Relationships as our foundation Our Nursery environment is characterised by the formation of extremely positive and influential relationships between the school, pupils and their parents. We aim to support the development of the whole child, including their upbringing at home.

Our curriculum is rich and varied. Our teachers are encouraged to dream big in their curriculum choices to inspire and engage pupils. In preparation for learning musical instruments further up the school, we invest in specialist music learning throughout the school – sport, drama and other enrichment activities also benefit from our all-through setting.Learning is structured to allow opportunities to learn formally including the foundations of phonics learning where the initial sounds are learnt in a fun and interactive way. We are keen that when pupils move into reception they are familiar with all the sounds needed to start reading quickly. In addition we introduce pupils to numbers and a rich vocabularly, so that they confident learners in reception. These short formal moments fall within a broader open and flexible learning environment where there is space to spread out and take part in a range of pupil activities to allow pupils to gain confidence and build on their curiosity.

Our new buildings King Solomon Academy Nursery moved into a purpose built new nursery building in April 2021 at our Younger Years Site at Crompton Street, which houses 2-4 year olds. The site includes significant outdoor space for learning about plants, water, and materials and involve a great deal of activity and movement. Part of the provision in nursery is to use the outdoor space and wooded area to provide Forest School actitivites, building, working with and learning from the woodland area.

2 Year Old Nursery Provision 

We are excited to build relationships with our families from a young age, building the foundations that will help our pupils to be happy and nurtured in the nursery years.

Our 2 year old provision aims to:

• Provide a loving, caring and safe environment for your child to grow and flourish
• Be based in our brand new, specially designed nursery building, with direct outdoor learning access
• Incorporate Forest School curriculum, led by our inhouse Forest School teacher
• Integrate carefully into our 3 year old, 4 year old and Reception curriculum

The timings of the day are set up so that siblings can conveniently attend the 3 year old and primary school day. Full details of the 2 Year old provision, costs and admission process can be found here. Pupils who attend the 2 year old nursery transition their nursery place in the term after they become 3 years old, when full time (8.30-3.30pm provision) is available, without cost, to all families.

3 Year Old Nursery Provision

The timings of the nursery provision for 3 year olds matches the school day. As well as being convenient for parents and giving us time to have an enriched curriculum for all pupils, it means that pupils are well prepared to be successful and confident when they enter Reception. 3 year old provision runs from 8.30am to 3.30pm (2.50pm on Mondays) without charge.

New starter places are available in the 3 Year Old provision each September in addition to those children coming from the 2 year old provision. The first places are reserved for those families eligible for 30 hours funding, but there are also a large number of places for pupils who are not eligible for this funding. We believe that providing a full day provision, we can support out families and allow our pupils to develop and learn quickly.

Admissions

Our Nursery admissions information is detailed here.

After School Care

Parents can place nursery children in this facility up until 5.30pm (from September 2021). 

For more information about the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum please click here.