Welcome to Foundation!

There are two Reception classes - RT and RHG.
RT's class teacher is Mrs Turner (EYFS Lead) and their TA is Miss Hinds.
RHG's class teachers are Miss Gutteridge and Mrs Hartley and their TA is Mrs Williams.
Miss Pearson works with lots of different children from both classes to help them with lots of different activities.

Mrs Green is our speech and language therapist who works with some children during the week.

Our email addresses are:

z.turner@woodgate.bham.sch.uk

s.gutteridge@woodgate.bham.sch.uk

v.hartley@woodgate.bham.sch.uk

PE will be on Wednesday mornings with our Sports Coach Dan. Please make sure the children come to school in the correct kit. If they do not, they will not be able to participate in our PE activities.

Here you will be able to find out about the recent projects and activities we have been involved in.

EYFS Timetable:

8.45 School opens

9.00 Daily Little Wandle Phonics session

Continuous provision, adult led activities and outdoor learning throughout the morning on a given theme

Lunch

Daily Mastering Number maths session

Continuous provision, adult led activities and outdoor learning throughout the afternoon on a given theme

Healthy/fruit snack and storytime/singing session

3.15 hometime

Early reading sessions happen 3 times a week

Thursdays 2.45 Parent Drop-In sessions

Friday pm Celebration Assembly

Home Learning

EYFS will send home a piece of home learning every Friday.  It will be in your child's school bag.  Please send the home learning back in on Monday morning.

The piece of work with cover a range of themes, subjects and genres.

Please read with your child each night (5-10mins) and please record in their reading record book.  This will earn them 'reads.'

Parent Voice

This is what parents said about their child's transition to school Sept 2024

“The school atmosphere and environment is very good and has enabled our child to progress positively with confidence.” 

“I love this school my daughter is doing amazing and is really growing and becoming a little star.  I can’t get over how much she has learned in a short space of time.  I’m really happy.”  

“I thought the home visit was a lovely touch. (even though our little one was a bit shy with the teachers) I think it was great for her to see them one on one without other children or distractions.  She has since settled in really well and loves her teachers very much.  (we now have to play schools and be her teachers every day) Overall very happy with the transition into school life.” 

“Mrs Turner and Miss Hinds as well Miss Pearson have been amazing with Zico and his needs.  We appreciate the equal chance he has been given like the rest of his peers.  Teachers have adapted and understood quickly which has been so reassuring and he has developed so much since starting school.” 

“My son has been happy and excited coming to school, he really does enjoy it.  He has excelled!” 

“From the very start Mrs Turner and Miss Hinde have been amazing from the home visit, all the way through teachers have helped when I’ve had a question or asked about Lucas, Lucas always comes home and talks about his teachers and that he loves school, his words ‘it makes me feel like home.’  I strongly agree on the decision being great that Lucas has gone to Woodgate.  As an allrounder the school seems to be great and I’m glad he has the teachers he does, Thank you all of the staff!” 

“I am really happy with how Harvey has settled into Reception especially with how quiet he was at nursery and only attending there 3 days a week.”  

Pupil Voice

This is what children in EYFS say about school:

What is your favourite thing about school?

“My favourite thing about school is learning” Brooke-Leigh RT

“Doing phonics its so fun” Ollie RT

“Learning – doing phonics” Isla RHG

What have you learnt today?

"So what I have learnt – phonics I have learnt to read” Brooke-Leigh RT

“I have learnt tricky words – the then” Ollie RT

“Finger spaces and letters” Matilde RHG

“Learnt things with Miss Pearson and Miss Gutteridge – two words” Lucas RHG

Parent Drop In Sessions

Please join us every Thursday at 2:45 p.m. for Parent Drop In.  You will have a chance to see your child's environment ,work with your child on a variety of tasks and talk with the EYFS team.

Here are what some parents have said about the sessions Spring 2024.

