Foundation Stage Meeting

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Foundation Stage Meeting

• Nursery and Reception

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Welcome

• Introductions
• Our Foundation Unit

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Topics

• 1) All about me!
• 2) What will I be when I grow up
• 3) How do things change?
• 4)Do you want to go on a bear hunt?
• 5) Can you help the 3 Pigs build a house?
• 6) What can you see under the sea?

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RE- Come and See

• Domestic Church Family and Myself
• Baptisim Confirmation and Belonging
• Advent Christmas, Loving and Birthday
• Local Church Community and Celebrating
• Eucharist Relating, Gathering
• Lent Easter Giving Growing
• Pentecost Serving Good News
• Reconciliation Inter-Relating Friends
• Universal Church World our World

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Parent Curriculum Letter

• Sent each term
• Contains Topic titles
• Overview of the outcomes we are expecting
• Activity ideas
• Up coming events including trips and visitors

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Exciting Times

• Teddy Bears Picnic
• Road Safety Talk
• Buddies Assembly
• Dental Nurse and School Nurse

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Class Expectations

• Look after our belongings
• Be kind to each other
• Try our best
• Keep our classroom tidy
• Take Turns
• Share

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Learning in the Foundation Stage

• Based on first hand experiences
• Play based
• Using childrens ideas and interests
• Adult led and Child Initiated
• Area planning

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Provision

• Writing area,
• Reading Corner,
• Listening Centre,
• Sand,
• Water,
• Paint,
• Outside.

• Maths area,
• ICT area,
• Role Play,
• Creative,
• Malleable,
• Kitchen,
• Construction.

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Our daily timetables

• Reception
• 3x Large Group Sessions- each day Literacy,
  Phonics Numeracy,
• Small Group Guided work-
• to focus on childrens target areas

• Nursery
• 2x Large Group Sessions- covering Literacy,
  Phonics Numeracy, Topic, RE input
• Small Group Guided work-
• to focus on childrens target
  areas

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Assessment in the Foundation Stage

• Assess against Development matters- Split in to
  ages.
• Observationsphotographs, work samples, notes.
• Learning Journals

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Seven Areas- 3 Prime and 4 Specific

• Communication and Language
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Physical Development
• Literacy
• Maths
• Expressive Arts and Design
• Understanding of the World

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Prime Areas

• 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.
  
• Physical development providing opportunities
  for 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.
  
• Personal, social and emotional development
  helping children to develop a positive sense of
  themselves, and others to form positive
  relationships and develop respect for others to
  develop social skills and learn how to manage
  their feelings to understand appropriate
  behaviour in groups and to have confidence in
  their own abilities.

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Specific Areas

• 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 (books,
  poems, and other written materials) to ignite
  their interest.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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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Parent Partnerships

• Parent meetings October 2012
• Appointments
• Volunteers
• Newsletter (available online)
• Homework book (Reception)
• Jolly Phonics Resources (Reception)
• Learning at Home Tasks (Nursery)

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Useful Information

• Uniform and PE kits
• Receptions PE days ( Monday and )
• Water bottles
• Book bags (Reception)
• Pumps
• Waterproof coat needed daily

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How to support your child at home

• Have fun with books- silly voices, act them out,
  special story time together, illustrations, I Spy
  games.

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Bug Club and Website

• BUG CLUB website
• www.xavier.doncaster.sch.uk