EYFS

Welcome to our EYFS page, where you will find information about starting at our school and how you can support your child with their learning.

Here at The Weyfield Primary Academy we have an excellent EYFS unit, we are a very happy school with a wonderful mix of children from a range of different countries and backgrounds.  We welcome children of all ability levels and our whole team works hard to meet the needs of all of our pupils.  

We prioritise the development of children's language skills as we believe this builds a strong foundation for learning and development. The children at The Weyfield Primary Academy have exciting opportunities every week to engage with new learning experiences that meet both the children's interests and the expectations of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. 

We strongly believe that the EYFS is a fundamental part of a child’s education journey and we need to build strong foundations for learning, so our children achieve success in academic subjects as well as personal development.Our curriculum promotes learning through play alongside structured adult led activities, which follows the EYFS Statutory curriculum.  It involves six termly themes that allows for flexibility to tailor the curriculum to reflect the current needs and interests of the children and to ensure all children are engaged, supported and making good progress.

Phonics 

We follow the Read, Write, Inc Phonics scheme, which is a synthetic phonics programme that helps children hear, identify and use different sounds that distinguish one word from another. Once we have learnt the single letter sounds we begin to teach the children to blend the word. We use fred talk games to help us.

We share lots of resources with you throughout the year, but if you would like more information about the programme click here.

Reading

We have lots of lovely stories for children to explore independently in class. We have story time at the end of each day. Books are changed three times a week. This includes a story book for adults to read to their child and a phonics reading book for your child to read. Reading and sharing stories everyday is essential when supporting your child to learnt to read.

Literacy

We read, discuss and explore lots of exciting stories in our Literacy lessons. We start the year by learning to write our names and lower case letters.

Maths

We focus on developing a good understanding of numbers to 10. We explore numbers in lots of different ways.

Supporting Independence

Before starting school, we encourage you to focus on the following areas with your child.

· Toileting

· Recognising their name.

· Getting dressed independently.

· Being responsible for their own belongings.

· Provide lots of opportunities for mark making, holding equipment  or tools correctly. 

· Writing their name in lowercase letters.

· Using a knife and fork independently.