meet our manager - candy
welcome to nascot wood nursery school
Hi, my name is Candy and I am the Nursery Manager at Jack in the Box Nascotwood.
I have just under 18 years experience in working with children. I entered the profession straight after finishing secondary school. From this point I completed my NVQ level 2, NVQ level 3 and a BA(Hons) in Working with Children and Young People. My passion for childcare and education over the years continues to grow, to provide children with a great foundation for learning and life is a never ending reward.
I work within a great team who are dedicated, ambitious and forward thinking, ensuring we provide the children within our setting their very best start.
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Breakfast Club - 8.00am-9.00am
£8.00
AM Session - 9.00am-12.00pm
£24.00
Lunch Club - 12.00pm-1.00pm
£8.00
PM Session - 1.00pm-3.00pm
£16.00
Tea Club - 3.00pm-4.00pm
£8.00
Email: jitbnascotwood@hotmail.com
Address: Nascot Wood Road, Watford, WD17 4YS
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Contact Candy on: 07593545224
NURSERY SCHOOL CURRICULUM
At Jack in the Box we follow a structure of learning, development and care for children from birth to five years old. This is called the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and it enables your child to learn through a range of activities.
The EYFS ensures:
- Children learn through play
- Providers work closely with parents
- You are kept up to date on your child’s progress
- The welfare, learning and all-round development of children with different backgrounds and levels of ability, including those with special educational needs and disabilities.
time table key
Self Registration
As children enter the nursery for the start of their session, their name card will be displayed. Please support your child at the start of each session to find their name.
Small Group Time
This is a time for children to work daily in small groups with the same practitioner to work on key skills and next steps.
Stories, Songs & Rhymes
Stories, songs & Rhymes are an integral part of every session. This supports their COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT as well as nurturing their love of books.
C.I.P / A.I.A and Free Flow Play
Children are supported during Child Initiated Play (C.I.P). This is where the children choose to free flow play within the nursery. This includes both indoor and outdoor play. During this time Adult Initiated Activities (A.I.A) are available for children derived from their next steps.
Lunch Time
This is a sociable occasion where children eat with practitioners and peers. Children then have the opportunity to look at books with their peers. We promote healthy eating. Please remember no products with nuts and ensure that your child's food is cut in a safe way for your child to eat.Please look at our lunch box idea leaflet HERE
Rolling Snack
Every day children are provided with fruit, water, milk and other snacks throughout their session. Fresh water is available all day.
Open Classroom
All activities your child has available to them are linked to the potential learning following the Early Years Foundation Stage (E.Y.F.S) and their individual interests. Parents and carers are welcome to share their child's learning journal with their child's key person at any time or during our terms open classrooms.
dates for your diary
Invites for our Easter Bonnet Parade and Song Time will be sent out soon.
We would like to invite the children to make an Easter Bonnet at home and bring it in to show.
Also on this day, parents and carers are invited in to listen to the children sing some Easter songs and join us for a picnic lunch which will follow.
The session will be
from 11am
Easter Bonnet Parade
and Song Time
Thursday 7th March- world book day children to dress up as their favourite book character (if your child does not attend this day then they are welcome to dress as their favourite book character any day that week and bring a named book to share w/c Monday 4th March)
World Book Day
Friday 15th March, the children will be taking part in fun activities throughout the day. Children can dress up and pay £1 for the charity. The theme this year is the squishy Red Nose symbolising squashing poverty. Bluey and friends are the adventures and resources we will be using in the Early years.
Children could dress up in fancy dress or as their favourite Mr/Miss character which is the character theme this year. There is also merchandise at Homesense, Amazon, Homebase and TK Maxx
Red Nose Day
Consultation meetings will be on the following dates per key person.
Please book in your 10-minute appointment with a member of staff.
Thursday 14th March – Candy Monday 18th March – Toni
Tuesday 19th March - Jeanette Wednesday 20th March – Bethany Thursday 21st March – Jade
Friday 22nd March – Ann-Marie
We will hold face to face meetings first thing in the morning and telephone consultations at lunch time.
Parent Consultation Week
W/C 29th April 2024
Gardening week is back!! Parents, Carers and family members are invited in to help us plant some flowers and seeds to brighten up our garden.
More information will be available soon.
Gardening Week
For 3 weeks we will be holding our Rhyme Time sessions. Family members are welcomed in to join in a rhyme time session. These will be held on the following days.
10.05.2023 – Rhyme Time Session 1 at 09.05am
16.05.2023 – Rhyme Time Session 2 at 09.05am
20.05.2023 – Rhyme Time Session 3 at 09.05am
Rhyme Time Week Sessions