Welcome to Foundation 2024-25
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Welcome to Foundation
Spring Term
We are very proud to be an Outstanding Early Years Unit after our Ofsted visit last year!
This term we will be learning all about 'Castles, knights and Dragons'
We will be looking at the story of Zog and learning all about castles and who lived in them. We will also be learning about Knights and we are excited to see where this learning will take us. We will use story maps to learn and innovate these stories throughout the term. On January 8th we have an author visiting us in Foundation and we are also planning a trip to Central Library in town later this term.
In Foundation we have worked very hard to create an exciting and engaging learning environment. We value individuality in Foundation and plan our topics around the children's interests. We are excited to explore the children's interests and watch them learn and grow throughout the year.
Our Early Years Rationale
At Salisbury Road Primary, the Early Years Team believe that all children deserve an education rich in wonder, excitement, independence and memorable experiences. At Salisbury Road we believe children learn best through play in an environment that promotes creativity, curiosity and independence. Our ethos is to support children’s personal, social and emotional development so that they feel safe, secure, happy and ready to learn.
We recognise the importance of giving our children the best possible start to their education by planning and implementing teaching and learning opportunities that supports them in reaching their full potential and develop a love of learning. At Salisbury Road, we recognise the crucial role that Early Years education and educators have to play in providing firm foundations upon which the rest of a child’s education is successfully based.
Through the Early Years Curriculum, we provide children with a rich learning environment that builds on the children’s interests and develops their experiences of the world around them. We support the children in their transition into school and ensure that the start of the children’s learning journey is enjoyable for both the children and their families. We recognise that all children come into our setting with varied experiences and we work hard to provide equal learning opportunities to develop children’s understanding of the world around them and we have high expectations for all our children.
Important dates
Back to school - Monday 6th January 2025
PE Days - Tuesdays
Author visit - Wednesday 8th January
End of Spring term 1 - Thursday 13th February
Back to school - Monday 24th February
Vision screening - Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th March
FGP Class Assembly - Thursday 27th March 2.00pm
FSB Class Assembly - Friday 28th March 9.15am
Central library visit - Date to be confirmed
End of Spring 2 - Friday 4th April
PPA for Mrs Burke and Miss Pearce will be on Wednesdays, this will be covered by Miss Priestley
Reading books are changed Mondays and Thursdays
Fridays - Library (please return the children's library books on Thursday of each week)
Mrs Luscombe will teach FGP on Mondays and Miss Pearce on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Underpinning all of our learning and time together is our school values. They are also linked to our Class Dojo rewards. We will learn about and celebrate examples of each value daily.
Our value this term is 'Happiness'.
We will be discussing what it unity means, as well as these 2 key questions.
What makes you happy?
How can I make others happy?
Phonics: Here at Salisbury Road, we teach phonics from the start. We will begin by listening to sounds and playing phonological awareness games. We will then begin working through the Read Write Inc scheme to learn all the individual letter sounds and begin to read simple CVC words. The children will be grouped according to their knowledge so the learning can be tailored to their needs.
Maths: We provide the children with a secure foundation of numbers 1-10. We learn about the composition of each number and talk about 'what we see' and 'how we see it'. We will look at patterns in objects, colours and numbers and explore making our own patterns too. Oracy is at the heart of our maths sessions to enrich the children's vocabulary and make sure they are using full sentences.
Topic: We base our topics on the children's interests.
Reading: Reading is a priority at our school. In foundation, we pride ourselves on promoting a life long love of reading. Reading is at the heart of everything we do in foundation so we encourage you to read with your child everyday. We have an exciting reading raffle where child could win the book of the term! All they need to do to be entered each week is to read at home at least 4 times each week. The more times they do, the more chances they have to win the book, so get reading!