Welcome to EYFS!

 Our Class Teacher is Mrs Morton 

Our superhero helpers are Mrs Ruane and Mrs Latif. They help us with our learning everyday!

Every Tuesday we welcome all parents and carers into our classroom for our weekly Stay & Read session from 3.00pm until 3.20pm.

We would love to see you!

Our daily routine:

Our morning: 

Phonics, Literacy and Maths

Tuesday mornings: PE

Our afternoon:

Worship and the wider curriculum (Understanding of the world, Expressive arts and design and PSED)

One of the magical skills children will learn to do this year is to read!

We teach reading through daily Phonics lessons and by reading a selection of whole class topic based stories every term. To help your child develop these magical skills we ask that you read everyday for at least 10 minutes at home with your child and help them to practise their phonics sounds daily too.  Children will be heard read in class every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and reading books will be changed on these days. 

In Early Years we are very active and physical learners and we love to develop our knowledge and skills both indoors and outdoors. Outdoor learning will be a huge part of our daily routine so please ensure your child comes to school in suitable footwear and clothing. Children need a warm coat, hat, scarf and gloves to ensure they are ready for all weathers!

Collective Worship in EYFS

Every day we gather together for collective worship we were focus on topics linked to stories in the Bible and reflect on the ways that God wants us to live our lives.

Monday: Whole school collective worship in hall

Tuesday: Singing worship 

Wednesday: Key Stage worship led by Lorelli.

Thursday: Class worship following Jack in the Box

Jack in the box

Friday: Celebration worship. 

Welcome to EYFS!!

All of the children are doing a really good job at settling into their new classroom and follow our new routine. They have begun to make new friends and have enjoyed exploring both our indoor and outdoor environment. We can't wait to see how the children grow and develop over their first half term in school as we begin learning to read, write and learn key maths skills.

Some examples of our indoor learning since we started last week!

Some examples of the children exploring our outdoor learning space!

Our first topic this year is ' All About Me'. We are really looking forward to learning more about our new children and things they enjoy doing with their families when they are not at school.

All the children have made an amazing start to their Phonics journey over the last 2 weeks. They enjoy learning new phonemes and have worked really hard on their letter formation!


Our first Drawing Club story has been 'The Gruffalo', the children have loved learning all about the mouse and the Gruffalo and have had an amazing go at drawing their very own Gruffalo!

Our children have continued to make new friends and have had lots of fun exploring our indoor and outdoor learning environments. 

We have been talking about our feelings and emotions using The Colour Monster children. Children have been exploring what makes them feel happy, sad, angry and loved.

We even used the colour monster to inspire our colour mixing investigation which the children loved!

Children in Reception have been exploring their bodies and how they change over time. We talked about how when we are born we are a baby then we grow into a child and then become an adult. The children had a think about what they would like to be when they grow up! We have lots of doctors and nurses, police officers, refuse collection people and a whole world of other ideas. 

Dress as a rock star day!!

The children looked amazing on our 'Dress as a rock star' day to celebrate the launch of TT Rock stars and Numbots.

Don't the children look amazing!

We have learnt lots of different parts of our bodies and have enjoyed learning 'Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes'.

The children are continuing to really enjoy independent writing activities within class.

Look at our amazing progress with our fine motor skills.

 

Autumn 2

Wow, what a busy Autumn 2 term we have had in Reception. The children continue to make new friends and understand our school rules and expectations. They have had lots of fun learning all about real superheroes who help us in our community as well as superheroes in storybooks. 

The children had lots of fun learning about police officers and how they help us and we even had a go at making our own finger prints just like people do at the police station!

Then we had a go at using cereal boxes to make our very own 3D emergency vehicles. The children could chose to make a fire engine, police car or ambulance. We think they all look amazing!

To celebrate Bonfire Night we made rockets and read the story 'Whatever Next'.

In PSED the children have continued to talk about themselves and this half term we explored our favourite story books from home. It was lovely to share the children's favourite books with the class and the children loved explaining why it was their favourite book.

As part of our whole school Interfaith week, Reception children visited St John's church and Lorelli talked to us all about the cross, alter, candles, stained glass windows and the bible. She also showed us some of the special clothes she wears during her special worships. 

 

The children have continued to work really hard on their letter formation.

In Maths we have continued to learn about our numbers up to 10. The children have really enjoyed working with the part whole models to represent numbers in different ways. 

We have loved getting ready for the festive season in Reception Class. We have made colourful baubles, snowman cards and our families came in to make Christingles for our whole school Christingle worship.

The children really enjoyed writing letters to Santa!

Then we got all dressed up for our Christmas party!

We wish all our families a very Merry Christmas and we look forward to continuing our learning journey together in 2025!

Spring One 

What an exciting start to Spring term we have had. The children came into school to find a crime scene on the carpet where someone or something has come into our classroom and made a big mess on the carpet!

Three pig carpet

The children were helping the police to gather information to find out who had been in our classroom and upset the little pigs!

We have started looking at the story 'The Three Little Pigs' and we started by talking about the pigs feelings when they saw the big bad wolf!

We also used our amazing fine motor skills to create some pig pictures using watercolours. We think they turned out amazingly!

The children had lots of fun designing and making their own houses for the 3 little pigs!

The children in Reception Class attended their very first school disco to celebrate Valentine's Day! Don't they look amazing in their party clothes. 

We celebrated Chinese New Year by learning the Zodiac story, making snakes and trying different types of Chinese foods.

The children have been learning about 'changing state' and how different materials change when they are hot and cold. We explored what happens to water when it is hot or cold and we also looked at what happens when we heat up chocolate and made some yummy crispy buns!

Changing State

Spring Two

Amazing Animals

This half term our topic has being all about different animals and their habitats. 

Our story in Literacy was 'The Tiger who came for tea' and the children have done lots of super writing and fact finding all about tigers! We even had a go at drawing our own tigers!

Tigers!

Our focus artist has been 'Henri Rousseau' and the children have done a great job at making their own interpretations of his famous art piece 'Tiger in a tropical storm'.

Our Reception children went on an exciting trip to Lancashire Play Village. They could take on the role of the farmer, builder, police officer, postal workers, make up artists, hairdressers, vets, shopkeepers and cafe owners. They had lots of fun it was a great morning out!

To celebrate World Book Day this year, children were asked to dress as a word! The children did an amazing job. Can you guess what word they are?

We had some very cute and fluffy visitors in class this half term. Year 2 let their chicks visit so the children could learn all about where they came from and how to look after them. 

We have taken part on our first annual egg rolling competition!

All the children did an amazing job at designing and decorating their eggs and had lots of fun watching roll down the tube to find our winners.

Receptions winners were: Maryam, Callie and Reggie!

As we have been learning about Easter and how Christian's celebrate Easter we have been trying hot cross buns. Some children loved them and some were not so sure but we were proud of them all for trying!

Hot cross buns

These are all the amazing things we will be learning about this year.

EYFS Curriculum

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