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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Developing gross motor skills outside @SmithdownPrimR #smithdowneyfs
It’s a fun morning outside @SmithdownPrimR #smithdowneyfs
Music with Ms Naylor today. We sang the hello song.#smithdowneyfs #smithdownmusic
Today we have been learning about the sound ‘a’. We say a..a..a. We drew round the apple and down the leaf to make a letter a. #smithdowneyfs
This week we are learning all about number 1! We went outside to see how many items we could find 1 of. We even rolled the dice to see who would be the first to get a number 1 😄⭐️ #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmaths
This morning we built a house outside using our large blocks, it even had a slide for a door! We talked about who lives in our house and who it could be for #smithdowneyfs
Mark making buses after singing the nursery rhyme together 🚌 🚌 #smithdowneyfs #smithdownwriters
Using our pincer grasp with the pegs to match bottle tops. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmaths
We have been learning how to relax by breathing in to smell the flowers and exhaling to blow out the candles. We then discussed how we feel and made our own collage people to show how we are feeling today. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownPHSE
We have been learning about the letter m today. It makes a mmmmmmm sound. When we write the sound we say “ maisey mountain, mountain.” #smithdowneyfs
