Lower Foundation

We would love to welcome you to meet our staff and have a look around our Foundation Stage Unit so you can see for yourself the wonderful provision we have on offer. Our open events are on the following dates/times:

Wednesday 11^th October: 5pm

Tuesday 17^th October: 10am

Tuesday 14^th November: 2pm 

We welcome anyone who has children who would be starting in either Lower or Upper Foundation in 2024. We would love to meet your children too so please bring them along. Please ring the office to let us know you are coming. We look forward to meeting you. Mrs Sholi. EYFS Lead.

All our New Starters to LF receive two stay and play sessions where the children can play in our unit with their parent/carer to familiarise them with our setting. They will also receive a home visit and parents are invited to join us for a welcome meeting. We have 3 starting points in the year for LF children; September, January and April. Children can join us the term after they turn 3 and can access either 15/30 hours.

Potty Training Information Leaflet – Click to download

In Lower Foundation we use Seesaw as our virtual classroom. Please click here for a link to the site. If you have any difficulty logging on please e-mail the office at admin@middlestown.accordmat.org and we will generate a new login code.

seesaw log in for this half terms activities and information.

How you can help your child at home…

There are lots of ways you can help you child develop skills at home:

• Play games that involve taking turns.
• Painting and drawing, encouraging your child to be creative and give meaning to any marks that they make.
• Constantly talking to your child and listening to their answers is a really important activity and builds language skills and social skills.
• Sing Nursery Rhymes and songs that have repetition in them as these will help them to remember new words.
• Telling or reading stories and poems to your child is an important part of developing an interest in reading. This should be an enjoyable experience for yourself and your child.
• You should aim to share a story for a short period (e.g. 10 minutes at least) every day. When reading a story,  encourage your child to talk about the pictures and identify characters. Let your child hold the book and turn the pages as you read the story. Ask them to predict what might happen next.
• Spend time outdoors running, jumping and climbing this all helps to develop good gross motor skills.
• Complete jigsaws, spending time colouring , threading beads and using playdough; all of these will help develop fine motor skills.
• Encourage your chid to independently use the toilet.
• Teach your child how to put on and take off their own coat and do up the zip.
• Practise sharing toys with other children/family members.

Half Termly Curriculum Overviews

• Autumn 1
• Autumn 2
• Spring 1
• Spring 2
• Summer 1
• Summer 2

Phonics

In Lower Foundation our children have twice daily phase one phonics sessions in small groups. Please see the links below for an outline of the objectives we teach in phonics.

Aspect 1 Environmental  Sounds Parents Booklet 

Aspect 2 Instrumental Sounds Parents Booklet

Aspect 3 Body Percussion Parents Booklet

Aspect 4 Rhythm & Rhyme Parent Booklet

Aspect-5-Alliteration-Parent-Booklet

Aspect-6-Voice-Sounds-Parents-Booklet

Aspect-7-Oral-Blending-Parents-Booklet

Useful Websites

Phonics Play

Purple Mash

Education City

Seesaw

Topmarks for Maths

https://www.busythings.co.uk/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/

http://www.ictgames.com/

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html

Cosmic Kids Yoga

Dough Disco

Harvest Festival Celebrations!

Foundation came together to celebrate the Harvest Festival!

Check out their singing!

Shadow Exploration in Foundation

Foundation loved exploring shadows!

They carefully traced the outlines of the animals and then coloured them in; fantastic concentration!

EYFS Rainbow Day

Thank you so much to all the parents and staff for their support with our annual EYFS Rainbow Day fundraiser!

We raised an outstanding £1097.10 through the event, bun sale and raffle, which will hugely benefit the children within the unit.

THANK YOU!

Pancake Making

Foundation learned all about Shrove Tuesday and made pancakes before Lent!

They enjoyed making and flipping the pancakes before tasting them with different toppings.

Delicious!

Police Visit

Foundation recently enjoyed a visit from the local police force, with PC Firth talking about his job and how he helps people in the community!

Thank you to West Yorkshire Police for visiting us and inspiring our children!

West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service Visit!

Foundation had a visit from West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service!

We want our children to understand the role of significant professions within our local community and have authentic experiences that bring their learning to life.

They asked insightful questions and loved the visit!