Foundation Stage

The Foundation Stage teacher is Mrs Dyson and  Mrs Cowley is our HTLA. 

The following overview will give you a brief flavour of what the children will experience during their year in the Foundation Stage. At Palterton Primary School the children learn through continuous play provision and are able to choose their own activities and whom they play with for a lot of the day. They also complete learning tasks with an adult during the day, have a whole class maths input and a daily phonics session.

The Early Years Curriculum is divided into three Prime Areas of learning:

• Communication and Language
• Personal Social and Emotional Development
• Physical Development

And four Specific Areas of learning:

• Literacy
• Maths
• Understanding the World
• Expressive Arts and Design

Most of our learning is cross curricular and takes place both inside and outside.

In Foundation stage we use Tapestry to share information with parents and  assess children's learning. It is a easy to use and secure online learning jounal that allows staff to share children's learning and development in school. We use this daily so you can see what activities your child has been taking part in and their next steps. We encourage parents to post and share activities children have been involved in outside of school. 

Our Typical day ...

9am - Maths fluency

9.10am - Phonics 

9.40 - Literacy focus

10.30am-Playtime

10.45 - Maths focus

11.45 - Dough disco

12pm - Lunch

1pm - Reading for pleasure 

1.15pm - Knowledge and understanding / Expressive arts and design / Personal, social, emotional development, Physical development focus

2.15pm- Playtime

2.25pm -Daily skipping 

2.30 - Knowledge and understanding / Expressive arts and design / Personal, social, emotional development, Physical development focus

2.45-Assembly 

3.15pm - Storytime

3.25pm  -End of school day. 

Alongside all the focused activities the children have access to free-flow where they can consolidate their learning, investigate and develop social skills.