Nursery – Curious Cotton Mice

2024 – 2025

Mrs Harris

Welcome Curious Cotton Mice

We hope that you all had a wonderful summer break and that you are ready for a new year.

We have really enjoyed having so many new children join our nursery and are looking forward to continuing to welcome more. We can not wait to meet you all and we cannot wait for your new learning adventure to begin here with us at Langley Mill CofE Nursery.

Let the fun begin!

Learning Focus

This term our topic is What Makes Me Special?’

 

This topic was chosen as it is important for the children to have a really good sense of who they are as an individual and what makes them, them! We will also be investigating who is in their family and what makes their family special to them.

It is important for the children to know why they are special and what makes them unique. They need to know how people are different and similar, starting with those familiar to them then extending to other families in a wider context.  The children also need lots of freedom and choice to practise a range of skills and develop knowledge across many areas.

Our Early Years Team

Teacher: Mrs Poutney and Miss Whitlam (maternity cover for Miss Statham who will be returning in October)

Teaching and Learning Assistants: Miss Hughes (Full Time), Miss Clarke (am) and Mrs Summers (pm)

Dojo Information

  • We will continue using the Dojo app to share learning and communicate wit parents/carers so make sure you have downloaded it and are logging in regularly using the codes given to you by your class teacher.
  • The QR codes and instructions to guide you through this process have already been provided.  Duplicates are available on request from the nursery teacher.
  • New starters in the nursery will be given instructions to guide you through the process and your QR codes on arrival to your first nursery session.
  • It is important that you log-in as we will use the app to provided ‘WOW’ moments throughout the year and any extra activities that may be needed to assist your child’s learning throughout the school year. The messaging part of the app is a method of communication with the class teacher.  Questions directed to teachers need to be about learning.  For all other issues, please use the main school contact phone number or email address.
  • Dojo will only be responded to during weekdays between 8.30 am and 4.30 pm.