St James and St John CofE Primary School
EYFS
Welcome to EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) at St James and St John Church of England Primary School!
Starting school is one of the biggest milestones in a child's (and parents'!) life. We strive to make this new journey smooth, positive and exciting. Our team is dedicated to making each and every child a wonderful start to their school journey.
Outstanding Early Years Provision - Ofsted 2024
Our EYFS Team
Miss Dykes - Teacher
Mrs Florey - Teaching Assistant
Mrs Jolley - Teaching Assistant
EYFS Curriculum
Our EYFS curriculum is designed to enable all pupils to flourish and prosper within St James and St John Church of England Primary School as they start their school life journey. It is a holistic approach to education, developing the child as a whole and building confident lifelong learners.
All pupils will work towards the school curriculum goals guided by Development Matters, Birth to Five and the Early Years Foundation Statutory Framework.
| Settle | Settle in and become a confident learner |
| Follow | Follow a series of instructions to achieve a goal |
| Make | Make an imaginative product using different materials |
| Move | Move confidently in a variety of ways |
| Create | Create a healthy dish to share with friends and family |
| Write | Write a simple sentence |
| Remember | Remember the key parts of a story and discuss characters & events |
| Explore | Explore and represent numbers |
Within each statement, there will be 4 checkpoints. Check point A will take place within the pupil’s first six weeks in the Autumn term. Checkpoint B will take place in the second half of the Autumn term. Checkpoint C will occur during the Spring term. Checkpoint D will occur during the first Summer term. The final checkpoint will be ELGs (Early Learning Goals) in the final Summer Term, where pupils will be assessed at expected or emerging.
Implementation:
Pupils will receive daily taught sessions guided by the Early Years Statutory Framework. Pupils will learn their phonics through the synthetic systematic phonics scheme RWInc. They will have daily phonics lessons that are grouped homogenously.
Pupils will develop their love of reading through daily story time sessions.
Pupils will explore and discover maths through teacher input, discovery time and spotlight tasks to gain the foundations of their mathematical understanding following the WhiteRose Maths Scheme as a guide.
The classroom environment will reflect this with spotlight discovery tasks alongside continuous provision areas. For example, the continuous provision for maths would have numerals, blocks, dice, wood slices, and the spotlight task would be to match buttons.
Pupils will deepen their understanding of concepts through ‘Discovery time’. Pupils are free to explore the classroom and select resources of their choosing. They can access all continuous provision and spotlight tasks
During ‘Discovery time’ time staff will extend pupils learning through their use of language, questioning and modelling enabling sustained thinking opportunities.
Assessment indicators will be planned for within the provision and staff will work to identify if pupils are ‘on track/working towards’ the curriculum goals.
Day in the Life
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