Welcome to EYFS!
Our Class Teacher is Mrs Morton
Our superhero helpers are Mrs Ruane and Mrs Finch. They help us with our learning everyday!
Every Wednesday 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
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!
Welcome to EYFS!!
Our first half term is flying by and the children are doing an amazing job at settling into their new classroom and new routines. Lots of new friendships are being made and the children are becoming more confident everyday!
So far this half term we have had lots of outdoor learning thanks to the beautiful weather and the children have become more familiar with our outdoor learning activities.
Autumn 1 Certificate Winners!
Every Friday we celebrate our weeks achievements with a Celebration Assembly where six certificates are awarded to children for their hard work that week. Well done to the children who received a certificate this half term!
With our topic been 'All About Me' this half term, the adults in Reception class have loved finding out all about the children's favourite things. The children have really enjoyed bringing in their favourite toys and stories to share with their new friends!
We have made a fantastic start to our Phonics learning in class and to help strengthen our fingers we have been taking part in a daily dough disco session which the children love. This weeks song has been 'The Hokey Cokey'. We have not only been learning how to say our new phonemes but also how to write them too. Look at the amazing work our children have produced in week 3 of their school journey!
On Wednesday 20th September we had a 'Come to school as a rock star' day. Look how amazing the children looked!
Our focus texts this half term will be The Little Red Hen, The Gruffalo and The Colour Monster.
In Maths this half term we have done lots of work on sorting and matching. Mrs Morton even asked us to help her with her washing and brought in lots of smelly socks for us to match up and sort. We had lots of fun helping Mrs Morton even if her socks were a little stinky!
We have also been learning about numbers 1,2 and 3 and using different maths equipment to represent the numbers in different ways!
As part or our Understanding of the World topic 'All About Me' we have been learning all about different body parts and our 5 senses. We went on an Autumn walk to use our 5 senses to explore the environment around us.
Naming body parts
We have also enjoyed exploring magnets and how they work. We talked about how something has to be made from the material called metal in order for it to stick (attract) to the magnet.
Our fine motor skills have already started to improve and the children have been working so hard on writing their names and the phonemes we have been learning in Phonics!
We ended our first half term together with an AMAZING visit from a Circus school! The children learnt how to juggle with scarves, how to spin a plate on their finger and stick and how to move ribbons in a creative, magical way! The children loved been able to explore all the circus equipment and showed resilience when things became tricky!
Autumn Two
Superheroes!
This half term we have started off by learning about special days in October and November including Bonfire Night,Remembrance Day, Diwali.
Bonfire Night
Children explored why people celebrate Bonfire Night and how they celebrate it. We read lots of stories and watched videos showing people celebrating Bonfire and learnt about about Guy Fawkes.
The children loved watching the fireworks and seeing all the different colours in the sky.
We had a go at making our own rockets using different materials.
We also did a little experiment where we made a explosion using fizzy pop and mints.
Exploding Rockets
We used 2D shapes to make rockets too.
Remembrance Day
Hedgehog Class will remember them.
The children have used pictures and stories to understand that on Remembrance day we remember the soldiers who have fought in wars in the past and present and we say thank you to them.
The children have learnt about poppies and why they are special and have made a wreath of poppies to display in school.
We Will Remember Them
Remembrance Wreath
Diwali
The children read stories together to learn about the festival of light also known as Diwali! The children loved learning the story of Rama and Sita and had a go at making their own Diya lamps using clay to welcome the Goddesses into their own homes.
As part of our superhero topic this half term we have been learning about people who help us in our community.
We have talked about doctors, nurses, fire fighters, police officers and paramedics and learnt about their amazing jobs and how they help us.
Nurse Sam came to visit us in class and shared lots of special equipment she uses to be able to do her amazing job of being a nurse.
We then explored different emergency vehicles and used our creative skills to make our very own ambulances, police cars and fire engines!
What do you think! We loved them!
Our children loved preparing for Christmas. We welcomed parents in for Christingle making!
Then they were the stars of the show in our Key Stage 1 performance of 'Whoops a Daisy Angel'. The children did an amazing job at singing all the songs and our girls where the sparkling snowflakes in one of the main songs!
We hope you all have a fabulous Christmas filled with love and hope!
We look forward to more adventures when we return in 2024!
Spring 1
Welcome back!
This half term we are learning about lots and lots of different fairy tales in Reception Class. Our topic 'Once upon a time' allows the children to learn some storybook classics and use their imaginations and creative skills in our Drawing Club sessions to create new and exciting characters and adventures.
Our first focus fairy tale is The Gingerbread Man.
The children have had lots of fun painting the gingerbread man!
Then making gingerbread men. Mrs Morton had to be really careful when getting them out of the oven as the children where worried they would run away!
Just like the fox we ate them up! They were yummy!
Eating gingerbread people
Our next focus text was Goldilocks and the three bears!
The children have really enjoyed learning about Goldilocks and her adventures into deep, dark woods and the 3 bears cottage. The children learnt all about different sizes and even made their own porridge so they could taste what Goldilocks tasted in the story. Most children enjoyed it and someone even said it 'was yummy in their tummy'.
Making porridge 24
In Drawing Club the children did some super writing describing the main characters from the story and where the story was set.
Goldilocks writing
Our final focus text was The 3 Little Pigs
The children came into school to discover a crime scene in our classroom!
Crime scene
The children all made predictions on who had been into our class and caused such a mess and used lots of interesting vocabulary to describe what they could see!
Crime Scene Predictions
They then became detective and helped the police try to work out who had been in our school..we are still unsure but most children have been keeping an eye out for the 'Big Bad Wolf'.
Detective crime scene sheets
In Maths this half term we have continued learning all about up to 10 with some children beginning to explore our 'teen numbers' and using numicon to represent the value of these numbers. The children did a fantastic job and showing how many tens and ones where in each teen number!
The children have also become builders this half term too. They were given the job of designing and making a new house for the three little pigs to live in. They cut out windows and a door and then used either sticks, bricks or straw to create their new home.
Three Little Pig Houses
Our finished houses! What do you think!
We ended the half term by celebrating Chinese New Year. We learnt the Lunar New Year story and the children did an amazing job at remembering all the animals who took part in the race and what order they crossed the river in!
As this year is the 'Year of the Dragon', the children made their very own Chinese dragons and took part in a dragon dance with their friends. We also made Chinese lanterns to decorate our classroom with!
Happy Chinese New Year!
Chinese lanterns 24
Spring Two
'Amazing Animals'
These are all the amazing things we will be learning about this year.