Transcript EYFS Parents Curriculum Meeting

EYFS Parents
Curriculum
Meeting
26th September 2014
EYFS Curriculum.
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Split into 7 areas.
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Three Prime Areas
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Personal, Social, Emotional Development
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Physical Development
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Communication and Language
Four Specific Areas
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Literacy
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Mathematics
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Expressive Arts and Design
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Understanding the World
Characteristics of Effective
Learning.
 Legal
Obligation to Report on this.
 Children
learn.
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assessed on how they
into 3 Areas
Active Learning- Motivation
Playing and Exploring- Engagement
Creating and Thinking Critically- Thinking
Topics
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Planned following the children’s
interests
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Areas will be enhanced.
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Planning through Story
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Parents will be informed of the topics
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Range of Activities, enhancing the
classroom and Adult Led Tasks.
Mathematics
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Children will be taught...
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Number skills – Counting, ordering, writing,
recognising numbers up to 20 and beyond.
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Calculation – 1 more, 1 less, simple addition/
subtraction, sharing, counting in 2s, 5,s 10s.
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Shape space and measures – Simple time,
weighing, 2d/ 3d shapes, measuring height/
length, capacity, time and money
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Problem Solving – estimating, using and applying
above skills.
What we do in School
• Daily activities to support the development of
number skill
• - Labels and signs around the classroom and
school
• - Practical activities e.g. puppets. (Ten in a Bed),
pegs and boards, threading beads.
• - Cookery - weighing, estimating, shape, quantity,
language.
• - Outdoor Learning area to support learning
objectives and extend their Child Initiated Play
• - Board games, puzzles, Lotto.
• - Shape and sorting activities
• Digit Dance- Number Formation
What can you do at Home?
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What can you do to help?
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Use numbers in all contexts, look at numbers in the environment, in
shops, on television.
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Give opportunities to use money to help solve simple problems and
recognise that it has a purpose.
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Count in 1s, 2s,5s and 10s.
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Sing and say number rhymes.
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Talk about shapes 2D and 3D e.g. peas, fish fingers
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Use sand and water trays in the garden
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Use children to help pour cold drinks
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Use adding and take away vocabulary.
Literacy
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into Reading and Writing
 Phonics
is a Major Part of this.
Read, Write Inc Phonics
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We follow the ‘Read, Write, Inc’ phonics scheme of work.
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Children are taught in small groups on a daily basis, they are
taught a new sound everyday.
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Children are grouped according to their existing phonic
knowledge
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They are reassessed every 6 weeks
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They all follow a systematic approach
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Reception children for up to 30 minutes
Structure of The Lesson
•Start with the introduction of a sound
•Hear and say sound Read and say sound
•Recap previously learned speed sounds
•Write new sound
•Word time – blending and segmenting using
Fred Talk
•Fred Fingers for spelling
Green Words
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Words that we can sound out
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Have sound buttons underneath to help
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S-a-t, p-i-n.
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Sent home on Word Sheets, help child to read them
Red Words
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Words that we cant sound out
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Tricky words
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Will be sent home on Word Sheets
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Help child to read them
What can you do to help?
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Practice the Sound at Home
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Help your child do the letter formation
practice
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Practice Blending and segmenting for
example can you s-i-t down.
What we do in School
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Daily activities to support the development of reading
skills
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- Book areas in classrooms allowing children to explore
and enjoy investigating books.
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- Modelling reading , encouraging children to engage with
the book, (recognising letters / sounds or words,
questioning, big books).
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-Labels and signs around the classroom and school
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- Use of computers and listening stations
Reading Books
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Will be sent home every week
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Child will be allocated a Day
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Books start with no words and then have some words in
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Oxford Reading Tree- tricky words
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Read Write Inc- Phonetically decodable words. Story
books and non fiction are the next step and these will
develop the children’s sight vocabulary and their
understanding of the text. These books will help the
children’s confidence to really grow.
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Write in Reading Record to let us know how child is
finding the story.
What you can do to help
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Provide your child with a regular quality reading time and
make it important for both of you.
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Visit the library or bookshop regularly to give them a variety
of books to look at/ be read to them.
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Sing or say nursery rhymes regularly.
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Allow your child to learn to read at their own speed.
-Especially with younger children, think how they
learned to crawl, walk and talk at different speeds to
peers, reading is the same.
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Don’t worry if it takes them time to learn to read!
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We will start sending home reading books once a week. It is
important that you sign your child's book.
Writing
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Children start writing by making marks on a paper, some
of which they can explain.
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Once they start to grasp the concept of letters, they will
experiment with writing them, usually they will want to
write their name first.
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Children who have started to segment and blend sounds,
will use this to help them with writing, e.g. Rhyming
books.
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Emergent writing is the first form of writing. Research has
shown that children will hear the first consonant in a
word, then the last consonant, and finally the middle
sound.
Writing- What we Do in School
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Read Write Inc sessions introduce a new sound everyday
each sound is linked to a phrase that helps them to
remember how to form each sound.
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Emergent writing in independent work – role play, writing
corners, drawing, tracing…
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White boards for both focused and child initiated
activities, allowing they to explore trying letter without
fear of getting it wrong.
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Big movements – Water painting, chalking, painting etc.
to develop their muscles ready for writing.
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Opportunities to try writing for different purposes e.g.
little books, labelling, writing about own activities, cards.
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Squiggle While you Wriggle and Dough Disco
Writing- What you can do to help
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Use your RWI speed sound cards, to help children know
correct formation of lower case letters. If children are
forming letters incorrectly praise their attempts, and
show them the correct way.
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Give children opportunities to explore with mark making
and writing, e.g. writing shopping lists, making books,
postcards to grandparents, diaries, scrapbooks etc.
Please feel free to bring them into show!
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Find things they are interested in to inspire them to want
to act out characters and stories and then write about
them e.g. super heroes, princesses, fairytales.
Learning Journals
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A record of your childs learning development throughout
the year.
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Photographs and Observations form the important part
of Assessment
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Track development over the year.
WOW Slips
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Parents contribution to Learning Journals
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Very important that these get filled in and sent to school
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Anything amazing that your child has done at home
EYFS Assessment
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Children are assessed formally at the End of The Year
Against the 17 Early Learning Goals.
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Emerging, Expected, Exceeding.
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Throughout the Year children are judged against
Development Matters and the Early Years Outcomes
document.
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Children assessed as Emerging Developing, Secure
against the Age Band
Target Sheets
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Will be sent out every Half Term.
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Will give your child targets to work towards, picked up
from Adult Led Activities and Observations.
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Child Friendly Language
Any
Questions?