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Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
Welcome to Early Years
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) applies to children from birth to the end of the Reception year.
Children begin Sale and Davys school in the Reception (Merlin) Class. They quickly settle into school life with the help of a team of caring teaching staff.
Our Early Years Foundation Stage nurtures a love of learning though playing, exploring and investigative activities. These experiences enable children to become confident, independent learners.
The EYFS is based around seven areas of learning and development.
There are three prime areas:
· Personal, Social and Emotional Development
· Communication and Language
· Physical Development
And four specific areas:
· Literacy
· Mathematics
· Understanding the World
· Expressive Arts and Design
There are also four overarching principles of the EYFS which shape our teaching and practice.
1. Every child is unique, constantly learning and can be resilient, capable and confident.
2. Positive relationships enable children to be strong and independent.
3. Children learn and develop well in enabling environments with teaching and support from adults who respond to their individual interests and needs.
4. The importance of learning and development and recognising children learn and develop at different rates.
At Sale and Davys the Reception Class is a happy and safe environment in which pupils flourish.
For more information about our Maths, Phonics and Reading Programme and our weekly timetable in Early Years take a look below.
Mathematics
Mathematics
It is important that children develop a strong understanding of numbers so that all children develop the necessary building blocks to excel mathematically. Children should be able to count confidently beyond 10, develop a deep understanding of numbers to 10, the relationships between them and the patterns within those numbers. Through frequent opportunities to count and engage in number tasks using a variety of equipment and apparatus children will build on their mathematical knowledge and vocabulary. Alongside this, our curriculum provides rich opportunities for children to develop their special reasoning skills across all areas of mathematics including shape, space and measures.
We want our children to be inquisitive, to spot patterns, to make links, to be confident enough to have a go – even though it might be wrong and to develop a love of learning of mathematics.
Maths Long Term Plan
(docx)
DownloadEarly Reading and Phonics
Early Reading and Phonics - Intent and Implementation
Intent
Sale and Davys School community work together to enable all children to become confident, fluent readers and writers. These skills unlock the world of the written word and promote a love of reading. Positive early reading opportunities are vital building blocks to enable this to happen. The use of a consistent, cohesive approach through a single, systematic and synthetic phonics programme is essential for this. Positive reading experiences such as hearing stories read, reading books for pleasure and accessing fully decodable texts contributes to this and further promotes a love of reading. We believe teaching phonics from the earliest time in Reception gives children the best opportunity to master reading and spelling from an early age. Enabling them to become confident readers for both pleasure and purpose as they move through school.
Implementation
- Phonics is taught everyday following Little Wandle letters and sounds revised validated scheme.
- We maintain a consistent cohesive approach by maintaining fidelity to the Little Wandle scheme in all phonics teaching.
- All staff including support staff and Key Stage 2 staff have completed all the Little Wandle training modules and continue to attend the regular Phonics training meetings.
- We model the application of the alphabetic code through phonics in shared reading and writing, both inside and outside of the phonics lesson.
- Children’s progress in phonics is carefully monitored and intervention is put in place to address children who are falling behind.
- We ensure books available for individual reading are decodable and are carefully matched to the each child’s ability.
- Group reading focused on decoding, prosody and comprehension takes place in EYFS and will soon be introduced in Year 1.
- A love of reading is promoted through carefully selected texts that are read during story times, available for independent reading and used as focus texts to inspire and enthuse children during their topic learning experiences.
Little Wandle Letters and Sounds
We use Little Wandle Letters and Sounds phonics scheme. Click below to find out more.
Early Reading and Phonics Documents
Early Years Guidance
Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
The standards that school and childcare providers must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5.
Development Matters
Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
Non-statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage
Timetable
Our timetable brings daily routine and allows our pupils to understand expectations and feel safe.
Timetable Merlin 2022-23 Feb New (pdf)
DownloadNewsletter
Helping to Prepare Your Child for School
Between now and September the key area you can support your child with is developing their independence. The "10 keys for unlocking school readiness" is a document (see link below) which lists guidance for the types of things you can do with your child. In school your child will be encouraged to be personally independent. Your child will ideally be happy going to the toilet by themselves. Do they know how to look after themselves, can they ask to go to the toilet when they need to? Children will need to dress and undress themselves for playing and PE. Can they put on/take off and fasten/unfasten their coat and shoes? Practice buttons/zips/velcro and perhaps have a game; set time challenges to increase the speed they can do these actions once they are confident. When buying school uniform and PE kit ensure your child's name is on their belongings and perhaps a sticker or mark to help them recognise their things. Children are often not aware that new items actually belong to them.
Children will have to feed themselves at lunchtime. Help them to practice cutting up food and use a knife and fork properly. Children have an allocated time to eat their lunch, about 30 minutes, there is support from lunchtime staff however we like the children to have time for outside play after they have had their lunch. If your child is bringing a packed lunch consider the amount they will be able to eat in the time they have for lunch.
Some children are used to having an afternoon nap....now is the time to wean them off this habit.
Help your child develop skills to assist their learning at school. Have fun with songs and nursery rhymes. Research shows that reception children who can recite up to 12 songs or nursery rhymes perform better academically by age 11.
Finally...it is not an expectation that your children will be able to do everything on the list for day 1 in September, we will continue to work on these things all of the time and will aim for children to be mastering the skills by Christmas if not earlier. Your support in these areas is crucial to your child settling well into school life and we thank you for your help with this.
Sale and Davys Church of England Primary School
Twyford Road, Barrow upon Trent, Derby, DE73 7HA, United Kingdom Email: enquiries@saledavys.derbyshire.sch.uk
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