“Such a great thing to offer, I have enjoyed seeing my child do different things each week.  Gives me a clear idea of what’s going on/the setting he’s in.  It’s amazing and think it’s the best thing for me personally as I want to be involved in his school life.  Great time to speak to teachers more 1:1 as well. Happy.” Aubrey RT

“I have enjoyed seeing my child in his school environment and how he acts with his friends.” Kenzo RHG

February 2025

The children have had a great time making soup using 'super veggies'.  They did all the cutting, chopping and mixing!  They loved the soup.

December 2024

This month has been magical and busy in EYFS. We have decorated our doors with Christmas themes! We have turned our classroom doors into a Christmas tree, a snow globe and Santa's face!

The children have been learning lots of Christmas songs for our Nativity play. We have dressed up in costumes, played instruments and performed to our parents and families...

November 2024

We have been very busy making firework patterns and we observed Remembrance Day.

We visited our school Memory Garden and made poppies.  We also drew pictures.

EYFS After school club

The children are really enjoying Yoga Club.  We have been concentrating on core body movements and also using our happy breathing from Our HappyMinds sessions.

October 2024

The children have been learning phonemes and tricky words.  They have been writing them independently using grapheme cards and chalk.  Please look out for the Little Wandle home learning sheet every FRIDAY so you can support your child at home.

Wild!

Please see the document below about our visit to Wild!  The children had a great day and were so well behaved that members of the public stopped staff to compliment the children!

Cultural Day 2024

We had a lovely day sharing our traditional outfits and job uniforms!  We made sandwiches for an Afternoon Tea Party and we had a surprise visitor!

Earlier in the week the visitor had popped into school for a snack.......

The children then wrote invitations for the Tiger to come to tea with us on Friday!

September  2024

All the children have settled into school life well.  They come into school with bright and cheerful good mornings and are following routines well.

The children have been discussing their emotions and ways to resolve disputes.  We have really enjoyed sharing The Colour Monster book in class.

We have celebrated School Grounds Week and had great fun building our scarecrows.  We also made bird feeders and observed the birds eating all the seeds.

We also visited the book fair. 

In RHG we have been investigating signs of Autumn. We have found conkers, leaves of different shapes and colours, pinecones, berries, twigs and pumpkins!

September 2024 

RHG and RT have had an exciting start to the new term. We have taken part in School Grounds week, we have made scarecrows! RHG have made rock spiders and RT have made bird feeders. Take a look...

Autumn

The children have walked around school looking for signs of autumn.  We collected many items and painted, decorated and made leaf men with them. Please look for signs of autumn with your child on the way to and from school.

Home visits

All visits have been completed and it was wonderful to visit all the children in their homes.  We are looking forward to seeing them in their school uniforms on Monday.  Here is the information you will need for their first week at school.

Reception start dates:

Your child will either be in mornings or afternoons for the week beginning Monday 9th  and then full time from the week beginning Monday 16th September.

We will ensure that the gate at Trimpley road will be open for collection of children attending morning sessions at 11:30 a.m. and be open for the children attending afternoon sessions at 12:45 p.m.

Non-negotiables in reception.

Fastening coats.

Now the weather is turning cooler and wetter, could you please encourage your child to practice to put on and fasten their coat or jacket.  

Thank you for your support.

Outdoor Learning

Every week all the children will go outside with their designated adult. Children will be taking part in activities such as planting, observing growth, building, enjoying mud kitchen activities and experimenting with how water travels. 

Reading area

The children will be accessing the reading area, using story spoons, googly eye I spy's, story props and the listening centre. Sharing stories with your child is a special time and is a crucial part of them learning to love books.

Some useful websites 
Phonics Play:

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

We use this website daily in school to support phonics. The children love the interactive activities and it has a range of activities to support their learning of blending new sounds.  We love to play buried treasure, dragons den  and pick a picture games!

This link provides daily phonics lessons with a teacher that talks you through each sound.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw/videos.

Oxford Owl:
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/help-child-learn-age-4-5/

Oxford owl provides a range of educational resources and activity ideas for all areas of learning 

Websites to get active:

GoNoodle

Joe Wicks daily PE lesson

Jumpstartjonny

https://www.jumpstartjonny.co.uk/home

Cosmic Yoga

The children also enjoy https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks to support their phonics sessions.