Welcome to Valley Class
Our Valley Class children are our Reception, Nursery and Rising Threes. We aim to provide a fun, inspiring environment where all children feel safe, nurtured and valued and therefore are able to learn.
We are kind, gentle and we always try our best.
In Foundation, we learn through a creative and play based approach, which aims to provide a rich, stimulating and nurturing environment that inspires all children.
We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum to develop knowledge, skills and understanding through the 7 areas of learning. These are Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED), Physical Development, Communication and Language, Literacy, Maths, Expressive Arts and Design and Understanding the World. We use Development Matters to shape our curriculum, environment and assessment. Find out more here: Development Matters (Revised, 2021)
Topics and lessons are enquiry based and begin with a question for learning. Our topics ensure curriculum coverage whilst leaving scope to follow the children's interests.
Meet our staff
Mrs Leicester
CLASS TEACHER
Ms Stott
TEACHING ASSISTANT
Summer 2
Our learning theme for Summer 2 is Where do you like to play?
This half term we will be continuing with our learning theme of ‘where do you like to play?’
As we welcome some caterpillars into our classroom we will learn about these and other insects and invertebrates we may see as we play in the garden. We will learn how to identify insects and learn the stages of the life cycle of caterpillars and bees.
As our learning leads us out of our gardens we will explore which geographical features we may see as we journey to the seaside. We will learn to identify which human and physical features can be seen at UK beaches, share our own past experiences of visiting beaches and compare our experiences of those of people further in the past.
Questions we will learn to answer include:
How might you travel to the seaside?
What features might you see at the coast?
What is life like by the sea?
Have you ever visited the seaside? What did you experience?
What was visiting the seaside like in the past?
How do we stay safe around water?
Class Letters and
Curriculum Overviews
Home Learning
How can you help your child? Each week the children will bring home:
a new phonetically decodable reading book
a book from the school library that they have chosen
new sounds on their phonics keyring
Remote Learning
Class Dojo will be used as the main platform for remote learning if part or whole school closure is required. Some resources may need to be uploaded to this class page and we will direct families if needed. Please ensure you login and check Class Dojo every day to access a wide range of cross curricular home learning activities.
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