Tre Uchaf Nursery 2022/23
Croeso / Welcome / Bienvenue
Welcome to the Tre Uchaf Nursery webpage!
Class teacher = Mrs Glass
Nursery Nurse = Miss Morgan Teaching Assistants = Miss Jones, Mrs Neyland, Miss Watkins
Team photo to follow 🙂
We currently have a morning Nursery session – 8:50 – 11:20am
If you are considering joining our school please contact us to arrange the admissions process. Children usually start Nursery the term following their 3rd birthday.
Nursery is an important time in your and your child’s life – the next big milestone! We try to make the transition from home to school life as easy as possible and offer a class visit prior to your child starting Nursery. This gives a chance for your child to meet their teacher and the Nursery team in our school environment. The class visit also provides important time for parents to ask any questions and for us to get to know each other.
What do we do in Nursery?
Nursery is an important start to school life and during our time in Nursery we are learning so much to help us get ready for full time school.
Here at Tre Uchaf, we know that our children learn best through play and hands-on experiences. Your child will be involved in lots of exciting learning activities – both planned by adults and child initiated such as role-play, dressing-up, music, singing, crafts, painting, colouring in, building, playing with sand, water, playdough, cooking, sharing stories, looking at books and lots more! We play and learn both indoors and outdoors. We spend a morning each week in our Wellies for Welly Wednesday in our wood area having lots of fun climbing trees, hunting for mini-beasts, singing outdoors, playing games, making dens, outdoor art, looking for numbers and letters and of course getting muddy!
Nursery is part of the Foundation Phase and we provide learning activities across the six areas of learning.
Our phonics scheme is POPAT where children learn how to listen to sounds before starting letter recognition.
Check out:www.popat.co.uk for some more information.
When children are ready to start learning letter sounds we learn the Jolly Phonics songs for each letter sound. These can be viewed on youtube by searching ‘Jolly Phonics a’ – just change the letter sound for each song.
This year we are focusing on Maths mastery skills and will be talking a lot about subitising!
Home learning activities are sent home on a Friday, starting in the Summer ter. These range from mark making, name recognition and writing, maths skills, colours, news, cutting or making things. These activities are to provide you with ideas of things to do at home as well as supporting and extending your child’s learning.
We love playing and learning outdoors and we are very lucky to have a garden just for Nursery, access to the school field and our wonderful woodland area.
Snack time
We have snack every day. We sit at tables for snack to practise our table manners for when we go to Reception and get to eat our lunch in the dinner hall!
The children also enjoy a selection of fruit or vegetables such as carrot batons, cucumber, sliced apple, banana, tangerines. We encourage children to try new tastes and textures. Snack is £1 a week.
What to wear
We encourage uniform in Nursery as we are part of the school. We also enjoy messy play in Nursery so spare clothes are a must! Please send your child to school in comfortable clothing that encourages their independence and a warm coat and hat in Winter, since they will be enjoying the outdoors every day. Joggers are great for ease and independence when going to the toilet. Velcro shoes are preferred for independence.
Please put names on everything!
School jumpers, polo shirts and book bags can be purchased from Sew and Sew in Gorseinon or Picton Sports in Llanelli. However, plain red jumpers or cardigans are acceptable. Please send wellies to stay in school ready for Welly Wednesday and any rainy days we have. A spare set of clothes (including socks and shoes) can be left on your child’s peg at all times just in case they need changing.
Please practise putting coats on independently with your child – a really important skill! This helps them have more time to play outside as they don’t need to join a coat queue for an adult to do and helps them gain more independence. Once your child has mastered putting their coat on by themselves, the next step is learning how to do their zip up. We start this by starting off their zip for them and getting the children to pull the zipper up.
The Nursery Week
Monday – Snack money due = £1 each week or pay each half term.
Tuesday –
Wednesday –Welly Wednesday
Thursday –
Friday –PE – come to school in your joggers and trainers. House colour t-shirts are acceptable but no motifs please.
Bring your book bags for a new class library book.
Our plan for the year ahead
(This may change slightly due to different events that take place throughout the year!)
Autumn Term
Exploring Autumn / Christmas celebrations and activities
Spring Term
How many colours in a rainbow? / Are eggs alive?/ Spring activities / Easter celebrations and activities
Summer Term
Sunshine and Sunflowers / How high can you jump? / Summer activities
We have an open door policy and encourage you to speak to us about your child’s progress whenever you want to. We also have two parents’ meetings each year – Autumn and Spring term, and your child will receive a school report at the end of the Summer Term.
We look forward to our exciting year ahead!
Diolch / Thank you / Merci / Gracias
Mrs Glass and the Nursery team