Class 1
Class 1: Spring Term 1 2022.
Topic: Traditional tales
Hello Class 1.
During Spring term 1, our topic focus will be ‘Traditional Tales.’
Please see below for more information about what we will be covering as part of this topic.
PE: PE lessons will be on a Monday afternoon, and Thursday morning for Class 1. Monday PE sessions will be with Miss Martin and Thursday PE sessions will be with Mr Riddel. Please ensure that your child comes into school ready in their PE kits on these days. PE will be either inside or outside so please send appropriate clothing for the weather.
Please can children bring coats into school everyday as the weather can change very quickly this time of year.
We will not be continuing with show and tell this term.
For any pupils working from home, please look in the documents section on Tapestry to find a range activities that you can do.
Weekly homework will be set for the children to practice the sounds that they have been taught at home. In addition, you can use Spelling Shed to play games to help your child to consolidate their learning of previously taught sounds. (A summary of the sounds covered during the Spring Term on Spelling Shed can be found below).
Please remember to record any reading that you do at home using GOREAD. This will help us to know when to change your child's reading books.
Your child will need a pair of wellington boots and a puddle suit that can be kept in school permanently. This will allow them to be able to play outside as much as possible no matter what the weather is like. Please ensure that you remember to send in a coat and water bottle in school each day.
If you have any problems or questions, please contact me using the class email address
Class1@wymeswold.leics.sch.uk
Kind regards, Miss Martin
Dates
Monday 3rd January: Bank Holiday Tuesday 4th January: School opens for Spring Term Wednesday 26th January: Community Dental Service Friday 28th January: National Child Measurement programme. Monday 14th-Friday 18th February- HALF TERM Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th March- Parents evening Friday 8th April- Close for Easter |
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EYFS Class 2021-2022
Helping your child at home with Literacy There are lots of ways that you can help your child at home with Literacy, one of the main ones however is lots and lots and lots and lots of reading! Model reading everything from pictures books to food packets. Celebrate your child's attempts at reading - even if they get the words wrong it's great that they are wanting to try. As their phonics skills grow they will be able to recognise more and more sounds and will begin to be able to blend these sounds to read words.
We use GoRead as a digital reading diary to record any reading activities your child does inside and outside of school. In school we will read with your child twice a week, please try to read at home as much as possible. Everytime you read at home please record this on GoRead so that we know what your child has read and whether they need a new reading book. Reading books will be changed in school once they have been marked as complete on GoRead. I will send home the children’s first reading books next week.
In Class 1 the children will start with lilac reading books (picture books). Please encourage the children to tell you a story by using the pictures to help them. You can ask them questions about what is happening to help them develop their understanding. After Lilac reading books the children will move onto Pink, Red then Yellow reading books by the end of the school year. These books will have some words in them which will match their phonics knowledge (sounds) that they already know or have been taught in school. In school we use the Dandelion readers books scheme.
Spelling Shed is an online program that we use to practise spellings and sound recognition. It has a range of games to help the children to practise recognising initial, middle or end sounds in words. I will set weekly tasks on Spelling Shed for the children to complete at home to help them to practise their sounds.
Below are some ideas for how you can support your child to develop their writing skills at home.
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EYFS Framework 2021
New EYFS Reforms:
Parent and Carer Information
You may or may not be aware that the government has been making some reforms to the curriculum that early years children experience from birth to five years old. The curriculum that your child will be taught from September 2021 will be the reformed version of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). These national changes have been made to better support all young children’s learning and development in particular the outcomes for children in Communication and Language.
Changes to the educational programmes.
Educational programmes, referred to by some people as the ‘early years curriculum’, are the areas of learning and development which must shape the activities and experiences that your children have in their early years setting, at all ages. At Wymeswold C of E, the staff have been working hard to use the new educational programmes to design an exciting and engaging approach to our curriculum so that is right for the children who attend our settings.
The 7 areas of learning and development remain the same.
The 3 prime areas:
communication and language physical development personal, social and emotional development The 4 specific areas:
literacy maths understanding the world expressive arts and design.
The changes
Changes have been made to the wording in the educational programmes. Specifically, this means:
they are longer, there is more depth, and they contain examples of things that we can all (staff and parents) do with children to enable them to build a depth and breadth of knowledge skills and understandings; there is an increased focus on early language and extending vocabulary, with more examples on how to embed and develop vocabulary skills across all 7 areas.
The aim of this is to improve outcomes for children as they progress through the EYFS and on into the next stages of education.
Changes to the wider EYFS
There are some elements of the EYFS that have not significantly changed and some that have. Below are some of the key points from the new EYFS reforms that include relevant changes which parents, carers and children may notice or experience.
• Staff will be spending less time on large amounts of written observations and assessments for evidence collection. This means they can spend more time supporting and engaging with the children and their learning and development needs. You may notice that the quantity of observations on Tapestry reduce. Our focus, going forwards, is going to be on recording significant progression.
• Children will no longer be assessed against statements from an age band category – such as 40-60+. Instead, staff will use their experience and knowledge to monitor if a child’s learning and development is on track for their age. Again, on Tapestry you will no longer see these age bands used as part of the assessments on observations.
• There are still Early Learning Goals – the assessment used at the end of the Reception year, however these have changed. Please take the time to familiarise yourself with these by looking at the statutory guidance document found on this page. Previously the assessment of the Early Learning Goals has included an ‘exceeding’ statement – used to indicate children who have surpassed the content of the Early Learning Goals. This has been removed in the reforms. Children will instead be challenged to have a greater depth of understandings about the concepts and skills they have built up over their time in Reception.
• Safeguarding and welfare of children is still a priority, with the added mention of teaching children about the importance of good oral health and how to keep teeth clean and healthy.
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New starters 2021
Welcome to Class 1,
We look forward to getting to know you more over the next few months.
Below is a letter to help you to get to know your teachers and to see inside the classroom. (Images are also available in the Gallery section on the website.
I have also attached a document for you to look at to support you to help your child prepare to start with us in August!
We look forward to meeting you all soon.
If you have any questions please contact us using the class email address
class1@wymeswold.leics.sch.uk
Kind regards,
Miss Martin
(EYFS Class Teacher)
Welcome to Class 1,
We look forward to getting to know you more over the next few months.
Below is a letter to help you to get to know your teachers and to see inside the classroom. (Images are also available in the Gallery section on the website.
I have also attached a document for you to look at to support you to help your child prepare to start with us in August!
We look forward to meeting you all soon.
If you have any questions please contact us using the class email address
class1@wymeswold.leics.sch.uk
Kind regards,
Miss Martin
(EYFS Class Teacher)
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Video 1 for new starter pupils 2021:
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New Starter Video 2021/2022- Tour of Class 1 Video
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Class 1 Timetable Summer Term 2021
*subject to change due to the nature of the EYFS Curriculum and end of term activities. |
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