TYNINGS EYFS
Welcome to Hedgehogs Class
Mrs Leach is our EYFS lead.
Mrs Leach (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) and Mrs Britton (Thursday, Friday) are our teachers.
Miss Andrews and Mrs Millard are our teaching assistants. Mrs Howells is supporting us whilst Mrs Millard is absent from school.
Mrs Pike is our Forest School leader.
P.E. days are Monday and Wednesday. Please wear P.E. uniform to school on these days.
We collect in ALL reading books on MONDAYS. Please ensure that you return your child's reading book to school each Monday. Any lost or damaged reading books that are not returned after a reminder will be charged for at £5 per book. A new one will be given each THURSDAY after our 3 reading practice sessions in school.
We collect ALL Phonics Home Learning Folders on THURSDAYS. We will send home new Phonics Home Learning each FRIDAY recapping our learning from the week.
We also open our Reading Hive every FRIDAY and your child will come home with either a sharing book or story sack that they have chosen to borrow for the week. Please enjoy book snuggling with these and return them to swap for a new one every Friday.
Seesaw videos will also be uploaded every FRIDAY to support our Phonics Home Learning from the week.
Book bags should be in school every day.
Term 1 - 2024-25
We have daily story time and read for pleasure with our classes. The children are able to vote between a choice of two stories each day, supporting the development of their British Values and learning about democracy.
Here is a list of 50 high quality recommended reads for EYFS. We use many of these in our classrooms. When it's your child's birthday, why not support our Healthy Schools ethos and donate one of these book titles to our Hedgehogs book corner instead of sending in sweets? We will post the updated list on Seesaw and celebrate and thank the birthday child each time we are donated a book from our 100 reads list.
We will be developing our fine motor skills to help strengthen our muscles for writing. We will do this through dough disco with playdough, finger gym, funky fingers tinkering play activities and daily pattern drawing and letter formation.
We will also be developing our name writing skills, learning to recognise and form the letters in our names, practising this daily.
Drawing Club focuses on meaningful mark-making and developing creativity and joy in writing. We will use inspiring stories, traditional tales and engaging animations as a vehicle to us to play with ideas and words. Through Drawing Club we wil develop our vocabulary, ignite our joy for mark-making and explore some wonderful stories. We will be starting to explore our classroom "story spoons" to learn some Traditional Tales stories that we feel are vital for children to have in their own story baskets of stories that they know.
"DRAWING CLUB IS OPEN!" What will the children create?
In Power Maths this term, EYFS will be working on the units:
Numbers to 5
Comparing groups within 5
Shape (3D and 2D shapes).
We will be exploring how numbers to 5 are formed and using Maths Mastery resources from NCETM, including Numberblocks, to teach our children a deep understanding of how numbers are made. For example, when learning about number 4 we will learn that it is made of 2+2, 3+1, 1+1+1+1 etc. Number 4 is one less than 5 and takes up all except one space in a five frame.
We will explore lots of counting rhymes through nursery rhymes and focus on careful counting, moving objects or touching them to count them and knowing that the total of a set of objects is the last number you say - for example, 1,2,3,4,5. How many is that? 5!
Please see the Power Maths calculation policies below to see how you can support your child when they are adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.
Adventure time is a hugely important part of our daily learning. This is what we call the dedicated times of day where we learn through play. We may use our Pens of Power to write our own codes and give ourselves magical powers like hopping power, invisibility power or super strength power, we may explore shape, space and measure through creating our own junk models, we may explore our understanding of the world through mixing potions in our mud kitchen or hunting for bugs, or we may develop our fine motor skills and ability to follow instructions by making our own dough and using it to knead, shape and manipulate our own dough creations.
We never quite know where the children's Adventure Time will take them. This is the value of it - it is learning adventures that are initiated and led by the children and our role as adults is to co-play with them in the learning landscape of our classroom. Through this we can enable them to enable them to extend their ideas and practice and apply new skills.
WE ARE THE PLAY PEOPLE! PLAY IS POWERFUL!
https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/- Little Wandle Phonics support for parents
https://www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/books-of-the-month-2022/ - Books of the Month
https://seesaw.me/ - Seesaw
https://whiteroseeducation.com/1-minute-maths - Link for downloading a fantastic 1 Minute Maths App. Great for maths fluency.