Hedgehogs
Welcome to Wellington Nursery
Welcome to Wellington Nursery. We provide a caring, exciting and happy atmosphere for children from the age of 2 and ½ years old to attend and take their first steps into education.
I thought I would introduce myself and talk about our wonderful nursery. My name is Emily Sevenoaks and I am the nursery manager. I work very closely with my nursery assistant, Clare Bowcott who has been a well-loved member of the Wellington School community for quite some time. We also work very closely with our Head of EYFS, Miss Evans to help strengthen our links with Reception and help develop our understanding and planning of the early year’s environment.
In the Nursery, we take pride in carefully planning stimulating and structured activities built around the children’s interests however allowing for free flow and child-initiated play. With our experienced staff, all children are encouraged to explore, learn and discover. We implement a topic-based approach to learning but are flexible to changes where we support the development of the whole child.
Our Nursery setting offers one large classroom with an adjoining wet area for all our messy fun. We also have an adjoining sheltered outdoor area with access to a large playground, fields and a wooded forest school area. We make use of this amazing outdoor space most days, but particularly go to the forest school area during our ‘Welly Wednesdays’.
Our staff support positive relationships with both children and parents. We are open from 9:00 – 3:00pm each day and you can choose which days and sessions best suit you and your child, with the option of half day, full day and breakfast and after-school provision. Breakfast club is open 7:45-8:30 and afterschool club runs from 3:00-5:30, 4:15 on Fridays.
Through careful observation and assessment, we can establish each child’s next steps. We use tapestry as a communicational guide to help support positive relationships with parents and support strong connections between each child’s home and school life.
At Wellington Nursery, every child’s happiness is of paramount importance. We want all the children in our care to feel happy, safe and for their experiences to guide and support them for their next adventures in education. Please feel free to contact the school reception or email myself or Miss Evans directly for any more information.
Contact details: kevans@wellington.hereford.sch.uk : esevenoaks@wellington.hereford.sch.uk or phone our school office on 01432 830264.
Spring Term Newsletter
hedgehogs spring term newsletter 2.pdf
Spring Term: All creatures Great and Small
We welcomed the children back with big smiles after Christmas and were excited to start another new term. Our topic for this term was ‘Creatures Great and Small’. The children love exploring all types of animals, so we thought we could explore the many different animals and the habitats they live in.
The children enjoyed minibeast hunting in the forest school area. We found woodlice, snails and slugs. Inside, the children enjoyed exploring the investigation station to look at minibeasts closer, using the magnifying glasses and identification sheets. We also spent the afternoon bird watching, using our binoculars to spot the birds in the trees. Our winter bird finds were pigeons, robins and blackbirds.
Inside the classroom, we explored animals that live on a farm, sorting their babies into categories and working out what particular farm animals can produce like milk and wool. We also enjoyed playing with the artic animals which had been frozen overnight.
The children were excited to receive a letter form Rainbow the Chameleon who lived in a rainforest. The letter said he was bored of being green and asked the children to help create a rainbow chameleon to inspire him to become different colours. The children went outside and used the chalks to create the most beautiful chameleon in the world!
To follow on from exploring different types of animals, the children took an interest in the African animals especially lions! Therefore, we decided to look at the book ‘Handa’s Surprise’. Handa’s Surprise is a lovely story which is brimming with the tales of cheeky wild animals and exotics fruits. The children created their own African sunsets and chose the animals they wanted to stick on their African scene. We also enjoyed fruit printing and filling our own nursery basket full of our favourite fruit!
Understanding the World: Exploring Ice
We are very lucky to have lots of outdoor space and we have been very interested in the weather. Particularly the children were intrigued by the ice, because some of our outdoor items had been frozen overnight. One afternoon we wrapped up warm and went to find some more ice and to our delight we found lots in the forest school area! We found different sized sticks to try and break the ice. We had so much fun!
Please Don’t Forget…
- Healthy/appropriate snacks and lunchboxes to be provided please
- A labelled bottle of water
If you would like your child to have hot dinners, please speak to Mrs Pennington in the office.
If you have any questions regarding nursery please speak to Miss Sevenoaks (Nursery Manager) or Clare (Nursery assistant).
