Welcome to Early Years!

Welcome to Early Years at St Vincent's Catholic Primary School! 

Your child's learning will be uploaded to Tapestry. Please upload any learning that takes place at home onto Tapestry and support your child's learning by reading to them daily and allowing them to read to you. 

In Early Years, we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum (EYFS), and it is split into seven areas of learning. These seven areas of learning are:

• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the World
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Physical Development
• Expressive Arts and Design
• Communication and Language
  

Religious Education is at the core of our Curriculum at St Vincent's. 10% of our curriculum time is dedicated to Religious Education - this is delivered through whole class or group input and within our continuous provision.

At St Vincent's Primary School, we follow the Government's accredited phonics scheme Little Wandle. Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised is a complete, systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) developed for schools by schools. We start teaching Little Wandle in EYFS, which ensures that children build upon their growing knowledge of the alphabet code, mastering phonics to read and spell as they move through school. 

We look forward to teaching and supporting your child through their EYFS Journey!

Many Thanks,

Mrs Poole and the EYFS Team

Our EYFS Team

Reminders

PE
PE is on a Wednesday morning. The children will be required to come into school in their PE kits on their chosen PE day.  

Reading Books
At St Vincent's Primary School, we follow the 'Little Wandle' Phonics scheme. The children will take part in small group Reading Practise sessions three times a week. The same book will be read in each of these 3 sessions, with a different objective for each read. The first session of the week will focus on developing decoding skills, exposing your child to the graphemes that they have already been taught. Each book will be 90% decodable so that the children will develop more independence in reading. The second Reading Practise session will focus on the skill of fluency, children will re-read text they are familiar with. The third Reading Practise session will look at comprehension skills, to see how well the children can answer questions about what has happened in the text and use pictures and words to find the answer to a question. These books will be sent home with your child every Friday, alongside the Reading for Pleasure books. It is important that these books are returned back to school the following Wednesday, so that they can be changed for the following week. Reading diaries will be checked once a week when changing their books to ensure that children are reading at home. 

Homework

A weekly Phonics Round-Up sheet will be sent home each Friday.

Uniform
Please ensure that all uniform is clearly labelled. This includes shoes, water bottles and lunch boxes.