Fledglings: EYFS

Welcome to Fledglings

We love to be active, explore, and be curious about ourselves, the world and each other. We enjoy stories, music, art, drama, climbing, and especially talking and laughing together. Through all these opportunities we are learning to become resilient individuals who are able to problem solve and persevere with tasks even when they find them challenging. At St Mary’s, we are supporting children to be a life-long, independent and effective learners.

Our staff team works hard to foster positive relationships with children and between children, and value just how important these partnerships are. Right from the start, we endeavour to ensure that caring, nurturing and warm relationships are developed between the whole Fledglings community, which includes the staff, children and parents. We talk regularly about ‘Fantastic Fledgling’ expected choices, which tie into the school values, and support these young children to see how they can live out the school values in their day to day class participation. These expected behaviours include keeping going when they find an activity difficult, supporting another child with shoes or coats without being asked by an adult, solving their own disputes, or helping other children to solve a dispute without adult intervention.

Homework for Reception Children

Project Ideas

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Word List Summer

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Number Knowledge

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In Fledglings, we think about our learning behaviour and consider our choices carefully. We learn from our mistakes and support each other. We collect house points and stars in the jar for making the right choices and together we have chosen our rewards:

First reward	Second reward	Third reward	Fourth reward
Field Time	Movie Time	Teddy Bear Picnic with Biscuits	Water Play Outside

Our Approach

From the very start of their St Mary's School journey, our children show us that play is our brain’s favourite way of learning, which is why it’s the centre of our EYFS and KS1 curriculum. We believe that continuous provision helps independent, inquisitive and motivated learners to flourish by meeting the language, social, emotional and physical needs of our children.

Continuous provision at St Mary's enables children from all backgrounds to have the same opportunities, providing a rich variety of practical experiences. Children are encouraged to take responsibility for extending and practising what they have been learning and complete challenges which are designed to foster and ignite their curiosity.

Children are taught to use life-long skills such as perseverance, problem-solving and responsibility in their day-to-day routine and plan their own learning enquiries. The flexibility and ownership that children have of their learning means that opportunities can be easily adapted to meet the specific needs of each individual child – no matter what their starting point.

Phonics
Phonics is taught daily in a group that is working on a specific set of sounds according to the ability of the child. Each session has a distinct structure and utilises Read Write Inc (RWI). The children take home a RWI book each week to re-read and develop fluency.

Our Class Teachers

Mrs Fleming

I am so excited to be spending time with the children in Fledglings class, helping them to develop their learning through exploration of all of our amazing indoor and outdoor spaces. I hope to create a calm and safe space to allow all the children to grow to their full potential. I love spending my time outside of school with my husband and my little boy, reading books in the garden and travelling to new places!

Miss Perkins

I am so thrilled to join the Fledglings class this year! I look forward to building connections with the children while helping them grow. I hope to build a safe and comfortable learning environment to allow students to fully thrive in their learning. I love teaching maths and cannot wait to see how the Fledglings class dig into their creativity this year. Outside of school I enjoy going on long walks, baking, and travelling!

Summer 2

Here is our termly cog document where you can find details of the different subjects we are covering this term.

Our Class Books/Books to Support our Project

This term, our stories will link to our project, 'Castles, knights, dragons'

We will be exploring the book 'Dragon Post' by Emma Yarlett in our English lessons. The story is about a little boy called Alex who finds a dragon under his staircase. Alex writes different letters asking for advice on how to care for his new pet. The children will have the opportunity to share ideas, make predictions, write sentences, practise asking for advice, writing speech bubbles and role-play parts of the story in our classroom castle. They will also learn new vocabulary and retell the story in their own words.

We will also be reading 'The Knight and The Dragon' by Tomie DePaola as part of our story times.