On this page you will find Nursery staff contact details and useful early years information
Please click here to log onto your child’s Tapestry account. Here you will find out all the information that you need about what’s going on in Nursery at Bowerham.
Nursery uniforms are available for purchase — how cute is that!
For more details about our supplier, The Uniform & Leisurewear Shop, located on Common Garden Street in Lancaster, please click the link below:
https://www.bowerham.lancs.sch.uk/uniform/
Due to the wide range of colour options, orders cannot be placed via the website. However, you are welcome to purchase the uniforms directly from the shop.
The DfE has published a new guide for parents – ‘What to expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage’ (formerly ‘What to expect when’) which guides parents through what to expect in their child’s development. It aligns with the new Development Matters 2021 to help parents find out more about their child’s development whilst they are in Nursery and Reception Class.
We love being able to upload all our observations to share with you throughout each half term as well as being able to share all the exciting things you upload at home too!
Your Tapestry account for your child is only ‘live’ for the length of time they are at our school or Nursery in Early Years. Once they go into year 1 or to another school you will no longer have access to your child’s Tapestry account.
We want you to be able to have this learning journey as your own and therefore we will send you a PDF download of your child’s learning journey at the end of each academic year. This can then be saved on your hard drive to then enable you to keep it ‘forever’! You will be notified of the download via your childs Tapestry account. Downloads will then expire within 1 month.
Please note: you will need to access Tapestry through their website and not the app to be able to successfully download your child’s observations.
The link below will take you through the process of how to download your child’s Tapestry observations.
How to download your child’s Tapestry observations
At Bowerham we value the importance of outdoor play and children have the opportunity to be outside for most of the day. As such, we need to make sure that your child is kept safe in the sun. As parents, it is your responsibility to ensure your child is kept safe in the sun. The following requirements are essential in order for staff to allow your child to play outside-
Nursery staff will ensure that children wear their sun hats when playing outside.
Staff will also re-apply sun cream to your child if they are in Nursery all day. Please note that this only applies to children who are in Nursery for the full day. We have purchased sun cream – Boots Soltan Kids Factor 50 hypoallergenic sun care lotion, which we will apply before the children go outside for the afternoon session. If you do not wish for your child to use this due to an allergy and would like to provide your own lotion, please send your sun lotion in a named bottle – which can be left in Nursery for the summer. Lotion cannot be kept in children’s bags for safety reasons. Our sun cream will be available for you to ‘patch’ test your child if needed.
The Childcare Sufficiency Team are running a survey regarding parent views on wrap around care for children, please see link for more information and how you can complete the survey.
If you have any queries, please contact them at schoolschildcare@lancashire.gov.uk
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