Welcome to St Anne’s

Early Years Curriculum

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The EYFS Curriculum • Prime Areas of Learning:

o Personal, Social and Emotional Development

o Communication and Language

o Physical Development

• Specific Areas

o Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World, Expressive Arts and

Design

• Characteristics of effective learning

o Playing and exploring, Active learning , creativity and thinking

critically

• End of Reception assessment: See handout

o Emerging, expected and exceeding

Phonics • Nursery: Jolly Phonics, songs, Little Kit the puppet, initial sounds, rhyming

• Reception: Sounds Write Phonics taught daily

• Sounds are taught in the context of a whole word, not in isolation

• Refer to the sound and not the letter name

• Precise pronunciation

• Blending

• Segmenting

• Phoneme manipulation

• Split spelling

• Phonic workshops

http://www.sounds-write.co.uk/

Maths Mastery • Place value – 2 lots of ten = 20

• Dienes, 1s, 10s, 100s

• Subitising

• Unifix and Numicon

• Pattern – link to times tables

• Numberblocks

• Maths Hub

• Lots of problem solving!

• Using sentences to explain workings out

• End of Nursery – Numbers to 10

• End of Reception – Numbers to 20

• https://nrich.maths.org/early-years

Keeping up to date • School app

• Parent mail

• Instagram - Stannesearlyyears

• School website – Class blogs (Photo permission)

http://www.stanneswandsworth.co.uk/

Healthy schools

• Books for birthdays (No cakes)

• Healthy school dinners

• Healthy packed lunches

• Nut free school

Application for Reception • Deadline is: 15th January 2020

• Booklets going out next week

• Applications to be filled in online -

http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/admissions

• Contact pupil services if you need to fill out by hand

Transition to Year One • Summer Term 2: More table top activities, attending more

assemblies and taking part in more whole school events

• Plenty of opportunities to meet their new class teacher and

visit their new classroom

Working with parents • Tree of good news(Acorns)/Hurray from home(Oaks)

• Show and Tell

• Class bear – Bumblebear (Acorns)/Stickman Julia Donaldson

(Acorns)

• Learning Journeys: being sent home soon to decorate

• Termly learning maps (Parentmail)

• Autumn Term & Spring Term parents evenings

• Summer end of year report

• Friday parent/carer reading

• Help on class trips and with school events

Friday – Library Day,

Tuesday if your child does

not attend Nursery on a

Friday

Nursery (Acorn Class) Day

Wednesday-ICT

Thursday- PE

Friday- Reading

Reception (Oak Class) Day

Reception Curriculum • Engaging topics – Wonderful Wandsworth, Under the sea, how

does your garden grow? Real life heroes, To infinity and beyond.

• Exciting trips – Aquarium, Transport, Wandsworth Library,

Garden.

• Developing independence

• Learning journey, R.E, Handwriting,

Maths and Literacy

• Golden ticket for good attendance

• Art-Romero Britto, Henry Matisse, Roy Lichtenstein

• Drama workshop

• One term of dance

Reading in Reception • Reading scheme books: Read twice a week at school with an adult,

find a small amount of time every day at home.

• Two new books a week: Phonics book and a story book Reading

folder in school every day (Starting next week).

• Reading record: small weekly comment-found the word ‘mat

'tricky. Understanding and Comprehension.

• Library book: Return every Friday.

• Parent and carer reading every Friday

8.45-9.15am

• Buddy Readers- Every week

St Anne’s PTA and Fundraisers

• Could you be a class rep?

• Creating whatsapp group for

communication

• Cake sales

• Summer and Christmas fun days

• After school events

Wrap around care

• Breakfast Club from Nursery 7.45-

8.45am

• St Anne’s after school care 3.30-6pm

• After school clubs 3.30-4.30pm

(Full day Acorn children from January)

A few gentle reminders • Label everything!

• Spare clothes on pegs, keep stocked up

• Attendance and punctuality

• Read letters and keep up to date with dates on the school App

• Ensure emergency contact forms are kept up to date,

permission for local trips and photos for school website

• We are always here to chat if you have any concerns or

questions