F1 Home School Diary wc 5/10/20
By Mrs J SANFORD9th October 2020
Category : Foundation Stage
Today we had a go at drawing the characters that the gingerbread man met on his adventures. Layla’s pictures were astounding! I’m sure you’ll all agree. A great artist in the making. Well done.
Some great paintings being completed this week. We’ve had police officers, vets, firefighters, teachers, doctors, nurses and builders. Well done everyone!
We have been learning about what to do in an emergency this week. The children took turns at using the telephones and ringing 999. We had some interesting conversations!
Today F2 enjoyed their first Forest School activity … Mud Painting!
First we collected mud, leaves and sticks
…we had a sniff of the Rosemary, it smelt beautiful
…next we made our paint brushes
…after that we mixed the mud with washing up liquid, water and brusho.
We made some lovely colours
…then we got to work painting
…look at our wonderful creations!
…finally, we pegged them up to dry.
We all had a fabulous time 🌿🍂🍃🍁
In FS2 we have been learning about people who help us in school. We wanted to know where we could find these people in school, so we made a simple map to help us find them.
Grace told us her mum uses maps when she is driving and Charlie told us you can use a map to help you find your way to things.
First we looked at the school on Google Earth.
We talked about the things which are near school that we could see on the satellite picture, we also switched to the map to see what it looked like when we used a real map.
We then had a go at marking on, a simple map of the school, where the people who help us can be found. We marked on Mrs Marson’s office, the main school office, the site team office and the Kitchen. We also marked on where our classroom is.
Some children then went exploring with our map, to check we had made it correctly. They took the map around the school and found all of the places we had marked. They then reported back to the rest of the children in the classroom, how they used the map to help them find their way around school.
After our lesson about the maps, some children decided to draw their own map of the school too.
Hi everyone…
Have a go at this weeks task, don’t forget to send us any videos on tapestry.
As we start the new academic we would like to inform you about the curriculum we follow in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
The EYFS is guided by a framework called ‘Development Matters’ that sets out the learning, development and assessment requirements for all children until the end of their reception year. All early years practitioners are required to pursue daily rich activities to support each child’s educational development across seven areas of learning.
This guidance has been reviewed and the goals for the end of reception year have been updated.
We are always keen to be at the forefront of any changes in education and we are excited to become an ‘early adoption’ school before the statutory implementation in September 2021.
You can find the detailed ‘EYFS early adopter framework- Development Matters’ document by clicking the link below:
In the final term of F2, a profile will be completed for your child. This provides parents and carers, practitioners and teachers with a well-rounded picture of a child’s knowledge, understanding and abilities, their attainment against expected levels, and their readiness for year 1. Throughout their year in Reception, the children will be observed and assessed through their play in order to gain insights and make reasonable judgements against the early learning goals.
Kindest regards,
Mrs Sanford
EYFS Coordinator
Please click on the link to see what our F1 children came dressed as during our People Who Help us wow day. We enjoyed talking about how people help us.