1. Welcome!

2. House Keeping

3. Day/ Punctuality

4. School Uniform
Spare set clothes and Underwear

5. School ID Badge

6. Lunch/Snack
Nut-Free School

7. Student Organiser/
Diary/ contact Book

8. Sleep!

9. Teachers

10. Curriculum
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

11. Play Based Curriculum
Child- centered and Child-led

12. 7 Areas of learning,
3 of them Prime and
4 of them Specific

13. Prime Areas Personal Social and Emotional Development (PSED)
Communication and Language (CL)
Physical Development (PD)

14. Specific Areas Literacy (L) Mathematics (M)
Understanding the World (UW)
Expressive Art and Design (EAD)

15. Formal/ Direct Teaching
How do children learn?
Formal/ Direct Teaching

16. Independent learning through Continuous Provision

17. Unplanned/ Spontaneous teaching and learning

18. Lessons from my Black and White Shoes!

19. What can we do with that interest?
New words e.g. squeak, Shoes (L)
Colours (EAD)
Find things around the classroom that are black or white. Lets Count them. What if we take away the white ones, how many are left? (M)

20. We can talk about colours
We can talk about colours. Which ones do they like or dislike and why (PSED, CL)
We can draw or paint shoes like mine (EAD)
We can practice Writing the letters that form the colours(L)

21. We could also read the poem of the Old woman who lived in a shoe
We could also read the poem of the Old woman who lived in a shoe. Even better, we can make up a story about an old woman who lived in a shoe. Challenge their imagination (L, CL, UW, EAD).

22. Our Teaching, must therefore be very flexible to accommodate these unplanned opportunities.
Play is a child’s work! The EYFS is play based. Children must feel like they are playing to learn.

23. OAP- Cycle
Teachers OBSERVE children in their play, ASSESS it and then PLAN learning and teaching according to the Uniqueness of each child.

24. Every child is unique in terms of their:
Interests
level of understanding and Development,
life experiences and background
style of learning etc.

25. We know we have done our job when:
Your child comes home at the end of a school day and you ask them …….What did you do in school today?
Answer…….I played!

26. Thank you for Listening!