EYFS
The Reception Team at Glenmere Community Primary School wish you all a warm welcome to this virtual tour. We hope that it provides you with an insight into our setting and how your child will begin their primary school learning journey. Enjoy!
Useful Websites
Maths
Home learning maths resources - https://whiteroseeducation.com/parent-pupil-resources/maths/home-learning?year=early-years
Maths games - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=1
Phonics
Supporting reading at home - https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-at-home/
How to blend sounds to read words (video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqvqMtSNswo
How to produce pure sounds (video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCI2mu7URBc
Phonics games - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources
Literacy
Literacy games - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zphybqt
Suggested activities to support literacy - https://www.firstdiscoverers.co.uk/early-years-literacy-games-activities/
Science
Topic videos - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z3wnvj6
EYFS Science experiments - https://www.science-sparks.com/early-years-science-themed-activities/
Yearly Overview
At Glenmere, we have established, within each year group, an overview for the year within our 'Broader Curriculum. This includes what is covered across the curriculum in addition to maths and English.
Class Newsletters
Our class newsletters celebrate all the great learning that has been going on in our class. They are full of the learning that has been taking place and how the children have been learning in many ways.
Supporting Your Child Letter
These letters will help you to give your child the support needed at home to compliment the teaching that is taking place in school. They are full of ideas and useful website links for the topics that are being taught.
Knowledge Organisers
Here are our knowledge organisers where you can see what is being taught in school and the vocabulary that we are using to support our knowledge and understanding.
Reception Roadmap Maths - Autumn 1
Reception Roadmap - Literacy - Autumn 1
Reception Roadmap Science - Autumn 1
Reception Roadmap R.E. - Autumn 1
Phonics
Through the teaching of phonics, children are taught the essential skills needed for reading. At Glenmere, we use Rocket Phonics as a systematic synthetic phonics programme. All teaching and materials are used to support the teaching within these lessons. Phonics is taught daily to all children in Reception, and KS1. All pupils are provided with fully decodable books and these are introduced when all the grapheme phoneme correspondences have been taught.
Here you will find our phonics overview which outlines our approach to teaching phonics at Glenmere, following Rocket Phonics
Click the weblink for more information.
https://www.risingstars-uk.com/series/rising-stars-reading-planet/phonics-guide/advice-for-parents
The Reading Planet Guide to Reading with your Child provides guidance for reading at home with children aged 4-7 years. This handy guides explains phonics and book banding and includes tips of developing comprehension skills.
Impact
The teaching of phonics starts as soon as children begin their Reception year. Assessments are completed at the start of Reception and Year 1 and then formative assessments are carried out within daily and weekly teaching through observations. End of half-term assessments are also used as a tool to identify strengths and next steps.
In the summer term of Year 1, there is a national phonics test where children have to read 40 real and alien words to check their understanding of phonics.
Personal Development
At Glenmere, we like to ensure our pupils are prepared to engage as individuals, parents, workers and citizens with economic, social and cultural change, including the continued globalisation of the economy and society, are able to adapt to new work and leisure patterns and keep up with the rapid expansion of communication technologies.
See below the Knowledge organiser
Reading in EYFS
Take a look at the books that are recommended for Early Years readers.
Our Author of the Half Term is Mick Inkpen.
Here is a list of some of his books;
Kipper and a range of Kipper collection books
Is it bedtime yet, Wibbly pig?
Mrs Blackhat and the ZoomBroom
Hole in the zoo
Jasper's Beanstalk
White Rose Maths
These letters will help you to give your child the support needed at home to compliment the teaching that is taking place in school. They are full of ideas and useful website links for the topics being taught.
White Rose Maths is excited to have produced a range of work booklets for parents and children to use over the summer or during next year. These booklets can be found on Amazon for the Kindle or downloaded below. There is one booklet for each of our blocks for Y1 to Y6.
