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Welcome

Early Years Unit Autumn Term 2019

THE EARLY YEARS TEAM

• Mrs Buck

ckle ley y Teacher

• Miss

s Hint nton Early Years Practitioner

(full time)

• Miss

s Clark arke e (Miss ss Katy ty) Early Years Practitioner

(mornings only)

• Mrs Allnu

nut Volunteer helper (Mondays only)

• Mrs Gooch

Principal

(Teaching Wednesday mornings)

CLASS ORGANISATION

We currently have 31 children in the Early Years Unit.

• 21 children in Reception and
• 10 children in Nursery (this number will hopefully increase as

the year goes by), 5 of whom are entitled to the 30 hours funding and so join the Reception children in the afternoon. Miss Hinton & Miss Katy will each have a key group of 5 nursery children and take the lead in Nursery on alternate weeks.

START OF THE DAY

• Gates and classroom doors open at 8.30am.
• Children in Nursery come in and settle to an activity
• Children in Reception need to put their things away and complete their

‘Start of the Day Activity’

• Registration will be at 8.40 – 8.45am

(we ask all parents to leave before this time – if doors are opening and closing we can’t ensure the safety of the children in class)

• If you arrive after this time and the gate has been shut you

must go to the main reception for your child to be signed in.

NURSERY ROUTINE

• Free choice of activi

vities ties in Nurser ery y classroom for about 30

minutes

• Doors open to Recepti

tion

• n and outdoor

r area ea at about 9.15am to

provide a broader selection of activities.

• Snack of ‘Fruit or vegetable of the Day’ along with a drink of milk
• r water.
• Tidy-up Time

me at about 11am – when we ask the children to ‘put

things back where they belong’

• Sho

hort t focused ed acti tivity ity (Circle time / Dough Disco / Jigsaw / Show

& Tell) then maybe a story or some singing before getting ready to go home / go to lunch.

RECEPTION ROUTINE

• Narrativ

rative e Activit tivity y – based on a book of the week

• Whole group input / discussion
• Writing activity in small groups
• Continuous

s Prov

• visi

ision (free choice of activities in Reception Nursery & outside)

• Snack – as for nursery, available during most of the morning
• Tidy

dy up – Put things back where they belong

• Phonic

ics s – a different letter each day, will keep recapping letters

• Lunch - in hall, then playtime on big playground with Year 1
• Maths - focused teach and maths based activities during the afternoon
• Tidy

dy up - Put things back where they belong

• Other focused

ed activ ivit ity y – PE/Dough Disco/Jigsaw/Show & Tell

• Whole

le school

• l assembl

bly y in the hall ll

• Home time

WHAT DO THEY NEED?

• Change

ge of clothes es – all sorts of accidents can happen!

• Warm layers

ers – Jumper / cardigan – ALL NAMED PLEASE!!!!

• Warm waterpr

erproof coat as we will be outside in all weathers (NAMED

PLEASE!)

• Welli

lies to keep in school please (Named please)

• Book bag

g or good sized rucksack to carry letters and reading books etc

(Clearly named please)

• PE Kit – white T-shirt, black/navy shorts or trousers and

trainers/plimpsolls (all named and in a clearly named bag)

• Sun cream

am and nd sunh nhat t during summer months

• Donation
• n Duck money

BEHAVIOUR AND REWARDS

• Our Rainb

nbow w Rules:

Be Kind Be Safe Be Ready

• Bucket

t Fill llers ers and Bucket t Dipper pers

(once we have filled our bucket, with ping pong balls, the children can choose a reward)

• Awards

ds Assemb mbly ly on Thurs rsday day

EYFS - EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE

• You will need a password to access your account - these will be issued soon.
• We will endeavour to upload at least one observation a week for each child
• We would really encourage you to add your own comments and observations too.

EYFS - EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE

PHONICS AND READING

• This is the scheme we use to teach phonics on a daily basis
• Once we have assessed the children we will start to send home reading books for those who a

ready.

• Try to find a time to listen to your child read every night. We ask that all books

s are read three times as this really helps children to develop as confident readers – rushing forward will not help in the long run.

• We will send home sets of ‘Rotten Red’ words. These are words that cannot be decoded

phonetically and just need to be learnt by sight.

• We will try to listen to every Reception child read each week.
• Remember we want children to learn to love reading so don’t push too hard (little & often is

the key) and it’s important to share the joy of books by reading to / with your child every day, at bedtime or anytime of the day.

UP COMING DATES

• Thurs 10th October - School photographer
• Fri 11th October – Harvest Festival (Parents welcome) 8.45am
• Wed 16th October – PTA meeting 7.30pm
• Mon 21 Oct & Tues 22 Oct – Parents evenings
• Thurs 24th October – PTA School Disco
• 28 Oct – 1 Nov

Nov – HALF TERM HOLIDAY

• Fri 15th November – Children in Need
• Fri 13th December – Christmas Jumper Day
• Thurs 19th December – Last day of term,

COMMUNICATION

• Please feel free to come and talk to me if you have
• anything you would like to ask about
• any concerns you’d like to discuss,
• anything you would like to make me aware of etc
• You are always welcome to pop in for a quick chat at the end of the

day (the morning can be quite hectic) or contact the school office to arrange a time to meet.

• Nursery – you can also speak to your child’s Key Worker (Miss Hinton or

Miss Katy)

• We are planning to use the nursery window as a notice board, please keep

an eye out for information.

• If there is anything else we can do to help, please just let us know.