Welcome to Foundation 2At Carlton Standhill

Infants’ School

The Foundation Curriculum now consists of 7 areas:3 Prime Areas:-Personal, Social and Emotional DevelopmentCommunication and LanguagePhysical Development4 specific AreasLiteracyMathematicsUnderstanding of the WorldExpressive Arts and Design

PSED-Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Expectations:• Confident to try new activities and speak

in a familiar group• Maintain attention and concentration• Understand and follow rules• Play cooperatively, take turns and share

fairly• Manage their own feelings and behaviour• Have awareness of own needs and be

sensitive to needs and feelings of others.

PSED - How can you help?Playing games which encourage sharing and turn taking will help your child to build their social skills.Encourage your child to talk about their ideas, and choose the resources they may need for an activity

Physical Development

Expectations:• Demonstrate good control in large and small

scale movement• Handle tools and objects safely and with basic

control, including pencils for writing• Form letters correctly• Recognise the importance of keeping healthy,

and what constitutes healthy practice• Children manage their hygiene and personal

needs independently, as well as dressing.

Physical Development – How can you help?

Give children time to run, jump, climb and play outdoorsEncourage children in activities such as building, drawing, threading beads,or filling and emptying containers in the water - all of which develop manipulative skills.Use scissors and basic toolsEncourage children to dress independently, including fastening their coat

Communication and Language

Expectations: Listening• Children listen attentively in a range of situations• They listen to stories, responding to what they hear with

relevant comments, questions or actionsSpeaking• Children express themselves effectively, using past,

present and future tenses correctly• They connect ideas or events, when telling their own

narratives or giving explanationsUnderstanding• Children follow instructions, involving several ideas• They answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions

Communication and Language – How can you

help?Reading stories, encouraging your child to talk about the stories you have readTaking time to listen to them talking about things they’ve done and answeringtheir questions.When talking with your child , use ‘how’ and ‘why’ questionsRe-model incorrect tenses as part of your response

LiteracyExpectations:• Use phonic knowledge to read and spell

words (blending and segmenting sounds)• Read and write some common irregular

words• Read simple sentences, showing, when

talking, that they understand what they have read

• Write sentences which can be read by themselves and others.

Literacy – How you can help?

• Encourage your child to write their name, with correct letter formation

• Practise hearing the initial sound in a word sounding out all sounds in a word

• Writing things together, sounding out words, making simple sentences

• Reading books (stories, information books, newspapers, magazines, comics etc), encouraging your child to join in and talk about books

• Retell stories in the correct sequence, ‘ using ‘book’ language.

MathematicsExpectations:• Count and order numbers to 20• Count reliably using one to one correspondence• Understand vocabulary more/less• Say the number that is 1 more / 1 less than a given number• Solve problems including halving, doubling and sharing• Understanding addition and taking away, using correct

vocabulary• Describe shape and size of solid and flat shapes• Recognise and recreate simple patterns• Describe positions eg. above, below, behind• Use correct language to compare quantities eg.

heavier/lighter, taller/shorter

Mathematics – How can you help?

Talk about the shapes you can see in the environmentComparing things which are heavy and light or long and shortPointing out numbers all aroundSinging counting songs and rhymesCounting, adding and subtracting anything and everything - socks, cars, shopping, cutlery, fingers and toes!Solving simple mathematical problems

Expressive arts and design

Expectations• Sing simple songs from memory• Use and explore a variety of materials, tools and

techniques.• Use what they know about media / materials in an

imaginative way, thinking about uses and purposes• Represent ideas and feelings through art, dance,

music, design and technology, role-play and stories

Expressive arts and design– How can you

help?Talk with your child about their imaginative play and join in if possible!Encourage them to be flexible in their thinking and use of materials and praising them for their efforts or ideas as well as the end product

Understanding of the World

Expectations• Talk about why things happen and talk about changes• Look closely at similarities, differences, patterns and

change in relation to living things, places, objects and materials

• Find out about past and present events in own life, and those of family members and other people he/she knows.

• Know about similarities and differences between themselves and others, and among families, communities and traditions

• Recognise a range of technology and use technology to support learning

• Talk about features of their own immediate environment and how environments may vary

Talk with your child about the places they go and things they see in the world around themAnswering and asking questions - what if…? Why do you think…? How did you…?Letting children join in with everyday activities - cooking, shopping, helping in the garden...If possible let them have access to ICT,CD players, mobile phones, computers etc (if

you have a laptop – get a mouse!)

Understanding of the World – How can you help?

End of Foundation Stage At the end of the Foundation Stage ( by

June), children will be assessed in each of the 7 areas as being either:

Below expectations Meeting expectations Exceeding expectations

Expectations are what the average child is expected to achieve by the end of the year. Each child is treated as an individual and will be taught from where they are. Some children will do better than this.

ReadingVery important to read at home regularly.Please write in your child’s reading record. It acts as communication between home and school. Let us know how they have got on.Help your child learn tricky words and key words. These will help when starting to read. Children will bring home a reading rocket towards the end of the termWe will send out sound mats soon. Practise recognising the letters, blending sounds together to make words and encourage your child to write letters with correct formation and pencil grip.

Behaviour

We are a ‘be’ school and follow these ‘be’ rules to ‘be your best’ :-

be caringbe sensiblebe politebe honest

Sanctions1. A reminder.2. Warning; given an orange card3. Further warning; given a red card and name

goes in behavior book and playtime is missed

Hurting somebody, bad language -go straight to Head

Children’s clothesPlease, please ensure you label

your child’s name on everything!!!! ! ! !

Today

Feel free to ask questions!

Thank

you!