F1 Welcome

Welcome to F1
at St Anne’s Primary School

Acting Deputy Head Teacher & 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): Mrs J Barber

EYFS (PM): Miss K Plant & Miss C Brady

Welcome to our F1 class page – we hope you have all had a fantastic summer and are ready to start (or come back to!) our lovely school. We have a great term planned, full of exciting activities and lots of brain growing!

This half term we will be spending lots of time getting to know each other – learning all about each other’s families, likes and dislikes through our class book ‘Happy to be Me’. We will be drawing lots of pictures of ourselves, making a ‘mini-me’ and doing lots of exploring of our classroom and areas. We will be practising our counting through numbers songs and activities and creating patterns with different objects and colours.

 We love going outside in our EYFS and we have an amazing outdoor area so we will be learning outside come rain or shine! Unfortunately, our Great British weather is unpredictable so the children will need a raincoat and wellies every day and hopefully, a sun hat! These can be left in school, alongside a spare change of clothes - play can be messy and the children will have access to water, sand, playdough and paint, amongst other things :)

Please let us know if your child develops any new allergies or conditions, so we can keep our records up to date and your children safe. Thank you!

Please ensure your child also has a water bottle each day - busy minds and bodies need lots of hydration :)

We will be using the Tapestry app as our main communication link – please 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 really love to hear about what the children get up to home and we share weekend stories every Monday morning as part of ‘Communication and Language’ sessions. Please share any activities that you get up to at home - this can be something super exciting like the beach or the park or something simple like reading a bedtime story and having a family dinner! Please ask us if you need any support with this and we will do our best to help you.

We can’t wait to get to know your wonderful children and watch them 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 and Mrs Barber

F1 Team

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!