Brinsley Primary and Nursery School – Foundation 1 & 2
Class Name:
Owls & Robins
Who’s in the class?
Mrs R Bromley
EYFS Teacher
Miss R Boyer
EYFS Teacher
Miss S Birkin
Teaching Assistant
Mrs E Taylor
Teaching Assistant
Mrs R Begum
Care Assistant
Welcome to Foundation 1 & 2
This term our topic is: Who is a Superhero?
We will follow themes: All about me, Superheroes, People who help us, real-life heroes—family, community workers, historical figures.
Some vocabulary we will be learning and using:
- Myself
- Family
- Parents
- Same
- Different
- Special
- Friend
- Help
- Kind
- Home
- Near
- Far
- Close
- Job
- Helper
- Occupation
- Ask
- Friendly
- Stranger
- Emergency Services
- Save
- Rescue
- Local
- Community
Some books we may read are:
- Daisy, Eat your Peas!
- Superheroes don’t get scared – or do they?
- A superhero like me
- Real Superheroes – A celebration of Key Workers
- The Jolly Postman
- Little People Big Dreams: Florence Nightingale
In Maths, using the White Rose Model and Master the curriculum resources, we will be learning to:
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FS1 (Nursery) |
FS2 (Reception) |
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-More than, fewer than, same -explore and build with shapes and objects -explore repeats -hear and say number names -begin to order number names -I see 1,2,3 -Joining in with repeats -explore position and space |
-match, sort and compare -talk about measure and patterns -It’s me 1,2,3 -Circles and Triangles -1,2,3,4,5 -Shapes with 4 sides |
As a school we use the Twinkl Phonics Scheme. This half term Nursery begin learning Level 1 and Reception are focusing on bridging Level 1-2 with Twinkl Phonics.
All children will continue to learn about our School values. These will be explored further during our SCARF PSED sessions. This half term our unit is ‘Me and my Relationships’. As part of our Brinsley Values, this half term, we will be focusing on ‘Responsibility’. The children will be talking about what this means.
Library Books
Every week your child will choose a new library book from the school library. This is for both you and your child to enjoy and read together. Please remember to return the book every week so they can choose a new book to ensure they are developing a positive attitude to a wide range of texts. We will visit the Library on Fridays to ensure that we are developing our love of books through reading for pleasure.
We endeavour to get outside as much as possible and our outdoor learning will be complimented by our Friday welly walks.
Please keep looking at Class Dojo for any dates and information regarding what is happening in our class and across the whole school.
We hope you enjoy your time in our class. Please see below for links to helpful websites.
Oxford Owl – Online storiesUsername: brinsleyowls Password: hoot
The place to find our nursery rhymes and clips:
Join in with some calm yoga for children:
Physical Education
This half term we will continue to develop gross motor and fine motor skills during planned and child-initiated activities both indoors and outdoors. Across EYFS, we will also continue with regular ‘Squiggle While you Wiggle‘ and ‘Dough Disco‘ sessions. In FS2 (reception), we will begin learning gymnastics ‘Gym in the Jungle’.
Our PE day for FS2 will be on Thursdays.
Wow Moments
We would love to hear about any recent achievements, news, or exciting activities that you and your child have been up to at home. In the cloakroom area is our WOW board. Please let us know any exciting things you would like to share about your child. Please let us know when you need more!
Rhyme of the Week
We are continuing to sing nursery rhymes each week, and would encourage you to sing these at home with your child. We have a small display and table close to the carpet area, that shows our current rhyme. The following website has animations, words and the tracks for lots of great nursery rhymes.
Speech and Language
Alongside the singing of Nursery Rhymes and sharing different books, we would encourage you to talk to your child regularly about the things you are doing and what they have done at school. This will really support their development with speaking and listening and increase their vocabulary. If you need any ideas, please have a look at our speech and language display and ask if you need any support. We do also have leaflets and support information to help with potty training and moving on from using a bottle and dummy.
We are here to help!
Class Dojo
We use Class Dojo to keep parents and carers informed about the things that we are doing and events that are coming up. If you haven’t registered let us know and we can give you the sign up information.
