Early Years Foundation Stage

Assistant Headteacher EYFS

Alice Mansell

Pre-School

Summer Knowledge Organiser – 2024/2025

The latest Pre-School Learning Update!

This term the preschool children have been learning about healthy and unhealthy eating and how to keep our body and teeth healthy supported with different text books. There has been different activities implemented to develop children’s self confidence and self-esteem through first hand experience of making sandwiches, brushing teeth and bathing babies and taking part in Sports Day activities.

Next few weeks we will be supporting children to prepare for transitioning to nursery. Dressing and undressing is an important part of the children’s early learning journey and supporting children to learn to dress and undress on their own is a great way to build confidence and prepare them to start nursery.

PSED – Find ways to manage transitions

P – Be increasingly independent in dressing and undressing

C&L – Understand and act on longer sentences

Nursery

Summer Term Knowledge Organiser – 2024-2025

The latest Nursery Learning Update!

In Literacy we are going to be reading the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and “Real Superheroes, a Celebration of Key Workers”.

In Maths we will be learning about capacity and using words such as full/empty and nearly full/empty to describe the quantity held within a container. We will also revisit our previous learning around 2D and 3D shapes.

In Understanding of the World we will think about different occupations and how those occupations help us and the community.

In Expressive Arts and Design we will be role playing the story of The Three Little Pigs. We will be exploring musical instruments and how they can be played fast or slow.

As part of our learning in PSED we will learn about the importance of washing our hands and how best to do this. We will also think about what sort of jobs we might want to do when we grow up.

Reception

Spring Term Knowledge Organiser – 2024-2025

The latest Reception Learning Update!

In PSED we will talk about moving to Year 1, exploring what will be the same and different. We will also complete a transition activity in our new class about what we’d like to achieve and practice being confident, independent and resilient.

In C&L we will talk about the jobs we’d like to do when we’re older and why, sharing our ideas as a class. We will also discuss our feelings about moving to Year 1, listening to and responding to each other.

In PD we will practise holding a pencil correctly using a tripod grip to help us write clearly and fluently. We will also focus on forming letters accurately and with care.

In Maths we will explore a range of concepts, including Cuisenaire rods, patterns and positional language.

In Literacy we will refine skills in reading aloud, answering questions and exploring rhymes. We will also create a letter for our new teacher, focusing on accurate letter formation and sounding out words.

In UTW we will learn about the jobs that people do in our community and talk about how these roles help others. We will also explore how things have changed over time, sharing our own experiences of growing and learning and comparing life now with life in the past.

In EA&D we will be making props to go with different role play costumes, helping to bring stories to life. We will also invent and share narratives about a new animal that is worried about change, supporting transition and encouraging creativity and expression.