Willow Class - EYFS 2025 - 2026

Welcome to Willow Class, our Reception Class.

Our Key Adults :

• Miss Wright - Class Teacher and EYFS Lead 
• Miss Woods - Teaching Assistant
• Miss Speakman - PPA Cover Teacher 

Spring 2

This half term our topic is 'Amazing Animals'

Through a range of high quality texts and planned learning opportunities, the children will explore all kinds of Amazing Animals. 

We are very proud of our Early Years Foundation Stage play based curriculum here at Westfield. 

All planned opportunities are tailored to meet the needs of our children, and ensure that our EYFS Curriculum is accessible for all. 

For more information about our EYFS Curriculum, please visit the EYFS page on our website.

Areas of Learning:

Literacy

Drawing Club:

Drawing Club is an exciting way to develop our writing skills, linked to our high quality texts and other planned opportunities. In Drawing Club, we explore the vocabulary from the text, alongside actions to give meaning. Then we look at the characters, story setting and adventures from the story. The children can re-tell adventures that already happened in the story or use their imagination to create new adventures.

We will be developing our Oracy skills and Communication and Language skills, to help us to talk about the elements of the story, progressing on to re-telling the story, using a story map. We will be writing for a purpose and giving meaning to marks we draw, write and paint. The writing opportunities will be linked to the children's phonological awareness and the application of their phonics. 

Mathematical Developement

In the EYFS we use the NCETM Mastering Number Programme. This is a programme that provides a deep understanding of number, and fluency with number facts. In Spring 2, we will be continuing to develop our counting skills and explore the composition of numbers within, and beyond 5.  We will begin to identify when two sets are equal or unequal and connect two equal groups to doubles. We will begin to sort odd and even numbers according to their 'shape.' We use Numberblocks within the NCETM and this enagages the children and creates exciting and meaningful learning opportunities. 

In our Shape Space and Measure, we will be exploring 3D Shapes and Length, Height and Time. 

Understanding the World
People Culture and Communities: Through stories, songs and sharing their own experiences, the children will be making connections between Special Stories through the RE topic 'Special Stories.'

The Natural World: Planned opportunities will be provided for the children to explore the natural world around them, including the changing seasons and the weather. The focus this tem will be on Spring and the New Beginnings and New Life. We will be exploring Animals and sorting animals into categories. We will also be exploring the life cycle of a frog, ladybird and chicken. We are incredibly lucky to have the Living Eggs in Willow Class, and we will be observing the life cycle of a chick first hand. 

Past and Present: We will explore why and how, Easter is celebrated. 

Creative Development

We will be exploring Colours and Colour Mixing and creating Marvellous Marks.  

Personal Social and Emotional Development 

We will focus on building relationships and exploring the importance of turn taking and sharing. 

Physical Development:

PE 

PE is on Thursday. The children come to school dressed in full PE kit on this day. This half term we have a Cricket session with a Specialist Coach.  

Reading

At Westfield, we expect all children to complete five reading sessions a week. These should be recorded on each child’s individual reading account on the Boom Reader app. The children will bring home a reading book linked to our Read Write Inc Phonics scheme. The children need to have their Reading Packs in school everyday.

We also have a library day where the children are encouraged to choose a reading for pleasure book, to share with an adult at home. These books are changed on a Friday. 

The children also have their Phonics Flashcards books and Red Words books that are updated regularly, as new sounds and words are taught. 

Online Learning Resources

Our children have access to a range of online resources to support their learning. Here are the links to some useful websites that children can use whilst not in school, their usernames and passwords will be sent home. 

Tapestry is the online learning journal that we use to document the children's learning journey in the EYFS. We value the importance of sharing the children's learning and development with families at home and also the contributions that families can make to the children's journals by adding photographs at home.