2 year-old nursery provision
Welcome to 2s, where the magic begins for our youngest learners. We're lucky to have Mrs Nicholson as our room leader and Mrs Laidler to support us. They're the best team to get our little people off to a flying start to life at Catchgate Primary School.
What we offer
We have purpose built furniture for our 2 year old children in our very own room. We also have daily access to a larger space where we work on our gross motor movements, a large shared nursery garden and schools’ own woodland area where we participate in forest schools.
The children also enjoy regular visits to our EYFS library where they will take part in carefully planned activities linked to our topic or personal interests.
We work hard to create a very relaxing peaceful 'home from home' environment yet ensuring huge learning potential is available. With staffing ratios at 1:5, our interactions with the children are meaningful, purposeful and hugely beneficial for the overall holistic development of our children. We support early speech and interactions with peers in a positive and rewarding way.
Skilled and Experienced Staff
Our staff know our children and families very well. They quickly develop meaningful, caring relationships with all pupils and personalise the care, curriculum and learning experiences for all. They are extremely at skilled planning and adapting our provision and learning experiences to meet the individual needs and abilities of our pupils, and are continuously working with our children ‘in the moment’ to extend and develop the children’s play and ideas.
We work closely with the children’s interests and are quick to respond and equip the environment accordingly to ensure each child is catered for and learning is personalised. Staff offer a range of ‘I wonder’ moments as well as posing careful questions to extend and further learning.
Daily Routines
The children in our 2 year old provision enjoy a range of exciting and carefully planned activities focused around our carefully planned curriculum as well as their own individual needs, interests and abilities. The focus of the day continues to be on ‘Learning through Play’, with a routine that incorporates adult led activities and builds on children’s developing knowledge and curiosity.
Over the course of a week children will be involved in a range of activities and learning experiences including: cookery activities, messy play, music and movement, forest walks, toddles, outdoor activities, arts and crafts, singing and rhyme time, story time as well as snack time sessions.
Parents are offered the following nursery sessions:
- 5 morning sessions 8.30am until 11.30am
- 5 afternoon sessions 12 noon until 3pm
- 2.5 days (Monday, Tuesday 8.30 until 3pm and Wednesday morning 8.30 – 11.30am)
- 2.5 days (Wednesday afternoon 12 noon until 3pm and Thursday and Friday 8.30 until 3pm)
We also continue to offer 30 hour funded places. Please go to our Funded Nursery Places section for further information.
School lunches can be ordered or packed lunches can be brought in for full day sessions. (We have leaflets for healthy lunch ideas if anyone would like one please don’t hesitate to ask).
Bonfire Week
Bonfire Week 2 Year
We have had a lovely first week back in 2 Year, we have learnt about staying safe during this celebration, we have made our own cellophane sparklers, firework paint pictures and made some yummy bread stick sparklers using chocolate and sprinkles!