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
CHRISTMAS
The last few weeks, we danced our way straight into Christmas. With preparations for our nativity well under way, the children in Nursery enjoyed making reindeer food, taking part in the whole school reindeer run and creating snowy hot chocolates. 
This year the children in Hedgehogs took part in our school Nativity and Christingle service in the church. Our children were some ‘baaa-rilliant’ sheep. How cute do they look?
Autumn term learning: Space
After half term, we blasted off into Space! The children loved playing in our spaceship role play, enjoying our big cardboard spaceship which Rabbits and Hedgehogs enjoyed decorating together. The children enjoyed making their own name rockets which helped with letter recognition and name recall.
The children also explored different methods of painting, helping to create beautiful space scenes. The children used stamps, dabbers, foil, bubble wrap and play dough cutters to create an out of this world picture.
Queenswood
To link with our topic of ‘Woodland Wonders’ we enjoyed a very autumnal trip to Queenswood. The week leading up to our trip, we explored the story ‘The Gruffalo’. The children made some wonderful Gruffalo masks, enjoyed making Gruffalo crumble and built some robust log pile houses for the snake.
The day of our trip arrived and we enjoyed a quick bus ride up to the woods. The children had their masks at the ready, looking forward to hunting down the Gruffalo. We went in search for all the characters from the story, jumping in muddy puddles on our way around the woods. We enjoyed a quick snack and drink, before playing in the playground. The children loved watching all the autumnal leaves fall off the trees in the wind, talking about the different colours and shapes. What a fantastic trip to end the first half of Autumn term.
The Everywhere Bear
In Hedgehogs we have a nursery bear which each child gets to take home. A take home teddy bear is an activity which helps connect what the children are learning in nursery and extending that into their home. It is a chance for the children to share their own experiences with the bear and then talk about those experiences in nursery. We use the wonderful story written by Julian Donaldson to help support this activity. Our class bear has already enjoyed such wonderful outings including a trip to a football stadium, park and building dens in the woods.
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).
