Welcome to Early Years Foundation Stage
In Early Years, learning takes places both inside and outside. The children have lots of opportunities to learn through play, exploring and developing learning experiences which help them make sense of the world. They become independent learners who think creatively as they investigate and solve problems.
Nursery
This half-term our topic is 'People Who Help Us!' We will be learning about different job roles in our local community that help us. We will be learning about Teachers, Police Officers, Dentists, Firefighters and Doctors, exploring their job roles and how they help and support our local community.
The children will be continuing with our phonics exploring the phonemes; j,v,w,g,z,qu as well as continuing our work on rhyming words. In Maths we will be exploring patterns. The children will be working on recognising and creating simple patterns.
Trips/Visitors/Parental Engagement:
This term we are looking forward to visits from local Police officers and Firefighters to deepen our learning around their job roles and how they help the community. We will also be having a when I grow up dress up day, where children will dress up to represent what they want to do when they are older.
Reception
This half term the children will be learning about food! The children will begin by discovering where fruits, vegetables, meat and dairy comes from, before learning about the healthy eating plate. We will explore the contents of the healthy eating plate, understanding how to make a balanced ‘rainbow’ meal. The children will discover what foods are healthy and unhealthy, and will learn about the detrimental impacts of unhealthy foods on our body and teeth. Throughout the topic, we will participate in many cooking activities, learning how to follow and write our own recipe. We will even share and taste some traditional meals and cultural foods from home. Our parents and carers will be supporting our learning by engaging in cooking / food tasting workshops and will also attend our annual EYFS breakfast morning. It is set to be a fun food-filled half term.
In Phonics we begin Phase 4. We will be revising all of the phonemes, digraphs and trigraphs learnt throughout the year, applying them to longer words and sentences. We will be reading words that have 4-6 sounds in them, as well as longer compound words and root words that end in ‘ing’ ‘est’ ‘ed’ and ‘id’.
In maths we are learning to count to and back from 20. The children will be recognising the numerals 1-20 and will recognize the pattern within the counting system. We will also learning explore and represent ‘numerical patterns’ within numbers up to ten, which includes odd and even numbers, doubles facts and quantities that can be distributed easily. We will also continue to embed their early addition and subtraction knowledge.
Reception 1 Classroom
Outdoor Area
Reception 2 Classroom
Phonics in EYFS
At Haimo we follow the 'Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised' programme to teach phonics.
In the Nursery, children start Phase 1, which concentrates on developing speaking and listening skills.
In Reception, phonics becomes a big part of everyday life. The children work on Phase 2, 3 and 4 throughout the year.
In Phase 2, children begin to learn the sounds that letters make (phonemes). Phase 3 introduces the remaining, more difficult and less commonly used phonemes. Phase 4 provides many opportunities to consolidate and refine phonic knowledge, while introducing more spelling patterns, tricky words and increasing children's vocabulary.
Below are some 'helping- at home' websites that Parents and Carers may find useful.
Tapestry
We are using Tapestry as our online learning journal provider in Early Years. Please click here to find out more.
