Foundation
Welcome to Foundation Stage!
Learning through play!
In Foundation, your child will follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum. This sets the standards for the learning, development, and care of your child. The things your child will learn in Foundation have been organised into three prime areas of learning:
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Personal and Social Development
And four specific areas of learning:
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design
What will my child do in Foundation?
In the EYFS, play is a very important part of your child’s development and most learning will be introduced through a mixture of carefully planned play and some adult-led focused activities. There will also be opportunities for your child to choose activities that appeal to them, following their own particular interests.
Don’t be too concerned if your child says that they have been playing all day – it just means that they have been lucky enough to have experienced staff who have made their learning fun and enjoyable! As the Foundation year progresses, the learning may start to become more formal, ready for Year 1 and the National Curriculum.
Further really useful information for parents from Oxford Owl can be found here:
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/at-school/reception-at-primary-school/
This will be an exciting and challenging year for the Foundation Stage children as they make new friends, settle into routines and access new and exciting activities both indoors and outdoors. We will be focusing on getting to know each other and finding out the children's interests to incorporate into our learning.
Our Foundation Environment
Reading
At the beginning of term the children will be given school library books to take home and share with their family. This will be a brilliant way to get to know the children's favourite books and build on early reading skills. We are looking forward to our book launch where children will be given their first school reading book.
Please read with your child at least 3 times a week. Don't forget to sign the reading record.
PE
P.E days will be on a Tuesday and Friday. No children should bring a PE kit to school. Please wear appropriate P.E kit to school on those days. Prepare for these sessions to be outdoors unless weather does not allow for this.
Interest Walls
In Foundation Stage, each child has their own display space. Children can choose what to put on their interest wall such as work that they are proud of, certificates or photos of out of school activities and pictures of their family. Please feel free to send certificates or items from home that children would like to share.
Life in Foundation
Christmas in Foundation
The Foundation children have truly embraced the Christmas spirit over the past few weeks. They have enjoyed decorating the Christmas tree, making reindeer out of play dough, creating a variety of festive decorations, and carefully decorating their own gingerbread men. The children also took part in a wonderful Christmas performance, where they confidently took to the stage and shared everything they had been practising. They worked incredibly hard to learn their lines, songs, and actions, showing fantastic focus and determination throughout rehearsals. Their performance was a joy to watch and made everyone very proud.
Foundation Police Patrol
As part of our topic “People Who Help Us,” the children had a very special visit from Police Officer John Box. He spoke to the children about his important role as a police officer, introduced them to his police dog, and showed them some of the equipment he uses to help keep people safe.
The children listened with great interest and asked lots of thoughtful questions. There was even a very funny moment when one of the children was put under arrest as part of a pretend demonstration! Everyone found it hilarious and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
It was a fantastic learning opportunity, helping the children understand how police officers keep our community safe.
Bonfire Night
Foundation children had a fun-filled afternoon last week celebrating Bonfire Night! Although the bad weather meant we had to bring the campfire indoors, that didn’t stop the fun. The children gathered around our “indoor campfire” and used sticks to create their very own firework wands. They showed wonderful creativity wrapping colourful pipe cleaners around their sticks and adding shiny beads and stars.
Superheroes
The children have been diving into the exciting world of superheroes, inspired by our key text Supertato! They’ve been using their amazing art skills to design and create their very own superheroes — complete with capes, masks, and unique powers. They’ve also been putting their phonics knowledge to work by writing brilliant sentences about their superhero creations.
Self-Portraits
This week, the Foundation children have been learning all about what makes them who they are. As part of this learning journey, the children created fantastic self-portraits, using their brilliant observational skills to complete the other half of their faces. They also used a range of descriptive adjectives to talk about their appearance.
Owl Babies
The children have really enjoyed reading the story Owl Babies this term. Together, we created a story map to help them understand the sequence of events, and the children had great fun making up their own actions to support their recall of the story.
Foundation Stage – A Fantastic First Week!
Our Foundation children have had a fantastic first week at school! They have settled in brilliantly, getting to know their new classroom, exploring different learning areas, and beginning to understand the daily routines. It has been wonderful to see their confidence grow as they make new friends and enjoy a range of fun and engaging activities. We are so proud of how well they’ve started their school journey!
Useful links to use at home
Please use the links below to support home learning.
If you forget your passwords at anytime please let a member of the Foundation team know so we can help.