1. Early Years Foundation Stage FS1
EYFS
Early Years Foundation Stage
FS1

2. What we do….
Staff plan a mix of adult led activities (both in small groups and sometimes 1:1 work with children) and child initiated activities.
Staff observe children in their child initiated play and during group sessions to assess their learning and understanding and then set next steps.
Judgements are used to inform planning so that it is closely linked to the children's developmental needs and interests
Child interests help to plan our topics

3. The EYFS curriculum The Prime Areas
Communication and Language
Listening and attention
Understanding
Speaking
Physical Development
Moving and handling
Health and self care
Personal Social and Emotional Development
Self confidence and self awareness
Managing feelings and behaviour
Making relationships

4. Specific Areas Literacy Mathematics Understanding the world
Reading
Writing
Mathematics
Numbers
Shape space and measures
Understanding the world
People and communities
The world
Technology
Expressive Arts
Exploring media and materials
Being Imaginative

5. Basic Timetable

6. Things you will hear your children talking about!

7. Busy fingers

9. Group time

10. Cooperation
Curiosity
Learning powers
Determination
Reflectiveness

11. Child Initiated Learning

12. Our learning!
The first few weeks we spend setting in and learning about nursery environment. We have been exploring resources inside and out and getting to know each other.
We have a general topic of ‘starting school’ and have been talking about things we do at school, getting to know our routine and talk about how it feels to start somewhere new.
We will be learning about our learning powers in a few weeks with our Superhero dress-up day and a mini superhero topic
We will be looking at signs of autumn soon. In the next few weeks your child will come home with a bag for autumn treasures! We will also be exploring our spinney and looking at signs of autumn.

13. RE.. Our topics this term covered in RE are
- Myself – We are all precious to God
- Welcome – baptism
- Birthday – celebrating birthdays, Christmas
As part of our RE we also look a little at other festivals and celebrations that happen around the world and different faiths across the year. These include Diwali, Hunnakah, Chinese New Year, Holi and Eid just to name a few!
SH EYFS

14. Next term…
Our mini topic next half term will be ‘Dinosaurs’. As well as others that come from the children's interests. We will also look at the changing of the seasons, and covering our RE topics of Baptism, Advent and Christmas. This will hopefully include a trip to church to meet Father Derek.
We will have our Christmas play! We will also hopefully be do a small singing performance at the PTA Christmas fair!

15. Cooking
We will also be doing some cooking next half term. We ask for a contribution of £2 per half term to help fund this and we will cook as much as we can until the money runs out!! Some of the things we did last year include:
Biscuits
Pizzas
Santa sleighs
Flap jacks
Dips
Muffins
Diwali sweets

16. Munch Bunch Lunch Club 12- 1pm daily £4 per session
Run by Mrs Lewis and Mrs Coot in the nursery

17. Things you can do..
Moments From Home – you can contribute to your child’s Learning Journey book with notes from home, photos of special occasions or milestones for your child. This can be done by filling in a form from the cloakroom or by ing me.
Reading - sharing a story with your child is really important part of developing their love of reading! Library days are:
Green– Mondays
YELLOW – Tuesdays
RED – Wednesdays
BLUE– Thursdays

18. Things to remember!
Uniform - Reminder that uniform is black trousers (joggers or leggings), white polo shirt, comfy shoes with Velcro and red fleece
Names in ALL clothing and bags!
Spare boots at school for our visits to the Spinney
Water bottles – no squash

19. Dates for next term…
Here are some dates for diaries. We will also keep you updated with letters and texts of up coming events.
3rd October – superhero dress up day
11th October - Parent Consultations (details to follow)
21st October - Harvest festival assembly
24th-28th October - Half term
5th December - Occasional day
Not yet know - PTFA Christmas Fayre (after school)
16th December - EYFS Nativity Play , AM performance
20th or 21st December - FS Christmas Party
21st December – last day of term