Foundation
Butterflies and Ladybirds
Welcome to Foundation
The intent in EYFS is to develop self-motivated, happy, engaged, enthusiastic, independent and curious learners who have positive relationships. We want our children to be confident, accepting and tolerant of others, resilient, caring and have self-belief. Through our various learning topics we promote positive well-being, encourage our children to make progress in their learning and in doing so, become knowledgeable about the world around them.
In EYFS we implement the curriculum through child led topics and adult directed tasks to encourage all children to develop holistically. We do this
through lots of ‘revise and revisit’ and talking about prior learning, as well as the children learning through play experiences. Our children are encouraged and supported to develop their social, emotional and communication skills. Positive relationships are fundamental to every aspect of our Early Years practice.
EYFS New Parent Information
Here is some key information about learning in EYFS and how you can support your child at home.
Understanding The World
We really enjoy investigating lots of different things in our outdoor area and in the classroom. The children independently explore the world around us by selecting their own resources and experimenting to discover what happens. We love experimenting with materials and using our investigation area to learn about our world.
Remembrance Day
We learned about Remembrance Day and what the symbol of the poppy stands for. The children supported The Royal British Legion by purchasing poppies and other items. They enjoyed the activities they completed around this.
Superheroes
The children have loved learning about the topic of Superheroes and learning about the Evil Pea. It was brilliant to see the children completing the different challenges for the Evil Pea and making super hero capes to save the day.
Phonics
Please see the following links on YouTube to show you the rhymes to help your child develop their letter formation for each phoneme.
Space
The children love learning about different topics in school and we enjoy decorating a themed area so the children can gain a range of role play experiences.
One of the topics we have covered this year has been space and it was brilliant to see the children exploring space and creating their own experiences linked to books and videos we watched together.
Maths -
The children have developed key skills in maths and are able to share these ideas with peers and develop their learning in the provision.
Writing
The children learn to initially develop their writing skills through mark making skills. Once they develop their phonics knowledge they begin to apply initial sounds to their writing before they begin to write short captions.
Here we can see the children writing a short caption to match the picture they have seen. Well done