Mrs Liz McLoughlin
• Welcome from the Head
• A welcome from Mrs South including transition detail
• Special Educational Needs
• Meeting our Office Team – all you need to know!
• Governors
• Friends of Shelley School (FoSS)
• Lunches
• A Chance to Mingle and Sample!
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• School opening 8.45am - 8.55am
• School finish time 3.30pm
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• Encourage your child to use a knife, fork and spoon correctly when eating.
• It is helpful if your child can get dressed and undressed with increasing independence – if possible, practice putting on and taking off their uniform during the summer holidays.
• Encourage your child to use the toilet with independence and wash their hands correctly.
• Share stories, poems and nursery rhymes together.
• Talk to your child about everything and anything ECAT.
• Play games ie counting games, Shape spotting, looking at numbers on buses, street signs, encourage an awareness of print
• Encourage children to help with little jobs at home such as tidying their toys away, setting the table, 1-part and 2-part instructions etc.
• What is 50 Things to Do? :: 50 Things To Do
“Play helps a child; build confidence, feel loved, happy and safe, develop social skills, language and communication, learn about caring for others and the environment, develop physical skills and connect and refine pathways to their brain.”
We teach knowledge, skills and concepts and then plan and provide opportunities and environments in order for children to develop and apply their learning. Then we observe the children to find out where they are as a result and what they need next…
• Communication, Language and Literacy
• Personal, Emotional and Social Development
• Physical development
• These underpin all future learning.
• The 3 Prime Areas of the EYFS are crucial to children’s early learning and their later success in education and life.
• The Prime Areas are interlinked. For example, more developed language and communication are associated with better emotional well-being. Personal, social and emotional development underpins children’s early learning and emotional well-being. Developing executive functioning in the early years helps children learn and form positive relationships when they start school.
• Children who are more physically active in the early years are better at regulating their emotions and achieve better in primary school.
• Communication and language are fundamental to every aspect of young children’s thinking and learning.
• Babies are born ready to learn.
• Early moments-known as serve and return shape your child's brain in ways that help their learning, health and behaviour - now and in the future.
• Over 80% of your child's brain is formed by the age of 3.
• Up to 75% of each meal goes into building your child's brain.
• What-to-expect-in-the-EYFScomplete-FINAL-16.09compressed.pdf
Each day there will be a mixture of:
• Whole Class Work (Phonics, Mathematics, number rhymes and songs, listening to stories, learning and talking about facts and shared writing activities).
• Exploration and Play.
• Child Initiated Learning. This is where children access different learning areas within the environment. This is a great opportunity for children to apply and consolidate prior learning.
By the end of the Reception year the aim is for your child to be able to:
• Read simple sentences independently, forming letters accurately which are consistent in size.
• Explore and represent patterns within numbers up to 10.
• Automatically recall numbers bonds up to 5 and number bonds to 10.
• To subtract, add, double and share amounts.
• To talk about the natural world around them confidently and demonstrate a natural curiosity about the world around them re-calling facts.
• To talk about what keeps them healthy, use their body to move, balance and climb in different ways.
• To join, assemble, construct, use different media to create with a purpose in mind.
• To have the skills to move onto the next stage of their learning in Year One.
• Regular attendance is crucial in order to help support children achieve this.
• At the end of the school year you will receive an EYFS report for your child, detailing whether they have met the goals for each area of learning.
• You will be told whether your child’s development is expected in relation to the goals. This is identified as a GLD- Good Level of Development. To achieve this your child must meet the expected level in ALL of the Prime Areas of Learning as well as the Specific Areas of Mathematics and Literacy.
• More details about the EYFS Profile are available from Early years foundation stage profile handbook - GOV.UK
• Your feedback and contributions from home on where your child is achieving can help us to make end of year judgements.
Tapestry is an online platform which allows us to share observations, photographs and videos with parents /carers. This allows you to see snippets of activities that have happened in school.
At Shelley First school we embrace the achievements outside of school. If your child has been awarded a certificate for an activity outside of school, we celebrate this and are proud to share such moments. Please bring certificates into school so we can congratulate their success together. We copy these and display them on our "Wow" board. Children can choose to talk about these moments.
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work in partnership: together we succeed
We go out in all-weather types! Children need to be dressed appropriately for the weather. For example, if we are expecting sunshine, we expect children to come to school with sun cream on and with a sun hat.
We do Forest School regularly, so children will need to bring wellies to school or even better leave their wellies in school!
• At Shelley First School we use Read Write Inc.
• It's one of the most successful phonics schemes available and it serves Shelley well.
• We enjoy phonics screening pass rates well above the National Average.
• Reading is a priority for school, and will be a priority with your children – we talk about reading from day one and start phonics straight away once children are settled.
• Visit this link for more information:
• Parents and Carers - Ruth Miskin Literacy
• Oxford Owl Login Dashboard Access online books and so much more
• Home - Ruth Miskin Literacy
• There will be a phonics workshop early in the new academic year to support you to support your child.
• Please ensure children bring their school book bags to school every day.
• Please ensure when children start to bring home reading books that they are returned daily. Please read with your child little and often and write in their yellow reading diary.
• Children need to bring a water bottle to school each day. These should be clearly labelled with the child's name and must only contain water.
• Your child will receive a piece of fruit every morning for their snack at playtime, if you wish to send your child with an additional snack this must only be fruit.
• Children will need to bring a PE. kit to school, we keep these in school for the full half term and send these home to be washed during the school holidays.
Please see me after the presentation of you’d like to discuss any needs or concerns.
Useful Information:
• Universal Free School Meals
• Free school Meal
• Allergies
• School Milk
• Eye/hearing test.
THANK YOU for completing the online admissions forms
Uniform Suppliers
• Term Time Wear
• Uniform Exchange
Parent Engagement
• Arbor App
• ParentPay
• Here at Shelley First School, we have a fantastic cook, Sara, and children enjoy fantastic food and a great choice.
• Sara expertly handles all the children's dietary needs and ensures they have what they need and choices.
• The kitchen team have very kindly cooked up some of their current menu to share with you this evening, so you can sample, what the children will enjoy.
• Please help yourself as you mingle and chat. Sara will be available for any dietary questions/queries.
Look forward to starting school and all the fun times ahead!
We are looking forward to you joining Shelley First School and being part of our school family.
We will be visiting all the local Early Years settings to introduce ourselves to your child and find out about their interests to allow for a smooth transition into school. If they don’t attend a setting, we will organise a home visit.
Sensitive issues? We are here!
Getting things right with you begins here: together we succeed!
Early years foundation stage: exemplification materials - GOV.UK
Once you’ve seen who you need to and sampled our menus, you are free to leave! Thank you for your time!