Early Years Foundation Stage
Welcome to EYFS!
Our Early Years Foundation Stage consists of Nursery and Reception. We offer 15 and 30 hour provision in Nursery and all children in EYFS can attend our wraparound care from 7:45-8:45am and 3:15-6pm. We enroll Nursery age children from the day after they turn three.
Everything we do in the EYFS is designed around play. Playing helps young children’s brains to develop and supports maturity in their language and communication skills. It is important to recognise the crucial role that play has in early childhood development.
Autumn Term 2025
Welcome to Reception!
We have an exciting and very busy Autumn term ahead. We will have a lot of opportunities for learning, having fun and growing together.
Curriculum:
This term we will be learning about ourselves, our senses, parts of the body, personal hygiene, healthy food and our families.
Phonics: RWI Set1
The children will be developing their oral blending skills, reading the sounds speedily and forming letters correctly.
Maths:
During our Maths lessons children will understand the composition of numbers 1-5, connect quantities and numbers, understand the language of “whole” and “part” when talking about numbers and develop their counting skills.
PSHE:
Throughout the year children will work towards simple goals:
-pay attention to what the teacher says
-controlling own feelings and behaviours
-able to concentrate on a task
-thinking before acting
-behaving in ways that are socially acceptable
Autumn term: We will be learning about feelings and emotional regulation, how to recognise and deal with their feelings in a positive way, follow class rules and routines, build respectful relationships how to be a good friend.
Tapestry
We use the platform Tapestry to record observations of our children to capture learning and progress made. Once your child has been created a profile on Tapestry, parents will recieve an email to create their own account. We aim to work in partnership with our parents and welcome our families to upload photos and videos of home experiences, to share this with our staff. Follow the instructions below on how to access your parent Tapestry account.
Early Reading
At Saffron Green we follow the systematic synthetics phonics programme, Read Write Inc.
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Reading for pleasure
To promote children's love of reading, children will visit our school library where a chosen book will be read to the class and children will take home a library book weekly. This is a book that may or may not be fully decodable but can be enjoyed with parents and family members as a book to read together.
