1. Welcome to Class 1! at North and South Cowton Community Primary School

2. Class 1 - Staff Class Teacher – Miss Cheesbrough TA – Miss Bellis
TA – Mr Scott
TA – A.N Other
PPA Cover – Mr Briggs

3. The EYFS Profile?
The EYFS Profile summarises and describes children’s attainment at the end of EYFS. It is based on ongoing observation and assessment in 3 prime areas and 4 specific areas, and 3 characteristics of effective learning
Moderation with Pre-Schools
Show I – Pad

4. Characteristics of Effective Learning
The characteristics of effective learning underpin all seven areas of development.
They are
Playing and exploring
Active learning
Creating and thinking critically

5. PSED Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Making friends
Learning rules
Learning daily routines
Learning about other
cultures and respect
Understanding boundaries
Making relationships with adults

6. PSED - How can you help?
You can help by encouraging your child to use the toilet independently, wash their hands, put on and fasten their coats.
Playing games which encourage sharing and turn taking will help your child to build their social skills.

7. Physical Development Gross and fine motor skills Malleable area
Mark making area
Shoes and coats
PE – getting changed too
Dance
Outdoor area
Pencil control

8. Physical Development – How can you help?
Give children time to run, jump, climb and play outdoors
Encourage children in activities such as building, drawing, threading beads, or filling and emptying containers in the water – all of which develop manipulative skills.

9. CLD Communication and Language Development
Listening and attention
Speaking
Understanding

10. CLL – How you can help? Practise Show and Tell at home
Singing songs and nursery rhymes
Taking time to listen to them talking about things they’ve done and answering their questions

11. Literacy Reading Writing Handwriting -cursive
Modelling correct letter formation and pencil grip
Phonics - workshops

12. Literacy - How you can help?
Read regularly to the children
Listen to the read and make comments in the Reading record
Encourage mark making
Read signs/labels/magazines
Support with spelling

13. Mathematics Counting Recognising numbers and what they mean
Calculation
Shape
Pattern
Problem solving
Measuring

14. Maths – How can you help?
Talk about the shapes you can see in the environment
Comparing things which are heavy and light or long and short
Pointing out numbers all around
Singing counting songs and rhymes
Counting, adding and subtracting anything and everything - socks, cars, shopping, cutlery, fingers and toes!

15. Expressive arts and design
Role play
Art
Painting
Drawing
Dance
Music
Singing
Story
Imagination

16. Expressive arts and design– How can you help?
Talk with your child about their imaginative play and join in if possible!
Encourage them to be flexible in their thinking and use of materials and praising them for their efforts or ideas as well as the end product

17. Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Exploring
Investigating
Learning about other cultures, places, things that happened in the past and living things
ICT
Constructing
Educational visits
Outdoor area

18. Knowledge and Understanding of the World – How can you help?
Talk with your child about the places they go and things they see in the world around them
Answering and asking questions - what if…? Why do you think…? How did you…?
Letting children join in with everyday activities - washing up, cooking, shopping, helping in the garden...
If possible let them have access to ICT, CD players, mobile phones, computers etc

19. General Information School day 9:00-3:35 Breakfast club 7:45-8.50
£3 with Breakfast, £1 after 8, 50p after 8:30
School dinners free
After school clubs until 5:30, Monday to Thursday and 4:30 on Friday

20. General Information Forms to fill in
Uniform – children can wear red polo shirts
Regular meetings 3:15 on a Friday
Home/school communication
Website
Open door policy

21. First week we start back on Tuesday 8th September
Full days from the off
Will contact parents if we need to – not happened yet!
Clubs start, may be too much for the first week.

22. Questions
Thank you!