1. Foundation Stage Nightingales and Bluebirds
Welcome Evening
Welcome to a new school year at FLS.
We’ve had a great start to the term and hope that the home visits and staggered start have been beneficial to you too.

2. Welcome and introductions
BLUE ROOM Nightingales:
Miss Wood & Mrs Davis
YELLOW ROOM Bluebirds:
Miss Giles & Mrs Long
And: Miss Mann & Mrs Shaw
As well as: Mrs Palmer, Mrs Fountain, Mr Yates & Mrs Pekszyc
Please pass messages to any member of staff, e.g. change of person collecting at the end of the day etc.
After school you are more than welcome to come in to talk to us; the mornings are a busy time and the children want to talk to us then.

3. Routines and independence
The children are beginning to remember where their belongings go:
Hang coats on their pegs
Water bottles and lunchboxes on the trolley
Yellow books in the box
Book bags in the book bag boxes
Snacks into drawers
Snacks: fruit or vegetables; names containers. School fruit snack is available.
No snacks in lunchboxes please – it’s just too tempting to eat everything!
Access to the water fountain throughout the day so water bottle not compulsory. Separate drink in lunchbox if you wish, e.g. fruit juice. No fizzy drinks please.
Please name everything. We try to return everything to its rightful owner, but the lost property chest is at the main office otherwise.
Part of the Early Years Curriculum involves children becoming independent and looking after themselves. With this in mind, we would appreciate it if you could encourage your child/ren to put their coats on by themselves, practise doing and undoing buttons and putting shoes on and taking them off etc. All these skills are very important.
The children also move their name card to show if they are having a packed lunch or hot school dinner.
Please encourage the children to do as many of these tasks as independently as possible.

4. Routines and independence
Look out for Mrs New’s newsletter every other Friday.
Foundation Stage newsletter also comes out on Fridays, called our Learning at Home:
Information about our learning focus for the following week and how you can support your child at home
Messages, requests and notes
Annotate and comment as much as you wish. We enjoy reading your comments and sharing your child’s experiences. These are collected as part of your child’s learning journey.
The children collect post from their post boxes as they get ready to go home.
If you are missing a letter, please look there, or ask a member of staff. Everything is also available on the school website.
If your child in Foundation has an older sibling, the older child will take home the school newsletter.
Learning at home for messages for the week, information about our learning focus, sections for sharing learning at home. It’s great reading what the children have been doing and helps us initiate conversations.

6. Learning at Home Based on parents as first teachers
Rewarding all learning taking place – not just learning at school
Teaching lifelong skills
Nurturing learning power – critical thinking, problem solving, independence
Encourages being immersed in stories and books through sharing a book every day at home
Booklet for ideas and information
Information booklet linked to this. Feel free to take one. It is also available on the school website.
Enjoy sharing learning with your child.
Learning logs are a good way to share your child’s skills. We will begin these in the next few weeks/by half term.

7. Learning Log Project book for recording learning at home
Task to focus on, with return date
Share learning together
Be creative
Record in any way you wish
Celebrate and share at school
Take photos, make and bake, stick in or draw and write.
Share and talk. Get everyone involved. Grandparents too!

8. Teaching Overview All based around ‘Knock, Knock! Who’s There?’
Autumn Term
Teaching Overview
All based around
‘Knock, Knock! Who’s There?’
Our termly overview is in your pack.
We won’t stick rigidly to everything as we will adapt to the children's interests.

9. Weekly Timetable
Our general weekly timetable gives an overview of each day. We do not stick rigidly to times and go with the flow of the children.
P.E.
ICT suite
Show and Tell / Bear’s adventures
Library
Please note: PE
ICT
Library: The children can choose a book from the school library and should bring it back to school the following Monday.

10. Learning sessions
Informal sessions encouraging free flow play indoors and outside
Range of games and activities linked to Early Years Curriculum
Whole class & group activities led by staff
Introducing adult initiated and adult led tasks
Daily phonics session involving songs and games including our THRASS resources
Daily Mathematics session with rhymes, songs and games

11. Learning at home and at school
Home School communication books (yellow books)
Please bring every day
Staff record adult led learning for your information. Please comment if you wish.
Communication between learning at school and home to help staff plan for individual needs
Each child will get a home school communication book over the next few weeks.
Please ensure it is your child’s book bag every day.

12. P.E. P E Monday No jewellery and hard head bands Long hair tied back
Shorts and T-shirt
Plimsolls/Trainers as weather gets warmer; we’ll let you know when we plan sessions outside
Spare socks, jumper and jogging bottoms for outdoor activities
A light rain coat and waterproof trousers would also be useful for our outdoor activities
PLEASE NAME IT!
We have wellies in school so you don’t have to provide your own.

13. Other points Please name ALL clothes Money PE kit Uniform
Coats & shoes
Jumpers/cardigans
Gloves, hats and scarves!
Money
Clearly labelled envelope:
Name
Class
Amount
Purpose
Please name everything.

14. Duty of care Start/End of day safety Afterschool clubs Cloakrooms
Please send a note if your child is being collected by someone different
Garden
Please help by reminding your child to stay in the line and point you out to the member of staff releasing them
Afterschool clubs
Handed over to leaders by staff
If in school hall, e.g. drama, please collect from front door by main office

15. Health and wellbeing Medication Toileting
Please let us know if your child develops an allergy
If your child is prescribed medication, please complete a form giving permission for this to be administered at school
Toileting
Steps available
Encourage independence
Changes of clothes available
Please let us know about any issues; care plans will be put in place for children who need regular intimate care

16. Volunteering
Helpers
If you are brave enough to help on a regular basis, or as and when you can, just let us know
Listening to readers
Resources preparation
Filing
Displays
School trips
Interesting work places/jobs
Any other special talents?!

17. Feel free to see us any day after school… We’re here to help!
Questions?
Feel free to see us any day after school…
We’re here to help!