Welcome to the Early Years Foundation Stage at Muschamp

My name is Miss Brooks and I am the Early Years Lead at Muschamp. I am passionate about making children’s first years at school fun and to help them develop their unique personalities and skills. 

Muschamp has one nursery class and three reception classes.

Nursery start their session at 8.30 and end their session at 11.30.  Children are dropped off and collected at the Nursery door each day.

Reception children start their day between 840 and 9 and end their day between 3.10 and 3.30.  Drop off and collection is from the middle doors in the main playground.  

My team and I are always available to talk in the mornings and afternoons.

WE BELIEVE OUR CHILDREN LEARN BEST WHEN THEY FEEL SAFE, SECURE AND VALUED.  WE VALUE EACH CHILD’S BACKGROUND AND PRIOR EXPERIENCES.  WE PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES EACH DAY FOR THEM TO EXPLORE FREELY, USE THE ENVIRONMENT INDEPENDENTLY AND FOLLOW THEIR OWN INTERESTS.  WE PROVIDE A CURRICULUM THAT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THEIR EXPERIENCES BUT ALSO THINGS THAT ARE BEYOND THEIR EXPERIENCE TO FURTHER THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD AROUND THEM.

We have planned a curriculum that progresses through a child’s time in the EYFS and is engaging and exciting to set them up as lifelong learners.

Children learn about the world around them through a range of topics.   We plan activities that encourage independence and fun in learning and provide continuous play opportunities both inside and outside. 

We are lucky to have large classrooms with plenty of space to learn and play.  Each classroom is set up with opportunities to explore  all areas of the curriculum.    We also have a large nursery garden and a large adjoining reception garden.  

A normal day in Reception 

We start the day with reading the visual timetable for the day and then learning the makaton sign of the day.  We are committed to using Makaton sign language to support communication at Muschamp.  After this we go out for our daily run to get our hearts beating and get ourselves ready to learn! 

Our first lesson of the day is our Essential letters and sounds Phonics session.  After this we have time to play in the continuous provision inside and outside.

Before lunch we have our Maths lesson - we usually have a short teaching session followed by our fun follow up activities.

Reception have lunch from 1130-1230.

After lunch we usually have some quiet time doing meditation, reading books or listening to some music.  This is usually followed by our story study and creative writing time.

We have lots more play time in the afternoon before a short topic based session at the end of the day.

At hometime we have stories, songs and take part in collective worship.

A normal session in Nursery

In Nursery we start our session with exploring the classroom activities and provision. 

We have a short topic session after the register, then children can choose to play inside or outside.

We have a short maths session mid morning followed by more play and then snack at the end of the session.

At the end of the session children take part in a phonics and story time.