Welcome toWest Byfleet Infant SchoolWe Belong, Inspire, Succeed

Year R

Welcome to Early Years Foundation Stage

'We Belong, Inspire, Succeed'

Class Teachers

Bumblebees - Miss Martin

Butterflies - Mrs Jones/Mrs Vass

Grasshoppers - Miss Christophers

Learning Support Assistants in Year R

Mrs Raci

Mrs Wordsworth

Mrs Maqbool

Mrs Kordestani

Miss Ferguson

Mrs Broad

Miss Clark

Mrs Hannington

Miss Sydor

Miss Bailey

Mrs Pemble

Our Learning Journey this week...

We’ve had a fantastic week for our school ‘International week’! We have enjoyed learning about our countries: Jamaica, Australia and France, voted for by the classes themselves. We have learnt all about our country’s flags, food, people, culture as well as cooking some local cuisine.

We have also been thinking about our lovely year in Reception and our favourite memories. It has been wonderful to listen to the children share what they have enjoyed and reflect on how far they’ve come. We wanted to say a well done to all of our children for a fantastic year, we are so proud of each and every child! Thank you for all of your support this year as a parent community – we couldn’t have done it without you.

Home Learning

No home learning - have a wonderful summer break!

Parent Partnership

Thank you to those who were able to our ‘come and see’ session on Thursday, we hope you enjoyed spending time looking through your children’s work with them – they were very excited and proud to show you!

We have now collected in all of the children’s reading folders, please could you have a hunt around home for any remaining lending library books or Little Wandle reading books and return them to your class teacher as soon as possible. It is not necessary to continue to bring in book bags into school.

Important Dates

Tuesday 22nd July – Last day of term. Finish at 1:15pm. No Wingbats.

Friday 5th September - First day of academic year 2025/2026

Sports and Star learners

Grasshoppers

Star of the week: Grasshoppers for all their efforts during international week.

Bumblebees

Star of the week: Bumblebees for all their efforts during international week.

Butterflies

Star of the week: Butterflies for all their efforts during international week.

Curriculum

The Reception year is one of the most important in your child’s educational journey. It is paramount to lay the foundations to become a life-long learner. The skills taught in Reception are comparable to the foundations for a house – we need to make them nice and strong!

We have an exciting and engaging curriculum that encourages children to become resourceful, inquisitive, communicative learners who will always ‘give it a go’ and challenge themselves to be successful.

One of our key aims is to make the transition into school life as smooth as possible for all children and we enjoy working closely with parents and feeder Nursery settings to ensure we develop each child’s love of learning.

Prime Areas

Communication and Language

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Physical Development

Specific Areas

Literacy

Maths

Understanding the World

Expressive Arts and Design

We plan experiences and activities that allow children to explore and extend their understanding in a stimulating indoor and outdoor environment. We use daily observations to inform further opportunities and enhance learning zones to encourage high levels of engagement and progress in learning skills.

In Reception we focus on developing the 'whole child' and ensure that all areas of learning are explored and developed with a skills based approach.

These areas are all important and the guide below shows some of the aspects we look for in Reception.

Our Learning Projects

Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Main Project	Main Project	Main Project	Main Project	Main Project	Main Project
Let's Explore	Marvellous Machines	Long Ago	Ready, Steady, Grow	Animal Safari	On the Beach
Mini Project	Mini Project	Mini Project	Mini Project	Mini Project	Mini Project
Build It Up	Puppets and Pop Ups	Stories and Rhymes	Signs of Spring	Creep, Crawl and Wriggle	Move It, Moving On

Communication Trail

We are a very approachable team. If you have any concerns and would like to discuss your child, please come and see your child's class teacher. We can usually solve simple problems or queries for you quite quickly. Nothing surprises or shocks us anymore - we've seen and heard most things before!!! Please see below the communication trail: