Swan – Kingsway Primary School

Welcome to Swan class

Teacher: Miss Browning
Teaching Partner: Miss Miller

Our PE slots are on
Thursday – Multi Skills and physical literacy

Please ensure PE kit is in school everyday as we may use it for other outside sporting activities when the opportunity arises.

What is EYFS? The Early Years Foundation Stage (E.Y.F.S.) is the stage of education for children from birth to the end of the Reception year. It is based on the recognition that children learn best through play and active learning.

EYFS at Kingsway Primary School.
The Early Years Foundation Stage at Kingsway Primary School and The KEY Nursery puts children at the heart of everything we do. We believe every child deserves the best possible start in life in order to fulfil their potential. We will provide a broad, creative and balanced curriculum which ensures children can develop at their own rate. Our practice is designed with an understanding of how children learn best. As children commence their journey with us, we begin to develop positive attitudes where children are proud of their work and their abilities.

We ensure there is a balance of both adult led and child initiated activities across the day. Although much of the time is spent with children self-selecting tasks, the interaction between the adult and child is essential as the adult’s response to children builds understanding and therefore guides new learning. The adult’s role is to continually model, demonstrate and question what the child is doing. In some cases, the adult will ask a child to come and complete a task or game with them; at other times they will participate in a child’s game, extending it where possible and sometimes the child is requested to complete an activity. By the summer term in Reception, the children will experience many more adult directed tasks as they prepare for their transition to
Year 1.

Reception Parent Overviews

ELS is our chosen phonics programme at Kingsway. Learning to read sounds, and then to write them, is essential for all learning and your child will begin to learn sounds in their very first week at school. Each week we will send home a sound sheet and video and we kindly ask that you spend a few minutes each day practicing the new sounds with your child.

When we feel they are ready, your child will bring home a reading book, based on their knowledge of sounds. Our expectation is that you support your child to read the school reading book at least four times per week and then write a comment in their reading record book. Reading books will be changed once per week according to ELS guidelines.