A DAY IN THE LIFE IN NURSERY
Normal Nursery School hours: from 8.15 am – 3 pm (the morning session ends at 12.30 pm).
Please find an example of the Nursery Timetable below.
8.15 am - 9.00 am
The Nursery children arrive at school through the Nursery Gate at 1 Brewer Street.
Once in the classroom, the children quickly settle, find work from the shelves or set up bricks, trains or playdough to work with and chat to their friends.
Around 9.10 am
Just after nine o’clock, when we have all arrived and are settled, we have our morning meeting, where we welcome our friends, sing our daily songs and have seasonal or topic discussions following the children’s interests.
9.30 am - 11.30 am
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The children continue their work in the classroom, selecting materials to work with from the shelves independently or engage in collaborative open-ended work in the classroom or in the garden. The children are invited to use new activities with their teachers individually or in small groups, developing their skills and fostering their independent learning. Throughout the morning, we encourage the children to sit and have a glass of water whenever they need one, and sit and have a snack with a friend.
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11.30 am
We are engaged in making sure our classroom is tidy, before washing our hands for lunch.
11.45 am - 12.15 pm
Lunch is eaten with our teachers in the Dodo Room in the Nursery.
12.15 pm - 12.30 pm
We have a story, play a game or are introduced to a presentation of a new activity.
12.30 pm
Some of our children finish their Nursery day and are collected from the Nursery Gate in Brewer Street.
12.30 pm - 2.00 pm
The children begin their afternoon.
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We might begin in the garden, in the sandpit, engaged in role-play in the mud kitchen, following a hunt around the garden or maybe reading a book or working with art materials we have taken outside from the art studio.
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On some afternoons the children follow their interests in the classroom, following up with an activity begun in the morning or taking up a new idea, introduced by a friend at the lunch table or following on from our group time or presentation after lunch.
2.00 pm - 3.00 pm
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The children will often have a project that they would like to work on in the classroom. They may like to revisit an activity they have begun in the morning, ask to work with something new with a teacher or work with a series of activities from the shelves in the classroom. We stop to tidy up and have a snack at 2pm. We finish the day with a story or two, some songs or games.
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3.00 pm
Many children finish their day at 3pm and are collected from the Front Door of the School at 3 Brewer Street.
Some children join their siblings as they depart at 3:20pm (Reception), 3:25pm (Year 1) or 3:30pm (Year 2).
After School Care - Available until 5pm
If you wish your child to attend After School Care, please book these as far ahead as possible so we can help the children with this new rhythm to their day, and we can introduce them to the After School Care team.
