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...

This week we have continued our new topic ‘On the beach’; we have been the story ‘Come Away from the water, Shirley!’ and have talked about the vocabulary in the book and aspects of water safety – and linking it to our local canal. The book touches on pirates and the children have enjoyed exploring message in a bottle and treasure map.

In Maths, we have been continuing to explore odd and even numbers and number bonds to 10. We have used the part/part whole model.

What another busy week - thank you so much for your continuing support.

Home Learning

Parent Partnership

Please could you send in a named sun hat with your child every day - especially during this warm weather. Suncream can be applied at home before school. Thank you.
We are having a fun ‘Pirate Day’ on Friday 11^th July during the normal school day. The children can wear a pirate costume to school (or they could wear red, black and white colours – but please don’t go out and buy anything special!) and we are planning lots of fun pirate themed learning that day to end our topic. They are also allowed to bring in an extra snack to eat in the afternoon.

Dismissal will be at the end of the school day as normal (or to Wingbats).

Important Dates

Friday 20^thJune – GB Athletes Day – please wear PE kits.

Wednesday 25th June – Class Photos Day

Tuesday 1st July – Moving Up Day

Wednesday 9th July – Sports Day

Friday 11^th July – Pirate Day

Thursday 17th July – ‘Come & See’ session for Year R parents 2 -2:30pm

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

Sports and Star learners

Grasshoppers

Star of the week: JJ for being a go for it gorilla with his learning this week.

Sports star: Stephan for showing great core strength on the monkey bars this week!

Bumblebees

Star of the week: Adwoa for being a persevering parrot in the classroom this week.

Sports star: Lottie for working with other as a brilliant team player.

Butterflies

Star of the week: Amaia for being a persevering parrot with all of her learning.

Sports star: Sufyan for excellent controlled jumping.

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: