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
Miss Chapman - Foundation stage practitioner
Mr. Tatham - F2 Lead
Mrs. Sutherland - Foundation stage practitioner
If you have any queries or concerns across the year please contact a member of the Foundation Stage team.
Mrs Jeffery - samanthaj@spmillend.herts.sch.uk
Miss Wooding - lauraw@spmillend.herts.sch.uk
Mr Tatham - danielt@spmillend.herts.sch.uk
Next week in the Foundation Stage - 30th January
This week in the Foundation Stage we will be focusing on sea transport. Our core text this week is 'Brilliant Boats'. This book introduces new vocabulary by looking at sailing boats, rowing boats, ferries, and motor boats. Then take a cruise on an ocean liner, crewed by animals on a jolly, rhyming journey. The children will find out how the boats work as well as the pleasure and hazards of travelling on the water.
Core Book this week
Makaton sign of the week is - yes
Prime areas
Creating a car track using chalk
Gross motor skills - bikes, hopscotch, prams, beanbags, and hoops
Weekly PE lesson - ball skills and moving in a variety of ways
Weekly Forest School lesson - Friday afternoon
Role play area - car garage
Talking to their peers during snack time
Playdough - Number representation
Busy Fingers - Wrap loom bands around pine cones, hole punch leaves, and match pegs to the correct colour hole.
Visiting the school library and sharing books
Learning new vocabulary all about boats
Specific Areas
Making folded books of different vehicles
Tricky word-matching game
Handwriting
Printing using everyday objects - what marks do they make?
Mixing white with blue and green - what happens to the shade?
Exploring sand to show different weight
Recognise and write numbers
Exploring making 5
Creating boats - junk modelling
2D shape boats
Literacy
F1 - Nursery rhymes, story time, daily phonics, exploring mark-making
F2 - Daily phonics, guided reading, CVC, CVCC writing a sentence, making folded transport books, tricky word writing using magnetic letters
Maths
F1 - Maths - Exploring numbers up to 5 - counting pom poms in wooden boats and matching them to dotted cards and numerals
F2 - Maths - the children will consolidate their understanding of the composition of 5. Composing and decomposing numbers involves the children investigating part–part–whole relations, e.g. seeing that 5 can be made of 3 and 2. The children will deepen their understanding of a ‘whole’ being made up of smaller parts through practical experience
Adult-led
This week F1 and F2 will be exploring floating and sinking. They will be thinking about:
What does float mean?
What does it mean when something sinks?
Which objects can you think of that sink to the bottom of the water tray?
Which objects can float on top of the water?
The children will be asked to choose an object from a selection and then ask them to make a decision on whether it will sink or float when they put it in the water. You could introduce the word predict and explain that a prediction is a really good guess based on what they already know. Do you think (or predict) it will float or sink?
F2 will be extending their understanding by thinking about:
Why do you think that?
Is it big or small?
Is it heavy or light?
What is it made of?
In Maths F1 will be selecting a number boats between 1 -5. They will be using tweezers to count out the correct number of pom poms and then match the correct dotted card to each boat. To extend their understanding they will use a number line to match the correct numeral.
In Maths F2 will be using Numicon to make 5. They will then use interlocking cubes to make a tower using cubes to show. They will be given 2 different coloured cubes to build towers of 5. How many ways can you build a tower of 5? What do you notice? How many [red] cubes have you got? How many [blue] cubes? Is it still 5? Is there another way to build the towers?
Finally, on Wednesday, the children will be listening to different seaside music clips. The children will be asked to close their eyes What does the music remind them of? Where does the music take them? If they were there, what would they see, hear and smell? How it makes them think and feel. The children will work in small groups to create a sea picture. This will involve mixing green and blue paint with white to create a wavey effect. Their work will be collated together to create a sea background for the junk modelling boats they create throughout the week.
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.