Early Years Foundation Stage
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“Every child deserves the best possible start in life and support to fulfil their potential…experiences between birth and five has a major impact on their future life chances. A secure, safe and happy childhood is important in its own right. Good parenting and high quality learning together provide the foundation children need to make the most of their abilities and talents as they grow up”
Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage”, Department for Children, Schools and Families, (2017)
At Smithdown, we ensure the best possible start for children by:
Inspiring children through an imaginative and immersive curriculum, ensuring that the children are happy and enthusiastic to learn, that we foster and nurture the children’s imagination and curiosity
Providing a happy, safe, stimulating and challenging programme of learning and development for the children to experience as they begin their journey through school.
Providing a broad, balanced, relevant and creative curriculum that will set in place firm foundations for further learning and development in Key Stage 1 and beyond and enable choice and decision making, fostering independence and self-confidence.
Using and valuing what each child can do, assessing their individual needs and helping each child to progress.
Developing excellent relationships with parents and carers to build a strong partnership in supporting their children.
Providing a caring and inclusive learning environment which is sensitive to the requirements of the individual child including those who have additional needs.
Please click on the links below for further details of our EYFS curriculum.
SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD
Please attend all our parent/carer session or speak to staff members for advice helping your child. Below are some websites you might find useful.
EYFS Curriculum – EYFS Development Matters
A guide to your child’s learning and development in the EYFS – What to Expect When?
Videos and resources to support Phonics – RWI Phonics Guidance
Fun, educational games for children to play – Cbeebies
Free eBooks for children to read online – Oxford Owl
Simple, fun maths activities – Maths Activities
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We have been super mathematicians today! We worked with our carpet partners to use the five frames to find different ways of making 5! #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmaths
Thank you to Anoushka for hosting our parents session this afternoon and thank you to all our parents that joined us. We are excited to be sharing our reading and talking journey together. @MAST #smithdowneyfs #smithdownextra #smithdownreaders
We opened the story box and found a star! ⭐️ we then shared where we will take our star. #smithdowneyfs
We listened to a story about Guru Nanak and the cobra today. We found out all about proctection. #smithdownre #smithdowneyfs @SmithdownPrimR
We have been very creative painting flying saucers and decorating playdough Martians. #smithdowneyfs @SmithdownPrimR
Listening to a New Year ensemble using scarves 🧣🎵#smithdowneyfs #smithdownmusic
We have had lots of fun exploring astronauts in the moonsand. #smithdowneyfs @SmithdownPrimR
Exploring torches 🔦 inspired by The Way Back Home story. We have looked at how they work and how helpful they were to the boy in the story in space #smithdowneyfs #smithdownsci
We are enjoying our new book The Way Back Home this week and here is a link for families if you’d like to share the book at home #smithdowneyfs
https://youtu.be/xgGVJmPLNS4
This afternoon we have built rockets like the one in our story to see if we can fly in it to catch a star. ⭐️ 🚀 @clpe @OliverJeffers #smithdowneyfs
