Foundation Stage
Parent Meeting
2013
Values School
Understanding
Caring
Co-operation
Courage
Hope
Freedom
Hope
Honesty
Appreciation
Friendship
Happiness
A list of values.
One chosen each month
Trust
Peace
Thoughtfulness
Unity
Patience
Humility
Love
Simplicity
Responsibility
Quality
Tolerance
• At Swallowfield we want to demonstrate a whole school commitment to the
EYFS statutory framework to achieve quality in early years, giving children
the opportunity to fulfil their full potential, providing a place of attainment.
• We present them with an appropriate curriculum, which is designed to
challenge and inspire, but also allow them to be successful. Most
importantly, we support them with a staff of highly qualified and
experienced professionals. These people are our most important resource.
They will support your child in every aspect of their development, not only
in their academic attainment, but also to ensure their happiness, wellbeing
and progress.
Daily Routine
Morning
Registration
English Activity
Milk or Juice
Playtime
Maths Activity
Lunch
Creative or Knowledge and
Understanding Activities
Story
Home Time
P.E.
YFW G
Wednesdays
YFP
Thursdays
Swimming
Usually Fridays (weather permitting)
Early Years Curriculum
PRIME AREAS:
•communication and language
•physical development
•personal, social and emotional development
SPECIFIC AREAS:
•literacy
•mathematics
•understanding the world
•expressive arts and design
Inspection evidence and research show
that the critical age when children
learn to be good readers and writers is
between three and seven.
Rose Report
Children develop at their own rates, and in their own ways.
The development statements and their order should not be
taken as necessary steps for individual children. They should
not be used as checklists. The age / stage bands overlap because
these are not fixed age boundaries but suggest a typical range
of development.
• Practitioners must indicate whether
children are meeting expected levels of
development, or if they are exceeding
expected levels, or not yet reaching
expected levels (‘emerging’).
Words are made up from small units of sound called phonemes.
Phonics teaches children to be able to listen carefully and identify
the phonemes that make up each word. This helps children to
learn to read words and to spell words
The English language only has around 44 phonemes but there are around
120 graphemes or ways of writing down those 44 phonemes. Obviously
we only have 26 letters in the alphabet so some graphemes are made up
from more than one letter.
Order of phonemes
s, a, t, p - at, a, sat, pat, tap, sap, as
i - it, is, sit, sat, pit, tip, pip, sip
n - an, in, nip, pan, pin, tin, tan, nap
m - am, man, mam, mat, map, Pam, Tim, Sam
d - dad, and, sad, dim, dip, din, did, Sid
However,
Tricky Words
Learning logs
And
Supporting Learning
Key Words Book
Reminders
Uniform
Fruit
Water bottles
Lunches
Illness and absence
48 hours if sick
Contact school office before 9am
Book Bags
Holidays
Upcoming dates
nd
22
Parent Consultation –
October
th
Coffee afternoon - 17 October
Class Assembly YFWG – 10th October
Class Assembly YFP – October
Christmas Nativity - December
We have made our own carrot story books and they are available
for you to download and share at home on Amazon, free of charge,
until this Friday.
Any Questions?