The Nursery and Reception classes work together as a team and follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. At Canonbury we work to provide a supportive, safe and secure environment for our youngest children to learn, play and develop.
With an in depth knowledge of each unique child and strong partnerships with parents and families, we can foster the skills that will support their future learning in life.
We encourage the children to become independent, capable and confident by observing how the children learn as well as what they can do. We use the children’s own interests to motivate and engage the children in active and investigate play. We value the exploration of learning and the development of questioning skills and resilience.
Through our planning we focus initially on the prime areas of learning–
- Physical Development
- Communication and Language
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
As the children move through the Early Years Foundation Stage these prime areas are extended to include the specific areas –
- Literacy
- Mathematics,
- Understanding the world
- Expressive arts and design
Our staff plan for a range of experiences and opportunities that allow the children to explore their feelings and responsibilities. We reflect on and celebrate the differences in our community and teach that we are free to have differences of opinions and that these should be respected.
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Chloe Dickinson
Nursery Teacher
Danika Lewis
Early Years Educator
Eithne Nadarajan
Phoenix Reception Teacher
Feride Jashari
Teaching Assistant - Nursery
Jennifer Aziz
Teaching Assistant - Reception
Jennifer Ward
Teaching Assistant, Nursery
Linda Obeng
Teaching Assistant - Reception
Sandy Fazio
Pegasus Reception Teacher and SENDco
Sara Liney
Pegasus Teacher Assistant Headteacher EYFS and Year 1
Please see below for daily and ongoing learning ideas. We’ll be adding resources over the coming days.
Daily Learning
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Ideas bank for ongoing activities
- Do the chores together – involve your child in helping you, talking activities through together. Look out for maths in real life, eg pair up the socks, share out the food equally, set the table with the right number of plates.
- Cooking together – allow your child to help prepare as much as possible, using the utensils safely. Talk about how many things you need, more and less, heavier and lighter, full and empty. Discuss sharing out equally – how many each? Talk about the taste and the texture.
- Junk modelling – use recycled materials to make models. Talk about the 2D shapes and 3D shapes (see shape mat) and how to join them.
- Construction – lego, duplo, mobilo, wooden blocks etc.
- Book making – your child can join pieces of paper together or fold them for a zig zag book
- Water play – washing up bowl and safe metal or plastic utensils: sieves, funnels, brushes, sponges, bottles, tubes, ice cube trays, tupperware boxes, cups. Talk about full and empty and ask “I wonder what will happen if…?”
- Playdough – make your own or use the pot sent home.
Make playdough together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv73CEzY1jg
- Use Nature Detectives for lots of exciting activities to do at home https://naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/
- Science experiments for Early Years https://www.firstdiscoverers.co.uk/early-years-science-activities-eyfs/
Activities involving screen time:
LGFL London Grid for Learning – use your log-in provided by the school.
Busy Things covers all areas of the curriculum.
Maths
Mathletics – use your log-in provided by the school
Youtube Kids videos: Numbers help me count – dance along and learn number recognition
Literacy
Read Write Inc phonics pronunciation guide (adult supervision needed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=s6OiU2h3sUI flashcards with pronunciation
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/ free reading resource
www.phonicsplay.co.uk interactive phonics games
bbc.co.uk BBC schools radio – audio stories, dance sessions, rhyme time;
bbc.co.uk Cbeebies – Numberblocks, Alphablocks, Let’s Celebrate, Woolly and Tig, Nina and the Neurons, Bedtime stories.
Physical
https://www.gonoodle.com/ movement and mindfulness videos; various Yoga Bugs videos
Various “Dough disco” videos – develop hand strength using your pot of playdough
https://kumarahyoga.com/8-short-videos-to-teach-and-practice-mindfulness-with-kids/ mindfulness
https://www.cosmickids.com/category/watch/?duration=short&changed=duration
Websites with good ideas
- The Bright Start Bright Ideas newsletter has activity ideas and parents/carers subscribe here: http://bit.ly/BSBIsubscribe;
- https://abcdoes.com/abc-does-a-blog/2020/03/14/at-least-50-fantastic-ideas-to-try-at-home/; a bank of ideas drawn together by Alistair Bryce Clegg with practical activities that can easily be done at home and is updated every week.
- https://theimaginationtree.com/stay-at-home-survival-guide/. The imagination tree website has a selection of lovely ideas that stress the importance of keeping things as playful, fun and as active as possible.
- https://hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk/. Hungry Little Minds, the DfE webite, has activities broken down by age with a ‘chat, play, read’ emphasis. There are accompanying video clips and links to other sites and apps.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people has communication focussed ideas, broken down by age with the tagline ‘talk, bond and have fun’.
- Facebook page ‘Family lockdown tips and ideas’ is a page for parents full of tried and tested ideas, games and activities.
- Instagram ‘fiveminutemum’ has easy fun games for parents to play with their young children.
Below are links to articles about how you can talk to your children about the coronavirus:
https://www.mykidstime.com/
https://parenting.nytimes.com/childrens-health/coronavirus-kids-talk
https://childmind.org/article/talking-to-kids-about-the-coronavirus/amp/
