- Christmas Dinner 2025! 16th December 2025
- Autumn evenings at After School Club 7th November 2025
- Voting for our new School Parliament! 24th October 2025
Nursery
Welcome to Homelands Nursery
Our Nursery teacher is Mrs Smethurst.
Mrs Hawkes is our nursery nurse.
Foundation Intent Statement
At Homelands, in Foundation stage we aim to provide a positive start to school where a love of exploration and learning is fostered and sets up children as they continue their educational journey. We help the children build on current knowledge to gain a wider understanding of the world and our place within it. Through play and with the support of the adults in class, children are guided to explore and discover ideas, skills and concepts. We provide opportunity for children to develop a rich vocabulary, fostering a love for books and supported through quality interactions from the adults. Our curriculum encourages understanding and development of our school values and we work to build strong working relationships with parents. We strive for all children to feel valued as individuals and to be successful achievers in a safe, secure, nurturing environment where learning and fun go hand in hand.
Phonics in Nursery
Spring term vocabulary
Spring term topic overview
Our first week back after the half term holiday. We are learning about Eid this week in nursery. We have made some fantastic Eid cards for our families and have coloured in shape Mosque pictures. We have also enjoyed looking for the first signs of Spring. We have been drawing daffodils. We have enjoyed being outside in the sunshine this week.
Get into Shape Day 2026. We loved learning all about shapes today. We concentrated on the 6-sided hexagon. We enjoyed lots of shape activities and did hexagon painting. What a busy day we had!
Today Abbie the paramedic came to visit nursery with her ambulance. We learnt all about being a paramedic and enjoyed looking around the inside of the ambulance. We bandaged one of the children's heads for fun. Some of the children sat on the bed and pretended to be patients and other children pretended to be paramedics.
We are celebrating Chinese New Year in Nursery. 2026 is the year of the horse.
Today we had a really interesting visit from 3 police officers. The children got to try on police uniform and also sit in the police car. The lights on the car were very bright and the sirens were extremely loud!
Today we enjoyed a wonderful visit from the 'Little Village people'. It was a role play experience and was lots of fun! The children enjoyed exploring the vets, the hairdressers, the builders and the cafe. They also enjoyed the vehicles and dressing up as people who help us e.g. the police.
Week beginning the 12th of January. The children have especially enjoyed the story of 'The 3 Billy Goats Gruff' and also doing yoga in the afternoons.
Our first week back after the Christmas holidays.
- Pinocchio Dance Workshop 2nd March 2026
- World Book Day 5th March 2026
- SATs Week 11th May 2026
- January Newsletter 2026 3rd February 2026
- December Newsletter 2025 31st December 2025
- November Newsletter 2025 30th November 2025
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