ST. MARK'S SQUARE NURSERY SCHOOL offers an exciting, broad curriculum, which is holistic and consciousness-based.
The school is fully equipped with a selection of play and teaching materials for both indoor and outdoor play. School activities include: yoga and meditation, drawing and painting, cooking, handicrafts, modelling, collage, movement, music, violin and dance, sand and water play, and other educational and memory games. At the appropriate stage for the individual child, reading, literacy and numeracy will be introduced. (All aspects of the national curriculum are taught).
Children are always taught in small groups, allowing for individual attention. Our aim is to fit the school to the individual child and we are therefore eclectic in our choice of methods and teaching materials. Our methods and teaching materials include: Montessori, Fletcher, Nuffield and Breakthrough. An introduction to French takes place during and through play activities.
"We believe that children in the pre-school age group have a far greater desire and capacity to learn basic educational skills than has been generally acknowledged"
SCHOOL TIMETABLE AND TERMS
The school is open for both morning and afternoon sessions:
Mornings 9.00am - 12.00 noon
Afternoons: 1.00pm - 3.30pm
Children can take a full time place: 9.00am - 3.30pm
There are three terms per year of 12 weeks each.
Term Dates 2009/2010
Summer Term 2009
Sports day 3 July 2009
Holiday School W.c 13 July & W.c July
Autumn Term 2009
Term Starts 14 September
Half Term 16 October 2009
Term Ends 4 December 2009
Holiday School W.c 7 December 2009
Christmas Carol Concert 27 November 2009
Spring Term 2010
Term Starts 6 January 2010
Half Term W.c 15 February 2010
Term Ends 26 March 2010
Holiday School 29. 30 & 31 March 2010
Summer Term 2010
Term Starts 21 April 2010
Bank Holidays 3 May 2010
Half Term W.c 31 May 2010
Term Ends 9 July 2010
Holiday School W.c 12 July & W.c 19 July
Children's Progress: Parents should feel free to discuss their child's progress with the Head Teacher or members of the school staff. At the end of term, an open day will afford the opportunity to discuss progress, meet other parents and the staff and discuss any problems which arise. The school aims to work in close and regular liaison with parents. A report of each child's progress is sent or given to the child's parents at the end of each term.
Ofsted report on the content of the education programme noted: "There are many organised opportunities when children can listen and talk to each other and to adults in small and large groups. During these occasions, children share information about home and their interests. The introduction of new vocabulary, combined with careful questioning by staff, encouraging them to extend their replies and practise new words. Children listen well to stories and sing songs enthusiastically."
"The role play area offers some opportunity for children to develop their own stories and link them to their own experiences and staff help to extend language, for example 'buying vegetables' from the shop."
"Mathematics language is embedded into everyday experiences with good opportunities for children to apply their knowledge…..the programme supports the use of number rhymes and stories to reinforce mathematical language and ideas.”
The programmes for knowledge and understanding of the world is sound and a strength of the nursery. Children have many informal and formal opportunities to talk about themselves and photographs show work on a tree of life. Local services: for example, police, fire service and dentist visit throughout the year. Staff take children on nature walks through the garden alongside the canal. Children are growing sunflowers in the garden and are observing and recording their growth."
The school is fully equipped with a selection of play and teaching materials for both indoor and outdoor play. School activities include: yoga and meditation, drawing and painting, cooking, handicrafts, modelling, collage, movement, music, violin and dance, sand and water play, and other educational and memory games. At the appropriate stage for the individual child, reading, literacy and numeracy will be introduced. (All aspects of the national curriculum are taught).
Children are always taught in small groups, allowing for individual attention. Our aim is to fit the school to the individual child and we are therefore eclectic in our choice of methods and teaching materials. Our methods and teaching materials include: Montessori, Fletcher, Nuffield and Breakthrough. An introduction to French takes place during and through play activities.
"We believe that children in the pre-school age group have a far greater desire and capacity to learn basic educational skills than has been generally acknowledged"
- Sheema Parsons, Headmistress
SCHOOL TIMETABLE AND TERMS
The school is open for both morning and afternoon sessions:
Mornings 9.00am - 12.00 noon
Afternoons: 1.00pm - 3.30pm
Children can take a full time place: 9.00am - 3.30pm
There are three terms per year of 12 weeks each.
Term Dates 2009/2010
Summer Term 2009
Sports day 3 July 2009
Holiday School W.c 13 July & W.c July
Autumn Term 2009
Term Starts 14 September
Half Term 16 October 2009
Term Ends 4 December 2009
Holiday School W.c 7 December 2009
Christmas Carol Concert 27 November 2009
Spring Term 2010
Term Starts 6 January 2010
Half Term W.c 15 February 2010
Term Ends 26 March 2010
Holiday School 29. 30 & 31 March 2010
Summer Term 2010
Term Starts 21 April 2010
Bank Holidays 3 May 2010
Half Term W.c 31 May 2010
Term Ends 9 July 2010
Holiday School W.c 12 July & W.c 19 July
Children's Progress: Parents should feel free to discuss their child's progress with the Head Teacher or members of the school staff. At the end of term, an open day will afford the opportunity to discuss progress, meet other parents and the staff and discuss any problems which arise. The school aims to work in close and regular liaison with parents. A report of each child's progress is sent or given to the child's parents at the end of each term.
Ofsted report on the content of the education programme noted: "There are many organised opportunities when children can listen and talk to each other and to adults in small and large groups. During these occasions, children share information about home and their interests. The introduction of new vocabulary, combined with careful questioning by staff, encouraging them to extend their replies and practise new words. Children listen well to stories and sing songs enthusiastically."
"The role play area offers some opportunity for children to develop their own stories and link them to their own experiences and staff help to extend language, for example 'buying vegetables' from the shop."
"Mathematics language is embedded into everyday experiences with good opportunities for children to apply their knowledge…..the programme supports the use of number rhymes and stories to reinforce mathematical language and ideas.”
The programmes for knowledge and understanding of the world is sound and a strength of the nursery. Children have many informal and formal opportunities to talk about themselves and photographs show work on a tree of life. Local services: for example, police, fire service and dentist visit throughout the year. Staff take children on nature walks through the garden alongside the canal. Children are growing sunflowers in the garden and are observing and recording their growth."
