Welcome to St Anne’s
Early Years Curriculum
Evening
The EYFS Curriculum • Prime Areas of Learning:
o Personal, Social and Emotional Development
o Communication and Language
o Physical Development
• Specific Areas
o Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World, Expressive Arts and
Design
• Characteristics of effective learning
o Playing and exploring, Active learning , creativity and thinking
critically
• End of Reception assessment: See handout
o Emerging, expected and exceeding
Phonics • Nursery: Jolly Phonics, songs, Little Kit the puppet, initial sounds, rhyming
• Reception: Sounds Write Phonics taught daily
• Sounds are taught in the context of a whole word, not in isolation
• Refer to the sound and not the letter name
• Precise pronunciation
• Blending
• Segmenting
• Phoneme manipulation
• Split spelling
• Phonic workshops
http://www.sounds-write.co.uk/
Maths Mastery • Place value – 2 lots of ten = 20
• Dienes, 1s, 10s, 100s
• Subitising
• Unifix and Numicon
• Pattern – link to times tables
• Numberblocks
• Maths Hub
• Lots of problem solving!
• Using sentences to explain workings out
• End of Nursery – Numbers to 10
• End of Reception – Numbers to 20
• https://nrich.maths.org/early-years
Keeping up to date • School app
• Parent mail
• Instagram - Stannesearlyyears
• School website – Class blogs (Photo permission)
http://www.stanneswandsworth.co.uk/
Healthy schools
• Books for birthdays (No cakes)
• Healthy school dinners
• Healthy packed lunches
• Nut free school
Application for Reception • Deadline is: 15th January 2020
• Booklets going out next week
• Applications to be filled in online -
http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/admissions
• Contact pupil services if you need to fill out by hand
Transition to Year One • Summer Term 2: More table top activities, attending more
assemblies and taking part in more whole school events
• Plenty of opportunities to meet their new class teacher and
visit their new classroom
Working with parents • Tree of good news(Acorns)/Hurray from home(Oaks)
• Show and Tell
• Class bear – Bumblebear (Acorns)/Stickman Julia Donaldson
(Acorns)
• Learning Journeys: being sent home soon to decorate
• Termly learning maps (Parentmail)
• Autumn Term & Spring Term parents evenings
• Summer end of year report
• Friday parent/carer reading
• Help on class trips and with school events
Friday – Library Day,
Tuesday if your child does
not attend Nursery on a
Friday
Nursery (Acorn Class) Day
Wednesday-ICT
Thursday- PE
Friday- Reading
Reception (Oak Class) Day
Reception Curriculum • Engaging topics – Wonderful Wandsworth, Under the sea, how
does your garden grow? Real life heroes, To infinity and beyond.
• Exciting trips – Aquarium, Transport, Wandsworth Library,
Garden.
• Developing independence
• Learning journey, R.E, Handwriting,
Maths and Literacy
• Golden ticket for good attendance
• Art-Romero Britto, Henry Matisse, Roy Lichtenstein
• Drama workshop
• One term of dance
Reading in Reception • Reading scheme books: Read twice a week at school with an adult,
find a small amount of time every day at home.
• Two new books a week: Phonics book and a story book Reading
folder in school every day (Starting next week).
• Reading record: small weekly comment-found the word ‘mat
'tricky. Understanding and Comprehension.
• Library book: Return every Friday.
• Parent and carer reading every Friday
8.45-9.15am
• Buddy Readers- Every week
St Anne’s PTA and Fundraisers
• Could you be a class rep?
• Creating whatsapp group for
communication
• Cake sales
• Summer and Christmas fun days
• After school events
Wrap around care
• Breakfast Club from Nursery 7.45-
8.45am
• St Anne’s after school care 3.30-6pm
• After school clubs 3.30-4.30pm
(Full day Acorn children from January)
A few gentle reminders • Label everything!
• Spare clothes on pegs, keep stocked up
• Attendance and punctuality
• Read letters and keep up to date with dates on the school App
• Ensure emergency contact forms are kept up to date,
permission for local trips and photos for school website
• We are always here to chat if you have any concerns or
questions