Early Years MeetingEarly Years Meeting

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The Foundation StageThe Foundation Stage Apple, Mango and PeachApple, Mango and Peach NumeracyNumeracy LiteracyLiteracy Assessment and ProfilesAssessment and Profiles NurseryNursery HomeworkHomework How we communicate with youHow we communicate with you Special Educational Needs (SEN)Special Educational Needs (SEN)

The Foundation StageThe Foundation Stage

Early Learning GoalsEarly Learning Goals Prime AreasPrime Areas

Communication and LanguageCommunication and Language

Physical DevelopmentPhysical Development

Personal, Social and EmotionalPersonal, Social and Emotional

Specific AreasSpecific Areas

LiteracyLiteracy

MathematicsMathematics

Understanding the WorldUnderstanding the World

Expressive Art and DesignExpressive Art and Design

Topic based learningTopic based learning

Communication and Communication and LanguageLanguage

Development involves giving children Development involves giving children opportunities to experience a rich opportunities to experience a rich language environment; to develop language environment; to develop their confidence and skills in their confidence and skills in expressing themselves; and to speak expressing themselves; and to speak and listen in a range of situations.and listen in a range of situations.

Physical DevelopmentPhysical Development

Involves providing opportunities fro Involves providing opportunities fro young children to be active and young children to be active and interactive; and to develop their co-interactive; and to develop their co-ordination, control, and movement. ordination, control, and movement. Children must also be helped to Children must also be helped to understand the importance of understand the importance of physical activity, and to make physical activity, and to make healthy choices in relation to food.healthy choices in relation to food.

Personal, Social and Personal, Social and Emotional DevelopmentEmotional Development

Involves helping children to develop Involves helping children to develop a positive sense of themselves, and a positive sense of themselves, and others; to form positive relationships others; to form positive relationships and to develop respect for others; to and to develop respect for others; to develop social skills and learn how to develop social skills and learn how to manage their feelings; to understand manage their feelings; to understand appropriate behavior in groups and appropriate behavior in groups and to have confidence in their own to have confidence in their own abilities.abilities.

LiteracyLiteracy

Development involves encouraging Development involves encouraging children to link sounds and letters children to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write. and to begin to read and write. Children must be given access to a Children must be given access to a wide range of reading materials to wide range of reading materials to ignite their interest.ignite their interest.

MathematicsMathematics

Involves providing children with Involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction simple addition and subtraction problems; and to describe shapes, problems; and to describe shapes, spaces, and measuresspaces, and measures

Understanding the WorldUnderstanding the World

Involves guiding children to make Involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and sense of their physical world and their community through their community through opportunities to explore, observe and opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, find out about people, places, technology and the environment.technology and the environment.

Expressive Arts and DesignExpressive Arts and Design

Involves enabling children to explore Involves enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play, and design and dance, role-play, and design and technology.technology.

Assemblies

Visitors

Visits

NurseryNursery

All 7 areas covered during the dayAll 7 areas covered during the day Adult led focused activitiesAdult led focused activities Child initiated independent activitiesChild initiated independent activities Outdoor playOutdoor play Fun Friday!Fun Friday!

Apple, Mango and Peach Apple, Mango and Peach

Reception focus on literacy and Reception focus on literacy and numeracy in the morningnumeracy in the morning

Working with Year One on all the Working with Year One on all the other areas of learning in the other areas of learning in the afternoonafternoon

PhonicsPhonics

Jolly PhonicsJolly Phonics is a foundation for reading is a foundation for reading and writing. It teaches the letter sounds in and writing. It teaches the letter sounds in an enjoyable, multisensory way, and an enjoyable, multisensory way, and enables children to use them to read and enables children to use them to read and write words. write words.

Jolly PhonicsJolly Phonics includes learning the irregular includes learning the irregular or 'tricky words' such as or 'tricky words' such as saidsaid, , waswas and and thethe..

Letter SoundsLetter Sounds

Storylines and ActionsStorylines and Actions

Learning the /s/ Learning the /s/ soundsound

Action:Action: Weave your hand like a Weave your hand like a

snake, making an ‘s’ snake, making an ‘s’

shape, saying shape, saying ssssssssssss

Sound SheetsSound Sheets

This is the /s/ Sound Sheet from

The Phonics Handbook.

Sound BooksSound Books

Go home every 6 sounds Go home every 6 sounds Do one sound a night in the book, Do one sound a night in the book,

after your child has done it at schoolafter your child has done it at school No new sound on a Friday No new sound on a Friday Ten minutesTen minutes Cursive writingCursive writing When completed leave in book bag When completed leave in book bag

for markingfor marking

Pencil HoldPencil Hold

Tripod grip

‘Froggy legs’ movement

Parental support is important to all children as Parental support is important to all children as they benefit from plenty of praise and they benefit from plenty of praise and encouragement whilst learning. You should be encouragement whilst learning. You should be guided by the pace at which your child wants to guided by the pace at which your child wants to go. If interest is being lost, leave the teaching for go. If interest is being lost, leave the teaching for a while rather than using undue pressure. a while rather than using undue pressure.

You can find out more at www.jollylearning.co.uk You can find out more at www.jollylearning.co.uk

AssessmentAssessment

Every child has their own individual Every child has their own individual profileprofile

Significant achievementSignificant achievement

ObservationObservation Work samplesWork samples PhotographsPhotographs

HomeworkHomework

Sound BooksSound Books Reading Books (Reception)Reading Books (Reception) Picture Story Books (Nursery)Picture Story Books (Nursery) Homework Books (See half-termly Homework Books (See half-termly

newsletter)newsletter) Learning through everyday Learning through everyday

experiences experiences

Reading at HomeReading at Home Valuable and enjoyableValuable and enjoyable Reading together / independentlyReading together / independently Adults model readingAdults model reading Pointing to the textPointing to the text Importance of picturesImportance of pictures Discussing the bookDiscussing the book Using phonic skillsUsing phonic skills Nursery – picture story booksNursery – picture story books Reception – books given out after ChristmasReception – books given out after Christmas Year 1 – two books changed twice a weekYear 1 – two books changed twice a week

How we communicate with How we communicate with youyou

Weekly Early Years newsletterWeekly Early Years newsletter Half termly newsletters/homeworkHalf termly newsletters/homework Parents EveningsParents Evenings Open DayOpen Day Informal chats in the playgroundInformal chats in the playground End of year reportsEnd of year reports Curriculum presentationsCurriculum presentations Booking a meeting with usBooking a meeting with us