Early Years Meeting

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Early Years Meeting

• September

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Information contained in this powerpoint.

• The Foundation Stage
• Apple, Mango and Peach
• Numeracy
• Literacy
• Assessment and Profiles
• Nursery
• Homework
• How we communicate with you
• Special Educational Needs (SEN)

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The Foundation Stage

• Early Learning Goals
• Prime Areas
• Communication and Language
• Physical Development
• Personal, Social and Emotional
• Specific Areas
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the World
• Expressive Art and Design
• Topic based learning

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Communication and Language

• Development involves giving children
  opportunities to experience a rich language
  environment to develop their confidence and
  skills in expressing themselves and to speak and
  listen in a range of situations.

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Physical Development

• Involves providing opportunities fro young
  children to be active and interactive and to
  develop their co-ordination, control, and
  movement. Children must also be helped to
  understand the importance of physical activity,
  and to make healthy choices in relation to food.

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Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• Involves helping children to develop a positive
  sense of themselves, and others to form positive
  relationships and to develop respect for others
  to develop social skills and learn how to manage
  their feelings to understand appropriate
  behavior in groups and to have confidence in
  their own abilities.

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Literacy

• Development involves encouraging children to link
  sounds and letters and to begin to read and
  write. Children must be given access to a wide
  range of reading materials to ignite their
  interest.

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Mathematics

• Involves providing children with opportunities to
  develop and improve their skills in counting,
  understanding and using numbers, calculating
  simple addition and subtraction problems and to
  describe shapes, spaces, and measures

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Understanding the World

• Involves guiding children to make sense of their
  physical world and their community through
  opportunities to explore, observe and find out
  about people, places, technology and the
  environment.

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Expressive Arts and Design

• Involves enabling children to explore and play
  with a wide range of media and materials, as well
  as providing opportunities and encouragement for
  sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings
  through a variety of activities in art, music,
  movement, dance, role-play, and design and
  technology.

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Assemblies Visitors Visits
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Nursery

• All 7 areas covered during the day
• Adult led focused activities
• Child initiated independent activities
• Outdoor play
• Fun Friday!

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Apple, Mango and Peach

• Reception focus on literacy and numeracy in the
  morning
• Working with Year One on all the other areas of
  learning in the afternoon

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Phonics

• Jolly Phonics is a foundation for reading and
  writing. It teaches the letter sounds in an
  enjoyable, multisensory way, and enables children
  to use them to read and write words.
• Jolly Phonics includes learning the irregular or
  'tricky words' such as said, was and the.

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Letter Sounds
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Storylines and Actions

• Learning the /s/ sound
• Action
• Weave your hand like a
• snake, making an s
• shape, saying ssssss

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Sound Sheets
This is the /s/ Sound Sheet from The Phonics
Handbook.
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Sound Books

• Go home every 6 sounds
• Do one sound a night in the book, after your
  child has done it at school
• No new sound on a Friday
• Ten minutes
• Cursive writing
• When completed leave in book bag for marking

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Pencil Hold
Tripod grip Froggy legs movement
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• Parental support is important to all children as
  they benefit from plenty of praise and
  encouragement whilst learning. You should be
  guided by the pace at which your child wants to
  go. If interest is being lost, leave the teaching
  for a while rather than using undue pressure.
• You can find out more at www.jollylearning.co.uk

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Assessment

• Every child has their own individual profile
• Significant achievement
• Observation
• Work samples
• Photographs

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Homework

• Sound Books
• Reading Books (Reception)
• Picture Story Books (Nursery)
• Homework Books (See half-termly newsletter)
• Learning through everyday experiences

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Reading at Home

• Valuable and enjoyable
• Reading together / independently
• Adults model reading
• Pointing to the text
• Importance of pictures
• Discussing the book
• Using phonic skills
• Nursery picture story books
• Reception books given out after Christmas
• Year 1 two books changed twice a week

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How we communicate with you

• Weekly Early Years newsletter
• Half termly newsletters/homework
• Parents Evenings
• Open Day
• Informal chats in the playground
• End of year reports
• Curriculum presentations
• Booking a meeting with us