1. Welcome to the Early Years Foundation Stage Information Evening How can I help my child?

2. What is the Early Years Foundation Stage
Nurseries Pre-schools Reception Classes Childminders
Early Years Foundation Stage Framework
Established by early years experts and parents
Statutory, legal requirement

3. The EYFS Framework
A unique curriculum 7 areas of learning and development (17 areas in total) Fundamentally based on play and child-centred learning Teaching based around age and ability Observations

4. The 7 Areas of Learning and Development
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding of the World
Expressive Arts and Design

5. The 7 Areas of Learning and Development
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
-Making Relationships
-Self-confidence and self-awareness
-Managing Feelings and Behaviour
Communication and Language
-Listening and Attention
-Understanding
-Speaking
Physical Development
-Moving and Handling
-Health and self-care
3 Prime Areas
Most essential for healthy development and future learning

6. The 7 Areas of Learning and Development
Literacy
-Reading
-Writing
Mathematics
-Number
-Shape, Space and Measure
Understanding of the World
-People and communities
-The World
-Technology
Expressive Arts and Design
-Exploring and using media and materials
-Being imaginative
4 Specific Areas

7. Characteristics of Effective Learning (COEL)
Interlinked with the Prime and Specific areas
Engagement (Playing and Exploring)
-finding out and exploring
-playing with what I know
-being willing to ‘have a go’
Motivation (Active Learning)
-being involved and concentrating
-keeping trying
-enjoying achieving what I set out to do
Thinking (Creating and thinking critically)
-having my own ideas
-making links
-choosing new ways to do things

8. Why are the Characteristics of Effective Learning (COEL) important?
Life long attitudes
Creative, adventurous learners
Independence

9. How can you help at home? Prime areas Value play
Be specific with praise (value effort)
Talk about the process- not the product
Reading, Writing, People and Communities, The World

10. Sharing books at home
Enjoy and share books together – read and re-read those they love best!
Listen to story CDs.
Teach nursery rhymes or action songs.
Let them see you reading.
Read, read, read!
Individual reading – children need to take ownership of the book. Let them turn the pages. Ask them to show you where to start reading and where you go next – left to right, return sweep. Give them tricky words if stuck and find them on each page – put them in your window. Encourage sounding out unknown words.

11. Readings tips Let your child hold the book and turn the pages.
Encourage your child to follow the text with their finger. At first your child will be taught to point at each word, moving on to sliding their finger smoothly under the text.
When your child is trying to sound out an unfamiliar word, give them time to do so. Remind your child to look closely at the first sound of the word to help them.
Ask your child to use the pictures to help them as they read too.

12. Reading tips
Gently encourage your child to re-read a word or sentence to check it makes sense.
As your child becomes more confident they will start to self-correct – give them time to do this.
Ask questions about the book you have read, such as, “Why did Chip do that?”
As they progress, you could ask your child to make predictions as they read.

13. How to support reading at home
Play sound games such as I Spy
Give a selection of words that begin with the same sound and an odd one out, ask the children to identify it.
Play snap or pairs with letter cards, this helps with letter recognition
Reading on a regular basis.

14. Writing Part of everyday phonics Focused writing groups
Writing opportunities around the classroom
Handwriting
•Pencil grip
•Letter shapes and letter formation
•Whole words
•Short sentences (capital letters, finger spaces etc.)
•Different forms of writing –labels, lists, cards, captions

15. How can you help? •Writing Materials
Modelling e.g. lists, notes, letters

16. Ideas for home
Write sounds/ words on concrete using chalk then call them out and they run to the correct one.
Practise writing the sounds/ words on the floor using water in a squirty water bottle.
Play pairs to match the sounds- we will eventually do this with words!
Play snap with the sounds and get your child to say the sounds as they puts the cards down
Using magnetic letters and board to find the sounds and eventually make words
Go onto the phonics play website and look at phase 2 games.
Gross motor movements.

17. Ideas for home Make letters/ words using playdough
Play noughts and crosses with sounds in the grid and get your child to choose one and say the sound/word to win the square.
Talk to your child like a robot and get them to put the words back together.
Write sounds/ words on paper and put around the room or outside, call a sound and get your child to run to it
Play sound/ word bingo. Make a bingo grid with sounds/ words on it and call out.
Get your child to help write the shopping list asking them to sound out words with sounds that they can hear don't worry at this stage if it looks wrong e.g. apul instead of apple.

18. Maths Teacher directed daily lessons Focused maths groups
Maths opportunities around the classroom
Recognising numbers
Reciting numbers
Counting objects 1:1
Mathematical vocabulary
Addition and subtraction
Problem solving
Reasoning

19. How can you help? • Reciting numbers accurately
Modelling and finding opportunities for:
• Reciting numbers accurately
Recognising numerals 0-10 or 0-20 and beyond
One-to-one counting
Shape, Capacity, Time, Money, Weight

20. How is progress measured in EYFS?
EYFS Progress Check (age 2, prime areas only)
Baseline Assessments (beginning of Reception and Pre-School)
EYFS Profile (at the end of Reception)

21. The EYFS Profile Attainment at the end of EYFS (Reception year only)
17 Early Learning Goals
Characteristics of Effective Learning summary

22. The EYFS Profile Judgements
Judgement for each of 17 Early Learning Goals
Expected (the level of development expected at the end of EYFS)
Emerging (not yet at the level of development expected at the end of EYFS)
Exceeding (beyond the level of development expected at the end of EYFS)

23. A Good Level of Development
Expected level Early Learning Goals achieved in:
Making Relationships
Self Confidence & Self Awareness
Managing Feelings & Behaviour
Listening & Attention
Understanding
Speaking
Moving & Handling
Health & Self Care
Reading, Writing, Number and Shape, Space & Measure

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