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Welcome Video for Early Years children September 2020- Miss Hall's Class

We hope these informative videos give you an insight into our daily routines in Early Years and allow the children to see their new teachers and assure them of what to expect when they come to Great Berry in September. We are looking forward to meeting you all!

The Early Years Team

Welcome Video for Early Years children September 2020- Mrs Goodbrand and Mrs McGlinchey’s Class

Children’s View on their time in Early Years- Miss Hall’s Class

We asked some of the current Early Years children to talk about their experiences and what they have enjoyed doing this year. We hope this will encourage conversations about the topics we will be learning and help to settle any worries about coming to school.

Children’s View on their time in Early Years- Mrs Goodbrand and Mrs McGlinchey’s Class

We have asked some of the current Early Years children to talk about their experiences and what they have enjoyed doing this year. We hope this will encourage conversations about the topics we will be learning and help to settle any worries about coming to school.

Miss Hall's Story- The Smartest Giant in Town

We hope you enjoy the stories read by each of the Early Years teachers from Great Berry. We hope that by providing these videos it will be a good opportunity for your child to practise sitting quietly and listening carefully to their teachers voice.

Mrs McGlinchey's Story - Sam's Sandwich

September 2020 intake Zoom meeting presentation

EYFS Welcome meeting 2020 Final.pdf

Welcome to the Early Years Page

It has been so lovely to talk to so many of you on the phone. Please expect another call soon, this will now be weekly while school is closed.

During this lockdown, we will upload an overview each week detailing our new topic. The overview will include suggestions of activities linked to the different areas of learning that we cover in the Early Years Foundation Stage. Underneath the overview, we will always upload resources that you may want to use. Please don't feel like you need to print all of them out.

If you have any questions, or would like to share any photos of work with us, please don't hesitate to contact us on earlyyears@greatberry.essex.sch.uk If you could put the subject of the email as FAO and the class, so that we know which teacher the email is intended for.

Once again, thank you so much for your continued support during these times.

Stay safe and keep smiling,

The Early Years Team

Home School Activities

Wow Work

Adaora loved writing directions and dressing up!

Beautiful colouring Elizabeth, a great pirate too.

Elizabeth was happy to receive her Sunshine badge!

Philippa and Zoe looked closely for tricky words.

Evie has been working very hard at home!

A beautiful colouring of a treasure chest William.

An excellent picture from Ella H, well done!

Sophie's directions to find the treasure.

Olivia is measuring her toys so carefully

Sophie and her beautiful painted lady butterfly

Finley has been so busy learning about dinosaurs

Ella is really enjoying the dinosaur topic!

Poppy's brilliant writing about the story

Poppy made an interesting, colourful dinosaur

Sophie's beautiful writing about the story

Excellent number bond chains made by Elizabeth.

Jack wrote an amazing letter to his hero.

Sonny has made some brilliant bees and ladybirds!

Evie is continuing to work so hard at home.

An excellent wanted poster completed by Oliver.

Ella drew an amazing picture of a ladybird!

Felicity found lots of minibeasts on her hunt!

Baker Sophie made a delicious chocolate cake

Finley did great sounding out to sort the treasure

Reed's lovely writing about What the Ladybird Hear

Robert matched the minibeast to their habitat

Robert did some brilliant research about newts.

Sophie made lovely minibeasts from rocks

Mae has loved learning about Minibeasts this week!

Esme worked so hard to read 'ea' words this week.

A brilliant handprint hungry caterpillar Evie!

A brilliant description of a caterpillar Gracie!

Fantastic writing about Sharks from Sonny.

Well done for putting the puzzle together William!

Aisosa made houses for the three little pigs!

Great writing from Ronnie about the three pigs.

Sophie made a beautiful symmetrical butterfly

Sophie wrote AA sentences about the minibeasts

Poppy's brilliant Hungry Caterpillar sequencing

Robert's fantastic adding and subtracting.

Robert made a beautiful symmetrical butterfly.

Sophie is making a brilliant life cycle booklet!

Sophie did a great job practising her number bonds

Careful that Peter Rabbit doesn't eat those!

Emily has been busy practising her phonics

Dottie did a super job on her tricky word hunt.

Poppy's excellent writing about living on a farm!

Poppy gardening with her Mrs Bradshaw plant!

Sophie practised lots of skills in this fun game.

Sophie's brilliant apology letter from the Wolf.

Sophie made a fantastic house out of sticks!

Alfie's brilliant houses for the 3 little pigs!

Poppy's excellent wanted poster for the Wolf.

Sophie made a gorgeous pig using her handprint.

