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 summer break and are ready to support us to help your children to work hard, have fun and achieve academically and socially during the coming year!
This half term our topic is called Amazing Me!
During this half term, we will spend a great deal of time talking about our similarities and differences. We will be finding out how unique we all are. We will be talking to the children about the AMAZING skills they already possess and what they need to do to make their AMAZING skills into super powers! We are going to be investigating our AMAZING senses during our Friday investigation lessons and how they help us explore the world. The books we will be focusing on are “Where the Wild Things Are” and “Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain” for Reception. “Where’s my Teddy?” and “The Gruffalo” for Nursery. For an in-depth look of this half-term, please see our Cycle B Explorers Curriculum document so you can see all the AMAZING things we are going to be learning this term! Paper copies have already been distributed but please see 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 Autumn Homework
EYFS
