{"id":237,"date":"2015-07-02T09:22:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T09:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/?page_id=237"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:29:00","slug":"nursery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/nursery\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4937\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2024\/02\/29\/this-week-in-cathedral-nursery-4\/4b3c0cdf-f05e-4062-9911-c8ff9131521a\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2024\/02\/29164917\/4B3C0CDF-F05E-4062-9911-C8FF9131521A.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1146,558\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"4B3C0CDF-F05E-4062-9911-C8FF9131521A\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2024\/02\/29164917\/4B3C0CDF-F05E-4062-9911-C8FF9131521A-300x146.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2024\/02\/29164917\/4B3C0CDF-F05E-4062-9911-C8FF9131521A-1024x499.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4937\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2024\/02\/29164917\/4B3C0CDF-F05E-4062-9911-C8FF9131521A-1024x499.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2024\/02\/29164917\/4B3C0CDF-F05E-4062-9911-C8FF9131521A-1024x499.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2024\/02\/29164917\/4B3C0CDF-F05E-4062-9911-C8FF9131521A-300x146.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2024\/02\/29164917\/4B3C0CDF-F05E-4062-9911-C8FF9131521A-768x374.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2024\/02\/29164917\/4B3C0CDF-F05E-4062-9911-C8FF9131521A.jpeg 1146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>Cathedral Nursery Class has four distinct learning areas:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>LEARNING AREA 1<\/strong><\/span>: Snack, Baking, Loving Lunches, Home Area<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>LEARNING AREA 2<\/strong><\/span>: Creative, Sand, Water<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong>LEARNING AREA 3<\/strong><\/span>: STEM, Block Play<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>LEARNING AREA 4<\/strong><\/span>: Outdoors (Garden, Building, Discovery, Creative)<\/p>\n<p>Literacy and numeracy are incorporated throughout the playroom and there is also a dedicated reading area. Early Years Practitioners plan, organise, facilitate and support the children\u2019s learning across the different areas in line with our overarching pedagogy (see below).<\/p>\n<p>The overarching pedagogy (the way in which we plan, organise, facilitate and support learning) in Cathedral Nursery Class draws on the work of Julie Fisher (2016) and exploits all three of the main contexts in which children learn:<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADULT-LED LEARNING<\/strong>: <em>practitioners<\/em><em>\u00a0focus children\u2019s thinking<\/em><br \/>\nThe adult has planned objectives\/outcomes and stays with children whilst learning takes place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADULT-INITIATED LEARNING<\/strong>: <em>practitioners\u00a0<\/em><em>ignite children\u2019s thinking<\/em><br \/>\nThe adult sets up a starting point, invitation, provocation or stimulus with planned intentions and then stands back to wait, watch and wonder. Children engage independently until the adult joins to observe, interact or enhance learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHILD-LED LEARNING<\/strong>: <em>practitioners<\/em><em>\u00a0follow children\u2019s thinking<\/em><br \/>\nResources, experiences and outcomes are freely chosen by the child and are under the control of the child. This may or may not involve direct interaction with the adult.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10367\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/active8\/img_7321\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/08071241\/IMG_7321.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,569\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_7321\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/08071241\/IMG_7321-300x142.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/08071241\/IMG_7321-1024x486.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10367\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/08071241\/IMG_7321-1024x486.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/08071241\/IMG_7321-1024x486.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/08071241\/IMG_7321-300x142.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/08071241\/IMG_7321-768x364.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/08071241\/IMG_7321.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathedral Nursery Class has four distinct learning areas: LEARNING AREA 1: Snack, Baking, Loving Lunches, Home Area LEARNING AREA 2: Creative, Sand, Water LEARNING AREA 3: STEM, Block Play LEARNING AREA 4: Outdoors (Garden, Building, Discovery, Creative) Literacy and numeracy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/nursery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16774,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-237","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10419,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions\/10419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}