Welcome to Cranmore

Infant School

Parent workshop

Welcome to Nursery is based on three

fundamental principles;

• 1.Parents are the single most important factor in

shaping their child’s wellbeing, achievements and

prospects.

• 2.Children achieve more when their learning is

supported and enhanced at home. If parents know

what their child is learning at school, they are in a

better position to support that learning at home.

• 3.Parents are more likely to ask for help and support if

they have a good relationship with the school and they

know what is available to them. A good relationship

between home and school can also make it easier to

prevent or resolve problems and difficulties.

Changes in children’s routines • Starting nursery is a time of change for

parents and children. Some of the most

common areas that may be affected are their

child’s:

• eating

• sleeping

• toileting

• behaviour, such as the use of dummies,

soothers, how your child responds to changes

in routines

• Child’s feelings What parents can do

• finding it a bit much helps to keep things

calm, routines, sense of stability - perhaps not a

good time to take the child's comfort object (blanket

or dummy) away

• wanting to be your baby message that it's OK

to be a baby sometimes, but also lovely to be a big

nursery boy or girl (e.g. give small responsibilities,

celebrate being big, look at photos of when a baby)

• feeling pushed out recognise that child

may be resentful e.g. of sibling still at home, try and

find some special time with the child

• finding home boring children need 'down

time', it's OK to be ordinary, everyday life offers good

opportunities for parent and child to enjoy each

other's company

• worried that you might be enjoying the time without

him/her whilst it's important to

be truthful, parents can help by not painting too

exciting a picture of what they've been doing!

• worried that you might be missing him/her

recognising the feelings we might be communicating

to the child (maybe how I am affects how s/he is),

some children are very tuned in to their parents, and

the child might be 'parenting the parent'.

Unique Child • Very important at Cranmore

• Children are seen as individuals - all

children have their own needs

• Each child is observed in what they can do

to help identify where they may be in their

own developmental pathway

• Induction is very important as each child is

different. We will share with you how they

settle in more detail at parents evening in

October

Positive Relationships

• With each other

• With the staff

• Parents as partners- recognition of how

important your role is in your child’s

development

Enabling environment

• Integration with the 2 FS1 classes

– Access to all areas of learning

– Child initiated /free choice

– Outside and inside areas

Learning and Developing

• Play is key in FS –will look at play in more

detail

• FS has its own new curriculum

• There are 3 Prime Areas – PSED,

Physical Development and

Communication and Language

Development. These areas underpin the

rest of the curriculum

• Literacy, Mathematical, Expressive Arts

and Design and Understanding the World

Characteristics of Effective

Learning

• The ways in which children engage with

others and their environment underpin

learning and development across all

areas. The children will be assessed in the

following areas throughout Foundation

Stage.

• Playing and exploring – finding out and

exploring, using what they know in their

play, being willing to have a go

• Active learning – being involved and

concentrating, keeping on trying, enjoying

achieving what they set out to do

• Thinking critically – having their own ideas,

using what they already know to learn new

things, choosing ways to do things and

finding new things.

For example, between 1 ¼ and 2

years: enjoying

filling and

emptying

containers in the bath

The diagram below gives examples of the areas of learning and development.

It also shows the links between the way in which your child learns and what

they learn.

Dates

• Tuesday 14th October School Photographs

• Parents evenings 14th and 15th October

• Harvest Festival 24th October

• Writing workshop November– date to be

confirmed.

• Christmas productions 4th and 5th December.

• Maths workshop January- date to be confirmed.

And finally ……….