Early Years Team - Spring Term 1

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to Spring Term 1!  I hope that you all had a great Christmas break and the EYFS team would like to wish you a Happy New Year.

Our topics this term will be Homes and Gardens and Light and Dark.  We will look at different types of homes for ourselves and animal habitats around us.  In Spring Term 2, we will extend this to growing plants in the garden.

There will be lots of opportunities for 'where' sentences and questions which will get our children talking.  For instance, 'Where do we cook our dinner?' and 'Where do we take a bath?'.  These can be extended with some 'why' questions to really get the children thinking.  An example of this could be, 'Why do we need to take a bath every day?'.

Our letters, sounds and number journey will continue.  To start this term, we will have a continuation of the 'g' sound, moving on to 'o' next week.  During our first week of the new term, we have been doing lots of counting and in the coming weeks, we will have a number focus on seven as we build up to ten.  We have been singing 'Five Currant Buns' and counting forwards and backwards from five and also looking at one less.

Well done to all the children who have received certificates for 'Reading Eggs', keep up the good work!  If you need any help starting to use this programme, please let me know - login details can be found in home reader packs.

The Nursery Reading Cafe will take place in the school hall on Tuesday 27th January.

We are teaching the children about their rights as a Rights Respecting School.  For more information on these rights, please see our classroom displays or take a look at the 'Rights Respecting Schools' tab on our school website.  This term, our Christian Value is Hope.

Miss Foster and Miss Inniss and the EYFS Team

If you would like more information about the curriculum SPSM follows, please ask your child's class teacher.  Thank you.