Welcome to Explorers class page.
Explorers is our Nursery and Reception class.
Staff: Mrs Brayshaw (EYFS class teacher) and Miss Marsden (EYFS TA) Mrs Devlin (EYFS TA Wednesday)
We hope you all had a lovely half term break!
This half term our topic is called Celebrations and Festivals!
This half term we will be learning about celebrations including Diwali, Bonfire Night, Hannukah, Christmas and many more! To make this learning opportunity successful we need your help. Please talk to your children about what celebrations you and your child have been involved in. Have you got any pictures you could send in of you and your child celebrating? We have set up our indoor role play area to be a Festival Food Stall- this will be a continually changing area where we will update the food offered based on the festival we are learning that week.
We will also be performing our Nativity play on 12th December- further details to follow!
Please see our Nativity songs so you can practise at home.
The books we will be focusing on are “I am Henry Finch” and “Look Up!” for Reception. “Owl Babies” and “The Tiger Who Came to Tea” for Nursery. For an in-depth look of all the subjects taught this half-term, please see our Cycle B Explorers Curriculum document so you can see all the fabulous things we are going to be learning! Paper copies have already been distributed but please see below on our website as well.
Rainbow Challenge - In EYFS, a key priority is for us to support children to become independent, confident, and resilient learners. We consciously spend the first weeks building positive relationships and creating a fun and safe space that the children both enjoy and feel comfortable in. Starting in nursery they will be encouraged to display independence and take ownership over their learning using the ‘Rainbow Challenge.’ For those pupils and parents who are new to our school the ‘Rainbow Challenge’ is used by the children during their ‘continuous provision time or extended learning’ which occurs after adult input lessons. The classroom is broken up into areas such as construction, roleplay or reading and each represents a different colour of the rainbow. Children are encouraged to explore their whole environment throughout the week and in doing so gain a coloured lollipop stick for each area they have engaged with. If they complete the Rainbow they are rewarded with a sticker and prize at the end of the week.
A few quick reminders
End of the day- Please inform Mrs Brayshaw/Ms Marsden and Mrs Rourke if there are going to be any changes to your normal home time arrangements or when a different person collecting your child. This is for the safeguarding of your children.
PE- This half term, PE will be on a Thursday. Please can children come into school with appropriate clothing and footwear on this day.
Homework – children will have weekly homework set that supports the learning in school for that week. These will be given out on Friday to be returned on Wednesday (this will give you extra time just in case you have had a busy weekend). They will be small, manageable tasks to complete at home to support the learning we do in school. We appreciate that our lives can be very busy at times but please do your best to do these with your child as these tasks will have a positive impact on their learning.
Please read to your child every night, share the phonics bug book, encouraging them to sound out the letters and sing nursery rhymes when you can. This is not limited to books at school, any books that they enjoy! They will also have a weekly “Weekend diary” where the children will be asked to draw a picture of what they have done. Please encourage them to draw pictures and label their drawing with initial sounds and/or simple words e.g., mum/dad/dog/cat. Their ability to recognise sounds will increase over the school year, at the beginning it is the drawing and discussion of your weekend that is important. English and maths homework will be rotated every week. There will be a weekly phonics task supporting which sound they have been learning in phonics lessons.
EYFS Curriculum and Timetables 2024
EYFS
