New to Nursery and Reception September 2024

We want to wish a very warm welcome to Woodfield Primary School for all the families who will be joining us in Nursery or Reception in September 2023. This page is just for you and we hope you will find it really useful in helping you to find our all about our Early Years unit.

Over the next few weeks we will post lots of useful information including links to give you all the information you will need as part of the transition process. We hope that we will be able to use this page to keep you as up to date as possible with information about your child starting school and even some fun activities for you to do with them.

If you need any more information in the please contact Mrs Watson, Head of Early Years, directly by emailing: [email protected]

To find out more information about our Early Years unit and your child's time in school please watch the short video below:

We know that it is important that the children are also supported to begin to find out about what school will be like for them so over the next few weeks we will be updating this page with a weekly video for you to share with your child. This will support them developing key skills they will need as they enter school.

As the first in this series of videos we would like to share with you a special video for your child. Please take time to watch it with them and to talk through the things that they can see in it.

UPDATE 3: 26th JUNE

UPDATE 2: 12th JUNE

UPDATE 1: 6th JUNE

An important part of the transition into school for your child is helping them to become familiar with the adults that will be working with them and beginning to learn their names and recognise their faces. To support your child with this here are our teaching team sharing some of their favourite stories for you to enjoy. Starting school often brings with it lots of big feelings and these stories by Tom Percival area great way to support children to understand and manage their emotions.

Ruby's Worry by Tom Percival read by Mrs Watson:

Ravi's Roar by Tom Percival read by Miss Clark

We believe that it is really important that you know as much information as possible about what and how your child will be learning during their time in our Early Years unit. We will deliver a paperwork packet to you when we come for our Door Step Visit in September which will contain a paper copy of our 'New to...' booklet for you to read. It is important that you spend time going through the booklet as it contains all the information you will need ready for your child to start with us. We have attached both booklets below in case you would like to read them before you get your paperwork packet. Simply click on the appropriate image below to access the booklet: