Areas of Learning
All seven areas of learning will have challenging opportunities for your child to progress in their development including:
- Personal, Social and Emotional - Self Regulation, Managing Self, Building Relationships
- Communication and Language - Listening, Attention and Understanding, Speaking
- Physical Development - Gross Motor Skills, Fine Motor Skills
- Literacy - Comprehension, Word Reading and Writing
- Mathematics - Number, Numerical Patterns
- Understanding the World - Past and Present, People, Culture and Communities, The Natural World
- Expressive Arts and Design - Creating with Materials, Being Imaginative and Expressive.
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Foundation Team
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General Sound Discrimination – Environmental Sounds
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General Sound Discrimination – Instrumental Sounds
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General Sound Discrimination – Body Percussion
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Rhythm and Rhyme
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Alliteration
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Voice Sounds
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Oral Blending and Segmenting
While there is considerable overlap between these aspects, the overarching aim is for children to experience regular, planned opportunities to listen carefully and talk extensively about what they hear, see and do. Each aspect is divided into three strands:
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Tuning into sounds (auditory discrimination)
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Listening and remembering sounds (auditory memory and sequencing)
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Talking about sounds (developing vocabulary and language comprehension).
Activities within the seven aspects are designed to help children:
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listen attentively;
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enlarge their vocabulary;
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speak confidently to adults and other children;
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discriminate phonemes;
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reproduce audibly the phonemes they hear, in order, all through the word;
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use sound-talk to segment words into phonemes.
In Foundation 2, we use the Read Write Inc. scheme (RWI), which is a systematic synthetic phonics programme. Children develop reading fluency and comprehension, spell and write with confidence and learn to articulate their ideas and understanding.
Small group phonics lessons are taught daily and there are consistent expectations across the range of abilities. At the end of each half term, the children are assessed to check on their progress.
Five key principles underpin the teaching in all Read Write Inc. sessions are:
1. Purpose – know the purpose of every activity and share it with the children, so they know the
one thing they should be thinking about
2. Participation – ensure every child participates throughout the lesson.
3. Partnership work is fundamental to learning
4. Praise – ensure children are praised for effort and learning, not ability Pace – teach at an
effective pace and devote every moment to teaching and learning
5. Passion – be passionate about teaching so children can be engaged emotionally
Children learn to talk when parents and caregivers talk to them a lot. You don’t need to make a special time for talking. Any and all talking is good for your child. This includes talking while you dress or bath your baby, talking while you play, singing songs and nursery rhymes, and reading.
When children hear a lot of different words, they’re likely to learn, understand and use plenty of different words themselves.