Dear parents/carers,

Here you will find some suggested activities for learning at home.

Teachers have been asked to set enough work to provide 1 Maths, 1 English and 1 topic activity a day. There are also some additional activities for those who would like to use them.

Please remember that this needs to fit in with and suit your routine at home. It is up to you how much you complete. If you can manage nothing else, please continue to read with and to your child and practice number facts (e.g. accurate counting, number recognition to 20, number bonds up to, and including, 10).

A few tips:                                                                

1) Don't try to replicate school at home; you have other things to do!

2) Make a timetable with your child, and give them ownership over it. Personalise it to your child and your circumstances.

3) Include some of the daily chores you would like them to take responsibility for – eg. Making their bed, washing the dog etc!

4) Choose 2 or 3 activities from the plans provided (or your own activities) per day.

5) Set a time limit – small bite-sized, manageable chunks of learning will have greater benefit and it is more likely that your child will want to come back and do it again tomorrow.

6) Make the most of real-world learning e.g. baking, gardening, telling the time etc.

7) Share some of the work – or pictures of what they are doing – with the teacher via  Tapestry. That way their teacher can praise and encourage them too! 

Have fun with it and stay safe!

Welcome to the Early Years Foundation Stage!

We are two classes of EYFS children who love to learn through investigating, exploring and play. We follow the Early Years Curriculum and use Read, Write Inc to help us with our phonics, reading and writing.  Mathematics is taught through the concrete, pictorial and abstract approach.  

 What to expect when you walk in our classroom

•  Children engaged in Planned Purposeful Play which we call Ace Active Agent Time.
•  Adults listening to children, encouraging speech by modelling, rephrasing and repeating. 
•  Children will be given thinking time and wonder time to deepen their thoughts.
•  Focus challenges set for the children’s needs.          
• All areas of the Early Years curriculum will be valued.
•   There will be lots of opportunities to learn through doing. Fine and gross motor skills will be enhanced.

“When children are relaxed and happy they do their best thinking”

Professor Julie Fisher

“Effective interactions are where the child gains something positive

that he or she did not have before”

Oxfordshire ACI Project 

When you come into our classroom there are three learning experiences you could see: adult-led, child-led and adult initiated.  Each of these has their own purpose and each requires different kinds of adult input.

Adult-led allows children to carry out activities that otherwise they may not be able to manage by  themselves, such as cooking or scissor skills.

Child-led is where the child will direct and lead the play in any way they wish.  It is based on the idea that we are naturally curious about our world.

Adult-initiated is where the adult will provide a safe and stimulating environment to exploreand test their ideas.   

Characteristics of Ducks’ and Otters’ Learners

Below is the link to the Burton Learning Zone which has relevant websites/games for your child according to our topics.