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Meet the Staff:
Miss O’Connor
Lisa
Alyson
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Welcome to Snowy Owls!
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'The Early Years Foundation Stage'
What is it?
There are 7 areas of learning in the Early Years Foundation
Stage. The three prime areas are Personal, Social and Emotional Development; Communication and Language and Physical Development. These areas run through all that we do in Reception and are crucial for igniting children's curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and for building their capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive. There are also four specific areas of learning through which the prime areas are strengthened and applied. These are Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Art and Design.
The learning environment, resources and activities that
the children experience each day are planned to fulfill the criteria
of these seven areas in an motivating, effective, varied and progressive way. In Snowy Owls, we aim to make your child's early years experience happy, active, exciting, fun and secure; and support their development, care and learning needs. |
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Personal, Social and Emotional Development:
This prime area of learning provides
experiences and support which
will help the children to develop
a positive sense of themselves
and of others; social skills; and
a positive disposition to learn. |
Communication and Language:
This prime area covers:
Listening and Attention; Understanding; and Speaking.
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Maths:
Number: In this specific area, children learn to recognise and use numbers in problem solving activities
Shape Space and Measure: The children learn to use everyday language to talk about money, time, size, weight, capacity, position, and distance to compare quantities and to solve problems. They also learn about patterns and simple shapes.
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Understanding the world:
In thie specific are of learning the chidlren will learn about:
People and Communities - past and present events in their own lives, and similarities between themsleves and others, and among communities, families and traditions;
The World - Children learn about features of different environments, look at similarities and differences in relation to places, materials, objects and living things, and make observations of animals and plants;
Technology - children learn about uses of technology and how to select and use technology for particular purposes.
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Physical Development:
In this prime area of learning, the physical development of the
children is encouraged through
the provision of opportunities
to be active and interactive and
to improve their skills of co-
ordination, control, manipulation and movement. They are
supported in developing a
understanding of the importance
of physical activity and making healthy choices in relation to
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Expressive Arts and Design:
In this specific area of learning, children explore and use a range of media and materials, including songs, music, dance and art resources. they learn to use a variety of tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function. They also learn to use what they have learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes. They are encouraged to represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories.
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Literacy:
This specific area of learning is based around reading and writing.
In reading, the children learn to read and understand simple sentences. tehy use phonics knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately, and read some common irregular words.
In writing, children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also learn to write some irregular common words. they learn to write simple sentences which can be read by themsleves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible. |
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Forest School:
Outdoor learning plays a big part in our curriculum and we use our
outdoor classroom, Forest School and the local area whenever possible. These areas provide extended opportunities for learning through play, discovering and exploring in an exciting, but protected, enviroment.Some children are more likely to learn outdoors, especially those with an
active learning style. Everything has the potential to be learned just as effectively outside as indoors.
We have a Forest school on our site which means that, as a qualified leader, I can give the children the Forest School experience every week. For those of you who have not encountered Forest School, it
isn't so much a place as a philosophy where physical and mental time,
and space, enables children to incubate ideas and try them out with a degree of independence in a natural environment.
The chidlren are encouraged to explor and devise and develop their own activities, but planned activities include:
den making
whittling
camp fires
sawing wood
charcoal drawing
scavengar hunts
weaving
natural instruments
homes for animals
bird food
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This Half Term’s topic is ' In the Garden'
Here are some of the activities that we will be doing at school: |
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Personal, Social and Emotional Development:
Looking after pets and mini-beasts we find in the environment
Growing and caring for plants in and around our school
Bible stories |
Communication and Language:
Role play - Vets and Garden Centre
fiction and non-fiction books about pets, plants and mini-beasts
Topic story sacks
Listening Lola games
Circle time
Show and Tell
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Physical Development:
Activate
Action kids: games skills
Write Dance - 'scrimbling'
Gross and fine motor skills activities
Parachute games
Welly walks, observation and sound walks
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Understanding the world:
How do we care for a pet?
What does a vet do?
How do plants grow well? - investigations
Which plants can we eat?
Parts of a plant
The seasons
Planting flowers and vegetables in our school garden
Plans of our garden and Forest School
Visit to a Garden Centre
Our own Garden Centre Sale
Brilliant bugs
Mini-beast hunts
Pond dipping
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Literacy:
Mark making using a range of media and materials, inside and outside
Letters and Sounds Phase 2/3/4
Penpals handwriting
Guided reading
Scrimbling
Rhyming strings
Story maps
My Pet
Pet care leaflets
Instructions - how to grow a sunflower
Bean diary
Brilliant bugs fact sheets
In our Garden scrapbook
Garden Centre sale - posters, invitations, signs
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Mathematics:
Number rhymes, books and games
Numbers 0-20
Addition and subtraction
Simple recording of investigations
Problem solving
Counting in twos and tens
Using mathematical language to compare size/ weight/quantities
Data handling - favourite pets/ vegetables
Time - The Bad Tempered Ladybird
Money - The Great Sale
Measuring height/ length - Beans and sunflowers
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Expressive Art and Design:
Role play stories
Out of the Ark - Spring/ summer songs
Music Express
Clay model animals
Design and make a pet carrier
Decorate plant pots
Marvellous mini-beasts - 3D mixed media
Fabulous flowers - 2D and 3D collage
Van Gogh - 'Sunflowers' paintings
Grasshead monsters
Role play - Vets/ Garden Centre |
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CALENDAR: See homepage
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NOTES FOR PARENTS
There are some links from this page to useful websites. |
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