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Welcome to the Spring Term 2025 in Foundation One with

Mrs Stabler, Mrs Wootton

Mrs Cambell & Miss Mylett

 

It is great to see the children back in school, they are all eager and excited to learn, which is lovely to see! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and would like to wish you all a happy New Year!

A warm welcome to our new children who have started this week, the children have settled into school really well and are busy learning all the routines of our class. They are beginning to develop their own interests as well as making new friends. Thank you for all your support in settling the children into their new class. If you have any questions please see one of the foundation one team, we are always here to help and support you.

Our Spring term one topic is ‘Once Upon a Time’

In the Once Upon a Time project, your child will be introduced to the wonderful world of stories. They will listen to a range of traditional tales and have the chance to act out the stories in their play. They will also listen to alternative contemporary stories to see different viewpoints from the characters. They will use the stories to think about how life has changed from when the stories were written. They will also make up their own stories and make masks, props and puppets to act out their stories.

Supporting your child at home:

Read traditional stories and fairy tales to your child.
Visit your local library and choose picture books to share.
Talk about the characters in stories and whether they like or dislike them.
Talk about how the characters in stories behave and what they could do differently.

Once Upon a Time- Did You Know?

Our Spring term two topic is 'Dangerous Dinosaurs' 

In the Dangerous Dinosaurs project, your child will find out about prehistoric animals that lived on Earth. They will learn facts about dinosaurs and discover how big some of these giant creatures were. They will learn about the difference between carnivores and herbivores. They will also find out about the animals that lived after the dinosaurs and which modern-day animals have prehistoric relatives.

Supporting your child at home:

Go onto the Natural History Museum website and look at interesting facts about dinosaurs together.
Go to the CBeebies Dinosaurs website and explore the games and videos together.
Look up interesting dinosaur facts to share with the class.
Share and discuss the Did you know? resource.

Dangerous Dinosaurs- Did You Know? 

Reading

Early reading is key to all we do and incredibly important across the whole of our EYFS curriculum, your support is vital in helping your child develop the confidence and love of reading to reach their full potential. Please read as often to your child as possible, sharing a book at bedtime every night is a good way of developing a love of reading. Sharing a story with your child everyday can have a significant impact on their learning and development. Please make sure your child brings their book bag to school everyday and your child's reading book will be changed in our class library every Friday. Thank you for your support. 

Physical Development

Developing physical skills is a key area in our early years curriculum, we plan lots of physical activities for the children to develop their fine and gross motor skills in the indoor and outdoor provision. The children will join in with Dough disco, squiggle sessions, parachute games as well as lots of other physical activities in their learning environment. As these activities will be available throughout the week we will not have a set PE day or session, therefore your child will not need a PE kit.

If you have any queries about anything, please do not hesitate to ask any of the foundation one team.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Stabler