Foundation Stage

Due to COVID restrictions we are currently unable to invite prospective families to visit the EYFS.

We have put together this short slide show as an alternative tour.

If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact the school office.

Staff in our phase

Mrs Stone and Miss Mayall are the class teachers in the EYFS.  Mrs Stone teaches in Ducklings and Miss Mayall is the teacher of the Chicks class .

We have a team of teaching assistants who help us with our learning, Mrs Pallett, Mrs Summers and Miss Catt all help us with our learning.

Mrs Strongman comes to learn  with us on Tuesdays.

At lunchtime  Mrs Mullis  come to play with us.

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 Sounds.  We have a Number session each day, 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, digging for treasure in the sandpit 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 6 - Food Glorious Food

As we settle into our whole school topic of 'We are Healthy' in the EYFS we will be thinking lots about food from different countries around the world. 

Each week we will be learning about a new location, starting with England and then moving further away.  During each week we will find the country or continent on the map, talk about what we might see if we were to visit, have a go at some traditional sports or crafts from the country and then try some food.

For our first week about England, we made our own sandwiches and enjoyed Afternoon Tea together.

This term we are working hard to get even better at our writing, and will be having lots of fun using Tales Toolkit to help create stories for us to write.

In our reading we will be focusing on high frequency words and  we have a new reading challenge.  We will be 'Reading around the Galaxy'  and trying hard to get to all the way to  the moon!

In Maths we will be adding, subtracting, doubling and halving whilst developing our strategies to help ourselves with our own learning using the classroom environment. 

There will be independent challenges every day as well.