacancies, you can complete an application form and we will keep this on file in case a vacancy becomes available.
EYFS Curriculum and Assessment Policy
Nursery Admissions Policy
Every year, we take part in the Rhyme Challenge, a fun and interactive way to improve speech and language in our youngest children.
Rhythm and rhyme are two of the fundamental building blocks of phonological awareness. In order to support the learning of these skills we are aiming to learn a new nursery rhyme every week. Each week the nursery rhyme will be embedded into our play and learning in the classroom. The children enjoy singing and reciting the rhymes and will build up their knowledge of a range of nursery rhymes over time.
Why we take part in the Rhyme Challenge?
- The Rhyme Challenge provides a fun, informal learning opportunity for all the family.
- The Rhyme Challenge helps your child develop early language skills and supports communication more widely with peers and adults.
- The Rhyme Challenge improves your child's phonological awareness.
- The Rhyme Challenge give us an opportunity to make stronger links between home and school
How you can help at home
On this page of the website we will share a downloadable copy of each rhyme and some links to where it can be viewed online.
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