Our teachers support children through achievable learning goals while maintaining high expectations. Literacy and numeracy are explored in greater depth through small-group and one-to-one activities, carefully tailored to each child's individual learning style.

This stage helps children develop greater confidence, independence and school readiness as they prepare for their final year before starting school. Children will usually move into Puffins during the academic year before they begin Reception, when they are developmentally ready.

Ms Barbara, our music specialist, visits the children weekly. Music continues to play an important part in our curriculum for Owls as they continue to develop and show off their language skills. Singing remains a wonderful way to encourage children for whom English is an additional language or who are simply shy, to participate with much more confidence. Through singing a wider range of songs and rhymes, alongside well-loved traditional Nursery Rhymes, children continue to be exposed to new vocabulary and will use it with growing confidence.

Using shaker eggs, claves and drums is now a wonderful way for children to explore rhythm, rhyme and phonics.

Mrs Cropley has become a firm favourite to the Nursery children and is our PE teacher. She teaches the children once a week and works on developing their balance and co-ordination and listening skills through fun and engaging sessions. The children particularly enjoy following trickier 2 part instructions and attempting the courses set up that include crawling under and jumping through or in moving hoops.

Children enjoy weekly language sessions where they areintroduced to either French or Spanish through songs, stories,games and conversation. These fun, interactive sessions helpdevelop communication skills, confidence and an appreciation ofdifferent languages and cultures.