Welcome to the Foundation Stage!

Your teaching staff this year are Mrs Kittridge, Miss Gaskell, and Mrs Martin.
The teaching assistants helping us with our learning this year will be Mrs. Woods, Mrs Lad, Mrs Khunti and Mrs Kaur.

We are looking forward to an exciting term with some wonderful novel studies and projects ahead!

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

During the Spring term we will be understanding the importance of a good sleep routine. This includes knowing that there should be a bedtime set, knowing how to relax before bedtime and that a good sleep helps you to concentrate & and to be in a good mood ready for our learning the next day! We will also be exploring the word ‘challenge’ and understanding that a challenge is something that is hard to do but we can try our best to overcome it! We face many challenges together during our school day and are working on our resilience to help us with this.

English

In our English lessons this term, we will be exploring a range of texts to link with our learning about Birds. Our key text will be ‘Otter Blotter Bird Spotter’ and we will start the term by using our phonics skills to label the different body parts of a bird. As we further develop our knowledge and understanding, we will be composing and writing our own simple fact sentences about a bird’s habitat, diet and features. 

As we progress through the Little Wandle phonics scheme, we will be learning the phase 3 graphemes: ai ee igh oa oo oo ar or ur ow oi ear air er, and be introducing the ‘tricky’ words: was, you, they, my, by, all, are, sure, pure.

Children will be bringing home a range of reading books with increasing challenge which is directly matched to their phonics knowledge. Reading holds significant importance at our school, and to ensure the children have the best chances of success, we kindly request that they read for 10 minutes every night. Each child has a school reading book and reading record, where you can note down their reading progress. The more practice they have reading aloud, the better! Please make sure the children come to school prepared, with their reading record completed each day.

Maths

In Maths this term we will be learning the number name zero and recognise when there is zero as an amount. We will be learning how to identify, subitise and count numbers 6-8 as well as know that these numbers can be represented in different ways and arrangements. As a basic introduction to addition, we will be learning how to combine 2 groups to find how many there are ‘altogether’ as well as how to partition single digit numbers into two parts. As our knowledge of number develops, we will be introducing the concept of odd and even numbers as well as simple doubling.

PE

This term we will be exploring Dance! We are going to be thinking about the skill of balancing, and how we can use this to manage our own bodies during different movements. We will even think about how we can incorporate small items, such as beanbags into our movements whilst using balance. We will learn how to stretch, reach and extend in a variety of ways and positions and to control our bodies and perform specific movements on command.