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Frenchwood Community Primary School

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EYFS

Frenchwood Community Primary School – Parent Overview 

This is what your child will be learning this half term 

EYFS – Reception- Spring 1 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development 

Self-Regulation, Managing Feelings and Building Relationships 

Jigsaw Piece: Dreams and Goals 

  • Challenge 

  • Never giving up 

  • Setting a goal 

  • Obstacles and support 

  • Flight to the future 

  • Footprint awards 

Children will also be taking part in the Let’s Get Brushing programme. They will know how regularly brushing is important for their health.  

Communication and Language 

Listening, Attention and Understanding 

Children will talk about key events in a story.  

Children will ask when questions.  

Speaking 

Children will know and retell ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’. 

Children will know and use vocabulary linked to their theme and stories they read.  

Children will develop their oracy skills through various activities and opportunities.  

Children will express their ideas using past and present tense.  

Physical Development 

Gross Motor and Fine Motor Skills 

We will be continuing to develop our 5 Fundamental Movement Skills, running, jumping, throwing (overarm), catching and hopping including travelling and rolling with accuracy.  

We will also continue to learn how to ride balance bikes and then pedal bikes.  

Through planned provision activities we will continue to develop our fine motor and hand eye coordination skills. 

Children will know how to correctly form lower case letters. 

Maths 

Number and Numerical Patterns 

  • Counting and Comparing 

  • Partitioning 

  • Addition and Subtraction 

  • Comparing Measures 

  • Sorting and Patterning 

Literacy 

 

Comprehension and Word Reading 

Fiction Key Texts: Giraffes can’t dance by Giles Andreae. 

Non-Fiction Text: Police by Honor Head and Brothers and Sisters Leon Read. 

Rhymes and Poems: A selection, focusing on Wheels on the bus and Hickory Dickory Dock. 

RWI: Continuing to develop knowledge of SET 1 sounds including special friends and begin to blend, read and spell words when they are ready. Children will also be moving onto short stories and Red book.  

Writing 

The children will still be encouraged to mark make independently. They will continue to write their names and familiar letters of the alphabet. If your child is ready they may begin to blend letters into words and form lower-case and capital letters correctly by the end of term. Children will begin to spell words and short sentences using Fred Fingers.  

 

Understanding of the world 

Past and Present, People Culture and Communities and The Natural World 

We will be learning about different people who help us including the fire fighters, police officers and professionals from the health service.  

We will be linking what we know to the past, making connections and comparisons between then and now.  

We will also be learning about different animals, exploring their habitats, life cycles and food.  

We will also be discovering special stories mentioned in the Bible and The Qur’an.  

Expressive Arts and Design 

Creating with Materials 

Children will be exploring paint and painting techniques through nature, music and collaborative work. Developing creativity through child-led exploration of mixed-media, making collages and transient art. 

Being Imaginative and Expressive 

Charanga- Everyone- Copying-clapping some rhythms of phrases from familiar known songs. We will be exploring high pitch and low pitch in the context of the songs and we will be inventing new ways to find a pulse.  

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