Welcome to Owls and the start of your child’s learning journey within our school. Prior to the children starting school we begin to liaise with parents and carers as we develop a partnership which is built on throughout the time the children spend with us. We value the partnership we establish and the role this plays in supporting the children during their time in school.
It is our main priority that all the children in our setting are always happy and feel safe. We provide carefully planned activities to enable children to fulfil the requirements of the Early Years Curriculum. Activities to develop their phonics and early reading skills are delivered daily as we believe these form the main base for future learning opportunities.
Our Early Years Team provide fun, challenging activities to engage all the children and ensure that everyone meets their full potential and beyond. We consider prior learning and interests of the children within our class when planning our termly topics. Opportunities are provided to work within small groups as well as individually to complete activities.
We are fortunate to have a large woodland area which is used regularly allowing the children to explore the great outdoors whilst often initiating their own learning. This provides them with opportunities to work together and develop their social skills.
It is a privilege to watch your children flourish and develop their own personalities over their time in Owls Class. Our aim is to ensure that they are confident and well prepared for the next step of education within our caring school.
Class teachers
Mrs Owen
Miss Johnson
The early years foundation stage (EYFS) framework sets the standards for learning, development and care for children from birth to 5. We are an early adopter school of the new EYFS framework – read more here.
Curriculum Information
2019-20
Autumn 1 2019 – Getting to know you
Autumn 2 2019 – People who help us and Celebrations
Spring 1 2020 – Winter, Frozen and the Gruffalo’s Child
Spring 2 2020 – The Three Little Pigs and Easter
2020-21
Spring 2 – 2021 – Rhymes and Stories
Nursery Rhymes and The Gingerbread Man
This term we use rhymes and a traditional story to develop our communication and storytelling.
This leads onto Easter, sharing the Easter story and how we celebrate.
We are learning to:
We will be focusing on taking turns and working together to complete tasks.
During our Relax Kids sessions we listen and think about ways to manage our feelings
We are learning to:
We will be retelling stories and events and answering questions to clarify our understanding using well formed sentences
We are learning to:
We will be continuing to develop our gross motor and fine motor skills this term.
We will look at the way we use one handed tools, including the use of cutlery.
We are learning to:
This term we are continuing to develop our ability to recognise a number of objects without counting them, known as subitising. We will also be finding different ways to make a number . We will also be looking at 3D shapes and making patterns.
Nursery are focusing on comparing quantities .
We are learning to:
We will use our phonic knowledge to write and read short sentences. We will retell events in a story and make our own Easter cards.
Nursery will continue to learn initial sounds and make their own marks forming some letters correctly
We are learning to
We will be finding out about the past in the rhymes we are learning, discussing how things are different.
We will be planting our own seeds and looking at how materials change by making Gingerbread men.
We will be using different media to create pictures. We will use a simple sewing stitch to make our own Gingerbread Men. We will use props and puppets to retell rhymes and stories.
How you can help at home
- Encouraging your child to get dressed by themselves
- Using scissors and other one handed tools
- Learning nursery rhymes and songs
- Sharing books and stories and talking about the content
