1. Welcome to Woodmancote School
Reception Information Evening

2. Stages at Woodmancote School
Early Years Foundation Stage – Pre-school and Reception
Key Stage 1 (KS1) – Year 1+2
Key Stage 2 (KS2) – Years 3-6

3. Foundation Stage Curriculum
1) Personal, Social and Emotional development
2) Communication and Language
3) Literacy
4) Mathematics
5) Understanding of the World
6) Physical Development
7) Expressive Arts and Design
We use the Foundation Stage curriculum to assess your child’s progress throughout the year. This is a continuation of the records that pre school settings kept and passed on to school.
This is based on ongoing assessments and observations of the children. It covers all seven areas of learning in the Foundation Stage curriculum.

4. Parental Involvement Talk to us Reading diaries
Parent consultation evenings
Home-learning celebrations
WOW vouchers
Photos
Help your child to choose things to bring into school that are related to our theme
Help with home learning.

5. Communication Curriculum newsletters School newsletters
DOJO and class story
The reading record book
Pop in to see us!
Letters

6. Reading

7. Ways to get words off the page
Non word books
Use the pictures
Use repetition, rhyme and actions
Know the letter sounds
Try to make sense of the text (a good guess)
Know words by sight- word cards
Modelling the direction of reading and turning pages.
We need to use all of these strategies to be confident readers

8. ‘Jolly Phonics’ and ‘Letters and Sounds’
Teaches letter recognition linked to letter sounds
Each letter sound is linked to an action
Other phonemes (sounds) are included e.g. sh, ch, oo, ee, or
It is important to say the sounds correctly e.g. ‘sss’ not ‘suh’
Early teaching of putting sounds together to read words

9. S A T P a
pat
tap at
sat

10. To achieve happy, successful readers we need to work in partnership
Read daily with your child – try to make time in your routine
Regular exposure to lots of different types of books (remember story time too!)
Praise and encourage
Discuss the stories, pictures and words
Help your child learn the Jolly Phonics actions
Help your child learn the sight words in context
Know when to stop!
Have fun! Enjoy reading with your child and they will enjoy reading with you!

11. Writing in the Early Years
‘Language used in play is similar to more formal, literate uses of language required of children…’

12. What should their writing look like at the moment?
Depends on their experiences – writing in their world and in play:
Mark making
Scribbles
Patterns

14. Talk For Writing -Pie Corbett

15. Imitation and Immersion in a story - Familiarisation
Learning of a story really well off by heart using story language like ‘Once upon a time’
We use maps/mountains, actions. 
Getting into the story – book talk, drama, model making, art, etc.
Underpinned by phonics, sentence work and hand writing teaching in letters and sounds

16. INNOVATION – adapting the well-known text.
Change small parts of the well known stories e.g. we change the setting in Bear Hunt
Write parts of the story ‘hugging closely’ to the original – use that as a model
Invention….comes later!

17. Writing for a purpose Shopping lists / receipts Labels / signs
Write to friends / grandparents / tooth fairy… (thank you notes/Christmas lists)
Recipes books

18. Help at home
Let them see you writing and expose them to print as much as technology.
Go over Jolly Phonics sounds and actions
Praise your child when they have a go at writing- ask what it says
Practise the Talk for Writing stories and actions.
Enjoy seeing the progress!

19. Children are assessed as: emerging, expected or exceeding in early June.
Using recognisable letters to communicate meaning, but can't be read by self or others, not phonetically plausible.

20. EXPECTED WRITING. Some irregular words spelled correctly others phonetically plausible, can be read by child and others. Clear sentences.

22. Mathematics in the Early Years

23. Their journey has already started…
Your children will have come into school with a varied knowledge of maths concepts – try not to compare with other children at this stage.

24. Our Experiences…

25. Mistakes are beautiful!
Growth Mind-set…
Mistakes are beautiful!
Mistakes are beautiful!

26. What we are working towards…
Early Learning Goals.
Numbers
Children count reliably with numbers from 1 to 20, place them in order.
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.
Shape, Space and Measures
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.

27. What we do in school…

28. Ideas to help you at home…
How many cups on the table, stairs… count anything!
Count how much is in your shopping basket
Make a repeating pattern- cheerio colours or fruit
Looking and talking about shapes.
Board games- snakes and ladders.
Use directional language- in the car or using a pram.
Help with the washing- matching socks/ big or small.

29. Ways to help at home… continued….
Setting places at the table e.g. a cup for me, a cup for you, can you set the table for three people? Can you find a bigger plate?
Tidying up – putting similar items together, sorting toys
Matching lids to saucepans
Let your child count out items in books – how many animals are on the page, how many items are blue.
Using rhymes can also help develop your child’s awareness of sequencing
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