foundation stage curriculum evening 2011

8/4/2019 Foundation Stage Curriculum Evening 2011

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Curriculum Evening

Tuesday 4th October 7-8pm

Welcome (Susan Garrod) Introduction (Jon Goulding)

Early Years Foundation Stage (Jo McLane)

The Areas of Learning (Lisa Woolley)

The Home-School bubbles (Jo McLane) Observing the children (Jon Goulding)

Writing and Handwriting (Lisa Woolley)

Phonics and Word Wallets (Jon Goulding)

Reading Books and Reading (Jo McLane)

Reception class blogs (Jon Goulding)

Your questions


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The Foundation StageTeam

Jon Goulding FS Manager andAssistant Head

Jo Mclane SENCO

Lisa Woolley Deputy Head

Judy Edwards Teaching Assistant

Julie Swindells Teaching

Assistant

+ others Elisabeth Thompson,

Andrea Savin, parent helpers,


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Important to rememberthat:

children learn and develop atdifferent rates

it is not a race

appropriate support for eachindividual no ceiling on what the child can

achieve

SAFE AND HAPPY CHILDRENWITH AN EXCITING AND VARIED

ENVIRONMENT, AND QUALITYLEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, WILL


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EYFS the Early Years Foundation

Stage Became a legal requirement fromSeptember 2008

Enhances already excellentpractice

Child-initiated learning at thecore of EYFS

Environment is key

6 areas of learning


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The Six Areas of Learning

Personal, Social and EmotionalDevelopment (PSED)

Communication, Language andLiteracy (CLL)

Mathematical Development

Knowledge and Understanding ofthe World

Physical Development

Creative Development


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Home School Bubbles

Inform us how children areapplying skills, knowledge andunderstanding in daily life

Help us to get to know your childeven better

Provides evidence for FSP

Conversations, actions,photographs or work producedat home and not initiated byadults


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Observations

First step in planning teachingand learning

Help us to understand andconsider the interests,development and learningapplicable to each child

Inform us of where each child isat (and the next steps)

Majority of data collectedthrough observations of child


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Areas of LearningActivity

On your table are severalexample observations.

You should also have lists of theareas of learning.

Spend a few minutes discussingwhich areas of learning eachobservation can be matchedwith.


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Handwriting

Cursive script (joined-up writing)

Helps with spelling patterns

Slow at first but helps childrenlater

Development of fine motor

control See the letter formation sheet

Mark making


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Writing

Emergent writing

Writing we dont always hearall sounds straight away -first,final and then medial

Finger spaces and making sense

Writing lesson doesnt alwayshave to involve childrenrecording something understanding of sentences key


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Phonics

20 minutes daily

Six phases start with Phase 2and 3

Letter names and sounds

Learning phonemes andgraphemes


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Word Wallet

Sight vocabulary ORTcharacters High Frequency Words

How to use the Word Wallet 5 minutes bursts (little and

often)

Cut up words Flash cards Stick around the house Copy out Matchin airs


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Word Wallet Worries!

Dont get disheartened if itfeels like you are gettingnowhere! This is not unusual!

Keep practising it will come Read the words to your child Try to avoid making it a sit

down activity Praise stickers, treats etc Dont be negative

If you or your child is tired, leave


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Reading Books

Books changed twice each week

Children choose at least 1 ORTbook

Children read to us at least onceeach week

Individual reading Guided reading

We read to the children daily


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How do we read with ourchild?

10 minutes per day

Ideally parent and child need tobe calm, quiet, not too tired,

patient Children have four main

strategies:

1)Phonic knowledge (sounds andletters)

2)Grammatical knowledge

3)Picture and context clues


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Varying the ReadingExperience

Turn taking

Read to your child and engageyour child further by: missingout words, making silly mistakes,pretending to not know whatshappening

Ask your child to read smallpassages or a few pages (not thewhole book)

Enjoy every moment


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Overall Reading Experience

Theres more to life than schoolreading books!

Library

Fiction, non-fiction, comics,magazines, pictures,photographs, language allaround us

Remember Reading influences:

General knowledge, writing,s ellin vocabular


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Reading is a 3-way process

Teachers and TAs

Parents

Individual children

Our aim is to foster a love of

reading , and books, that willstay with your child for life.

Enjoy it!!


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Class Blog

Information about our class

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Sharing of work Opportunity to comment Children writing on the blog


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Any Questions?

Remember you can alwaysspeak to a member of the teamvery briefly in the morning or at

the end of the day. Appointments can also be made

Parent Council

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