Cygnets Nursery Class

Mrs Rimmer is our teacher.

Ms Godfrey is our teaching assistant

Ms Hulme will teach on Tuesday to cover PPA and ECT 

Please provide the following :

• waterbottle filled with fresh water everyday
• coat/raincoat (puddlesuit is fine too)
• welly boots (they can stay in school)
• two sets of spare clothes (t-shirt, jumper/cardigan,trousers/leggings, socks/tights, pants)
• warm hat, scarf for winter 
• sun hat, sun screen for summer

We will be following the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and ensure our learning allows children to develop their skills in the seven areas of learning:

• Communication and Language
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Physcial Development
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding of the World
• Expressive Arts and Design

Our programme of learning will follow the needs and interests of our children and will be carefully organsied so that they make the progress they need in order to be ready for their next steps in learning.

Have a look at our Nursery curriculum overview at the bottom of the page and have a look on Tapestry to see what we have been up to.

Welcome to Summer term !

This half term we will be celebrating 150 years of Wistaston Church Lane school! We are very excited to celebrate. 

We will have a lot of fun experiences planned for the children. Our topic will be Spring time and we will learn about few aspects of this season: plants growing, baby animals being born on the farm.

We will then have a dinosaur adventure workshop together with Brown Bears and Hungry Caterpillars classes.

We will base our learning on these stories :

Our Jigsaw topic this half term will be Relationships and the children will take part in weekly circle time exploring this topic supporting Personal, social and emotional Development.

On Friday afternoons we will go for a welly walk in the woodland area in school so please don't forget your wellies !

On Friday mornings we will have physical activity with Mr Raiswell so wear comfortable shoes and jogging bottoms.

As the warmer weather may be approaching soon , we will need the children to have labelled sunhat and sunscreen in their bag everyday. Please apply sunscreen on children before they come in and we will top it up at lunch time.

All children are eligible to receive 15 hours of free early education entitlement (FEEE) starting from the term after they are 3 years old. This funding is provided by the local authority and comes straight to school. We will need parents to complete a FEEE form before their child starts in order for for us to access their funding.

Some families are entitled to receive 30 hours of funding each week, rather than 15. To check your eligibility please see:

Apply for 30 hours free childcare - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you wish for your child to start immediately after their third birthday, weekly fees will apply until their funding starts the following term. Similarly, if you wish for your child to attend for 30 hours, but they are only eligible for 15 hours, weekly fees will apply.

If your child attends for 5 full days, the 30 hours FEEE funding covers their learning time, but doesn't cover the half an hour supervised lunch session, so we need to make a small charge for this time. We charge £2 per day. 

Parents can, if needed, access our Swan Stars before and after school club to provide wrap around care.  For more information about Swan Stars, please see their webpage: 

https://www.wcla.co.uk/461/swan-stars-before-and-after-school-club 

Below shows the fees we charge for before and after school club, lunchtime and any unfunded hours.

Our nursery class welcomes all children once they have turned 3 until they start in Reception. We have places for 26 children to attend at any one time.

Attendance at our Nursery class does not automatically mean that children will be awarded a place in our Reception class. School admissions are decided and administered by Cheshire East Council and parents still need to apply for a school place for their child at: https://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/schools/admissions/start-school-september.aspx

Parents are welcome to make enquiries and register their interest for a place in the nursery class whenever they wish, and places will be confirmed the term before the children are due to start. Although we do our very best to provide places for all children, early expressions of interest do not necessarily guarantee a place.

If there is a situation where the demand for places is greater than the number of places available the following criteria will be used to decide to whom the places are offered:

1. A child who has been offered a place in our Reception class for the following September by the local authority. This criterion will only be used from April onwards when school places are confirmed and is so that children can start to make friends and settle at Church Lane.

2. Siblings - pupils with brothers or sisters, step-brothers or step-sisters, foster brother or sisters, half-brother or half-sisters, adopted brothers or adopted sisters living together as part of one household, already attending Church Lane and who are expected to continue at the school at the time of admission.

3. Children of staff at the Church Lane - Priority will be given to children of full-time members of staff who have been employed at the school for two or more years (at the time of application) and for new staff recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.

4. Pupils living nearest to the school – measured using the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) which measures straight line distances in miles from the address point of the place of residence to the address point of the academy.