Nursery intake January 2025
Welcome!
We are delighted that you have been offered a place at Merton Park Primary School, and welcome you to our school community. Below are some helpful guides and tips to enable you to get 'Nursery Ready!'
We look forward to meeting you soon!
Nursery intake timeline January 2025
Pupil Enrolment
Please complete the forms provided in the links below before your child's first day at school:
Emergency medical consent form
Wrap Around Care
Here at Merton Park Primary School, we provide a Breakfast Club and After School Club for all children from Nursery through to Year 6 whose parents require these.
Our goal is to provide all children in our care with a happy, safe, caring and stimulating environment before and after school. The Breakfast Club and After School Club is a team effort, sharing responsibilities with families to provide the best care for all children. Any issues are openly or confidentially discussed. Please fell free to contact us to discuss anything, or pass on information.
The Breakfast Club, organised solely by the school, is usually open Monday thru Friday from 7:45am until the start of the school day.
The After School Club, also organised solely by the school, is open from the end of the school day until 6:00pm. Both clubs are open during term time only, and excluding INSET Days.
More information can be found here.
School Uniform
INFORMATION ABOUT THE SCHOOL UNIFORM CAN BE FOUND ON THE LINK BELOW:
https://www.merton-park.org.uk/Parents/Uniform/
Helping To Get You Child 'Nursery Ready'
Starting school is a big change in a young child's life, and quite an adjustment for parents too! Being well prepared will help to make it a more positive and exciting experience for them, and you too.
We have prepared a useful guide that offers some useful tips:
Nursery Year
In Nursery, we follow the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage issued by the Department for Education (DfE).
The curriculum consists of seven areas of learning:
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Physical Development
- Communication and Language
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts and Design
There are then 17 Early Learning Goals (ELGs) which are part of these areas of learning.
To support children with working towards these ELGs we use a document called 'Development Matters'. This breaks down each goal into different age bands and is used by staff throughout the year to assess how close children are to reaching the goals. 'Development Matters' can be found here.
In The Classroom
Early Years learning and development is provided through purposeful play and through adult led structures and routines that build confidence and provide intellectual stimulus and challenge.
Throughout the day, children will have direct teaching sessions for maths, literacy and phonics, either as the whole-class or in small groups. The rest of the time they will be taking part in activities inside and outside the classroom. Some of the activities will have been prepared by the teacher and will focus on specific objectives. They may be led by an adult or modelled initially and then the children can access them independently. The children will also be able to choose activities from any of the other resources available.
Teachers choose which activities to set-up by assessing the children’s levels of understanding across all areas of the curriculum and identifying any ‘gaps’ in their learning. Teaching inputs and activities are then planned to address these gaps and evidence is then gathered to show the children have then achieved this learning.
All the teaching staff will be engaging with the children during the activities and helping to support their learning and development. Children’s learning is assessed by observing what they say and do during these times. These are recorded and are then shared with parents.