School Structure

Nursery

Ages 3 to 4 years

Outlined below are some of the many and varied activities that fill the busy Nursery day:

Each morning, as the children arrive, they are welcomed and settled to one of the activities for the day

Early Learning

In the Nursery, your sons or daughters will begin laying the foundations for their furture academic studies.  They will be taught their lower case letters and to use upper case for names and sentence beginnings, to learn the letter sounds using the jolly phonetics scheme and to become familiar with numbers and counting, shapes and colours.

Group Activities

These may include the whole class in drama, music, movement, class discussions and stories. Smaller groups of children play together with sand, water, play-dough, board games, construction toys, puzzles, craft materials and in the home corner.

Individual Activities

Each child spends some time every day working closely with their teacher solving problems and developing skills. They may work on the computer, use sorting and matching apparatus and games, sew, cook, paint, and work with clay/tissue paper and a wide variety of materials.

Topics

A large proportion of each term's activities are based around a theme or topic, which often arise from the pupils own interests and activities. These result in a wide variety of activities including topic books, work sheets, number work, model making, craft, cooking, songs, poems, stories, drama and movement, wall and tabletop displays.

Playtime

The children have a minimum of three sessions of outdoor play during the day.  In the play area, there are two activity centres, a large sandpit, a paved area where the pupils can ride tricycles, a grassed area and a covered veranda.  Both activity centres are surrounded by a soft play surface for the pupils' protection.  If the weather is unsuitable for outside play, we use the adjacent hall where there is a range of large and small play equipment.

At lunchtime, Nursery children eat with the Junior School in the main school dining room.

If necessary, we will assist pupils cutting up their food and pouring their drinks. We say a short grace before the meal and encourage good table manners and the correct use of cutlery and cups.

Throughout their time in the Nursery, the children are encouraged to be caring and helpful towards others.  Good manners, co-operation, taking turns and sharing are all appreciated and praised.  We believe positive encouragement and respect for others makes for a happy and productive environment

Places for our Nursery are highly sought after and we always suggest you register your son or daughter as soon as possible.

If you would like to find out more about The Ryleys Nursery School, or arrange to come and see us, call our school secretary on 01625 583241 or click here to get in touch.