Welcome to our Early Years Foundation Stage
Meet the Team
Class Teacher and EYFS lead – Claire Rhodes
Nursery Nurse – Sue Gray
Teaching Assistant – Sharleen Ellis
PPA – Rosie Bavington
In EYFS, we follow the development matters statements. The children’s learning and development is taught through seven areas of learning, which are:
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Communication and Language
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Physical Development
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Personal, Social and Emotional Development
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Literacy
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Mathematics
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Understanding the World
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Expressive Arts and Design
At Glenaire, our Foundation Stage staff whole-heartedly believe in encouraging and developing child-initiated learning. This approach means that the children are the originators of an activity and are directing their own learning, which results in extremely high levels of interest and engagement.
Click on this link: 4Children ParentsGuide for some guidance on your child’s development through the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Important Days:
PE – Tuesday for this half term
Forest School – Friday
fly away fridays – a day where we focus on food from around the world and try some new food from different countries.
Please send your child with a change of t-shirt and pumps for PE. Children can come in tracksuit bottoms on Friday.
Reception’s exciting learning…
Maths
We have been working on partitioning a number and number bonds to ten and twenty. We enjoyed doubling and halving and we doubled the spots on our ladybirds as a link to our Minibeast topic.
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We have ordered numbers on Easter bunnies to 20.
English
We have been focusing on learning our High Frequency words and we enjoyed being word detectives.
Topic
We have been learning lots about minibeasts. 
We also had an exciting visit from Zoo Lab where we met Noah the Snake. 
As part of our learning we took part in the Balance Ability Week where children worked on their balance and coordination skills on the balance bikes. The children had an amazing time and by the end of the week some children were able to ride a bike independently. 