Brambles Nursery

Welcome to Brambles Nursery

Nursery Lead HLTA – Miss Shaw
 

 

Click here for Brambles Application Form

Brambles Nursery was established as an umbrella nursery from Bram Longstaff in January 2017.  Vickerstown School then took over in September 2017.  We have seen our setting grow from strength to strength ever since.

We provide a safe, happy and stimulating environment so children can become successful learners and confident individuals with enthusiastic characters.
 

We encourage children to be independent, imaginative, expressive and to respect others. 

We want children to develop a positive attitude to learning, be engaged learners and to develop curiosity. 

We believe every child is valued for who they are and what they contribute to our school community.

Brambles is underpinned by our values of:
Respect, Co-operation, Patience, Responsibility, Hope, Friendship and Belonging.


Curriculum:

In Brambles we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework. This framework sets the standards that all early years providers must meet to ensure that:

We treat every child as an individual and therefore, we respond to the development and learning of each pupil. We plan experiences that include both the prime and specific areas of learning for both our indoor classrooms and our outdoor classroom. These areas are shown in ‘The Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage’ document as follows:

Prime Areas of Learning:

Experiences include circle time, small group work, adult lead activities, 1:1 learning and structured choosing time. Brambles’ children have access to:

 Messy Play – sand and water trays;
Mark Making – painting, pencils, felt tips, chalk, crayons etc;
Role Play – linked to our topic along with a home corner, construction
Lego, wooden blocks, planks, tyres, Duplo etc;
Small World – trains and track, cars, dinosaurs, animals, doll’s house etc;
Laptops – educational games;
Playdough – cutters, rollers, loose parts;
Outside – chalking, planting, ride on toys, tyres, planks, whiteboard, field, playground.


Children’s fine motor skills are developed via activities involving cutting with child safe scissors, using finger and thumb to pick up small objects (‘pinchy fingers’) and being encouraged to zip up their own coats, to name but a few. Gross motor skills are practised by mark making on a larger scale e.g. dipping cars in paint and pushing them along to create tracks, using the ride-on toys outside, running and chasing games, throwing and catching etc.

Tapestry Online Learning Journal:

In Brambles, we use ‘Tapestry’ which is a wonderful online resource that allows staff to share your child’s learning and development within the setting. You can comment on and like the observations we share, which we encourage, to help develop our relationships with our families. You are also more than welcome to add your own photos with descriptions to share what your child gets up to when they’re not at nursery. Looking at the photos with your child encourages them to talk about their nursery day and vice versa, telling us what they do when they’re not at nursery.
 

 

Brambles’ Session Times:
 

Eligibility Code:

All children are entitled to 15 hours of FREE nursery provision a week. Some children are entitled to 30 hours of FREE nursery provision, depending on family circumstances. To see if your child qualifies for the 30 hours, please follow http://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/ to answer a few questions and to get your eligibility code, if you qualify.

 

Brambles	Autumn 1A/B	Autumn 2A/B	Spring 1A	Spring 2A	Summer 1A	Summer 2A
Topic	My Family Halloween	Bonfire Night Woodland Measure Christmas	The Number 3 Shapes Down on the Farm	Colours Light & Dark Easter	Growth & Change Occupations Summer	The Seaside Mini Beasts Transition
			Spring 1B Jungle & Rainforest Toys Valentine’s	Spring 2B Transport Spring Easter	Spring 1B The Weather Houses & Homes Pets	Summer 2B Water The Zoo Transition
Literacy	Songs & Rhymes Sharing books	Story language Noticing print Mark making	Print Parts of a book Page sequencing	Rhyming words Clapping syllables Initial sounds	Conversation Early writing	Name writing Letter formation
Maths	Counting to 5 Jigsaws	Finger rhymes Amounts Size Patterns	Subitising Counting beyond 5 Finger numbers Numbers & amounts	Recording numbers Real world problems Comparing quantities 2D & 3D shapes	Position Shapes	Patterns Sequencing
Phonics	Phase 1 Listening walks Environmental sounds Names	Phase 1 Listening walks Environmental sounds Names	Phase 1 Speaking & Listening Names	Phase 1 Speaking & Listening Names	Phase 2 Names	Phase 2 Names

NB: There are two cycles, A&B, to give the children that attend four/five terms a variety, rather than repeat the same topics again.

 

P.E Overview from September 2021:

Brambles	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Topic	Movement Balancing	Ball skills	Ring games	Parachute games	Using equipment	Team games