WELCOME TO
EYFS
AT STAFFORD LEYS
WELCOME TO EYFS
We have lots of fun in EYFS through a topic based approach. There are three classes, our teachers this year are Mrs. Allison, Mrs Hollier, Miss Purkiss and Miss Parmar.
Our library day is on a Monday. The children will have the opportunity to select and bring home a book to share with you. These books are from the Central Lending Library. Please ensure your child brings their library book into school on a Monday.
PE Days - please ensure your child brings their PE kit into school Monday to Friday. Our PE days are Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday but we may do other additional sessions. Please can you make sure, if your child wears earrings, that they are taken out on PE days. Thanks.
We have lots of fun in EYFS through a topic based approach. There are three classes, our teachers this year are Mrs. Allison, Mrs Hollier, Miss Purkiss and Miss Parmar.
Our library day is on a Monday. The children will have the opportunity to select and bring home a book to share with you. These books are from the Central Lending Library. Please ensure your child brings their library book into school on a Monday.
PE Days - please ensure your child brings their PE kit into school Monday to Friday. Our PE days are Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday but we may do other additional sessions. Please can you make sure, if your child wears earrings, that they are taken out on PE days. Thanks.
Covid-19 School closure
During the school closure (due to Covid-19) we have made the following changes.
Every week we will set tasks that your child can complete at home. These will be added here by Monday 10am. You could also submit a picture of some work or an activity that your child/ren has completed using the form below. We would ask you to submit a google form, added to your child’s year group page of the website weekly, which will go directly to your child’s year group email.
We will be monitoring that we have a weekly response and if we have not heard from a child or someone in the family then a member of the senior leadership will be in contact. Please make sure you complete the contact form on the website page if your child/ren are ill.
Every week we will set tasks that your child can complete at home. These will be added here by Monday 10am. You could also submit a picture of some work or an activity that your child/ren has completed using the form below. We would ask you to submit a google form, added to your child’s year group page of the website weekly, which will go directly to your child’s year group email.
We will be monitoring that we have a weekly response and if we have not heard from a child or someone in the family then a member of the senior leadership will be in contact. Please make sure you complete the contact form on the website page if your child/ren are ill.
Timetable for a typical day at home in EYFS
(During play for learning time - children can complete one of their key tasks for the week).
(During play for learning time - children can complete one of their key tasks for the week).
over easter
Find below some ideas of things you might want to do (these are not compulsory) during the Easter break.
eyfs_easter_activities.pdf
eyfs_easter_activities.pdf
- Additional ideas for over Easter:
- English - task above file link - the_easter_journal.exe
- You could plant a seed and write a diary about what happens.
t-t-10258-easter-event-writing-report.pdf - Easter report writing format - You can either print it out or use it as a format to copy from into your child's red book.
- Hide some treasure or an Easter egg and write some clues.
- Topic -
- Maths -
- English - task above file link - the_easter_journal.exe
- You could plant a seed and write a diary about what happens.
t-t-10258-easter-event-writing-report.pdf - Easter report writing format - You can either print it out or use it as a format to copy from into your child's red book.
- Hide some treasure or an Easter egg and write some clues.
- Topic -
- Make Easter nest cakes https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/eastereggnests_93841
- Dance to sleeping bunnies song https://youtu.be/BHcFQ9gaMF4
- write a letter to the Easter bunny or questions
- draw/paint a picture of what they think Easter bunny looks like.
- Spring - collect some nature treasure and make a picture with them
- Maths -
- ICT links:https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns
- https://apps.mathlearningcenter.org/pattern-shapes/
- Easter egg hunt - where is the egg? Use positional language to describe where the egg is.
- Baking - measuring ingredients to make cakes/biscuits
- day-5-what-the-ladybird-heard.pdf
Week Beginning 30.3.20
police_activities_30.3.20.doc - click here for a word version of the document above.
Additional ideas for this week:
- I Can Physical Challenges
- English - task above file link - t-t-8350b-in-the-spring-i-see-writing-frame-landscape.pdf (this could be copied into your book if you do not have a printer.
- Topic - Police man fitness training inside or out - jog around or on spot to warm up. Complete 10 of the following: jumps, hops, star jumps, touch toes. Stretch to warm down. Complete police training.
- Mathletics - Complete - How many? How many dots? Dot display.
- Numberblocks - Watch these episodes - one a day - Monday - The Whole of Me; Tuesday - The Terrible Twos; Wednesday - Hide and Seek; - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks
Play the game - Add up with the Numberblocks www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/puzzles/numberblocks-adding-up-quiz?collection=numbers-and-letters
- Part, part whole game ICT games - https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/partPartWhole/index.html
- I Can Physical Challenges
- English - task above file link - t-t-8350b-in-the-spring-i-see-writing-frame-landscape.pdf (this could be copied into your book if you do not have a printer.
