Welcome to the home page of Ash and Oak classes.

Mrs Undrell is the teacher in Ash class and Mrs Webber & Mrs Lewis are the teachers in Oak class. We also have some wonderful support staff working across the classes including: Mrs Maycock, Mrs Russell, Miss Jewell, Mrs Naida, Mrs Kandola and Miss Williams.  Miss Rickman and Mrs Anderson will also be leading the classes covering teacher PPA (planning time) and Forest School.

Our curriculum is based on the EYFS Framework 2021 and covers seven areas of learning and development:

• Communication and language
• Physical development
• Personal Social and Emotional development
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the World                                                 
• Expressive Arts and Design

We believe that children learn best through a combination of child initiated play, structured play activities and adult focused teaching sessions. Children are in their own classes for adult focused teaching sessions but have free access to the whole reception setting, including the outside area, during child initiated play. Staff carefully observe and support the children during their child initiated play in order to identify their interests and next steps for learning. Daily, adult focused teaching sessions enable the children to develop their skills in areas such as Phonics, Maths, handwriting as well as other areas of learning. Within the Early Years Foundation Stage, children learn through playing, exploring and being active, and through creative and critical thinking, which takes place both indoors and outside.

 We also have a strong focus on how our children learn and plan opportunities for the children to develop the 'Characteristics of Effective Learning'; 

Playing and Exploring - investigating experiences and having a go

Active Learning - concentrating and persevering even when a task is difficult, being proud of achievements

Creating and Thinking Critically - children having and developing their own ideas and developing strategies for doing things

Well being continues to be a very important focus and we will continue to discuss feelings and emotions with the children using Kipsy the Caterpillar. As well as this, an active, healthy lifestyle will continue to be an important priority and we will be outside enjoying a variety of different activities. 

Harder to read and spell words

These are the harder to read and spell words that your child learnt in phonics lessons during the Autumn term.

Below are the harder to read and spell words that your child will learn during the spring term:

Your child is also learning to decode and blend phonically decodable words. Each week new sounds are introduced. This video link gives parents/carers guidance as to how to pronounce the sounds clearly.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCI2mu7URBc