Parent Information
Early-Years-Parent-Information (ID 1021)
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EYFS Policy Information
EYFS Policy Information
For further information regarding the provision and approaches to teaching and learning within the EYFS please click on our EYFS Policy below.
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Parent Partnerships
Parent Partnerships
Getting Involved
Parents are the most important people in their children’s lives and always will be, so we need your help to ensure that all the children progress and achieve success in reaching their potential. When children join our school in EYFS, we build on the foundations that have been laid and work in partnership with you to continue and develop this.
Once children have settled into their new learning environments, we hope parents will be able to stay and help from time to time. Parents, grandparents and other carers are always welcome to support with our Nature Learning Walks. You can also help in different ways - joining in activities, sharing books with children, helping them on the computer, baking, playing games, accompanying us on visits. The partnership between the family and our school staff is crucial to children’s happiness and development.
Here are some of the things you might like to become involved with:
PACT (Parents and Children Together)
There is much research to show how important reading stories is to young children and how it helps them to succeed in life. We provide a box full of books for our children and parents to borrow at any time. Your child will bring home a PACT book to record which books your child has chosen to share with you at home. You and your child can respond to the book in anyway you feel appropriate e.g. draw the main character, cook the recipe, build a vehicle, or something else. This book is a record of all the responses your children makes to the books they have shared with you. Your child will be invited to change their book at least once a week, but you are free to change it as often as you wish.
Learning Stories
Throughout the year we will write Learning Stories about your child that will give you a window into what they are learning and achieving whilst enjoying their learning at school. We will explain what that learning means in terms of the Early Years Curriculum and invite you to make a comment. Your comment may just be to respond to what your child is doing in the Learning Story or it might be about what has happened since the Learning Story took place, something that your child has done at home.
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Uniform
Uniform
What to Wear in Phase 1
To help us help the children develop greater independence, we ask that parents use the Nursery uniform that is easy to put on or take off. The uniform serves as ‘overalls’ that nobody need worry about. Many of the activities in Phase 1 are messy and aprons/waterproof clothing do not always keep clothes clean.
We discourage parents from buying school trousers, pinafores, dresses, school shoes etc. So very often these types of clothes are too big for our young children, hinder their play and are quite uncomfortable for them, especially outdoors, when trying to run, climb, jump, dig etc.
Nursery Uniform:
Red or white polo shirt
Red sweatshirt
Black joggers or jogger shorts
Sturdy trainers with velcro fastening
CLEARLY NAME ALL ITEMS OF CLOTHING - This cannot be emphasised enough! If your child's name is on their clothing we have some chance of getting it back to you.
Make sure your child has a coat everyday. They spend lots of time in the outdoor environment, all year round and the British weather is very changeable.
Pupils participate in numerous Outdoor Learning opportunities and it is recommended that parents/carers purchase less expensive, more easily replaceable items of school wear. It is also recommended that each pupil has a pair of wellington boots available in school on a daily basis, with gloves, scarf and a hat for colder days. All-in-one suits have been purchased by the school and are available for pupils to use to support Outdoor Learning. Please support the school staff by ensuring every item of school wear is clearly marked with your child’s name.
Pre-loved school uniform can be purchased directly from the school uniform shop which is run by the Barons Court Fundraising Committee.