Welcome to Foundation
Hello and welcome to our class page!
Our Christian value this half term is Compassion and in our Collective Worship will teach the children the importance of this.
Please see Seesaw for weekly updates sent out to you on a Friday about what we will be learning. This will follow our interests and activities and will be a mix of adult led and child initiated play.
This half term we will be learning all about festivals and celebrations such as Diwali, Bonfire Night and Remembrance. We will be using our key words past and present and learning the meaning of lots of other high level vocabulary as we focus on our communication and language!
We will also be learning and retelling some traditional tales, we will create story maps, retell stories and create setting linked to the tales too!
Then we will be preparing for christmas, we will be learning in detail the Nativity story, creating wondeerful art work and perfoming in our school Nativity with Year 1/2.
We will be continuing becoming resilient and independent as we introduce making our own playdough and beginning to intorduce more tools onto our woodwork bench! The children have been successfully creating risk assessments to follow in our provision!
Autumn 1!
In RE this term we will be focusing on 'Myself' we will be discussing how we have changed from being a baby and then how important the people around us are, we will be then looking at the two main religions we will learn about in Foundation, Christianity and Islam.
In Foundation we will be beginning our daily phonics lessons using 'Read, Write, Inc'. This will be done as a whole class and the children will have opportunity to practice their new sounds during the lesson alongside some gross motor activities too.
The new sound will be sent home each day in a sound book for you to practice together at home.
In Maths we will be doing short, sessions of practical maths. We follow the White Rose Maths Curriculum and enhance it using Master the Curriculum to plan engaging and hands on sessions for all our pupils.
Our maths lessons include high quality vocabulary which is modelled at the beginning of each lesson and throughout to help our children to think like mathematicians and challenge them where needed. The children then move into the provision where they are engaged in exciting and challenging maths activities in the provision both indoor and outdoor.
Finally...
- Snack is available for all Foundation Stage children in the Foundation classroom.
Please bring in £1 weekly to help us provide a variety of healthy foods for your child to try
-Children need to read to an adult at home 3 times per week and have their reading records signed.
- Weekly announcements and home learning challenges are sent out via Seesaw (our online learning platform)
- PE for our Foundation Stage children will be on a Monday afternoon. PE kits must be worn all day on our PE day.
Miss Harrison & Mrs Guilfoyle