Welcome to EYFS

(Nursery & Reception)

                         2023-24

Our Teachers:

Class Teacher -Mrs  J Cregan

EYFS Teacher Assistant – Mrs Jane Curtis

EYFS Teacher Assistant – Miss L Pattinson

*General Class Information*

Our Curriculum

Children in Reception follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. We build on skills acquired in nursery and work towards Early Learning Goals.

The curriculum is broken down into three prime areas of learning

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Physical Development
• Communication and Language

And four specific areas of learning

• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the World
• Expressive Arts and Design

To see more information about our EYFS curriculum, follow the link below:

Curriculum intent EYFS

Within Nursery and Reception half termly topics are planned. Each topic is planned to consider the interests of the children and incorporates both play and adult-led activities. Our long term EYFS curriculum map can be accessed below, detailing the topics and areas of learning covered throughout the year.

Early Years Foundation Stage Long Term Planning

Our Learning

We love learning in lots of different ways in our classroom. We hope our class page gives you a flavour of life in Reception Class at Staindrop!

As we have now developed our ‘classroom community’ using Class Dojo and are finding this a successful means of communication between home and school, this EYFS webpage won’t be updated as regularly as it may have been previously.

We are enjoying using Class Dojo to share children’s successes, homework, general updates and communicate with parents/carers at home, and hope you are finding it as useful as we are. If you require any support in using Class Dojo, please do not hesitate to contact me at jalexander@staindropce.co.uk