Lawley

Mrs Rawsthorne

Mrs Nell Rawsthorne

My name is Mrs Rawsthorne and I am the EYFS Lead overseeing Nursery and Reception across the federation. I am also the class teacher for Lawley Class here at Moreton Say. I have a passion for the Early Years and a love of reading.

Welcome to Lawley Class, our exciting Early Years setting! In Lawley Class, we create an engaging environment that inspires our little learners. Here, we foster curiosity and help children to develop a love of learning.

We have carefully planned and created an environment of continuous provision which enables our children to learn skills, challenge their thinking and help them to embed concepts. It will also provide the context for a variety of learning conversations between children and adults with rich opportunities for modelling and extending speech and vocabulary. We are confident that within this learning environment our children will develop key learning attributes such independence, resilience and creativity which follow them through their learning careers. The term ‘continuous provision’ refers to a range of provision areas and key resources which are available for our children to use every day. We have chosen to include areas such as construction, role play, small world, art, blocks, sand/water to build on our children’s interests. By creating provision areas in this way and keeping them the same throughout the year, we aim to ensure fewer distractions and provide the context for children to collaborate, form relationships and communicate.

We hope to enjoy the outside environment as much as possible so we ask for children to have appropriate clothing for the weather, including waterproof coats, hats, gloves and wellies. We feel strongly that there is no such thing as the wrong weather to play outside just the wrong clothing… we love a bit of mud!

Through our literacy and topic work, children will explore a variety of topics and themes that spark their imagination. We encourage children to ask questions and discover new things every day. Our caring and dedicated staff are here to support each child, ensuring they feel safe and valued as they begin this wonderful adventure in learning.

We believe that every day brings new opportunities to grow and develop, and we are excited to see what each child will achieve. Together, we will make wonderful memories and build a strong foundation for their future learning experiences.

Children will take part in daily adult lead sessions focused on phonics, reading, maths and literacy. We follow the Little Wandle Phonics scheme for our phonics and guided reading, please see our Early Reading Webpage for more information. Parent’s will be invited to join us for a phonics workshop during our Autumn 1 half term and a guided reading workshop will be run in our Autumn 2 half term please keep your eye out for dates on our weekly school newsletter. Each Thursday your child will bring home a reading book in line with their phonics scheme, a library book and a homework sheet with sounds, words and sentences to practice with your child to help secure their learning and build fluency along with developing confidence and a lifelong love of reading. We will also be running a maths parent’s workshop in the Spring term.

We will also have weekly French, music and PE lessons taught by specialist teachers and coaches. PE lessons with our dedicated PE coaches are every Friday, we ask children to come into school wearing their correct PE kits and bring forest school kit in to change into for our Friday afternoon forest school session.