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Beech – Early Years

CURRICULUM LONG TERM PLANS

EYFS Long Term Overview 2025 - 2026

EYFS Autumn Curriculum Summary 2025

EYFS Spring Curriculum Summary 2025 - 2026

Knowledge Organiser - Our World

Knowledge Organiser - Amazing Animals

EYFS Summer Curriculum Summary 2025-2026

EYFS-Knowledge Organiser - Come Outside

EYFS Knowledge Organiser - Summer Time

What an incredible week of learning, creating, and exploring we have had in Reception! The children have been working so hard, and we are incredibly proud of their progress.

Here is a glimpse into what we have been up to:

Saving Our Oceans

Our deep-sea adventures continue! This week, the children have continued to explore the ocean, thinking closely about ocean creatures and how to keep them safe. We had some wonderful, thoughtful discussions about what we can do to keep plastic off our beaches and oceans to protect our marine friends.

Brilliant Handwriting & Independent Writing

This week, we have had a big focus on our handwriting, ensuring the children are using the correct letter formation. We are incredibly proud to see that the children are now beginning to become much more confident when independently writing their own simple sentences!

We have also spent time re-capping our tricky words that we have learnt so far in Reception.

Numeracy Day

We had the absolute best time celebrating Numeracy Day! The children loved exploring lots of different fun maths activities.

In our maths sessions, we have been busy with two major concepts:

The Structure of 5: We have been learning the composition of numbers to 10 by using the structure of "5 and a bit." We've been getting the children to use their fingers to show the "5 and a bit" and using our stem sentences:

“______ is made of 5 and ______”

“5 and ______ makes ______”

As we come towards the end of Reception children we will assessing them to see if they have met their Early Learning Goals which form part of their final EYFS report before they move into Year One and start the National Curriculum. This is done by observing your child’s interactions in play and the work they do in class with teachers. They do not participate in any formal assessments. Please find a document below which shows the ELG statements the teachers will use to assess your child. Please feel free to talk to your class teacher about these if you have any concerns.

Early-Learning-Goals-Parent-and-Carers-Guide

Early-Learning-Goals

Activities-to-Try-at-Home

Home Learning - 22nd May

Phonics - The children have now learnt all Phase 2, 3 & 4 tricky words. These have been sent home across the year as the children have learnt them. Please continue to ensure you practice these alongside your child's reading book. Your child needs to be able to recognise these in their books by sight and when shown the flashcard.

Maths - Please find a maths learning worksheet for your child to complete with your support. Please support them in using the stem sentence to spot the parts within the number (5 and a bit) and then the whole number.

Reading - Please sign your child's reading record each time you hear your child read.

Home Learning - 8th May

Phonics - Please review all phoneme sounds learnt. Your child needs to know all red and blue sounds taught, including tricky words sent home. Continue to use the homework sheets to practice reading words and new tricky words taught.

Maths - Please find a maths learning worksheet for your child to complete with your support. Please check their they are able to successfully count groups of objects up to 20. Encourage them to recall the counting rules, and the different methods to support them to count- E.g. move and count, put all items in a line, count in a set direction, remove / cover items that have been counted.

Reading - Please sign your child's reading record each time you hear your child read.

Summer Lunch Menu