Hedgehogs
Welcome to Wellington Nursery
Welcome to Wellington Nursery. We provide a caring, exciting and happy atmosphere for children from the age of 2 and ½ years old to attend and take their first steps into education.
I thought I would introduce myself and talk about our wonderful nursery. My name is Emily Sevenoaks and I am the nursery manager. I work very closely with my nursery assistant, Clare Bowcott who has been a well-loved member of the Wellington School community for quite some time. We also work very closely with our Head of EYFS, Miss Evans to help strengthen our links with Reception and help develop our understanding and planning of the early year’s environment.
In the Nursery, we take pride in carefully planning stimulating and structured activities built around the children’s interests however allowing for free flow and child-initiated play. With our experienced staff, all children are encouraged to explore, learn and discover. We implement a topic-based approach to learning but are flexible to changes where we support the development of the whole child.
Our Nursery setting offers one large classroom with an adjoining wet area for all our messy fun. We also have an adjoining sheltered outdoor area with access to a large playground, fields and a wooded forest school area. We make use of this amazing outdoor space most days, but particularly go to the forest school area during our ‘Welly Wednesdays’.
Our staff support positive relationships with both children and parents. We are open from 9:00 – 3:00pm each day and you can choose which days and sessions best suit you and your child, with the option of half day, full day and breakfast and after-school provision. Breakfast club is open 7:45-8:30 and afterschool club runs from 3:00-5:30, 4:15 on Fridays.
Through careful observation and assessment, we can establish each child’s next steps. We use tapestry as a communicational guide to help support positive relationships with parents and support strong connections between each child’s home and school life.
At Wellington Nursery, every child’s happiness is of paramount importance. We want all the children in our care to feel happy, safe and for their experiences to guide and support them for their next adventures in education. Please feel free to contact the school reception or email myself or Miss Evans directly for any more information.
Contact details: kevans@wellington.hereford.sch.uk : esevenoaks@wellington.hereford.sch.uk or phone our school office on 01432 830264.
Autumn Term Newsletter
hedgehogs autumn term newsletter 24.pdf
Summer Term learning: Enchanted Garden
We have enjoyed exploring all things magical, under our topic ‘the Enchanted Woodland’. The children enjoyed helping to create our own fairy gardens, painting wooden reels and adding different pictures to make them look more magical. They have played beautifully with our fairies, creating their own stories and using their imaginations.
We loved going on a nature hunt, finding our own magic wands. The children hunted for their perfect stick, which we came back and decorated in nursery. We looked at the different size sticks we found, talked about what magic powers we could have and really enjoyed using them in their own role play.
Tea Party and Graduation
To link with our enchanted garden topic, Hedgehogs received a letter from Mr. Fox.
Hello Woodland Explorers,
Would you like to join us for a special woodland party deep in the woods?
There will be plenty to eat, games to play and creatures to meet.
We would love to see you there!
Best wishes,
Mr Fox
We were very excited by this letter as we had been exploring all things woodland and magical creatures. So, we thought we could include this invitation in with our own graduation celebrations. All of our parents and friends were invited to come and celebrate with us in our own magical woodland. The children made some party favourite’s including fairy cakes and jam sandwiches! We enjoyed eating our food, alongside family and friends. We then celebrated each child, especially the children who were moving on to Reception.
The Lion King
This year we were excited to be taking part in the Year 6 end of school production of The Lion King. Hedgehogs class were cast as tropical birds and we learnt the songs ‘Circle of Life’ and ‘Hakuna Mata’. The children made their own tropical bird head dresses, wore bright clothing and rocked a sparkly feather boa. How fantastic do they look?
Understanding the World
Understanding the World is one of the four specific areas of learning in the EYFS framework. It involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology, and the environment.
Earth Day 2024
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection and Hedgehogs enjoyed taking part this year with the whole school. We enjoyed exploring the forest school area, hunting for different insects and recording what we found. We found spiders, woodlouse, slugs and worms, lots and lots of worms!
The PTFA also supplied each class with new planters and parents kindly gifted us with some plants. The children helped to plant the flowers and they have been displayed outside and around the school grounds. The children enjoyed using the garden tools to scoop the compost and make holes for the flowers. 
Special Visitors
As a nursery, we are always looking at ways of developing the children’s knowledge and Understanding of the World around us. Linking to our topic of ‘Marvellous Machines’ we have been lucky enough to have enriched the children’s knowledge by having a local special visitor. We very much enjoyed a visit from a local police officer!
Please Don’t Forget…
- Healthy/appropriate snacks and lunchboxes to be provided please
- A labelled bottle of water
If you would like your child to have hot dinners, please speak to Mrs Pennington in the office.
If you have any questions regarding nursery please speak to Miss Sevenoaks (Nursery Manager) or Clare (Nursery assistant).
