F1 Welcome
Welcome to F1
at St Anne’s Primary School
Early Years Foundation Stage Lead:
Mrs A Jones
Foundation Stage 1 Teacher:
F1 – Mrs C O’Hanlon (AM)
Foundation Stage Teaching Assistants:
F1 - Mrs J Barber
30 hours (PM): Miss K Plant
EYFS (PM): Miss C Brady
Welcome back F1 – we hope you have all had a wonderful half term and are ready for our last half term full of exciting activities and lots of brain growing!
We were really proud of your learning last half term and were especially proud with how well you looked after our ducklings, handling them with so much care and compassion and watching them as they hatched and grew over the 2 weeks that we had them. This experience helped you all to progress in so many areas of learning – particularly building on your communication and language and PSED skills.
This half term, we will be exploring the book ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ and we will be building on our greenhouses from last half term and planting our own seeds – we will also be monitoring our Lima beans that we planted in our outside area. We will continue to work hard on our fine motor skills to help us to hold our pencils and writing tools with more control – this will help us to practice writing letters, names and labels.
In maths, we will be having lots of fun exploring 2D and 3D shapes (for example, circles, rectangles, triangles and cubes) using language such as: ‘sides’, ‘corners’; ‘straight’, ‘flat’, ‘round’.
The weather is hopefully going to start getting warmer this term but remember, we go outside come rain or shine! Our Great British weather is unpredictable so the children will need a coat every day and hopefully even a sun hat! Please ensure your child also has a water bottle each day.
We will continue to use the Tapestry app as our main communication link - ensure you have activated your login and that you check regularly as there will be pictures and key dates and information regarding upcoming events.
We can’t wait to watch the children continue to make their brains grow each day.
Our door is always open so please pop in if you have any questions.
Thank you for your continued support.
Mrs O’Hanlon, Mrs Barber & Miss Plant
F1 and 30-Hour Provision
Our F1 nursery session at St Anne’s runs from 8.50am – 11.50pm and 12.10pm - 3.10pm every day. We offer a teacher led curriculum planned to motivate and encourage your child to learn in a relaxed, friendly and nurturing environment. Our children partake in small group – adult-led activities and also have access to child-initiated learning, both indoors and outdoors.
We are also excited to offer 30-hour funding provision. This enables our children to access a planned curriculum all day. Our full day sessions run from 8.50am-3.10pm, allowing the children a lunchtime and regular planned snack times. Your child is welcome to bring a packed lunch however; we also have the facility to provide a hot or cold lunch at the additional cost of £2.30.
For our 30 Hour children, our afternoon curriculum follows a more creative approach allowing the children to learn in a smaller group environment where there is always lots of fun.
Please make an appointment to come and visit us – we are looking forward to meeting you and your child!
