EYFS

  Welcome to the EYFS Class Page

The Reception Unit has two classes, Oak and Elm,
with the children accessing learning across the whole unit. 

This page will provide information on this terms topic,
links to websites, useful resources and important information and dates. 

       Oak Class                                Elm Class 

     Mrs Johnson and Mrs Smith                   Miss Mathieson

Mrs Patel SSA Support

Mrs Ghaffor SSA Support

Miss Asad SSA Support

Mrs Komal TA Support

Our topic for Autumn 1 is; 

'What makes me special?'

This half term we are looking forward to meeting old and new friends, and to explore our fantastic and exciting new learning environments. The children will be learning all about their new world at St Stephen's Primary School and getting to know their new teachers. We will focus on making new relationships and understanding our own emotions and feelings. We will be practising our listening and attention skills through games and various activities. Everyone looks forward to settling in with their new key worker teacher. 

We will soon start our phonics lessons, where the children will begin by learning their set 1 sounds from the Read, Write, Inc. programme. In Maths we will be focusing on numbers 1-3 and we will be starting the Maths Mastery approach which we will do 4 times per week. We will be rote counting to 10 . We will also look at being able to match objects or pictures. 

In our Understand the World we will be exploring different types of families and our own families. We will also be thinking about the different types of celebrations and special occasions that we enjoy with our families. This will also link with our RE learning, where we will explore how we are special and how we are loved by God and all unique. This half terms RE value is 'kindness,' we will be doing lots of thinking and reflection time to understand what this means and what this looks like.

In our PE we will be focusing on getting changed for PE and basic fundamental movements. We will be looking at how we can move our bodies around and being self-aware of our space.

In art and design we will be thinking about what we look like and creating our own self-portraits. We will also enjoy painting or drawing our homes and our families. We will be enjoying singing lots of nursery rhymes every single day and dancing to lots of music! We also teach music through our 'Charaga' music programme. 

Please support your child everyday with their home reading and practising their phonic sounds. Please ensure that children always have their correct uniform and PE kit in school-pumps only. As the weather is still cold, please ensure your child always has a proper winter coat and a warm hat. 

 

Outdoor Play!

It is essential that young children get frequent and regular opportunities to explore and learn in the outdoor environment. At St Stephen's, children have opportunities throughout the day to explore and learn outdoors. During Continuous provision, the doors are open to the outside area all day so children can freely flow from indoors and outdoors as they choose. 

Outdoor play is a vital part of children education and is a statutory requirement in the EYFS. Benefits include improved fine and gross motor skills, developed problem solving skills, improved creativity, boosts confidence and social and communication skills! 

 We will hopefully be able to spend more time in the mud kitchen and completing our mile a day too!

There are lots of things parents can do at home to promote outdoor play and learning such as going to your local park, going on a nature walk around the local area, build a den outside, play with water outdoors and plant vegetables and flowers to name a few! The national Trust Website list 50 things to do outdoors before 11 years old, this offers a range of ideas and suggestions on how to get outdoors more and many ideas can be done from outside your home.

Link to the National Trust website 

Home Reading!

While at school, we will send home a home reader with your child for you to help with their reading, it is very important and a vital part of your child's education to practise reading at home. This will help to improve your child's identification of their sounds, blending and segmenting words and improve their fluency of reading.

Children will receive two reading books per week and these will be given out on MONDAYS. Please read this through the week with your child-if they read these then please re-read to practise and embed fluency. 

Please read every day with your child, share stories too from home and from libraries. Our library day will be Tuesdays-so please ensure your child always has their library reading book with them. 

Should you need any help at all please do not hesitate in speaking to a member of staff who will be more than happy to help.

PE 

This half term we will have PE every Monday afternoon.  Please ensure PE kits are in school and clearly named.  Children should have a white t-shirt, black or red shorts or joggers and black pumps. 

For further information and support to help your child pronounce their phonetic letter sounds please visit the below website:

Read Write Inc Phonics support

Home learning fun!

Please use the websites below for some home learning fun. Encourage your child to continue to read, write and count as they enjoy their weekend adventures.