F1 2024 - 2025

Welcome to Team F1

The adults who help us in Team F1 are:
Miss Wallace – Teacher                                     
Miss Ryan – Teaching Assistant
Miss Roberts – Teaching Assistant (SEND support)

To keep up to date with the latest news and work from Team 1 follow us on Twitter @PrimaryKingsway and on Class Dojo.

Our Intent and Implementation:

In Team F1 it is our aim to give all children the very best start to their education to create happy, confident life-long learners. We recognise that every child is unique and aim to support each and every child to make good levels of progress from their starting points. We work closely with Parents and Carers to ensure that we meet the needs of the whole child and their family which forms a great partnership and consistency for the child. 

We plan our provision with the notion that every child can be successful and recognise that success looks different for each child. Our language-rich environment supports children to express their needs, feelings, thoughts, and ideas. Adults in the room use meaningful interactions to challenge children, form good relationships, and build upon their existing skills and knowledge. 

Our curriculum has been developed to explore and celebrate diversity and encourage reflection, empathy and kindness. We explore lots of quality texts both as part of our ‘Pathways’ literacy scheme and our daily provision. We also plan  meaningful experiences to give children opportunities to explore their world, develop holistically and form a curiosity and love of learning. Although our curriculum is planned for children to master key-skills we ensure flexibility to respond to our children’s own lives and interests. This allows children to immerse themselves in their learning and encourages confidence and independence throughout their learning journey. Each half-term we focus on different aspects of the curriculum, however lots of skills are revisited to ensure solid understanding and mastery.

In Team F1 every moment is a learning opportunity, whether it is during our focused carpet times, our continuous provision, or through daily routines. We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework (EYFS) to support our children to build strong foundations for the rest of their academic, social, and personal journey through Kingsway Primary School.

The EYFS is split into three prime areas and four specific areas of learning and development, as well as characteristics of affective learning which can be seen below.

Autumn 1:

This half term, Team F1 will be exploring the traditional tale ‘The Gingerbread Man’ by Miriam Latimer. The children will be given lots of opportunities to engage with the story in all areas of their learning, including exploring their senses whilst baking cakes, identifying the colours of the characters, and looking at what a baker does. The children will also be able to explore the joy of sharing stories, investigating characters, and immersing themselves in a book. We will also be visiting a local bakery where we will buy our very own treats, just like in the story.

Children will be introduced to mathematics through song and rhyme, including interactive number rhymes. We will also be looking at identifying and matching colours, comparing amounts using vocabulary such as ‘more,lots’ and ‘some,’ and using language when looking at size.

Pupils will be encouraged to explore their creativity through continuous provision where they will be supported to make marks, paint, and create.

Children in Team F1 will also be looking at where our food comes from, specifically during Harvest.

Our main focus this half term will be settling into school, becoming familiar with routines and ensuring all children feel safe and happy whilst exploring their environment.

Autumn 2:

This half term, Team F1 will be exploring the non-fiction text, ‘Festivals.’ The book explores different festivals that are celebrated from around the world. We will be linking this to celebrations such as Bonfire Night, Halloween, and Christmas so that the children can link the text and illustrations to their own experiences of the world around them. Children will be encouraged to discuss illustrations and talk about their favourite parts of a book. We will also be looking at ‘all about me’ where children will be supported to explore what makes each person special and to celebrate our differences. 

 Through phonics, children will be exploring environmental sounds to develop key listening skills. We will be engaging in ‘wriggle before you squiggle’ which supports the development of the larger muscles that support early writing skills. 

 In mathematics children will be exploring ‘5 frames’ and recognising that each space on a 5 frame can hold 1 object.

 We will also explore numbers and being able to say some number names in the correct order. Through continuous provision and strong relationships, children will be encouraged to use lots of new vocabulary, build their confidence, explore their imaginations, and become more outgoing. 

Children will be given opportunities to learn through continuous provision both inside and outside to support their whole development and encourage a love of learning.

Spring 1:

This half term, Team F1 will be exploring the story of the ‘Naughty Bus’ written by Jan and Jerry Oke. Pupils will explore the different aspects of the story and develop their predictions skills, story sequencing and vocabulary. Pupils will engage in fun, interactive activities that will allow them to explore the text and begin to use phonic knowledge to recognise rhyme and words that start with the same initial sound. We will be using the themes of the book to explore big cities, specifically Liverpool. We will be looking at the differences between big cities and where we live. 

In Maths we will be exploring using number names correctly through play, identifying and copying simple patterns, using language to describe size, and counting aloud to 5. 

We will have a strong focus on our fine motor skills, to get our fingers nice and strong for our early writing skills. We will be taking part in daily ‘dough disco’ sessions and lots of funky finger activities. 

Our personal, social, and emotional development focus will be exploring our sense of responsibility. We will be exploring different rules that we have both in and out of school and why it is important that we follow them. We will also be exploring other’s emotions and identifying why they may be feeling that way. We will be using our continuous provision to explore making predictions, and developing our ideas. Finally, we will continue to use the world around us to link our thoughts and experiences. For example, looking at celebrations such as Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day, looking at seasonal changes and the weather, and exploring our local and surrounding area.

Activities for snow day, Thursday 9th January 2025:

 Stay warm and safe everyone! Please send me any photos of ANY activities you do today as the children love to share them with their friends when we are back. Thanks, Miss Wallace