Totternhoe C.E. Academy
Growing together in knowledge love and faith
Blossom
Welcome to Blossom Class
Preschool Leader: Mrs Willsher
Deputy Preschool Leader: Mrs Batchelor
Preschool Assistant: Ms Feng, Mrs Law, Mrs Oliver, Mrs Tunstall
EYFS Leader: Miss Needham
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 stag 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 Term
Art and Design: Marvellous Marks
Exploring mark-making through different drawing materials. Beginning to draw from observation using faces and self-portraits as a stimulus.
PSED: 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.
Science: Changing Seasons
Observing how the natural world transforms through the year and recognising how these changes affect the weather, plants and animals.
Design and Technology: 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.
Physical Education: Simple Skills
This term we will be learning: fundamental movement skills, attacking and defending, tennis and circuit training.
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.
Healthy Eating
Snacks for 1 to 4 year olds
Pack Lunches information
Good food Choices and portion sizes for 1 to 4 year olds
Operation Encompass
