The early years of any child’s education provides the foundations for future educational success. Our Early Years setting provides the children with a nurturing environment, rich with books, writing and number. This supports the learning of phonics, counting and mark making.

We teach and deliver across all seven areas within the Early Years Foundation Stage: Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development, Communication and Language, Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World, Expressive Arts and Design. The staff in Early Years are Mrs Wardle and Miss Byrne.

Please see the links below for more information on the Early Years curriculum for both Nursery and Reception pupils. We regularly feature the learning activities from each class on our weekly blog, so please have a look at this and the academy gallery, together with posts on our social media. Links to all of these pages can be found under the Celebrating Wilton tab.

Early years have had an exciting few weeks. We have carried on our learning about minibeasts and had a visit from the Owl Centre.

The session was filled with excitement and wonder as the children came face-to-face with a variety of amazing animals, including a barn owl, a hedgehog, corn snake, a tarantula, and a duck! The children enjoyed feeding the duck sweetcorn and letting the snake sniff their shoes to see if they would make a tasty meal!

We have made the most of the lovely weather, taking our learning outside and also having a water play morning. All the children enjoyed washing the cars and the babies and playing with the water beads, but most of all getting soaked!

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