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EYFS

Welcome to the Foundation Stage

Creating a positive start to your child's journey at school is crucial. At Woodland Grange we want our children to be active, independent learners from their very first day with us.

  • We encourage them to be curious and imaginative.
  • We teach them to ask and answer questions — find things out & explain to others.
  • We want our children to be aware of the world around them.
  • We encourage them to be independent.

Forest School and outdoor learning is a big feature at our school. This helps the children develop their physical skills and core strength, which is vital for everyday life at school and beyond. It also provides many open-ended learning opportunities, which in turn creates team work, problem-solving and allows the imagination to flourish. 

Our PE day is on a Friday. 

After the Easter break, we ask children to come into school wearing their PE kit every Friday. This is so we can ensure we are getting the most out of our PE sessions now that the children have made progress with dressing and undressing independently.

Here is the menu for 2023/24. As a school we are option 1 & 3, please click here for the menu.

Dates for the Diary 

  • Wednesday 20th & Thursday 21st -Trip to the Farm!
  • 25th March - 5th April -Easter Holidays

Week Beginning 18th March 2024

Focus Text -  Easter EGGstravaganza by Roald Dahl

Phonics

This week the children will be learning a new digraph and Trigraph (3 letters that make one sound)

 igh and oa. 

The common exception words are my and you.

Maths

This week, the children will continue to use practical contexts to sort objects according to different criteria. They will be encouraged to notice different attributes in groups of objects – such as colour, size or function – and to describe what they notice. Beginning with adult-led sorting activities and games of ‘How am I sorting?’, the children will go on to develop their own criteria for sorting. Sorting and classifying are important early years’ skills that encourage children to identify similarities and differences. These skills also support problem solving and the development of data analysis.

Alongside this, they will continue to practise recalling the composition of numbers as doubles. Then, towards the end of the week, the children will apply their sorting skills to numbers and will investigate ways to sort the Numberblocks. They will use their previous experience of investigating doubles to begin to practically explore even and odd numbers. Within the context of building Numberblocks characters, they will investigate when a number can be composed of 2 equal parts. It is anticipated that the children will quickly identify that even numbers can be composed as doubles, through their experience of seeing numbers composed of 2 equal parts.

In the classroom you will see... The children will be thinking about Easter, we will be thinking about why Christians celebrate Easter and sequencing the Easter story in the writing area. The children will be exploring recipes and will take part in a shared read to help them to make their Easter nest cakes. We will even be creating our own boxes to take them home in. 

We will be designing our own Easter eggs, creating cards and using a range of maths resources to consolidate some of the recent skills the children have been exploring.