Transcript Welcome to Foundation Stage Reception Class

Welcome to Foundation Stage
Reception class
Dec 2007
The Curriculum
Nursery and reception classes together form
what is known as the Foundation Stage and
together they have been following the Curriculum
Guidance for the Foundation Stage (Dfes 2000).
Six areas of learning:
– Personal, social and emotional development
– Communication, language and literacy
– Mathematical development
– Knowledge and understanding of the world
– Physical development
– Creative development
Early Years Foundation Stage
curriculum (EYFS)
• This September sees the introduction of the
EYFS
• Still based on the 6 areas of learning but it is now
based on a continuum of development from birth
to the end of Foundation Stage
• Split into developmental stages 0-11months, 8-20
months, 16-26 months, 22-36 months, 30-50
months, 40-60+ months
• Helps practitioners to plan care and learning that
is right for each child at each stage of their
development
Commitments
• EYFS consists of 16 commitments
• The 6 areas of learning are only 1/16 of this.
Other areas include health, safety, partnerships
with parents, the learning environment, the
importance of play
• Key workers – class teacher still has overall
responsibility. Class may be split into key worker
groups so TA may talk to parents, flag up a child’s
needs, etc
The six areas of learning are reflected in
how the classroom is laid out and used.
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Book corner
Construction area
Creative area
ICT area
Investigating area
Listening post
Literacy area
Maths area
Writing area
Outdoor area
Role play area
Small world area
Water area
Nursery area
In the first few weeks we aim to show the children where the
resources are kept and how to use them, so they can use
everything independently in their learning.
Learning through play
Work is play and play is work!
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Both adult led and child initiated activities are play based and involve
active learning
In play children make connections, take risks and explore with confidence
Child initiated play (CIP time) – children choose from a range of adult
selected resources. These are selected for a purpose e.g. to develop
particular areas of learning, to consolidate learning following on from an
adult led activity. Activities can be linked to the EYFS areas of
development.
The new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) says we should have 80% of
the children’s observations done during their play. This is when we see
them actually applying their skills and knowledge. In Reception class the
children need 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the afternoon of Child
Initiated Play time.
Adult role – to ask the right questions and set challenges to take the
learning forward
Recommendation that 85% of curriculum coverage should be through child
initiated play. Only 15% should be through adult led activities.
Cranborne Foundation Stage (Nursery)
Equipment for indoor child-initiated activities, self-registration and story time
Self registration
Small world role
play
Monday
Sticklebricks
Mobilo
Cars and garage
Role play area
Graphics area
Tuesday
Brio
Vehicles and
screwdrivers
City blocks
Wednesday
Dominoes / matching
games
Dinosaurs
Thursday
Paper / stencils
Friday
Farm / zoo/ doll’s
houses (keep out for
small world)
Play mobil people and
boats / blue mat
Farm / zoo/ doll’s
houses
Pizza restaurant – menus, phone and directory, notebooks, etc. Link with maths group activity.
Tracing
Draw vehicle pictures
– sort into
appropriate area water, land, air
Decorating pizzas –
cutting and sticking
coloured paper
Name cards /
magnetic letters and
boards
Colour in yacht pictures
– patterned sails
P/d - minibeasts
P/d – pattern makers
/ rollers
P/d – number mats –
fishes in the sea
Plasticine – recreate
holders made earlier
in the week
P/d – Bob the B.
Construction
Lego
Wooden bricks
Georello
Black train track
Duplo
Creative area
Paint green boat for
corridor display (also
trees, flowers, etc to
add to scenery)
Use coloured rice to
make Diwali patterns
Make boats with sails
pictures (use triangle
sticky shapes)
Create boats from
recycled materials.
Will they float?
Watery background to
go on corridor display
Malleable
Numeracy
I.C.T
Threading. Focus on particular children – 1:1 counting to 5/to 10. 1 more / 1 less
IWB http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/balamory/games/embedded_games/copy_spencer.shtml
CBeebies balamory – Copy Spencer game – copying a sequence of playing instruments
Water
Boats
Any additional
activities
Story time
Focus on sharing
Don’t forget photos / month labels for corridor display
I love boats
Music – follow the
sound
IWB –intro obstacle course
prior to P.E
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbee
bies/rolymo/library/storie
IWB – focus on rhyming
words
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbee
bies/rolymo/library/storie
Row row your boat
Don’t rock the boat
The Owl and the Pussycat
Outdoor learning
“The best classroom and the widest
cupboard is roofed by the sky”
Margaret McMillan
“Well planned play, both indoors and
outdoors, is a key way in which children
learn with enjoyment and challenge”
Curriculum Guidance for foundation stage (QCA DFEE 2000)
How the day is structured
• Self- registration – fine motor skills/reading
activities
• Literacy focus/maths focus
• Child Initiated Play
• Maths focus/literacy focus
• LUNCH
• Self- registration – reading/co-operation skills
• Creative and Knowledge and understanding
activities (art, history, geography, science, design and
technology, music, PSHE)
• Child Initiated Play
• Story and home time
PE is twice weekly
Assessment for learning
We are continually assessing the children through
both structured and independent activities. This
informs our teaching and enables us to cater for
each child’s needs. We measure where the children
are against the developmental stepping stones of
the EYFS.
In Reception class the children’s progress is recorded on the
Foundation Stage Profile (QCA 2003)
At Cranborne we believe in a learning partnership between the
school and home.
House keeping
• Names in all clothing
• Uniform – same as nursery
• P.E. kit – in a P.E. bag - White T-shirt, black
shorts and black velcro plimsoles
• Bags – book bag
• Jewellery – only small stud earrings, which
must be removed at home on P.E days
• Letters and money – in clearly labelled
envelopes
• Wellington boots – Named and with strings
on for hanging up!
• Snack – fruit and vegetables, water (water
bottle) or milk (ordered through office)
• Lunch time – school dinners or packed
lunches
• End of the day – meeting your child
• Medication
Helping at home
• Self-help skills – dressing, going to toilet, washing
hands
• Read to your child
• Look and talk about the shapes and patterns
around in every day life
• Talk with them about everyday things
• Food - Where does it come from? Where does it
grow? Grow something at home.
• Why the television needs plugging in? Where does
the bathwater go?
• Visit different places
• Encourage them to ask questions and be
observant.
• What happens if? How do you? Why? Where?
• Read with children daily
• Count with them and write numbers
• Help them to recognise letters of the alphabet
and the sounds they make
• Play I spy
• Help them write letters
• Help them learn words
• Do not spend your time comparing your child to
the other children in their class. All children
develop at different rates.
Involving parents
At Cranborne we believe in a learning
partnership between the school and home.
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Induction meetings
Information evening in September
Parents evening in Spring Term
Reports and Foundation Stage Profile in
the Summer Term
• Exhibition evening in the Summer Term
• Make appointments at other times
Staggered intake
• Thursday 4th September
• Friday 5th September
• Monday 8th September
– 8.55am to 11.30am
– 8.55am to 11.30am
– 8.55am to 11.30am
• Tuesday 9th September
• Wednesday 10th September
• Thursday 11th September
–8.55am to 1.00pm
– 8.55am to 1.00pm
– 8.55am to 1.00pm
• Friday 12th September
• Monday 15th September
– 8.55am to 3.15pm
- 8.55am to 3.15pm
Questions?