FAQ

A: The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework supports an integrated approach to early learning and care. It gives all professionals a set of common principles and commitments to deliver quality early education and childcare experiences to all children.

https://www.foundationyears.org.uk/files/2012/03/Development-Matters-FINAL-PRINT-AMENDED.pdf

A: In reception your child will be working towards Early Learning Goal (ELG) statements, whereas nursery children will be working towards the 40-60months statements.

A: We recommend daily reading for 5/10 mins depending on your child's attention span, 2 pages of their paper based home learning packs along with their daily challenges set via this website or your child's learning journal..

A: Please follow Miss Maddocks tutorial which has been uploaded onto your child's learning journal .

A: Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing of the English language by developing your childs' phonemic awareness—their ability to hear, identify, and manipulate letter sounds. This helps them to learn the sounds and spelling patterns different letters represent. If you are unsure of the correct phoneme (sound) please look at and listen to Jolly Phonics. This gives you the correct sound and an action to help your child remember each sound.

Here is the government guide to Letters and Sounds

A: A grapheme is a written symbol that represents a sound. It can be made up of one or more letters.

A digraph is a grapheme containing two letters to make one sound. eg ‘ee’

A trigraph is a grapheme containing three letters to make one sound. eg ‘igh’

A: Before your child reads a book, ask:

• Why did you select this book?

• What makes you think this book is going to be interesting?

• What do you think the book is going to be about?

• Does this book remind you of anything else you’ve already read or seen?

• What kind of characters do you think will be in the book?

• What do you think is going to happen?

While your child is reading a book, try asking:

• Will you catch me up on the story? What’s happened so far?

• What do you think will happen next?

• Where is the book set?

• If the main character in that story lived next door, would you be friends?

• What does the place look like in your head as you read? Would you want to visit there?

• Did you learn any new words or facts so far?

After your child has finished a book, ask questions like:

• What was your favorite part of the book? Why?

• Who was your favorite character? Why?

• What was the most interesting thing you learned from the book?

• Why do you think the author wrote this book?

• Would you have ended the book differently? Did it end the way you thought it would?

• If you could change one thing in the book, what would it be?

A: Play around with language, using alliteration, nursery rhymes, and listening activities to build the phonological awareness that is so vital as a basis for learning phonics. The more vocabulary your children have, the better placed they will be to become fluent writers.

https://www.oxfordlearning.com/improve-kids-writing-skills/

Pie Corbett’s ‘Talk for Writing’ approach offers a lovely way to model the creative process when exploring stories. The approach involves mapping stories by using diagrams and pictures, retelling stories together as a group, and then changing and innovating aspects of the original story to develop it. https://www.talk4writing.co.uk/

Make writing fun!

• Write outside with chalk.

• Write on a path with water and a brush.

• Use colourful pens.

• Use your whiteboard and pen.

• Play a game - can you encourage your child to play teachers and they show/teach you how to form some letters.

A: 1 + 1 = 2 is an addition sentence. 3 + 5 =8 is an addition sentence. Practice lots of addition sentences with your child. You could use different objects to help with this. E.g. your child’s favourite toys.

A: 5 - 3 = 2 is a subtraction sentence. 7 - 4 is a subtraction sentence. Practice lots of these with your child.

A: Learning through play is a term used in education and psychology to describe how a child can learn to make sense of the world around them. Through play children can develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments

A: Children are given opportunities to test their ideas, themselves, their relationships and materials. Play and exploration promotes brain development. Children and adults can make and learn from their mistakes

A: Mistakes are a chance to learn and will help us adapt to new and difficult situations as we encounter them throughout life. In the long run, making mistakes and learning from them will give our kids MORE self-confidence and resilience than when we swoop in to save them from failure.

A: Why Talking is Important. Talking and listening to children does lots of important things. It improves your bond with them, and encourages them to listen to you. It helps them to form relationships and to build self-esteem.

A: Our staff will always be happy to discuss your child’s learning programme with you via our contact us email. Evidence is kept in each child’s personal learning journal which you can access via the internet. Staff may also direct you to the Department for Education website for further information about Early Years education and how you can support this at home.

A: The EYFS looks to ensure that all early years children are provided with the highest quality early learning experience. It is extremely important as it is likely to have a major impact on the rest of their lives. The EYFS is there to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe.

A: EYFS stands for Early Years Foundation Stage.

A:The EYFS covers 3 prime areas and 4 specific areas:

Prime areas :

• Communication and language

• Physical development

• Personal, social and emotional development

Specific areas:

• Literacy

• Mathematics

• Understanding the World

• Expressive arts and design

A: Your child moves on to Year 1 of school after they have completed the EYFS stage. Their new Year 1 teacher will use the EYFS profile to inform them about your child's strengths and areas of development.

A: All the activities that you do with your child at home are important in supporting their learning and development. They have a really long lasting effect on your child's learning as they progress towards and through school.