Foundation Stage Curriculum Expectations Presentation
- 1. Welcome to Our Foundation Stage Curriculum Evening Inspire learning, Ignite curiosity Monday 20th January 2020
- 2. Aims To help you to understand how the curriculum develops throughout the Reception Year. To understand how we teach in order to cover the requirements of the curriculum. To identify the key ways in which you can help your child at home and in school.
- 3. Within the theme of Learning and Development there are seven areas. All areas are connected to one another and are equally important. 1. Personal, Social and Emotional Development 2. Communication & Language 3. Physical Development 4. Literacy 5. Mathematics 6. Understanding The World 7. Expressive Arts and Design
- 4. Personal, Social and Emotional Development The children will be learning to: • Listen to their friends’ ideas and use their ideas in their play; • Consider each others feelings and how to help each other; • Explain their own needs; • Talk to each other about how they feel; • Resolve different opinions when playing together.
- 5. How can you help? • Talk to children about their likes and dislikes and how they might be similar and different to your own. • When reading stories, talk about how the different characters feel. • Encourage children to share and take turns with things at home.
- 6. Communication and Language The children will be learning to: Listen to other people in a wide variety of situations Follow instructions of growing length, where they have to do to or more things Talk confidently and clearly Answer questions and ask questions of their own. Make up their own stories Enjoy listening to stories, songs and poems
- 7. How can you help? • Play ‘treasure’ hunt games where children have to listen carefully to clues in order to find the next object. • Encourage your child to predict what might happen next in a story. • Engage in an imaginary story with your children.
- 8. Physical Development The children will be learning to: dress and undress – pe kits and now outdoor clothes too! throw, catch, roll and kick balls and bean bags become more accurate with scissors use a pencil effectively to form letters accurately in cursive script.
- 10. How can you help? • Play with your child outdoors giving them opportunities to move and explore in different ways • Ask your child to get dressed independently and organise the clothes they have removed! • Encourage craft activities and let your child’s imagination take the lead!
- 11. Mathematics The children will be learning to: Recognise and order numbers to 20 Find one more or one less than a given number Add and subtract sets of objects Double and halve numbers Compare objects by length, weight and capacity Recognise some coins Make patterns Name some 2D and 3D shapes
- 13. How can you help? • Find and cut out numbers in magazines – can you make a number line? • Counting, adding and subtracting anything and everything • Comparing the sizes and weights of things in your kitchen cupboards! • Pay for little things in the shop using coins • Go on a shape walk
- 14. Literacy The children will be learning to: • Read simple sentences made up of regular words and tricky keywords. • Talk about characters in a story and key events in a story • Write the sounds they can hear in regular words • Write some keywords • Write short sentences that other people can read
- 15. Sense Keyword Picture Sound it out Chunks Strategies for reading
- 16. Recap phonics Phonics is the step up to word recognition – the automatic reading of all words is the ultimate goal Synthetic phonics breaks up words into the smallest unit of sounds –phonemes Children are taught the letters - graphemes- that represent the phonemes. This is called phoneme- grapheme correspondence Children can then use this knowledge to ‘de-code’ new words that they hear and see. This is the first important step in learning to read. Children also learn that not all words can be sounded out. We call them tricky words!
- 17. Daily phonics lesson – 20 minutes At school we follow the ‘Letters and Sounds’ programme using Jolly Phonics Letters and Sounds breaks the teaching of phonics into 6 phases: ◦ Phase 1-4 in Reception ◦ Phase 4 -5 in Year 1 ◦ Phase 5-6 in Year 2 Each Phase differs in terms of length and skills taught In Reception we focus on securing all children in phase 2 - 4 to prepare them for Year 1 Daily Phonics
- 18. Phase 3 • Pure sounds • Grapheme recognition and recall of 27 sounds • Blending and segmenting of CVC words containing these graphemes Sounds learnt in Phase 3 j v w x y z zz qu sh ch th ng ai ee oo oo igh oa ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er
- 19. Digraph/Trigraph This means that the phoneme includes two or three or four letters e.g. ll, ff, ck, ss, igh
- 21. Blending Blending is a skill that is needed for reading Children need to be able to say the separate sounds in a word They then blend them together to read the whole word rain
- 22. Blending moon beard night coin deep fork
- 23. Segmenting Segmenting is a skill that is needed for spelling Children need to be able to hear a whole word They then need to say every sound that they hear qu ee n
- 24. Your turn
- 25. Answers ch ur ch th or n b oo k t oa d
- 26. Reading at School All children bring home a reading book to share at home. This is changed on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Please write in the reading record book every time you read with your child. Your child will continue to work on guided reading activities at school. They will complete activities with different adults over the week to work on blending skills, comprehension, instant recall of both tricky words and high frequency words (keywords) and developing a love of books!
- 27. Keywords A mixture of tricky words (common exception words) and high frequency words All our books are colour banded. For each colour band we provide a list of key words which are to be read by sight. Pink 16 Red 20 Yellow 20 Blue 24 Green 20 By the end of Reception we aim for children to have learned 56 consecutive keywords by sight (Pink, Red, Yellow)
- 28. • Share pleasure in reading a book that you enjoy together. Talk about the characters • Read books from school together at a time when your child has the best focus • Play keyword games together to build the instant recall of these words https://www.themeasuredmom.com/25-low-prep- sight-word-activities/ • Encourage your child to identify print in the world around them! How can you help your child to read at home?
- 32. Writing at school The children all write as part of their daily phonics session. They write words that contain the graphemes that they have already covered. Children are beginning to write simple sentences to describe stories or pictures in guided group sessions. Children are given writing opportunities in play learning.
- 33. How can you help your child to write at home? • Magnetic letters to make words • Write letters/postcards to family members or friends • Let them write with a variety of materials, pencils, crayons, chalk • Create stories together – let your imagination go wild!
- 34. Understanding the World The children will be learning to: find out about the world around them, asking questions about it. find differences and similarities. know about everyday technology and learn what it is used for find out about past events in their lives and their families' lives find out about different cultures, beliefs and occupations.
- 35. How can you help? • Talk about special events in your family such as holidays, birthdays, weddings and celebrations • Take a trip to a park and look at the plants, insects and animals • Explore different weather conditions and talk about seasonal changes in the world • Go on a technology treasure hunt at home. Talk about how these things work and how to use them safely
- 37. Expressive Arts & Design The children will explore: colours and textures making and creating things using different media imaginative play making music, dancing and singing
- 38. How can you help? • Try some different creative activities using a variety of different materials such as; making musical instruments, collage activities and mixing colourings to create pictures. • Encourage children to sing their favourite songs and listen to music. • Use toys or puppets to create stories together • Set up a pretend shop, restaurant, hairdresser or classroom! Create stories together.
- 39. Assessment at the end of the year in EYFS • At the end of the year we assess the children against the early learning goals as emerging, expected or exceeding. This is what you will receive in your end of year report. • Children are defined as having reached a good level of development at the end of the EYFS if they have achieved at least the expected level in: • personal, social and emotional development • physical development • communication and language • mathematics • literacy
- 41. Tapestry View observations and add observations of your own
- 42. Thank you for coming Any questions?