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Welcome to Foundation

Spring Term

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We are very proud to be an Outstanding Early Years Unit!

"Children get off to a flying start in Reception. The school is ambitious for all, but particularly effective with its youngest children. They have designed the curriculum with enough flexibility to be able to respond to children’s interests. Learning is exciting. Children learn new knowledge and concepts in interesting ways. This makes them curious. Children explore these concepts through a variety of activities and play. This helps to secure their understanding." Ofsted 2023

This term our topic this term is 'Spring in our step' where we will be exploring life cycles of plants, frogs and butterflies. We will link this to the stories of the Extraordinary Gardener and Jack and the beanstalk. We will use story maps to remember the plot of the stories and also to support our writing. We will continue to develop our sentence writing using our sentence superheroes. In maths we will deepen our knowledge of numbers to 10 including number bonds and learn about 2d and 3d shapes. We will also be exploring the Hindu festival of Holi including having our very own colour powder festival in school. A very exciting term ahead for us in foundation .

In Foundation we have worked very hard to create an exciting and engaging learning environment. We value individuality in Foundation and 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 23rd February 2026

Holi festival of colour - Wednesday 4th March 

World Book Day - Thursday 5th March

Parents Evenings - Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th March

Cinema Trip Cineworld - Wednesday 18th March 

FGP Class Assembly - Thursday 26th March 2:30pm

FSB Class Assembly - Friday 27th March 9:15am

World Religion Day - Wednesday 1st April

Last Day of Term 4 - Thursday 2nd April 

Back to school - Term 5 - Monday 20th April

PE Days - Tuesdays

Library Day - Fridays

PPA for Miss Pearce will be on Tuesday afternoons, this will be covered by Miss Matthews

PPA for Mrs Burke will be on Thursday mornings this will also be covered by Miss Matthews.

Reading books are changed Mondays and Thursdays 

Fridays - Library (please return the children's library books on Thursday of each week) 

Homework books will be sent out on Fridays and will need to be returned on Thursdays. 

Mrs Luscombe will teach FGP on Mondays and Miss Pearce on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Mrs Luscombe will also teach FSB on Tuesdays.

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 'Responsibility'.

We will be discussing what it happiness means, as well as these 2 key questions.

What does responsibility mean to me?

How can I work with others to be responsible?

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 underpinned by the united learning curriculum. 

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!