Welcome to Early Years!
In Early Years we have two classes (Gold Class and Silver Class), who work and play together.
Gold Class is a Reception class of 30 incredible children led by Ms Del Corso and Silver Class is a Reception class of 30 equally incredible children led by Mrs Coates-Dale and Ms Mutter. We have a great team of teaching assistants in Early Years: Miss Crook, Ms English and Miss Seed. We work hard together to build a happy and engaging learning environment for everybody to thrive in and to have the best possible start to their exciting school learning journey.
Our topic for the Summer 1 term is Look what is happening… and we will be focusing on traditional tales, storytelling, story writing, acting and performing some of our favourite traditional tales.
This half-term we will continue Level 3 Phonics with the Floppy’s Phonics Programme, where we will learn additional phonemes with more than one letter and vowel digraphs and trigraphs (digraphs e.g. /air/, /er/, /ure/ etc). Children will continue to blend sounds to read and segment sounds for writing, and continue to learn new tricky words that do not follow the phonic code. In Guided reading we will re-read texts to focus on improving our fluency and comprehension. In writing we will focus on using our writing rules to write clear sentences and checking that our sentence makes sense.
In maths we will consolidate our counting skills, counting to larger numbers and developing a wider range of counting strategies to help us to count successfully beyond 10. We will learn to become more independent when counting larger amounts of objects by learning to use the resources available to us in the classroom and learn to self-select these when we need them to support us to solve a problem. We will also be revisiting 3D shapes and measuring length, mass and capacity.
Children will continue to bring reading books home this half term and have guided reading in school weekly. Please make sure to bring book bags, reading records and books into school every day just in case your child reads with an adult or reading buddy on a different day.
This half term we will continue to attend Forest School led by our Forest School Teachers, Ms Mutter and Ms English. Every child will have Forest School weekly on either Wednesday or Thursday. Forest school is about: spending regular time in nature; allowing the child to lead the way; developing the whole child, it supports their physical, social, emotional, spiritual and intellectual development; building a community; and giving children opportunities to take risks that are appropriate to them.
General Information
You will receive weekly newsletters through Parent Mail outlining what we have covered during the week and how you can support children with consolidating their learning.
P.E. lessons will usually take place on Tuesdays and/or Thursday, and will either be outdoors or indoors. Please keep PE kits in school so we can take advantage of opportunities on other days too. PE kit consists of: navy blue shorts, white t-shirt, navy blue tracksuit (top and bottoms), velcro strap trainers or plimsolls and spare socks in a draw string bag – remember to name all clothing and bag clearly!
Children have a fruit snack and milk every day (the milk is available through Cool Milk and free for all children up until the age of 5, after which you will be asked if you wish to continue and contribute to the cost). Children should bring in their own named water bottles to school and take them home daily to be cleaned.
If you have any questions about school, please contact the Office by phone, email, in person or come and find us!
Useful Information
EY Curriculum Descriptor Summer 1 24
EY Curriculum Descriptor Spring 2 24
EY Curriculum Descriptor Spring1 24
EY Curriculum Descriptor Aut2 2023
EY Curriculum Descriptor Aut1 23
YR long term planning overview 2023-24
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Penpals – Example letter formation before joining
What to expect in the EYFS – A guide for Parents
Floppys Phonics Letter to parents and carers
Floppy Phonics extra practice zone