EYFS News – Autumn A
Dear Parents
We hope you all had a good summer holiday and are feeling refreshed for our new school year. It’s lovely to welcome back old faces as well as some new ones, in particular Freyja, Florence and Eilidh, who will be joining Emma and Ella into our nursery class and Georgia and Esme into reception.
We have lots of exciting things planned for this half term, more details will follow over the coming weeks in the main school newsletter.
Please can all nursery children have a bag to keep in school with a change of clothes please. It will then be sent home at the end of the half term for a well deserved wash!
As always, if you have any worries or concerns please come and talk to us, preferably after school or at lunchtime when we have a little more time. Due to Covid we will have to keep interactions short and distanced outside.
Kind regards Mrs Browne and Mrs Mather
Staff
Mrs Mather will be teacher during this half term.
The mornings will be set as follows:
- Daily phonics practise, with new sound sheet activities sent home.
- Storytime and nursery rhymes, activities and crafts to follow.
- Mathematical development, sorting and matching activities, making comparisons, exploring patterns.
On Monday mornings, children will bake on a rota basis.
On Thursday mornings, Diddi Dance will come to school, please can all nursery children dress appropriately and all girls come to school with their hair tied back.
Miss Bartle our teaching assistant, will provide full time support in the Infant classroom. She will create challenging learning environments for those children in the EYFS.
Topics
This half term we will be working on a ‘Castles’ topic.
Knowledge & Understanding of the World: Looking at castles, how they are built and comparing them to our own homes. People that work and live in castles.
Technology: Creating a coat of arms on a computer.
Being imaginative: exploring different materials, paint and collage.
Learning songs on a castle theme, exploring loud and quiet sounds.
Literacy: Phase 2 phonics (rec), Phase 1 phonics (nur). Sharing of mouse themed stories and nursery rhymes.
Maths: Sorting and matching, comparing amounts, comparing size, mass and capacity, exploring patterns.
Physical Development: knights, castles and dragons dance. Games: rolling including sending and receiving.
RE: Talking about experiences and expressing emotions and feelings.
PSED: Rules and roles in school
Homework (Please ensure reading books are in book bags every Monday)
Reading – your child will read with an adult individually, as often as possible, and as part of a weekly group read. We will be sending home a separate book each Monday for your child to share with you during that week.
The children will also bring home keywords and “Jolly Phonics” sounds sheets to practise. Please keep all sheets and flashcards in the wallet provided.
If at any time homework is causing a problem please let us know.
We have high expectations so please encourage your child to complete homework neatly.
Thank you