Staff in our phase

Mrs Stone and  Mrs Barker are the class teachers in the EYFS. 

.Mrs Skinner, Mrs Sackett  and Mrs Smith also help us with our learning.

How we learn

In the EYFS we are always busy.  We like to explore and learn through our play.  We love having visitors into our classroom and going on adventures and trips.

Our day includes a Phonics session, where we are learning about letters and the sounds that they make.  We use Bug Club phonics to help us.  We have  Number sessions, and we spend lots of time listening to stories and enjoying books.

During the day we spend time outside in the EYFS garden, travelling to far away places in our pirate ship, making a delicious lunch in our mud kitchen, construction castles, making waterways, climbing and  sometimes looking for minibeasts in the garden.  We love to be outside, no matter what the weather is like.  We always have our wellington boots and coats with us.

We take part in regular PE sessions and also visit Forest School on a regular basis.  In the woods we climb trees, explore the woodland, look after the animals that live there and have lots of time to work together. This term we have been building fires for cooking and keeping warm. 

Our learning is supported by the adults and by our friends as we all learn together.  

We have lots of fun and have lots of smiles. 

What we are learning this term

Topic - We are Citizens- A World of Once Upon a Time 

During this topic we will be thinking about traditional tales and familiar stories.  We will be exploring the characters within the stories and the lands that the stories are in. 

We will start our learning with the adventures of the gingerbread man, red riding hood, the three little pigs and lots of others.  We will explore stories about Mr Wolf and a runaway wok!

We will be baking, investigating, constructing, drawing, labelling and then we will be writing our own stories. 

We will spend time thinking about Chinese New Year, Pancake Day and Valentines Day.

This term we are hoping to visit the Library 

TOPIC - We are Explorers - Out in the Garden - March 2025

For this topic we have lots of exciting things happening.

We will start our exploring by spending time in the garden looking at the plants that are growing there.  We will be drawing and painting them.  We will be planting our own seeds and beans and finding out how to look after them.

Before the Easter break we will be taking delivery of some eggs to look after.  We aren't sure what might be inside them.  We will spend time predicting what might come out of an egg and then looking after the contents of the real eggs once they hatch.   

After the break we will be back to exploring outside, where we will start to think about more of the minibeasts that live in our gardens.  We will start to think about insects, wings and legs!  

We will continue our love of stories, as we enjoy more stories that are based in the garden and will be learning some lovely new songs about some of the creatures that live outside. 

We have a very special visitor coming into school after the Easter break, he will be bringing some of his minibeast friends for us to meet. 

We will be learning inside and outside every day, so we need to have wellington boots in school (These can stay in school) and we will all need a coat.

Bookbags need to come into school every day.

Everyone needs a drinks bottle with water in it - for the classroom.

Children in the EYFS do not need to bring in snacks or toys into school. 

We will be taking part in weekly PE sessions and Forest School Sessions in our school woodland area.