Nursery 2025 - 2026

WELCOME TO OUR NURSERY

At St Peter's, our Nursery department prides itself on exceptional pastoral care and guidance. Our nursery staff ensure a carefully monitored programme of activities that are focused around improving your child’s learning and development. The early years of a child’s life are crucial. At our nursery we work hard to make every day special for our young children in preparation for the transition into the main school.

St Peter's nursery staff monitor the progress of their children through the Early Years Foundation stages (EYFS).
As part of the Early Years Foundation Stage, we complete work within 7 areas of learning and development. These are divided into prime areas (Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development and Communication and Language) and specific areas (Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design.)

With access to dedicated facilities both indoor and outdoors, staff create a learning bond that allows children to grow and develop safely, reassuring parents that their child is in a safe learning environment and will be academically confident as they transition into mainstream education.

Our new topic this half term is 'Real Life Superheroes’.  The first book that we will be looking at is ‘I’m the Bus Driver’ by Oxford University Press.  This is about the life of a bus driver and all the different job he must do before he can drive the bus and introduces us to the different parts of a bus.  We will be painting and making our own buses and pretending to be a bus driver. We will also be talking about what jobs we would like to do when we are older. We will also be visiting the Rochdale Fire Engine museum, to learn more about being a firefighter.

In RE we are starting the topic ‘How God Created the World”, we will be thinking about how God created our wonderful world, including us! We will be retelling the story using musical instruments. We will also be thinking about our families and the different people we know and how they help us.

Throughout the term we will be listening to stories, singing nursery rhymes, learning to recognise numbers, counting a number of objects, counting forwards and backwards.  We will also be listening to the sounds we can hear at the beginning of words and learning how to write them. These are all things that children should be practising at home!

We will continue to send your children home with a weekly library book, please share this book with your child, as it will help to improve the children’s learning further. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to any of the Nursery staff. Thank you, as always, for your continued support.