Foundation
Welcome to Foundation
Hello and welcome to our class page!
Our Christian value this half term is Equality and in our Collective Worship will teach the children the importance of this.
Please see Seesaw for weekly updates sent out to you on a Friday about what we will be learning. This will follow our interests and activities and will be a mix of adult led and child-initiated play.
Spring 1
We have been excited to return to school after Christmas, especially with the cold, wintery weather. We are going to be learning lots about winter and will be reading the book, ‘The Long Sleep’ – all about hibernation of animals.
The children have already written postcards, wishing a happy new year to our neighbours, and even delivered these like postal workers.
This half term we will be exploring the question, ‘Where do I live?’ using maps and pictures to explore the local area. They will spot features around the school grounds to help them understand a journey. The children will then compare where they live to a child from different countries.
The children will explore their world through flags, making messy maps, creating masks, writing about their homes, learning songs and reading stories.
In RE this term we will be focusing on ‘Special Books we will be discussing how we have books that are special to us baby and then how people of different religions have their own special books too. We will be looking at two religions in Foundation, Christianity and Islam.
In Foundation we will be beginning our daily phonics lessons using ‘Read, Write, Inc’. This will be done in groups and the children will have opportunity to practice their new sounds during the lesson alongside some gross motor activities too.
In the autumn term a new sound will be sent home each day in a sound book for you to practice together at home.
In Maths we will be doing short, sessions of practical maths. We follow the White Rose Maths Curriculum and enhance it using Master the Curriculum to plan engaging and hands on sessions for all our pupils.
Our maths lessons include high quality vocabulary which is modelled at the beginning of each lesson and throughout to help our children to think like mathematicians and challenge them where needed.
The children then move into the provision where they are engaged in exciting and challenging maths activities in the provision both indoor and outdoor.
Finally…
Snack is available for all Foundation Stage children in the Foundation classroom.
Please bring in £1 weekly to help us provide a variety of healthy foods for your child to try
Children need to read to an adult at home 3 times per week and have their reading records signed.
Weekly announcements and home learning challenges are sent out via Seesaw (our online learning platform)
PE for our Foundation Stage children will be on a Monday afternoon. PE kits must be worn all day on our PE day.
