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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
Subscribe for email alerts
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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