October 2015
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum (EYFS) EYFS Profile Phonics Reading Maths General Information
Playing and Exploring – engagement Active Learning – motivation Creating and Thinking Critically - thinking
A unique child Positive relationships Enabling environments Learning and development
Personal, social and emotional development. Communication and language. Physical development.
Mathematics Literacy Understanding the World Expressive Arts and Design
Self registration (choosing lunch) Exploring and learning Reading/Big Book Whole class session Adult guided activities Child initiated learning Phonics
Lunch in the hall Playtime after lunch Handwriting and busy fingers More adult guided activities and child initiated learning Story time Home time
Using the Early Learning Goals an assessment of your child’s progress is made throughout the year. These assessments are based on observations and information gathered. The assessments results are, in June, reported to yourselves, Year 1 teachers and County.
Share information about what your child can do during parent interviews and through ‘WOW’ stickers. Comment on what your child can do in your purple message book. Comment on how children have responded to reading at home. Encourage independence and a love of learning.
In Reception we teach a daily phonics lesson following the Letters and Sounds scheme where children are taught to say, read and write sounds. The children are currently learning to hear different sounds, rhyme and alliteration. These form the basic skills needed before learning to read and write. We focus on teaching the children the name of a letter and to say the sound the letter makes. We teach children to say the pure sound, without adding ‘uh ’!
There are 6 phases within Letters and Sounds. Phases 1-4 are taught in Reception. Some words you may hear: ◦ Phoneme ◦ Grapheme ◦ Digraph ◦ Trigraph We ensure the teaching and learning of each letter and sound is made fun and interactive.
We teach the children to use their sound knowledge to read simple words. (sound blend) m-a-tmat sh-o-pshop We teach children to use their fingers to help spell words. We touch each finger as we say each sound. c-a-tcat k-i-ngking
Along side our phased phonic teaching we teach the children ‘tricky words’ which cannot be easily decoded. For example: the, to, go, all, was, you, are, they These are fed into our phonics planning for the children to learn by sight.
Encourage your child to teach you the sounds they have been taught. Find the letters to match the sounds when you are reading together. Find objects in the house that start with certain sounds.
Children read with an adult at least once a week. Messages and children’s progress can be recorded in the purple message book. Children will bring home high frequency words for you to practise together at home (these will include some of the tricky words taught in phonics).
Share a variety of books with your child. Listen to your child ‘read’ regularly. Join a library. Read to your child exposing them to more complex language. Practise reading key words.
We encourage lots of gross and fine motor movements to improve pencil control. Writing is closely linked to phonics. We use an interactive handwriting scheme – Penpals.
Encourage your child to have a go using the sounds they have learnt through phonics. Exercising muscles e.g. monkey bars, climbing frames, wheelbarrow races, pegging, squeezing sponges, bead threading
Fun Active Thematic Purposeful Successful
Counting Counting objects reliably Using mathematical language Practical addition and subtraction.
2D/3D shape. Repeating patterns. Measures- non standard units. Comparing quantities. Problem solving.
Use real money Use time vocabulary Play board games Use mathematical language Continue to spot numbers in the environment.
Foster independence. Named clothes. Reward system. Book bags. Wellies, rain coats and sunhats. Long hair tied back. Named clothes.