• Home learning

Class Teacher - Miss Burke                             Teaching Assistant - Mrs Kearsley 

Our Learning Environment

Our curriculum has been carefully designed, planned and organised to ensure breadth, balance and depth for each child. We recognise our children’s backgrounds, life and cultural experiences and have used this information to help us to design a curriculum that meets their needs and prepares them effectively for the next stage in their education.

EYFS Curriculum

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is built around four principles:

• A Unique Child

• Positive Relationships

• Enabling Environments

• Children Learn and Develop in different ways and at different Rates

In terms of Learning and Development, there are seven areas.

The three prime areas are:

• Communication and Langauge

• Physical Development

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development

There are also four specific areas through which the three prime areas are strenghtened and applied. These are:

• Literacy

• Mathematics

• Understanding of the World

• Expressive Arts and Design

In Reception, we use a range of high-quality texts as a stimulus for our learning across the seven areas. Please take a look at our core texts for the Spring term below:

In English, we follow Pathways to Write. During Spring 1, we will be reading 'The Naughty Bus' and working towards the following learning objectives:

During Sring 2, we will be reading 'The Pirates are Coming!' and working towards the following learning objectives:

Phonics

At St Austin's, we use Read Write Inc (RWI) to teach phonics. The children will receive phonics books matched to their current reading level. Phonics packs are sent home and updated every Friday. These packs contain sounds that the children have been taught and links to videos where new sounds are modelled. For more information around RWI and how this can be supported at home, please follow the following link: https://www.ruthmiskin.com/parentsandcarers/

Maths

This term, we will be working towards achieving the following learning objectives:

• To understand ordinal numbers and be able to name positions, e.g. first, second, third, etc.
• To match number names to numerals and to representations on ten frames up to 10.
• To write numbers to 10.
• To find the total amount by combining two groups. 
• To compare quantity.
• To count on and back to find 1 more and 1 fewer.
• To find number bonds for numbers up to 6.
• To be able to copy, continue and create AAB, ABC and AABC patterns.
• To be able to measure end-to-end length, compare lengths and use non-standard units of measurement.
• To be able to use the language ‘empty’, ‘full’ and ‘half full’ to describe how much is in a container.