1. EYFS Curriculum Meeting

2. Staff Badger Class – Mrs Jo Lightfoot
Rabbit Class – Miss Louise Hughes and Mrs Sarah Powell
Teaching Assistant – Mrs Tracey McHale

3. Structure of EYFS Prime Areas Specific Areas
Personal, Social and Emotional
Communication and Language
Physical
Specific Areas
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding of the World
Expressive Arts and Design

4. Aim of The Meeting
Phonics
Reading
Writing
Maths
Attendance

5. Teaching Phonics

6. How Children Learn Phonics
High frequency words, tricky words (I, no, go, to, the)

7. Purple Phonics Folders
Each week we learn four sounds.
The new sounds will be put into their purple phonics folders.
These will go home each Friday, please make sure they come back to school on Wednesday.
Please encourage your child to practice the letter formation or/and find a picture of an object with the same initial sound.
In your reading diary there is a sound mat with cursive letter formation.

8. Teaching Reading Early Learning Goal
Children read and understand simple sentences.
They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately.
They also read some common irregular words.
They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.

9. Home Reading
Your child will share their book with an adult at least once a week in school.
Books will be changed initially twice a week on Tuesday and Friday, but only if your child has shared their book at home. Although, as the year progresses, we will change your child’s reading book when we feel it is necessary.
Daily reading at home is the best way to help your child progress. Asking lots of questions about what your child is reading will help them understand the text better. Talk about the story before, during and afterwards – discuss the plot, the characters, their feelings and actions, how it makes you feel, predict what will happen and encourage your child to have their own opinions.
Remember to write a comment in your child’s reading diary so we can help support your child in school.

10. Be a Reading Champion!
‘Reading Champion’ is a whole school initiative and is celebrated in assembly on a Monday morning.
To be a ‘Reading champion’ your child has to share their book with you at least four times, at home, in a week.
Children who achieve four days or more of reading a week, for 10 weeks, are celebrated in an assembly and are presented with a special certificate and book.
Your child’s reading will need to be recorded in the reading record each week (even if it is just your signature).
We will check your children’s reading record each week from Friday to Thursday.

11. Ways to Support Early Writing at Home
Celebrate any mark making your child does at home and talk to your child about the marks they make and what they mean.
Practice letter formation in their purple phonics folders.
When your child has a go at writing e.g. c for cat, encourage them and celebrate any attempts at the sounds.
Writing the initial sound of a word, or just some sounds within a word is a great start to writing. They will be able to write words more accurately in time.
Help your child practise writing their name.
You might like to make an ‘All About My Family’ book with your child where they draw their family members and write their names by them.

12. Maths Number Early Learning Goal
Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
Shape Early Learning Goal
Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. They recognise, create and describe patterns. They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.

13. Early Maths Skills Through Play
Your child will begin to:
Know and understand maths language of measurement, shapes, spaces, positions, early numbers, order and patterns .
Know the sequence of numbers.
Begin to understand positional words, e.g. in, on, outside.
Show an awareness of time e.g. discuss routines and different times of the day.
Be aware of 1-to-1 correspondence, develop number sense, understand numbers and symbols.
Learn number rhymes and songs, e.g. one, two, buckle my shoe etc.
Begin to problem solve through familiar contexts, with meaningful purpose and mathematical complexity.

14. Ways to Support Maths at Home
Singing number songs and rhymes.
Completing jigsaw puzzles or playing games like snakes and ladders.
Go on a shape hunt around your house.
Measure who has the biggest hand or see how many foot steps it takes to get from one side of a room to the other.
Handling money when you are shopping and finding out how much objects cost.
Cooking food, weighing the ingredients, comparing weights and seeing who eats it the quickest!
Sorting and counting socks.
Make Maths ‘hands on’ and fun!

15. With a little bit of practice they soon can!
If your child ever says ‘I can’t’ remind them, that they can’t do it yet!
With a little bit of practice they soon can!

16. This Term’s Topic is: There’s No Place Like Home
Homework
Phonics folders (weekly)
Regular reading (Remember read on 4 different days to be a reading champion!!)
Show and Tell Bag!
Bertie Badger and Jasper Rabbit

17. School days absent per year School weeks absent per year
Attendance
% Attendance
School days absent per year
School weeks absent per year
94.7% 10 2
89.4% 20 4
84.2% 30
6 (One school term)
78.9% 40 8

18. Any questions?