EYFS Unit
Welcome to Our EYFS
Please keep checking this page to find out all about the exciting things that will be happening in your child's class.
Autumn Term - Part One
This term the EYFS pupils have been very busy settling into their new rooms and forming new friendships. They have been exploring how to identify, talk about and regulate their own feelings and emotions. They have been exposed to lots of new opportunities to help develop their skills to become independent learners. These skills have enabled them to pursue their own interests and grow in confidence. They have explored a variety of superhero themed books and completed lots of ‘super’ type activities, including baking ‘superhero cupcakes’ and drawing their ‘superhero families’. They have started the challenging journey to read and write and have already obtained 20 new phonemes, which is amazing.
Parent Workshops – Literacy & Family Booktime
We invited parents to share in their child’s learning. Our literacy workshop demonstrated to parents how we teach Little Wandle Phonics and early reading skills through sharing stories. Our ‘Family Booktime’ session offered by Leicester City Library service, provided parents with tips and advice on delivering a great story time. There was also the opportunity to join the local library. During each workshop, parents had lots of opportunities to engage in activities that related to each focus with their child. Everyone had a great time and feedback from all the adults was extremely positive.
Autumn Term - Part Two
During the 2nd half of the Autumn term, the pupils in EYFS have been finding out about different places in the World with a focus on Pirate Adventures. They learnt about what they might see in the different places and how those places compare to where they live. The children all thoroughly enjoyed our Pirate Day, especially the treasure hunt and pizza making. Reception children have been working hard in phonics and are now using the sounds they have learnt to begin to read and write. Nursery children have been tuning into sounds and enjoying their focus storybooks and rhymes. They are beginning to retell the main events of the stories using the language they have learnt from the books. In number, some children have continued to work on their number recognition and counting skills as well as becoming familiar with five frames and ten frames. They have also been solving simple addition using objects. Other children have been enjoying counting songs and rhymes as well as subitising small amounts and practising their counting for larger amounts. In the last few weeks, the pupils performed their angels and Driving Home for Christmas dances as part of the EYFS/KS1 nativity, which they hope you enjoyed. Santa came to visit twice, reading stories during his first visit and giving each class a gift during his second visit.
Spring Term-Part One
We have had another busy half-term in EYFS with lots of learning about history through our "Past Through Pages" topic. We began in the time of the dinosaurs before moving on to the Stone Age and finding out about prehistoric animals and how people in the Stone Age lived their lives. We explored the similarities and differences between then and now. To continue our journey back in time, we then looked at life in 1940's and 1960's. For each era, we looked at books set in that time. We created a timeline and talked about kings and queens during some of those times. The children also thought about their own history and how they have changed from being a baby to now. The children loved making up their own stories in the 1940's role-play area and looking after and caring for babies in the nursery role-play area. The children created their own artwork inspired by the different books we read. They used a range of media and skills that they have been developing in their art and DT sessions.
Spring Term - Part Two
Spring 2 has been a very exciting term in EYFS, mainly due to our little webbed-footed friends! We were delighted to deliver this amazing opportunity to the children. The classes were able to watch as the ducklings hatched from the eggs and learnt how to keep them safe and well-looked after. They learnt about what other animals hatch from eggs, the life cycle of a duck and other animals and what names are given to baby animals. We have enjoyed many duck stories, such as The Ugly Duckling, The Icky Little Duckling and Doctor Duck, as well as non-fiction books about ducks and animal lifecycles. As the weather started to warm up, we talked about and began to see the changes that occur in Spring. We learnt about Easter, how people celebrate and how eggs symbolise new beginnings. F2s have been working on their numeracy skills by learning the numbers bonds to 5, what subtraction means and how to complete subtraction number sentences using a variety of methods. In literacy, they have continued to build their phonic knowledge and practise the skills they need to read and write captions and sentences. F1s have been learning the names of 2D shapes and their properties, positional language and how to complete repeating patterns. They have been retelling stories in their own words, recognising their names and practising to write their names using the Little Wandle letter formation phrases.
Summer Term - Part One