St Peter's Church of England (VA) Primary School
One Family, Aiming High, Learning Together with God
Welcome to the Foundation Stage
We are delighted to welcome you to our Foundation Stage class - this page will develop with more information over the school year. We hope that you will find all the information here that you require if you have any suggestions we will be pleased to hear from you.
Foundation Stage staff
Miss Wooding - Foundation Stage Lead Teacher
Mrs. Jeffery - F1 Lead practitioner
Miss Chapman - Foundation stage practitioner
Mr. Tatham - F2 Lead practitioner
Mrs. Sutherland - Foundation stage practitioner
If you have any queries or concerns across the year please contact a member of the Foundation Stage team.
Miss Wooding - lauraw@spmillend.herts.sch.uk
Mrs Jeffery - samanthaj@spmillend.herts.sch.uk
Mr Tatham - danielt@spmillend.herts.sch.uk
Next week in the Foundation Stage - 5th June
Welcome back! I hope you all had a lovely half term holiday.
This half term our new topic is titled, 'I wonder what will happen next?' Over the next two weeks the children will be looking at poetry. They will be exposed to a variety of poems sharing their opinions and how each poem makes them feel. In Literacy, Mr Tatham will be teaching the children all about alliteration and rhyme and they will creating their own poems in small groups. In the afternoon the children will be going on a minibeast hunt and looking at their habitats.
Book focus this week
Makaton sign of the week: run
Prime areas
Gross motor skills - bikes, bean bag throw and obstacle course
Weekly PE lesson - F1 and F2 -high, low, over and under and sports day skills
Weekly Forest School lesson - Making a bug hotel
Role play area - doctors surgery
Talking to their peers during snack time
Playdough - rolling balls of playdough to show different quantities
Busy Fingers -peg board pattern and threading bead patterns
Learning new vocabulary - Rhyming, Alliteration, Repetition, Poem, Sentence, Capital Letter, Full Stop, minibeasts, bugs, spider, worm, woodlouse, bee, butterfly, ladybird, beetle, leaves, flowers, area, gentle, look, find, explore, in, on, under, leaves, pebbles, wood, trees, flowers, plants, soil, insects, habitat, environment, nature, wildlife, observe, discover, reveal, uncover, investigate, below, underneath.
Large construction - create a house
Expressing ideas and holding conversation with teachers and peers
Specific Areas
Mark making in the writing area
Labelling members of my family and labelling features of the body.
Daily phonics
Letter formation
Dolls House - small world
Snakes and ladders
Literacy
F1 - Nursery rhymes, story time, daily phonics, exploring mark-making, letter formation
F2 - Daily phonics, guided reading, phonics games, writing phase 4 tricky words
Maths
F1 - Maths - This week, the children will build on their subitising skills. They will continue to use ‘perceptual’ subitising – instant recognition – by saying the number of sounds that they can hear, such as claps or drum beats, without needing to count. They will be encouraged to look closely at small quantities and observe whether the quantity has changed or only the arrangement.
F2 - Maths - This week’s materials continue to provide further subitising practice within familiar contexts, a new focus this week will be on subitising beads on a rekenrek. This key piece of equipment will allow the children to continue to develop their subitising skills as they explore the structure of small numbers, while building a foundation for further work in Year 1.
This week’s activities have a continued focus on using spatial language and visualisation. Encouraging the children to visualise and describe arrangements of objects will further deepen their number sense.
Have a lovely week
Miss Wooding and the FS team
Parent Workshops
Organisation
Foundation Stage aims
Our expectations
Please note: These expectations will be added and built on throughout the year as and when the children are ready for them.