Sophie working hard practising her subtracting.

Olivia's excellent three little pig story.

Joseph is working hard on letter formation.

Oscar has worked hard on recognising tricky words.

Adaora has made the three different houses!

Felicity wrote about her favourite book.

Poppy designed a bridge for the Gingerbread Man.

Poppy worked out what coins she needs for her shop

Robert's fantastic houses for the Three Pigs!

Robert made a story map for the Three Little Pigs.

Felicity's fantastic writing about the fairy.

Tahlia has been practising money in her shop!

Emilia's fantastic cutting to make the pigs.

Emilia has been working very hard with subtraction

Joseph has been working very hard with addition.

Lily working hard with coin recognition this week.

Beautiful VE day work from Evie this week.

Some brilliant senses work from Esme this week.

A brilliant VE fact board from Gracie, well done!

Diya made a fantastic Lego Girl called Rose

Olly did great counting the spots on his dinosaurs

Sophie practised money in her teddy shop!

Freddie's great dot-to-dot and sentences

Robert made a fantastic Gingerbread Man!

Reed wrote a great superhero poem with similes!

Sophie wrote a fantastic Gingerbread Man book!

Freddie wrote the story of Jack and the Beanstalk

Olly baked and decorated delicious Gingerbread Men

Robert's delicious Teddy Bear picnic menu

Robert designed a beautiful egg for Gaston!

Poppy drew and explained the life cycle of frogs.

Super labelling and matching the rhymes, Poppy

Wow Elizabeth an amazing puppet theatre!

Evie has worked so hard this week, well done.

Jack is practising recognising coins with his shop

Well done William for writing out the tricky words

Well done Arthur, a good job recognising numbers.

Home School Activities- Week beginning 18th May

May Half Term Optional Activities

Home School Activities- Week beginning 11th May

Home School Activities- Week beginning 4th May

Home School Activities- Week beginning 27th April

Class ELH Assembly Video

The children enjoyed making this video and it would have been featured in their first class assembly. I hope all of the children enjoy seeing their friends! Miss Hall.

Home School Activities- Week beginning 20th April

Easter Holiday Activities

Some Easter challenges from Barnaby (1).docx

Home School Activities- Week Beginning 30th March

Home-School Activities

If you have children at home, we hope these are useful.

EYFS Maths Meeting

EYFS Maths Meeting.pdf

EYFS Lunch Meeting

EYFS Lunch Meeting.pptx

EYFS Pre-entry Meeting

Welcome to Great Berry Primary School Pre-Entry Meeting.pdf

A Day in EYFS

A Day in the life of an Early Years child.pdf

Weekly Overviews

Weekly Overviews

Welcome to the Early Years Foundation Stage!

We hope you all had a lovely Easter break with your families. We will be uploading weekly overviews onto this page with the topics we will be learning and ideas of activities you can complete at home. Please do not feel pressure to complete all of the activities which are suggested. If you do decide to complete the activities, we are happy for this to be in any form whether this be in the home-school workbook or on paper.

This half-term our topics will include Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Gingerbread Man and The Three Little Pigs. Every week we will upload a Weekly Overview, which will give you an insight into some of the activities we will be doing in school that week.

Homework books will be given out on a Thursday. They will need to be returned by the following Tuesday. Ideas for the homework will be available on the Weekly Overviews. Each week please give feedback on how your child found the activities, by leaving a short comment with their homework. Please note that Homework books are different to the red books shown in the parent-teacher meetings and now have a winter picture on the front.

Each colour team will have a Show and Tell date once, each half term. The show and tell must be inexpensive and we cannot take responsibility for the loss or damage of the item. This should be something of your child’s own choice, and could be a favourite toy/book/model, certificate of achievement, photo, something of interest that they have found. Etc.

The colour group dates are as follows:

This will be updated as soon as we are all back at school.

Keep checking back on this page for more updates and to see some of our brilliant work.

Please note that jewellery is not allowed to be worn in school. This includes hoop earrings, bracelets, anklets and necklaces. Only small studs are allowed, although these have to be removed on PE days.

Do you have any ideas for this page? Why not let your Teacher know!

Key stage one comprehension questions for use at home

Key stage one reading comprehension questions for use at home.pdf

Photos

A Tour of Year One

Phonic sounds and actions e u r h b f l ss

Phonic sounds and actions j v w x y z

Phonic sounds and actions

PURPLEMASH Great Berry link

French

Number Rhymes These rhymes are currently free to download from twinkl. You just need to sign in. These are the same rhymes that the children have been using at school. They are very popular!