1. EYFS Parents Curriculum Meeting

2. EYFS Curriculum. Split into 7 areas. Three Prime Areas
Personal, Social, Emotional Development
Physical Development
Communication and Language
Four Specific Areas
Literacy
Mathematics
Expressive Arts and Design
Understanding the World

3. Characteristics of Effective Learning.
Children assessed on how they learn.
Split into 3 Areas
Active Learning- Motivation
Playing and Exploring- Engagement
Creating and Thinking Critically- Thinking

8. Early Learning Goal – Number
Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number.
Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single- digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer.
They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.

9. Early Learning Goal – Shape, Space and Measure
Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems.
They recognise, create and describe patterns.
They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.

10. Mathematics Children will be taught...
Number skills – Counting, ordering, writing, recognising numbers up to 20 and beyond.
Calculation – 1 more, 1 less, simple addition/ subtraction, sharing, counting in 2s, 5,s 10s.
Shape space and measures – Simple time, weighing, 2d/ 3d shapes, measuring height/ length, capacity, time and money
Problem Solving – estimating, using and applying above skills.

11. What we do in School
Daily activities to support the development of number skill
- Labels and signs around the classroom and school
- Practical activities e.g. puppets. (Ten in a Bed), pegs and boards, threading beads.
- Outdoor Learning area to support learning objectives and extend their Child Initiated Play
- Board games, puzzles, Lotto.
- Shape and sorting activities

12. What can you do at Home? What can you do to help?
Use numbers in all contexts, look at numbers in the environment, in shops, on television.
Give opportunities to use money to help solve simple problems and recognise that it has a purpose.
Count in 1s, 2s,5s and 10s.
Sing and say number rhymes.
Talk about shapes 2D and 3D e.g. peas, fish fingers
Use sand and water trays in the garden
Use children to help pour cold drinks
Use adding and take away vocabulary.

14. Literacy Split into Reading and Writing
Phonics is a Major Part of this.

15. Early Learning Goal – Reading
Children read and understand simple sentences.
They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately.
They also read some common irregular words (tricky red words).
They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read

16. Early Learning Goal – Writing
Children read and understand simple sentences.
They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately.
They also read some common irregular words (tricky red words).
They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read

17. Read, Write Inc Phonics
We follow the ‘Read, Write, Inc’ phonics scheme of work.
Children are taught in small groups on a daily basis, they are taught a new sound everyday.
Children are grouped according to their existing phonic knowledge
They are reassessed every 6 weeks
They all follow a systematic approach

18. Structure of The Lesson
Start with the introduction of a sound
Hear and say sound
Read and say sound
Recap previously learned speed sounds
Write new sound
Word time – blending and segmenting using Fred Talk
Fred Fingers for spelling

19. Green Words Words that we can sound out
Have sound buttons underneath to help
S-a-t, p-i-n.
Sent home on Word Sheets, help child to read them

20. Red Words Words that we cant sound out Tricky words
Will be sent home on Word Sheets
Help child to read them

21. What can you do to help? Practise the Sound at Home
Help your child do the letter formation practise
Practise Blending and segmenting for example can you s-i-t down.

22. What can you do to help?
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23. What we do in School
Daily activities to support the development of reading skills
- Book areas in classrooms allowing children to explore and enjoy investigating books.
- Modelling reading , encouraging children to engage with the book, (recognising letters / sounds or words, questioning, big books).
-Labels and signs around the classroom and school

24. What you can do to help
Provide your child with a regular quality reading time and make it important for both of you.
Visit the library or bookshop regularly to give them a variety of books to look at/ be read to them.
Sing or say nursery rhymes regularly.
Allow your child to learn to read at their own speed. -Especially with younger children, think how they learned to crawl, walk and talk at different speeds to peers, reading is the same.
Don’t worry if it takes them time to learn to read!

25. Writing
Children start writing by making marks on a paper, some of which they can explain.
Once they start to grasp the concept of letters, they will experiment with writing them, usually they will want to write their name first.
Children who have started to segment and blend sounds, will use this to help them with writing, e.g. Rhyming books.
Emergent writing is the first form of writing. Research has shown that children will hear the first consonant in a word, then the last consonant, and finally the middle sound.

26. Writing- What we Do in School
Read Write Inc sessions introduce a new sound everyday each sound is linked to a phrase that helps them to remember how to form each sound.
Emergent writing in independent work – role play, writing corners, drawing, tracing…
White boards for both focused and child initiated activities, allowing they to explore trying letter without fear of getting it wrong.
Big movements – Water painting, chalking, painting etc. to develop their muscles ready for writing.
Opportunities to try writing for different purposes e.g. little books, labelling, writing about own activities, cards.

27. Writing- What you can do to help
Use sound cards, to help children know correct formation of lower case letters. If children are forming letters incorrectly praise their attempts, and show them the correct way.
Give children opportunities to explore with mark making and writing, e.g. writing shopping lists, making books, postcards to grandparents, diaries, scrapbooks etc. Please feel free to bring them into show!
Find things they are interested in to inspire them to want to act out characters and stories and then write about them e.g. super heroes, princesses, fairytales.

28. WOW Slips Parents contribution to Learning Journals
Very important that these get filled in and sent to school
Anything amazing that your child has done at home

29. EYFS Assessment
Children are assessed formally at the End of The Year Against the 17 Early Learning Goals.
Emerging, Expected, Exceeding.
Throughout the Year children are judged against Development Matters and the Early Learning Goal