- Look at the powerpoint Police and What they do - discuss the role of a police officer t-t-4903-the-police-and-what-they-do-powerpoint_ver_1.ppt
- Rhyming egg hunt - print and cut out the eggs - hide them around inside or outside - can they find, match and read the rhyming words - t-t-2546557f-easter-egg-rhyming-words-matching-game-4-per-page_ver_1.pdf (You could write out your own rhyming pairs and hide to find).
- Topic - Police man fitness training inside or out - jog around or on spot to warm up. Complete 10 of the following: jumps, hops, star jumps, touch toes. Stretch to warm down. Complete police training.
- Mathletics - Complete - How many? How many dots? Dot display.
- Numberblocks - Watch these episodes - one a day - Monday - The Whole of Me; Tuesday - The Terrible Twos; Wednesday - Hide and Seek; - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks
Play the game - Add up with the Numberblocks www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/puzzles/numberblocks-adding-up-quiz?collection=numbers-and-letters
- Part, part whole game ICT games - https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/partPartWhole/index.html
- Use their dotty cards and explore the pairs of dotty cards that make numbers to 5
- Use sweets (1-5, extend to 10) and two then three plates/bowls - how many on each plate? How many altogether? How do you know?
- Splitting the same number of seeds between two then three plant pots
Reading
Your child has been given extra books to read at home. Please ensure you read for at least 10 minutes with your child everyday and ask them questions about what they have read.
For more reading content visit the Free ebook library at Oxford Owl. Click on the Owl to visit the link. You will need to set up a login for this. Use the levels tab to select your child's correct reading band.
Your child has been given extra books to read at home. Please ensure you read for at least 10 minutes with your child everyday and ask them questions about what they have read.
For more reading content visit the Free ebook library at Oxford Owl. Click on the Owl to visit the link. You will need to set up a login for this. Use the levels tab to select your child's correct reading band.
More details for Phonics:
Please see below more information on how to teach phonics at home.
When teaching phonics a typical lesson would include the 4 main steps: Review, Teach, Practise and Apply.
- Review – a quick recall of previously taught phonemes, star words and tricky words e.g. using flashcards
- Teach – Introduce the focus phoneme (the sound of the day). Teach what letter shapes make it, how it is correctly pronounced and its caption action. E.g. qu – quiet for the queen.
- Practise – Practise reading and writing the focus phoneme in words e.g. queen, quick.
- Apply – Apply the knowledge of the focus phoneme by reading it in a sentence or writing it in a sentence. E.g The queen is quick.
Phonics Lesson Activity Plans:
- Week Beginning 23.3.20 - Focus Phoneme: qu, sh and ch
phonics_wb_23.3.20_-_qu_sh_and_ch.pdf - Week Beginning 30.3.20 - Focus Phoneme: th, ng and ai
phonics_wb_30.3.20_-_th_ng_and_ai.pdf
|
|
|
|
Useful Phonics Website links:
- Phonics Play - www.phonicsplay.co.uk
- ICT Games English - www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.html
- Twinkl - find phonics related activities - https://www.twinkl.co.uk/
- Cbeebies Alphablocks www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks
- Mr Thorne does phonics - www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sW4j8p7k9D_qRRMUsGqyw
- BBC Bitesize Phonics - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zgkw2hv
Week Beginning 23.3.20
29.3.20
The children have done some fantastic work at home this week - a big thank you to all of the parents that have sent us your child's work via the website. It has been lovely to see all of the learning you have been doing at home - please keep up all of the good work and do know that we are just the other end of the contact form if you have any questions.
week_beg_23.3.20.pdf
The children have done some fantastic work at home this week - a big thank you to all of the parents that have sent us your child's work via the website. It has been lovely to see all of the learning you have been doing at home - please keep up all of the good work and do know that we are just the other end of the contact form if you have any questions.
week_beg_23.3.20.pdf
| phonics_wb_23.3.20.pdf |
What to expect, when?
useful information for parents
Please click on the picture below to find a useful and interesting document for you to read. It has all of the ages and stages from birth to 5 and useful information in relation to how your child is learning and developing. In this guide, your child’s first five years have been divided up into six age bands which overlap. This is because every child is different and children do not grow and develop at the same rate. It highlights what you might notice your child doing at these points.
Please also check out this website - https://hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk/ - There is some useful information and ideas on here for you too!
