Welcome to EYFS! Our classes are Maple and Beech. 

Maple Class Teachers:  Miss Gower and Mrs Uttridge 

Beech Class Teachers: Mrs Cormode and Mrs Finch 

EYFS Teaching Assistants: Mrs Le Sager, Mrs Larner and  Miss Gilks 

Term 3

Welcome to Term 3 in EYFS! We hope you are all well rested after the Christmas break. 

Please continue to ensure your children come to school with suitable clothing for the cold weather, with plenty of layers.  As always, please also ensure everything that is brought into school is clearly named, including shoes.

This term we will be continuing to support the children’s growing independence with tasks such as putting on their own coats, shoes and wellies, and doing up zips. Please encourage your child to “have a go” with these tasks at home too. J

 

Our theme for this term is “Journeys”.  Through this theme we will be learning about winter and the changes this season brings. Along with different types of past and present transport, maps and road safety. We will be putting this learning into action by going for a walk in our local area.  We will end the term by learning all about space!

 

The children have made a fantastic start to their phonics learning! We encourage you to continue to use the phonics sound chart at home to support this. As part of our early morning activities, we will continue to develop the children’s fine motor skills. This includes using scissors, folding, sticking, threading, and sorting. We also ensure that all the children have multiple opportunities to mark-make and write throughout the entire setting, as well as guided learning of letter formation and name writing.

 

This term, we will be using a variety of texts to support our learning. These texts include “The Snowflake”, “The Everywhere Bear” and “Pirates Love Underpants”.  We will also be reading winter poems.  We will be learning how to write simple sentences

 

As part of our learning about winter we will be exploring different natural world environments with our senses.   We will be taking a journey through space and time by looking at pictures of old and new transport and talking about the differences we notice.   This will also include naming and describing figures from the past.

 

In maths this term, we will be consolidating our counting skills,  counting to larger numbers and developing a wider range of counting strategies. 

 

This term we will continue in our phonics groups. If your child brings home a Read, Write Inc book, they will have practiced this book throughout the week at school.  As it is a book that is familiar to them, they might be able to read it at home with increased fluency.

 

P.E. for both classes will be on Wednesday.

 

Reminders:-

 

Please see the Learning Overview below for more information about the Term 3 curriculum.