Following a long period of preparation, we are pleased to share that from September 2025, our Nursery provision will be increasing to a full-day offering, with the option for children to join us from 8.50am through to 3.15pm.  More details can be found on our website at https://www.nashmills.herts.sch.uk/nursery-admissions/.  Please share this news with friends and family who may be considering places for Nursery from next year.

Children can join us the term after their 3rd birthday and we do still have spaces in our Nursery class.  Please bear our fantastic Nursery provision in mind!

At the start of the new school year, it is a good opportunity to share with you information about the curriculum we deliver at Nash Mills.  This week, we will look at RE.

As a Church of England school, RE is a key area of our curriculum, which is taught to all pupils as they move through the school.  Each term, pupils will study a different topic, some being Christianity-based, others being reflective of religions that are followed within our school community.  In line with our whole-school vision for education, based on The Good Samaritan, RE is taught in a way that enables pupils to gain understanding of their own feelings and values as well those of others.  In understanding how other people live, our children will be better able to show compassion, empathy and love as part of a wider community.

Learning in RE is different from collective worship as it encompasses many different world views and supports our children to have a better understanding of the world around them.  

Within each topic, whether Christianity-based or not, pupils follow a similar pattern of learning.  Firstly, they will think about what the topic means to them; for example if pupils are learning about belonging within a religion, they will first spent time considering what belonging is and how it might look personally to them (by being part of our school or part of a club).  Each topic begins with a key question, which pupils will also be exposed to and have time to explore.  During the second stage of learning, the children consider what is written or told about the religion that they are studying.  This could be by looking at religious texts or thinking about how people celebrate different fesitvals.  The children will then spend time thinking about why people do this; what beliefs they may have which guide them in their lives.  Finally, the children will be encouraged to make connections between the different things that they have learnt within the topic and other things that they have previously learnt.  This helps them to remember key concepts and ideas.

As with our entire curriculum, more information about what we teach at Nash Mills can be found on the curriculum pages of our website.  Please do have a look if you would like to learn a little more!