Welcome to St Mary's Nursery where our dedicated team provides a hands-on and purposeful curriculum led by your child's interests. 

Nursery Manager: Mrs Hall

Nursery Key Workers: Mrs Hawkins, Miss Henton and Mrs Watts

St Mary's Nursery

St Mary's CE School Nursery is housed in our purpose built Early Years building on the school site with extensive outdoor provision.

Our highly qualified and dedicated Nursery team work to provide a warm and welcoming environment for the children. We aim to nurture each child to help them develop their confidence and independence through a range of high quality interactions and stimulating activities.

We ensure parents receive on-going information and support regarding their child's learning and development through online learning journals, Stay and Play sessions and daily welcome time. Communicating how and what the children are learning helps to equip parents to support their child's learning in the home environment.

Our Aims

To provide a stimulating play based environment that enables children to learn through experimenting and exploring alongside adults who support their learning and development through questioning.
“Play underpins all development and learning for young children.”

Nursery Uniform

The Nursery sweatshirt can be ordered using the following link: PLSchoolwear

The Nursery uniform is as follows:

• Light blue polo shirt

• Navy/ black jogging bottoms or leggings

• Grey pinafore/ skirt and tights

• Blue and white check summer dress.

Please note the Nursery uniform is not compulsory.

Nursery Nappy Changing Policy

Nappy Changing Policy

Lunch Club

Nursery Lunch Club runs from 11:30 to 12:15 please see the below policy for pricing. Places are limited and booking is essential.

Further information on healthy lunch box ideas:

Healthy Lunch Box Ideas

Portion Sizes

The Eat Well Guide

Further Information on Food Preparation:

Choking Hazards

Finger Foods

Nursery Lunch Club Policy

• St Mary's Nursery Lunch Club Policy 2024-25

Lunch Time Procedure

11:30	Afternoon children attending lunch club arrive via the nursery entrance All children attending the lunch club are taken to the Rocket Room for registration The Children wash their hands and sit together to eat
12:00	Children finish lunch and play in the group room or outside
12:15	Morning children are collected from the main entrance Afternoon children join the Nursery class for their session

Nursery Tours

Below is a virtual Nursery Tour. Please contact the school office to arrange a tour of the nursery.

Nursery Photo Tour

Early Years Websites for Parents

• Getting Ready For School
  Support and advice from the School Nursing Team

• Developing Sentence Structure
  How to model language to support the development of sentence structure.

• Hungry Little Minds
  Simple, fun learning activities for parents and young children to do together.

• Small Talk
  A resource with simple videos, tips and information to help parents chat, play and read with their young child every day.

• BBC Nursery Rhymes
  Selection of classic nursery rhymes to enjoy with your child.

• Tiny Happy People
  Information to help develop your child's communication skills.

• Support with toileting and potty training your child
  ERIC - The Children's Bowel and Bladder Charity which provides help and support for toileting.

Chat, Play, Read: Department for Education campaign

Department for Education campaign featuring journalist and co-founder of Mum&You Natasha Kaplinsky and TV psychologist Emma Kenny.