Foundation Stage

Welcome to FSU

Summer 1

This half term we will be learning all about what happens on a farm. We will be looking at the animals and plants we might find and looking at the difference between farm animals and wild animals. We will be matching farm animals with their babies, and finding out about the life cycles of plants and animals.

Spring 2

This half term we have had a wonderful time exploring our topic “Once upon a time…”

We began by looking at Little Red Riding hood and we even had a visit from the Big Bad Wolf who tried to gobble up one of our teachers! Our super F2s made some posters to warn everyone in Brompton about the Big Bad Wolf.

We have been reading lots of traditional tales and fairy tales, as well as designing fairy tale buildings for some of the characters to live in

After listening to our Power of Reading book “The Runaway Chapati”,  we made chapatis and cooked them in our outdoor area on the fire.

We also enjoyed a lovely world book day; dressing up as our favourite characters and sharing books with children in years 5 and 6.

Finally, we have had a great time exploring numbers this half term. We have looked at lots of different ways to make numbers to 10, by adding, subtracting and partitioning. We have enjoyed recording our findings.

What a fantastic start to the year we have had in Foundation Stage Unit. We have welcomed our new Reception and Nursery children and started settling in.

The children have been exploring our indoor and outdoor areas; the mud kitchen, balance bikes and sandpit are very popular.  Inside the children have been using our small world building blocks to build the Abbeys that their houses are named after!

We have been exploring the school grounds and even finding apples and plums to make our own snack.

We have also had our very first outdoor learning session, where we made birdfeeders to help the wildlife around our school.

As well as all this we have started to learn phonics, maths and began exploring our newest topic “Who am I? What will I be?” We have even had a special visit from Squirt (the fire engine). What a busy start to the year!

Online resources to support your child`s learning

We value our home-school partnership and recognise that many parents wish to support and extend their children`s learning at home. We can recommend the following websites:

Maths – Topmarks Search Topmarks has a range of different maths games including counting, sequencing, pattern recognition and lots of other fun games

Teach Your Monster: Free Phonics, Reading and Mathematics Games  This is an excellent site that takes a game playing approach to learning phonics and maths. It adapts to your child`s level allowing them to progress sequentially at their own rate.