EYFS
Introducing the Team ...
Miss C Everitt - Class 1 Teacher & Phase Leader
Mrs R Viljoen - Class 2 Teacher
Mrs A Holgate ) - Class 3 Teacher
Start and End of Day Routine
Each morning your child should enter through their classroom door:
- Class 1 – Children enter through the external classroom door (first door on the left, as you enter through the playground)
- Class 2 – Children enter through the corridor door (second door on the left, as you enter through the playground)
- Class 3 - Children enter through the wooden gate (next to the terrapin)
Although teachers are happy to talk with parents briefly at this time, we ask that if you have a more detailed matter to discuss you arrange a mutually convenient time after school.
Children are also welcome to attend Breakfast Club at 8.15am (paid) or 8.30am (free) where toast, crumpets and juice are provided free of charge. This is open to all children.
After 8.45am, your child will be classed as late as this is when the registers close. Please ensure your child is on time each day as in the mornings we spend time learning our phonics.
At the end of the day, children are to be collected at 3.15pm from their classroom entrance/exit.
Welcome to EYFS
Year Group information re: PE/Games, Forest School & Homework
Outdoor Learning (starting after October half term)
Class 1 - Monday
Class 2 - Monday
Class 3 - Tuesday
Send your children wearing their outdoor learning clothes: joggers, long sleeves, waterproof trousers and waterproof coat or a puddle suit.
Send your child with their uniform in a named bag - ensure ALL items are named. Children will get changed into this after their forest school session. This must include spare socks and their school shoes.
Your child needs to keep a pair of named wellies in school all year, these are used for forest school and in our outdoor area where the children have access to mud, sand and water all day.
Please encourage your child to practice dressing independently at home, including doing up their coat and putting on their school shoes.
Although your child may be fully toilet trained, children do occasionally have accidents at school including spilling water outside, jumping in a puddle on the playground or getting a little messy in the classroom. It is important that children have spare clothes, including socks and pants. These can be brought in at the start of term and stay on their peg until they are needed.
Class 1 - Thursday
Class 2 - Friday
Class 3 - Thursday
You are expected to read with your child at least 4 times per week, please add a note into their reading record when you have read with them. Please ensure your child’s reading books and their reading record is in school every day. We will change your child's book on a Friday if it has been read at home.
Please ensure their reading book and reading record come into school every day so that we can read with them in school.
Homework is sent home every Friday from Term 2 to be completed at home with your child. This will include any sounds and Harder to Read and Spell Words that have been taught that week and suggested activities.
Overview of the Curriculum
In EYFS, we follow the Development Matters (2021) framework. Through a mixture of adult led, adult directed and child initiated learning we cover the seven areas of learning and plan for the characteristics of effective teaching and learning.
In ELS Phonics, EYFS children learn to say a sound for all the letters of the alphabet, as well as for many digraphs and trigraphs. Children learn to blend sounds in order to read words and segment the sounds in order to spell words phonetically. Children also learn a number of “harder to read and spell words”.
In Maths, EYFS children explore numbers 1 to 10 in depth, learning to count, subitise, recognise, compare and compose the numbers, as well as learning to recall addition and subtraction facts for the numbers up to 10. Children also explore shape, space and measure.
In Writing, EYFS children learn to tell a number of different stories and begin to innovate those stories, in order to create their own stories.
In our Foundation Curriculum, EYFS children explore a different theme each term (see curriculum overviews).
Useful Links for Home Learning
ELS -How to pronounce pure sounds
ELS – How to blend sounds to read