Phonics
Please find a video below that shows you the correct enunciation for all of the phonemes, digraphs and trigraphs the children learn.
The children have learnt the digraphs - we have looked at sh, ch, th, ng, ai, ee, oo (long), oo (short), or, ur, ar, ow, oi, and the trigraphs igh, ure, ear and air. Please find the links below to some short clips that you can share with your child.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnXaN-CvR9s - the digraph 'ai'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfM7Hz7US0U - the digraph 'ee'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3UUnmNk1UM - the short digraph 'oo'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=atlb2jPdFd0 - the long digraph 'oo'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCR2RZ4ZYY trigragh 'igh'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCJyHN0IFE8 the digraph 'oa'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXBQDsgRuMo the digraph 'ar'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm9PRHDJlv4&t=1s the digraph 'or'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uVVJXbc870 the digraph 'ur'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRTITdRL_cU the digraph 'oi'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtvjxBYg7I&t=85s the digraph 'ow'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EneZ1UubxSA&t=1s the trigraph 'ear'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwCzf71flBA&t=1s the trigraph 'ure'
number fun!
|
We have learnt about the numbers 7 and 8. The children have learnt to count out 7 and 8 from a larger group; count a given set of objects; compare what is 7/8 and not 7/8 and say why and we have looked at the numerals 7 and 8. We have also looked at how we represent 7 and 8 and the numbers that make up that number, for example - 4 and 3 is 7 or 6 and 2 is 8.
|
|
|
We have learnt about the number 6. The children have learnt to count out 6 from a larger group; count a given set of objects; compare what is 6 and not 6 and say why and we have looked at the numeral 6. We have also looked at how we represent 6, whether it is in the traditional dice pattern or not. They have looked at the numbers that make 6 and we have looked at what happens to a number when we take one away.
|
|
We have learnt about the number 5. The children have looked around them to see what they can find 5 of and also looked at groups of objects and decided if they represent 5 or not .
We have learnt the counting rules: 1. One number name for each object. 2. Remember to say the numbers in order. 3. Touch and move the objects when you count. 4. When counting from a larger group - stop at the number you need. 5. Remember that the last number you say is how many there are. |
|
We have learnt about the number 4. The children have looked around them to see what they can find 4 of and also looked at groups of objects and decided if they represent 4 or not. The children have looked at squares and rectangles, cubes and cuboids. We have looked at the difference between squares and rectangles and looked at how a square can also be a diamond when moved into a different orientation.
The children will also be investigating the different ways of making 4! Wow. |
|
We have learnt about the number 3. The children have watched the Numberblock episode about the number 3. We have looked at and compared quantities of objects and said whether they are three or not three and used the language of more and fewer. The children have also looked at triangles and a cylinder.
The children have also learnt about the number two. We found out how 'one and another one is two' and then we have explored the number two. The children have been discussing what is two and not two. They have also been introduced to the numeral 2. The children have also learnt about a semi-circle and how it has two sides and a cone, as it has two faces. We have also talked to the children about a 2p coin.
The children have learnt all about the number one. We have been finding one of different things, inside and outside the classroom. We have discussed what we have found that is one or not one and how we know. The children have also been introduced to the numeral 1 and Numberblock one.
homework
Please find a copy of your child's' current homework below - click on the picture. Homework is handed out on a Friday. Homework needs to be handed into your child's class teacher on Thursday 12th March 2020.
Topics - SPRING 2nd 2020
24.2.20 Dinosaurs
2.3.20 Dinosaurs
9.3.20 Dinosaurs
16.3.20 Superheroes
23.3.20 Superheroes
30.3.20 People who help us - Police/Paramedics
If you have any books, posters, models or information to share on any of these subjects please send them into school.
2.3.20 Dinosaurs
9.3.20 Dinosaurs
16.3.20 Superheroes
23.3.20 Superheroes
30.3.20 People who help us - Police/Paramedics
If you have any books, posters, models or information to share on any of these subjects please send them into school.
WOW moments
Use the form below to share with your child's class teacher about any ‘WOW moments’ in your child’s life that you observe at home. These could be:
* The first time he/she rides their bike without stabilizers
* Swim without armbands
* Achieves an award from a club
We look forward to sharing with you, your child's achievements.
* The first time he/she rides their bike without stabilizers
* Swim without armbands
* Achieves an award from a club
We look forward to sharing with you, your child's achievements.
Weather!!!
Due to the changeable weather please could you ensure that your child has a waterproof coat and a pair of boots in school so we can have fun outdoors whatever the weather!
parents
Here is a link to a useful document. It provides you with lots of information in relation to our Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum.
Please click here for a link to our curriculum overview.