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Welcome to St Mary!

Early Years Foundation Stage

Class Teacher: Miss Capel (rcapel@cc.thedcet.com)

LSA: Mrs Watkins

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Curriculum Meeting

EYFS Curriculum Evening 2024 done.pdf

Phonics Meetings

Term 6

WB 9.06 This week we have been bust exploring Minibeasts. We have made some of our own Minibeasts out of playdoh and made split pin models. In Geography we explored seasons and the weather we may see at different times of the year.

Term 5

08.05 We celebrated VE day by making flags and hats. We learned a little about what VE day remembers. Then we had a cake and played games with year 1 and 2.

WB 28.04 We shared our class liturgy with our family. We shared the story of feeding the 5000 and thought about how this showed love. Thank you to those of you who joined us.

Term 4

WB 24.03 We have been exploring Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey. We made our own town and palm leaves.

WB 10.03. We have been exploring British Science Week. We looked at recycling and why we should do this. We thought about what items can be recycled. We thought about how we can reuse items in junk modelling. We then had a go at melting some ice to show us what happens when the world gets hotter. We decided we don't want the ice to melt as it is part of our wonderful world.

WB 03.03. We have been exploring Shrove Tuesday this week. We then had a wonderful World Book Day exploring a range of books including, Red Riding Hood, The Last Wolf, The Gruffalo and Paddington. We enjoyed exploring a range of book based activities including rescuing Superworm and making Marmalade sandwiches.

WB 24.02 We have had a busy first week of term. We had our first 'Balanceability' session where we enjoyed learning to ride the new balance bikes. We also had a visit from St Johns Ambulance where we learned what first aid is and how to do a bandage!

Term 3

WB 27.01 We have been exploring Lunar New Year. We have made our own lanterns, snakes and had a go at chinese writing. We learned about the story of 'The Great Race' where all the animals raced across the river to be the first Zodiac.

WB 13.01- We had a visitor from the RSPCA this week. Alex taught us all about Hedgehogs then we had a go at our own Hedgehog craft.

WB 06.01. We have settled well back into our school routines. This week we have been exploring the story of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears.' We have made them out of play dough, measured the bears and thought about how Goldilocks could say sorry to Baby Bear. We have also been thinking about maps and how they tell us where things are.

Term 2

WB 25.11: We have been exploring the theme of Space. We made our own astronaut's, rockets and looked at the story 'Whatever Next!'. We also visited the church to make lanterns to be displayed for Christmas.

WB 18.11: This week we have been exploring cars and road safety. We have thought about how to be safe when crossing roads and around traffic.

WB 11.11: This week we explored the story of The Gingerbread Man. We enjoyed joining in with this and creating our own Gingerbread Man. We also explored the next part of the christmas story, when Mary and Joseph went on a journey to Bethlehem.

WB: 5.11. We have been learning a bit about Diwali and have looked at Rangoli patterns, Diya lamps and listened to the story 'Binny's Diwali.' In Maths we have focused on the fact we know we have five fingers on our hand. In RE we heard that an Angel came and told Mary she was going to have a baby and the baby would be called Jesus!

Term 1

WB: 21.10. We have been exploring Autumn pumpkins, leaves and other features. We have been exploring maps and what our school looks like from above. We also role played what happens during a Baptism.

WB: 14.10.24

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We have had a busy week preparing for our Tie Ceremony. Please see below the video shared of our first term at school.

WB: 7.10 We had a visit from Musicians and have been continuing to improve our fine motor skills during dough disco. We have also learned sounds d,g,o and c.

WB: 01.10 We have been exploring the history of us by looking at our baby photos and thinking about how we have changed.

WB: 23.09

We have begun learning our phonics sounds. Children have explored finding these sounds and writing them.

We have been exploring the creation story and how God created the world in 7 days.

We have been getting to know our new classroom.

We will be listening to lots of books this term including some favourites and some new ones. Here are a selection that we will read:

Phonic sounds

Phonics sounds Listen to these to find out how to say the sounds.

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