Nursery

Welcome to our Nursery!

Our Class Teachers are Mrs Wiltshire (Monday and Tuesday) and Mrs Mayes (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)

Our Teaching Assistant is Mrs Walker

Our Support Assistant is Miss Heritage

Welcome to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), which is how the Government and Early Years professionals describe the time in your child's life between birth and age 5.

All 3 and 4 year olds are entitled to 15 hours per week free early education from the September following their third birthday.

At Gade Valley, our Nursery is led by an experienced, qualified teacher and as such, we pride ourselves on delivering a high quality education experience that helps to prepare children for school life.

We currently provide flexible Nursery sessions 5 days per week during term times. 15 hours funding can be used over 5 mornings or 2.5 days (2 full days and 1 morning session). In addition, we are pleased to offer 30 hour funded and non-funded places during term times.

Nursery Session Times

Morning Nursery 8.45 – 11.45 am
Pupils in receipt of 30 hours funding 8.45 am - 3:15 pm

Please ensure you drop off and collect your child on time from the Nursery Classroom.

We have one intake per year beginning in September, with 30 places available. We would love to show you around, please call or e-mail the school office to make an appointment.

If you have any questions about our Nursery facilities or the application process, please visit the admissions page, or call or e-mail the school office .

The Parents' Guide link below will help answer many of your questions and help you through your child's future learning and successes.

	Name	Format
Files

	Phonics in Nursery Information for Parents.pdf	.pdf

What to Expect When - A parent's guide to child development

The Numtums - Join in with the Numtums and learn about numbers from 1 to 10.

Half-Termly Curriculum Letters

	Name	Format
Files

	Nursery Parent Curriculum Letter Autumn Term 1 2025.pdf	.pdf
	Nursery Parent Curriculum Letter Autumn Term 2 2025.pdf	.pdf
	Nursery Parent Curriculum Letter Spring Term 1 2026.pdf	.pdf
	Nursery Parent Curriculum Letter Spring Term 2 2026.pdf	.pdf
	Nursery Parent Curriculum Letter Summer Term 1 2026.pdf	.pdf
	Nursery Parent Curriculum Letter Summer Term 2 2026.pdf	.pdf

Police Officer Visit

The children were excited to welcome a Police Officer into Nursery this half term, connected to our topic “People Who Help Us”. Police Officer Jo is a friend of one of our parents in Nursery and she was kind enough to come in on her day off and talk to the children all about what it’s like to be a Police Officer. The children asked her lots of questions and she kindly let them try on her uniform and even put some of them in handcuffs! Here is she showing them her unique PC number on her lapel and telling them all about her love of the job. Thank you Police Officer Jo!

Fine Motor Skills

We have been practising our fine motor skills and writing our names in lots of different media. Pens, pencils, chalks and shaving foam amongst others. Here we are tracing over the letters in our name trying to use the correct letter formation.

Tracing over the letters in our names.

Writing our names in the shaving foam.

Here we are using coloured pencils.

Ready to show in assembly!

This week we have been learning how to order objects from longest to shortest. Here we ordered sticks we found in the Nursery garden.

Here we put ourselves in order from tallest to shortest!

This week we have had our School Sports Day and Nursery loved joining in with the older children. They took part in a running race and an obstacle race. Well done Nursery!