Foundation Stage 2025 - 2026
Mrs McCrae
Mrs Duckitt
Welcome to Early Years!
We are so excited to see what this year of has in store for us. We aim to deliver quality first teaching and learning for each and every child.
This is our staff team:
Nursery
Miss Fox-Lawton - Nursery Teacher
Mr Sarpong - HLTA Support
Mrs Thorp - SEND support across Early Years
Reception Ducklings
Mrs Duckitt - Class Teacher
Miss Trippett - LSA
Mrs Thorp - SEND support across Early Years
Reception Cygnets
Mrs McCrae - Deputy Head, Early Years Lead and Class Teacher
Miss Rees - LSA
Mrs Thorp - SEND support across Early Years
Important Information:
Nursery children start their learning at 8:30am and doors open at 8:25am. The children are collected before lunch at 11:30am
Reception children start their learning at 8:30am doors open at 8:25am. The children's school day ends at 3:00pm. All Reception pupils are entitled to free school meals.
Milk
Children must be signed up and registered for school milk, please do this using the link provided.
PE Days
Duckling Class will have their PE on Tuesdays.
Cygnet Class will have their PE on a Wednesday.
The correct PE kit is as follows...
white or navy plain t-shirt
black or navy shorts, leggings or jogging bottoms
sensible footwear
PLEASE NOTE: The children can come to school dressed in these clothes on the day their class has PE.
In Reception, the children will begin to follow the Read Write Inc Programme for Phonics.
The first set of sounds your child will learn are these...
More information about Read Write Inc can be found here on the parent information link:
https://www.ruthmiskin.com/phonics/about-read-write-inc-phonics/
Nursery Early Phonics...
Nursery children also have a daily phonics session which explores sounds around them, rhythm and rhyme as well as sound talk which looks at blending and segmenting sounds they can hear eg h-a-t is hat.
Take a look at the booklet attached to see how our learning is mapped out throughout this year!
If you have any questions please let us know - no question is a silly question and we are all happy to help!
Thank you for your continued support
The Early Years Team
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