Welcome to the Foundation Stage!

HONEY BEES & BUMBLE BEES!

SUMMER TERM 2021 HONEY BEES (MISS LANGSTON - FSL)

Mrs Malaniuk, Mrs Khan and Miss Law are the class TAs.

TIMETABLE INFORMATION

PE - Monday (Madame Binns) & Thursday (Miss Langston)

FRENCH - Monday (Madame Binns)

MUSIC - Thursday (Mrs Gorton)

BUMBLE BEES (MRS GORTON - FSG)

Miss McCarthy, Miss Hunt and Mrs Panas are the class TAs.

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TIMETABLE INFORMATION

PE - Monday (Madame Binns) & Thursday (Miss Langston)

FRENCH - Monday (Madame Binns)

MUSIC - Thursday (Mrs Gorton)

Key dates for the 1st half of the Summer Term;-

Monday 19^th April – School reopens for the start of the 2021 Summer Term; Breakfast Club restarts.

Friday 30^th April – School closes for the May Day bank holiday.

Tuesday 4^th May – School reopens.

Friday 28^th May – School closes for the half-term holiday.

Our Curriculum

In the Reception year at school our curriculum is based on ‘Development Matters in the Early Years Foundation Stage’ (EYFS).

There are 7 areas of learning – 3 prime areas (Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Communication and Language, Physical Development) and 4 specific areas (Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World, Expressive Arts and Design).

At Chesham, the 4 themes of the EYFS underpin all our planning, practice and provision - A Unique Child, Positive Relationships and Enabling Environments, which together equal Learning and Development.

We also plan for, observe and assess the way in which your child approaches learning. This is done through the ‘Characteristics of Effective Learning’ and we report on this at the end of the Reception year. The 3 characteristics are Playing and Exploring, Active Learning and Creating and Thinking Critically.

Children participate in daily Literacy, Maths and Phonics sessions. These sessions are interactive, multi-sensory and adapted to different learning styles. Children often discuss their learning with ‘talk partners’ and are supported by a teacher and a teaching assistant.

Our Literacy sessions are based around a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts. Shared reading and writing is modelled and children also have the opportunity to compare texts/videos/web-based writing.

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Our Maths sessions are often energetic and collaborative. We sing lots of songs and use lots of different resources to aid learning. The majority of our guided work is practical and there is lots of photographic evidence of the activities in the children’s books.