Early Years Foundation Stage 

Welcome to EYFS!

Our Early Years Foundation Stage consists of Nursery and Reception. We offer 15 and 30 hour provision in Nursery and all children in EYFS can attend our wrap around care from 7:45-8:45am and 3:15-6pm. We enroll Nursery age children from the day after they turn three.

Autumn 2024

The children have had a fantastic first term at school. They have started to independently follow our routines and have formed friendships within the class and wider key stage.

Curriculum: We have been learning about ourselves, our senses and our cultures. We are so lucky to be such a diverse class and have thoroughly enjoyed about each other's families and cultures.

Phonics: The children have been working incredibly hard on learning their Set 1 sounds in phonics. They have been developing their oral blending skills and have loved working on their letter formation with adult support.

Maths: The children have been working incredibly hard on having an in-depth understanding of numbers 1-4. They have been using vocabulary 'part' and 'whole' and been comparing amounts. They have also been growing in confidence when counting amounts up to 10. Well done!

PSHE: This term, we have been using 'The Colour Monster' to learn about our feelings and emotional regulation. The children have particularly loved using the finger breathing techique to help them feel calm. We have also been learning about our families.

P.E: The children particularly enjoyed creating shapes from space during our Gymnastics topic this term. They have been developing their gross motor skills whilst also using their imaginations to inform how they move around a space.

Spring Term 2024

During the upcoming term, the children can look forward to lots of new learning experiences!

Curriculum: We will learn about people who help us and have special visitors come to visit us to talk about their job and how they help people.

English: Reception will be focusing on a text called 'The Rainbow Fish' by Marcus Pfister and begin to identify parts of a book, describe and compare characters, role play stories, compose their own story orally and begin to write phrases using their phonics.

Maths: We have some exciting work to do in maths where we will connect quantities to numbers, identify missing parts for numbers to 5 using our adding skills. They will begin to learn about adding and subtracting. Then we will verbally count beyond 20!

PSHE: We will learn about how we can take on challenges!

P.E: We will develop our ball skills where we will learn how to move around, change direction and negotiate space. We will also learn how to dribble with the ball with our feet and skills needed to run with the ball in our hands.

Tapestry

We use the platform Tapestry to record observations of our children to capture learning and progress made. Once your child has been created a profile on Tapestry, parents will recieve an email to create their own account. We aim to work in partnership with our parents and welcome our families to upload photos and videos of home experiences, to share this with our staff. Follow the instructions below on how to access your parent Tapestry account.

Early Reading

At Saffron Green we follow the systematic synthetics phonics programme, Read Write Inc.
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Reading for pleasure

To promote children's love of reading, children will visit our school library where a chosen book will be read to the class and children will take home a library book weekly. This is a book that may or may not be fully decodable but can be enjoyed with parents and family members as a book to read together.