EYFS - Acorn

Welcome to Acorn Class

Early Years Foundation Stage

Class Teachers: Mrs Green and Mrs Rowland

Mrs Green works Monday and Tuesday and Mrs Rowland works Wednesday to Friday.

LSA: Mrs Wright

We are a playful, fun, explorative class where each child is encouraged to learn through play and engaging activities. Our aim is to create an environment where children can thrive and continuously work towards developing and further enhancing their communication, literacy, maths and personal and social skills.

Our PE days vary, so please ensure PE kits are in school all week. We will aim to send them home every half-term to be washed.

Autumn Term 1 is about settling the children into school life and our timetable has to be flexible to meet the needs and abilities of the class.

We will have daily:

phonological awareness sessions.
phonics lessons.
reading sessions (1:1, group and whole class).
maths stories and songs.
whole class practical maths activities.
small group activities related to our class text.
opportunities to explore our classroom independently.

Our School rules

Be Respectful
Be Safe
Be Ready

Daily checklist:

Correct uniform
One book bag with their reading book and reading record
Weather appropriate coat
Water bottle
Wellington boots if rainy or snowy (so that children can access all the garden)

Please label all belongings as things can easily go missing. We cannot return any lost items that are not labelled.

Mrs Green and Mrs Rowland are available if you would like to discuss how your child is doing at school or to ask a classroom-specific question (e.g a lost jumper etc...) please contact the office to arrange a formal meeting or use Dojo as a way to communicate with the EYFS team. If your query relates to something other than classroom matters, for example: dinners, payments, events, please continue to contact the office via telephone or the admin email address.

Autumn 1 in Acorn Class

This term our topic is 'Me and My Community'.

We will be focusing lots of our work around these three books:

Phonics and reading

Our school uses the Little Wandle Phonics scheme.

Over the year, we will work systematically through the scheme and regularly assess children's understanding and ability to recognise GPC's (Grapheme-phoneme correspondence), decodable words and tricky words.

These are the sounds that we will cover in Reception, and we will regularly send ideas about how you can practice phonics at home.

*Please note that this term (Autumn 1), we will be teaching the following:

For parents | Letters and Sounds
This link will take you to the Little Wandle website that gives you lots of information about our phonics scheme.

The following list shows the words we would like the children to read and write by the end of Reception.

There are lots of great ways to practice reading and writing them, why not try…?

Have a word hunt around the house
Play word pairs or snap
Practice writing them in sand, glitter, shaving foam, etc
Look for words in the environment
Letters on milk bottle lids and putting them in order to spell
Writing them with chalk on the pavement
Making them with play dough

Maths

In our maths lessons we are continuously building upon our current skills and fostering new ones, which we then apply through fun and practical experiences. We will be teaching maths though NCETM and White Rose. This is a research-based scheme of learning, consistent with the aims and objectives of the Early Years Framework, supporting a mastery approach to teaching and learning in Early Years.

This term we are:

Matching, sorting and comparing numbers.

Talking about measures & patterns.

Subitising to 3.

Counting sequence 1:1.

Composition of 3 and 4.

Subitising to 4.

To help practice Maths skills at home please see our poster of ideas for counting and number recognition:

We also encourage Numberblocks as a positive support to help develop mathematical understanding of number.

Numberblocks