EYFS
Welcome to our information page for Early Years Foundation Stage classes - also know as our Reception Classes; Dolphins Class, Octopus Class and Rainbow Fish Class.
New to our school? Below you find the links to some important forms that need to be completed when your child joins Bursledon Infant School in one of our Reception classes.
Click here for our EYFS policy.
Click here for our EYFS vision statement.
Autumn Term 1
We can now put on our wellies and coats so we can go out and explore the field and woodland. The children have loved the rainy weather as they have been finding big puddles to jump in!
We have been developing our listening skills to help us get ready to learn letter sounds.
We are learning to recognise and write our names. We use the pencil rap to help us hold our pencils correctly.
Here are some photos of our learning and experiences in Autumn One.
Your child has now come home with a 'Learn to Read' book and a learning log. Our Learn to Read books cover the sounds we have been learning in school and some tricky words (common exception words). Please read at least three times per week with your child and record this in their learning log. Children who read three times per week are a 'regular reader' and will be invited to a reading reward at the end of each half term. The lovely Mrs Blewitt has recorded a video so you can see what reading at home should look like and this has been sent home on Tapestry.
Autumn two
What a busy half term it has been!
Our topic was 'Awesome Autumn'. We explored the seasonal changes happening in our environment and talked about what we noticed. We went on a leaf hunt around school and had a pumpkin day! We cut open the pumpkins to explore what was inside, planted our own pumpkin seeds and made pumpkin soup. It was very yummy!
We read the story 'The Scarecrow's Wedding'. We then had our own wedding ceremony where the children wore their fancy clothes and two pretended to get married. We then had a dance and the children ate a biscuit they had decorated.
The children were so excited to see snow! We put on our coats and wellies and headed straight outside. The children found frost and ice and caught snowflakes on their tongues. Some even tried to make snow angels! This also meant we could compare winter weather to autumn weather. We talked about what clothes we wear in the different seasons and how the trees change.
We had lots to celebrate this half term! We learned about Remembrance Day, Diwali and Children in Need. During our RE day we learned about why we celebrate Christmas and about the nativity story. We performed our own superb nativity show and visited our local church, St. Leonard's, for our Christmas service. Finally, we had a class party and festive lunch.
Spring one
This half term our topic has been 'Stomp and Roar, Here Come the Dinosaurs!'. It began with us finding an egg on the field. We thought about what might be inside and how we can take care of the egg. Eventually, it cracked open to reveal a baby dinosaur inside! We took care of the baby dinosaur carefully by making it nests and thinking of what it might eat. Then, we went outside and find real dinosaur bones hidden in our field! Our teachers phoned the museum who said we can take the bones inside for investigation. They later sent us a letter to confirm we had found bones belonging to a Sarcosaurus! We carefully laid the bones out and drew what we thought the rest of the skeleton might look like.
We have had lots to celebrate what with New Year and Lunar New Year!
Spring two
This half term our topic has been 'Traditional Tales'. We have enjoyed exploring the stories 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears', 'Jack and the Beanstalk', 'The Three Little Pigs', 'The Gingerbread Man' and 'The Billy Goat's Gruff'. Our topic began with us coming to school to find our home corners had been left in a big mess with oats and broken chairs. The children realised that Goldilocks must have been! We also grew our own beanstalks and explored the story of 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. Later, we found crumbs on our rugs in the morning so our teachers checked the camera's to see that the Gingerbread Man had been running away from Mr and Mrs Baker through our classrooms, the library and were seen outside the front of our school! We enjoyed exploring the Three Little Pigs and the children had a go at building houses with different materials to see which was strongest. They enjoyed pretending to be the Big Bad Wolf and trying to blow them down!
We have also had lots to celebrate! We loved our first World Book Day at school and walked to our local library in Lowford to listen to a special story and explore the books. We also learned about the festival of Eid and were really proud of our children who celebrate this with their families as they confidently shared their experiences with their class. We held a dress up day where the theme was 'Dress as what you would like to be when you are older'. This was to raise money to send to people in Uganda to help them receive an education and get a good job one day. Finally, we celebrated Easter with a visit to our local church St. Pauls. We listened carefully to the readings from our Head Boys and Girls as well as singing some songs we have been learning in our collective worship sessions.
