Welcome to Nursery's Class Page.

We provide full day child care for 2 - 4 year olds 7.30 a.m. - 5.30 p.m. Monday - Friday during term time. We offer 15 or 30 funded hours depending on eligibility with the option to top-up sessions at £4.95 an hour. Children can start with us the term after they turn 2 years old. 

Mrs Charlotte McConnell and Mrs Tessa Biggart are the Early Years Leaders. They lead an experienced and skilled team; they are both on the Senior Leadership team and are Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads. Mrs Karen Mogg is the Nursery Manager, Inclusion Coordinator (INCCO) and also Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead. Miss Amelia Downward, Miss Lindsey Allen, Mrs Julie Chapman, and Miss Joanne MacDonald are Nursery's fantastic Early Years Practitioners. 

Our highly qualified and experienced team is led by our Early Years Leaders and the Nursery Manager who is a Level 6 Early Years Graduate and who is closely supported by a passionate and professional team of skilled team of Early Year Practitioners.

Every member of our Nursery team has completed Safeguarding training. Team members are also Makaton and Behaviour Therapy trained, Paediatric First Aid trained, Team Teach and Food Hygiene certificated. 

* Extended Provision Open 7.30 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.*

Nursery offers an extended provision which includes a Early Years Breakfast Club and After School Club for 2-5 year olds from 7.30 a.m. -5.30 p.m. every day!

Our Early Years After School provision takes place in Nursery outstanding purpose-built indoor and outdoor facilities and is run by Nursery team members. With the children’s personal, social and emotional well-being of paramount importance to us at all times, by running our extended provision in Nursery, with Nursery staff members ensures consistency. The children are familiar with their safe, stimulating environment and are also cared for by adults that they know well and whom they have secure attachments with. 

Phase one phonics starts in Nursery.  This supports children in developing speaking and listening skills and helps them become attuned to the sounds around them.  It is through building a firm foundation in phase one that children move confidently and competently onto developing oral blending and segmenting skills. 

To find out more about our Nursery, please click on the link below or continue to scroll down to see what we have been up to in our weekly updated Learning Journey.

If you are interested in booking a space for your child, please contact Karen Mogg, the Nursery Manager by telephone 01934 426901, or email nursery@stgeorges.bwmat.org . 

We look forward to hearing from you and welcoming you and your child into our Nursery family.

Our Learning Journey 2022-23

Baking bread

"Who will help me to bake the bread?” asked the Little Red Hen.

“We will” said the children.

“Who will help me to eat the bread?” asked the Little Red Hen.

“We will!” said the children.

Through bringing elements of the traditional story to life, the children have been strengthening their fine and gross motor skills, developing their listening and communication skills and deepening their knowledge and understanding of the main events, the character‘s feelings as well as the importance of working together.

Once our bread was cooked and cooled, we enjoyed spreading butter on top and tasting it as part of our afternoon snack.

Well done Nursery! You were very keen to become actively involved in the whole bread making process and demonstrated super focus and determination.

Autumnal Apple Crumble

After one of our parents kindly donated ripe apples from their family farm, we have been enjoying learning how to make autumnal apple crumble this week.

The children have demonstrated super listening skills when following instructions, patience when waiting their turn and cooperation when sharing the cooking utensils.

Using a visual recipe, the children were able to lead their cooking experience, practice their counting skills and measure out the ingredients independently.

Once our crumble had cooled, further rich language was modelled, and mathematical language explored when portioning out the crumble equally. As we ate together, we talked about where the apples had come from and other healthy food choices which we can make.

Well done, Nursery! Your autumnal apple crumble smelt divine and tasted delicious.

Developing a love of books

We have been developing a love of books through our focus stories and ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley’ has quickly become a popular story with the children since the start of this term.

The sensitively written story has highlighted environmental issues and provoked discussions about plastic pollution, caring for our animals and planet as well as the importance of reusing and recycling our plastic waste.

Following our storytelling sessions, the children in their key families have made environmental pledges, introduced eco-bricks to our lunch tables and created their own recyclable Stanley kites which everyone enjoyed flying around the school field.

Some facts about plastics

• 18 billion pounds of plastic waste flows into the oceans every year from coastal regions.

• Plastic impacts entire food chains – sea, soil, plants, and creatures. Scientists predict that every seabird and every turtle on this planet have plastic in their stomachs.

• Reducing, reusing, recycling, and picking up plastic makes a life-or-death difference to ocean life.

• Our actions have global effects as currents transport plastics across continents. There is even evidence of plastic pollution on the North Pole.

A recording of one of our Stanley story-telling sessions has been uploaded to Tapestry for you to enjoy with your child at home.

European Day of Languages

Bonjour! Today is European Day of Languages and we have been developing our cultural awareness and learning all things French.

Our day started with us enjoying a French breakfast together where we tasted pains au chocolates and croissants and found out the names of other French food.

Throughout the day, we have worked together to build representations of the Eiffel Tower, created snail pictures in the style of French artist Henri Matisse, painted French flags and learnt the rhythm and words to the song Frère Jacques.

As one of our children also celebrated their birthday today, we found out how to sing Happy birthday and count to four in French too! Bien fait Nursery!

Starting our new academic year in Nursery 

Since the beginning of term, the children have been busy bees exploring their nurturing environments, developing relationships and engaging in open-ended, purposeful playful experiences.

We have enjoyed making daily visits to our Forest School provision, strengthening our gross motor skills on the wooden fort and expressing ourselves creatively through our music, movement and art.

We could not be prouder of how well the children have transitioned and settled into our setting either for the first time or following the summer break and we look forward to working together with our children, families and local community this academic year.