Welcome to Blossom Class

Early Years Lead: Mrs Harris

Preschool Lead: Ms Bolton

Deputy Preschool Lead: Mrs Batchelor

Preschool Assistant: Mrs Basham

We use a thematic approach to delivering our Early Years curriculum. Over the course of the year, we will be preparing the children for the next stage in their learning through a range of projects.

Each project allows us to explore learning in all seven areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework:

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Communication and Language

Physical Development

Literacy

Mathematics

Understanding the World

Expressive Arts and Design

Autumn Topics

Expressive Art and Design (Art): Drawing: Marvellous marks

Exploring mark making through different drawing materials. Beginning to draw from observation using faces and self-portraits as a stimulus.

Expressive Art and Design (D&T): Structures: Junk modelling

In this unit, pupils explore and learn about various types of permanent and temporary join. They are encouraged to tinker using a combination of materials and joining techniques in the junk modelling area.

Expressive Arts and Design (Music) Celebration Music: Diwali music

Children learn about the festival of Diwali and respond to music through movement

PSED: Building relationships: Self-regulation: My Feelings

In this unit, children are learning to explore and understand their feelings, identify when they may be feeling something, and begin learning how to communicate and cope with their feelings and emotions.

PSED: Building relationships: Building relationships: Special relationships

In this unit, children are learning to explore why families and special people are valuable, understand why it is important to share and develop strategies, see themselves as valuable individual and explore diversity through thinking about similarities and differences.

PSED: Managing self: My wellbeing

Learning how to look after their wellbeing through exercise, meditation, a balanced diet and care for themselves.

Communication & Language (Computing): Programming 1: All about Instructions

The children learn to receive and give instructions and understand the importance of precise instructions

Understanding the World (Science): Changing Seasons

A unit to be taught across the year, observing how the natural world transforms through the year and recognising how these changes affect the weather, plants and animals. This term we are focusing on Autumn.

Understanding the World (Geography): Exploring Maps

Exploring maps through discussion, story-telling, games and creative activity. 

Understanding the World (History): Peek into the Past

Opportunities for the children to reflect on memories and experiences from their own past and comment on images of familiar situations in the past.

Talk Through Stories

Talk through stories grows children's spoken vocabulary drawing on the best of children's literature.

Each week we will be reading a different story and learning new vocabulary.

Useful Information

The children have access to their water bottles in the classroom at all times during the day. Please ensure that your child has a named water bottle in school which is taken home regularly to be washed.

Your child is welcome to bring in a snack of fruit or vegetables each day. We also have fruit and vegetable snacks available in school. 

Children are required to either bring in daily a pair of wellies or they can keep a pair in school.

Please ensure your child brings a bag with named spare clothing.