Transcript St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School

St. Joseph’s Catholic
Primay School
Parent’s Meeting 15th and 16th September 2014
Mrs A Blakey and Mrs C Murray
Overview
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EYFS Staff
Classroom routines
Things your child will need
Snack time and lunches
Forest School
Curriculum – how do we plan for your child’s learning?
Assessment – how do we measure the children’s
progress?
• Reading, writing, Letters and Sounds
• What can you do to help your child at home?
• How can you help?
EYFS Staff
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Mrs Robins – EYFS Coordinator
Mrs Blakey – Class RB Teacher
Mrs Murray – Class RM Teacher
Mrs Luckett – Teaching Assistant
Miss Hart – Teaching Assistant
Mrs Parczewska – Teaching Assistant
Mrs Oates – Teaching Assistant
Mrs Maqsood – Teaching Assistant
Miss Brunt – Teaching Assistant
Miss Rolfe – EAL Support
Mrs Wermeser – Forest School Teacher
Classroom Routines
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9.00am – Children arrive at school
9.10am – Register and Morning Prayer
9.20am – Letters and Sounds
9.40am – Child-led learning
10.30am – Snack time
10.45am – Maths
10.50am – Child-Led Learning/Maths groups
11.45am – Lunch
1.00pm – Register and Rest Time
1.30pm – Reading / Child Led Learning / Literacy Groups
3.10pm – Home time!
Things your child will need:
• Green book bag (available from office)
• Wellington boots
• Waterproof coat with hood - if possible
trousers too
• Hat, scarf, gloves during winter months
• Sun hat and sun cream in summer
• Forest School clothes
• PE kit by summer term
Please make sure everything is NAMED.
Food and drink
Forest School
• This takes place in our copse, although EYFS children will
not be going to the copse until January 2015
• Children take it in turns in groups
• Site safe, enclosed and checked before each session
• Children take part in all weathers and will need warm clothes
(trousers, long sleeved top and socks)
• Sessions are dependant on regular volunteers. Please
see Mrs Wermeser if you can help!
How learning is organised
In supporting your child’s progress, we focus on 7 areas of learning and development, as outlined in
the EYFS Framework.
Children should primarily develop the 3 prime areas:
● Communication and language
● Physical development
● Personal, social and emotional development
Building on these 3 prime areas, we also help them to develop skills in the 4 specific areas:
● Literacy
● Mathematics
● Understanding the world
● Expressive arts and design
• These 7 areas are used to plan your child’s learning and activities. The professionals teaching
and supporting your child endeavour to make sure that the activities are suited to your child’s
unique needs.
• We support your child’s learning through a balance of adult-led activities and child-led learning,
inside and out. Children in the EYFS learn by playing and exploring, being active, and through
creative and critical thinking.
• We base many of our activities around a theme and an overview is posted each term on the
website. This term the theme is He’s got the whole world in his hands.
• The teaching of RE is fundamental to the school. We follow the guidelines issued by the
Diocese of Birmingham and allocate time in the weekly timetable for RE. We have set prayers
which we say each day and children take part in assemblies and collective worship when they
are ready.
Assessment
• We assess your child through observations and formal
assessments
• We note their progress against the Development Matters
statements in the EYFS Framework.
• We review assessments regularly to see if there are any
gaps in your child’s progress in order to intervene quickly.
• At the end of the year, we assess your child against the
EYFS Early Learning Goals as to whether they are
‘Emerging’, ‘Expected’ or ‘Exceeding’.
Learning Journeys
• We put together a ‘Learning Journey’ through the year
with examples of your child’s work and learning.
• We would love you to contribute to this, telling us about
developments you may have noted at home. Please use
our ‘star moments’ sheet.
• You are welcome to look through your child’s Learning
Journey at an appropriate time over the course of the
year. Please respect the privacy of other children’s work.
Reading
• We aim to send the children home with reading
books before October half term.
• Children start with ‘white’ books (no words) and
progress through subsequent coloured bands as they
are ready
• We aim to read with your child at least twice a week:
once with a teacher and once with a TA.
• Please could you help us by listening to your child at
least 2-3 times a week.
• Your child should bring their reading book to school
every day.
• Books will be changed twice a week (Tues and Fri).
Letters and Sounds
• Phase One – Listening Skills. Training the children to tune
into specific sounds and helping them to listen closely to
specific sounds in words.
• Phase Two. We will teach the children 4 letter sounds
per week, starting with s a t p i n. Each set of letters
allows the children to start building words (eg with the
sounds s a t p i n you can make sat, pat, mat, sit, pit.)
• Phase Three. Children learn further sounds, many of
them made up of 2 or 3 letters (eg th, sh, ch, ng, igh, oo,
ee, or, ar, air)
What can you do at home?
• Do not underestimate the value of spending time talking and
listening with your child.
• Spend time playing with your children (eg puzzles, board
games, cooking, stories…).
• Please encourage your child to use LOWER CASE LETTERS (not
capitals). We will be teaching children to form cursive letters
(not joined up).
• Maths – find practical, everyday contexts to support your child’s
learning.
• Nursery rhymes
• Practise buckles, zips, buttons etc. Try to avoid shoes with laces.
• Children with EAL – don’t neglect your home language!
How can you help us?
• You must inform us if anyone other than a parent
will be picking up your child. Please put regular
arrangements in writing.
• Please talk to us! Keep us informed about any issues
which may affect your child at school.
• Junk modelling materials.
• Please complete forms for signature if you have not
already done so.