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Early Years Newsletter
September 2008
Dear Parents
I hope you all enjoyed the summer
break and extra quality time with your children. I would like this
opportunity of welcoming everyone back to school.
Teaching staff will be available on
the playground from 8.50 am if you need to relay any messages.
Curriculum Overview
The curriculum has been designed and
planned to cover all six areas of the Foundation Stage Curriculum and
Early Learning Goals. The Topic this half term is Toys.
| Personal, Social and
Emotional Development |
Communication, Language
and Literacy |
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New Beginnings: Through circle games, stories and activities
children will have opportunities to appreciate and celebrate
their differences and to understand how it feels, and how
important it is to belong to a group. They will consider how
everybody can be helped to feel safe and happy in the setting
and to understand the expectations and routines of their new
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Children will develop their language skills through structured
and unstructured discussions linked to books, topic, routines
and events. They will make up imaginative stories about toys,
listen to texts on the tape recorder, make labels and posters
for the toy shop, write shopping lists, practise forming letters
and patterns using pens, pencils, chalks, paint, sand and dough.
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| Mathematical Development |
Knowledge and
Understanding of the World |
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Through
number songs and rhymes children will begin to recognise and
recite the numerals 1 to 9. They will begin to develop their
counting skills, use language such as round, circle, square to
describe shapes and compare different sized shapes to make
pictures and patterns. Coins will be used in the toy shop to pay
and give change and children will sort, match and compare the
weight of different toys.
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Children will begin to develop their observational and
investigative skills through observing, sorting, making and
comparing a wide range of toys including teddies, soft toys,
puppets, jigsaws, wheeled and moving toys and distinguishing
between old and new toys.
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| Physical Development |
Creative |
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Gymnastics: Children will have the opportunity to develop an
awareness and understanding of their body movements through
activities designed to promote ‘Travelling’. They will explore
different ways of moving using their hands, and feet and begin
to take weight on different body parts-emphasising body shape-
tall, wide, stretching, curling, small. Travelling. They will
use different ways of travelling to represent toys- robots,
cars, jack-in-box etc. |
Children will experience activities involving different media
such as paints, crayons, collage, malleable materials and role
play based about the toy theme. They will design posters and
labels for the toy shop, make their own jigsaw, design toys
using junk modelling and print patterns using wheeled vehicles.
Children will also have the opportunity of preparing and cooking
food throughout the term where they will enjoy exploring a range
of recipes! |
PE
Children will participate in PE activities on Monday and Fridays. Could
all children please have their PE kit kept in school with all items
clearly labelled with your child’s name.
Grandparents
It would be lovely if any grandparents would be available to come
into class to talk about the toys that they played with. Please contact
me if you know any willing visitors.
Junk Modelling
If you have any old CD’s, cardboard tubes, cardboard boxes, material etc
for junk modelling could you please recycle it by bringing it to school.
Class One will soon make use of any spare materials that you may have.
If you have any concerns or issues
concerning your child please do not hesitate to raise these with me. I
shall be available to speak to, on the playground at 8.50 or you can
arrange a mutually convenient appointment after school.
Mrs C White
Early Years Specialist Teacher
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