To find out more about our EYFS Curriculum and learning through play, please visit our EYFS Curriculum page from the following links.

Foundation 1 - 2024 / 2025

Throughout the year in Foundation One, we will learn through a balance of child initiated play and adult directed activities. We will learn to work independently as well as being supported through our play and guided activities. We will choose our own learning both indoors and outdoors and take part in activities around the school grounds, including in the garden. We will learn how to learn by studying the Characteristics of Effective Learning and reading stories about our Learning Characters. All of the Seven Areas of Learning and Development will be covered through our activities and play each week and we will build on our knowledge and skills. During the year, we will have a range of visitors in school. We will listen to lots of stories and sing lots of songs and rhymes to develop our vocabulary.

Autumn 1 2024

Welcome to all our new Foundation 1 children and welcome back to all our Foundation children that started last academic year!

Throughout Foundation 1, we will be learning lots of nursery rhymes and reading lots of stories. We will begin the year by exploring diversity by learning about ourselves and our families. We look forward to a visit from a librarian to find out about the library. We will learn about bakers and retell the Gingerbread Man story. We will be making some tasty gingerbread men too! We will look at birthday celebrations and how to bake a cake. Towards the end of the half term, we will read some stories about farm life and learn about the celebration of Harvest.

Autumn Two 2024

Will begin the half term by learning the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We will retell the story with puppets and make our own bowl of porridge - we will talk about if it is delicious, too sweet or too lumpy? We will continue our learning around the theme of bears and found out about different types of environments and different types of weather. We will look at the celebration of Bonfire Night and create poppies for Remembrance Day using different art styles. We will finish the half term by learning about Christmas. We will take part in our own Christmas performance and sing songs on the school stage.

Here are this half term's key texts.

Spring One 2025

Will begin the half term by reading Little Red Riding Hood. We will retell the story lots with puppets and use our provision to role play the story too with costumes. We will learn about a woodland environment and look at which animals live in the woods and which animals do not live in the woods. 

Next, we will read 'Where's My Teddy?' and continue our learning about woodlands and trees. We will be artists and collage and paint trees talking about which different colours we might use for trees. We will also have a go at using the dough to follow photo instructions to make a teddy bear. 

We will finish the half term looking at the book 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear' and explore all of the colourful animals in the story. We will learn that Rainbows form when it is sunny and raining and create our own rainbows through painting and transient art. 

In Maths, we will be learning about the numbers 3 to 5 including counting, recognising numerals and looking at triangles with 3 sides, squares and rectangles with 4 sides and pentagons with 5 sides. 

Here are this half term's key texts.

Spring 2 2025

To start the half term, we will read the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff.  We will look at how to build bridges with blocks and Duplo in the construction area and make pretty bridge designs in the transient art too. For pancake day we will make and taste pancakes and have a go at writing shopping lists for ingredients and pretending to make pancakes in the home corner too. 

Next, we will read A Journey Home from Grandpa's and explore lots of different types of transport. We will have a go at junk modelling to create a car and explore lots of books about different types of transport too. We will celebrate Mother's Day by painting flowers from observation to make a card for a special person. 

Continuing our journeys theme, we will explore the text of 'Engines, Engines'.  We will also look at the celebration of Holi and explore the colourful traditions and compare this celebration to Mother's Day in the UK.  We will try some traditional Indian food too.

To finish the term before the Easter holidays, we will read 'We're Going on an Easter Egg Hunt', create Easter cards using collage on an egg to practise our sticking skills and learn about the celebration of Easter through a visit from the Church.

In Maths, we will learn continue to consolidate our learning of the numbers 1 to 5 and also add one more to look at the number 6. We will learn about height, length, mass and capacity and explore these further through our texts, role play and our play provision. 

Here are this half term's key texts.

Summer One 2024 

At the start of the half term, we shared the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and retold it. We had a go at adding in expression as we took on the different character roles. We recalled what we knew about what plants need to grow as we planted some beans and cared for them. We compared the different types of beans that we grew.

We will continue to learn about plants and growth through our story of Jasper's Beanstalk. 

For the rest of the half term, we will find out about minibeasts and the life cycle of a caterpillar as we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar.