Welcome to Wren and Skylark Class!
We love exploring our indoor and outdoor areas and using them to be creative.
Inside, we love to build huge towers in the block and construction areas, create new small worlds, visit our domestic role play area and make things in our workshop, paint, draw or read quietly in our book corner and act out stories with our puppets! We love our home-made playdough that we can experiment with and investigate different textures and smells!
We enjoy playing outside and exploring our local area. Our school grounds have lots of opportunities to help us to learn to balance and climb and our huge new canopy means we can be outside in all weathers! Lotmead is always great to visit in summer to pick strawberries and our very own forest helps us to understand the changing seasons and learn about the names of different trees.
We are very lucky that the adults who care for us help us chose a sharing book to take home each week when we first start school, as well as a book to help us practise the sounds we have learnt in phonics!
Learning through play is always fun.
Do come and visit us so we can share what we love about our school!

The Early Years Foundation Stage at Nythe Primary School
Our philosophy is to value every child as a unique individual, who enjoys learning and thinking for him or herself whilst developing our school’s SOAR values of strength, opportunity, aspiration and respect. Our aim within the Early Years Foundation Stage is to provide a happy, safe and stimulating environment, which allows all children to feel secure and valued and therefore ready and eager to learn. We provide a supportive and secure environment in which every child can flourish and learn at their own pace and in their own individual way. Our role is to stimulate and encourage their development and enjoyment of learning through a blend of different continuous and enhanced provision and adult-directed activities.
Miss Robbins, our EYFS Lead works closely with all staff to ensure that the children have a positive transition from Nursery to Reception. If your child is joining us from another nursery or preschool setting, our Reception teachers will work closely with their current setting to find the best ways to support your child as they start Reception at Nythe. To further support the transition into Reception, we hold Stay and Play sessions and Welcome Meetings in the Summer Term, and begin the Autumn Term with a staggered start so that children can get used to their new environment and routine.

In EYFS, the children follow a topic-based approach to learning, working towards the Early Learning Goals:
- Communication and Language
- Physical Development
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding of the World
- Expressive Arts and Design
Children also develop the key learning skills and behaviours that will support their learning as they move throughout the school. Our Reception staff provide a safe, nurturing environment where children are encouraged to become happy, confident and independent learners.
