EYFS News

• Thursday 2 April 2026 It's Easter Time in the EYFS This week in our EYFS classroom, we have been celebrating all things Easter with lots of exciting learning, creativity, and fun. The children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring this special topic across all areas of the curriculum.
• Friday 27 March 2026 The Land of the Dinosaurs Oracy
• Friday 13 March 2026 African Safari! This week in the EYFS we have been on an African Safari! We have learnt all about the different animals that live in the Savanna and incorporated this theme into all areas of our learning.
• Friday 27 February 2026 Hamlet woods year R Despite the weather being a bit damp, it did not dampen our spirits for a fabulous forest school day in Hamlet woods. I had such a fantastic time with the children and the year R team.
• Friday 13 February 2026 Happy Lunar New Year! Our EYFS class recently enjoyed a wonderful learning experience exploring the Lunar New Year, and we are excited to share what the children discovered.
• Friday 6 February 2026 Science Week - EYFS During Science Week, our EYFS class had a fantastic time exploring and experimenting like real scientists! The children loved taking part in class experiments including walking water, dancing popcorn and a “sink or float” investigation, where they made predictions and shared their discoveries. We also enjoyed a carousel of hands-on activities such as rainbow bubbles, string telephones, milk fireworks, DIY lava lamps and making oobleck, which sparked lots of curiosity and excitement. To make the week even more special, we had visits from the mobile zoo Jaws and Claws, where we met some amazing animals, and a travelling planetarium where we learnt all about the planets and space. It was a wonderful week full of exploration, questioning and discovery!
• Friday 30 January 2026 Phonics - ow, ur, er, ear, oi, air Over the last fortnight we have finished learning our Phase 3 sounds in Phonics in the EYFS! Here are some of our lovely children showing you what sounds we have been busy learning.
• Friday 16 January 2026 Who's been eating my porridge?! This term in the EYFS our overarching topic is 'Stories and Rhymes', the children have learnt all about traditional tales and each week we have focussed on a different story. This week was the turn of Goldilocks and the Three Bears!
• Friday 16 January 2026 Phonics - oo, oo, ar, or This week in the EYFS we have learnt 4 more of our Phase 3 sounds: oo (zoo), oo(book), ar and or! Here is a video explaining how you say these sounds and the sayings on the back of the cards to help us remember them.
• Monday 12 January 2026 Phonics - ai, ee, igh, oa In the EYFS we have now begun learning our Phase 3 phonics sounds, these consist of digraphs (sounds containing 2 letters) and trigraphs (sounds containing 3 letters). This week we began with ai, ee, igh and oa! Here are some of our wonderful class R children explaining how we say the sound and the accompanying saying to help us remember it:
• Friday 5 December 2025 Brrr! We're off to the Arctic! This week in the EYFS we delved into the world of the Arctic and Antarctic! The children thoroughly enjoy looking at these places on the globe and Google Earth and we spoke about their positioning on the globe being the cause of their extreme weather. The children were fascinated with the wildlife so we looked into this in more detail, learning about animals native to these regions. We had lots of exciting snow and ice themed enhancements out this week which you can see below. These included:
• Friday 28 November 2025 Diwali - Diva Lamps Last week in the EYFS we learnt all about Diwali, we celebrated with lots of Diwali-themed activities including making our very own clay diva lamps in Topic!
• Friday 21 November 2025 Phonics - th, sh, ng, nk This week in phonics the EYFS children have learnt the final four phase 2 sounds - the digraphs: th, sh, ng and nk!
• Friday 14 November 2025 Phonics - z, zz, qu, ch This week in phonics the EYFS children have learnt the final letters of the alphabet including three new digraphs!
• Friday 7 November 2025 Phonics - v,w,x,y
• Friday 7 November 2025 Bonfire Night in the EYFS This week in the EYFS we have learnt all about Guy Fawkes and why we celebrate Bonfire Night! The children shared their own experiences and traditions surrounding Bonfire Night and our classroom was full to the brim with exciting firework-themed activities!
• Friday 31 October 2025 Phonics - ss, ff, ll, j This week in phonics the EYFS children have been learning more digraphs! These are special digraphs known as 'double letter digraphs', the children learnt that these are only found in the middle or at the end of words and never at the start. We have also begun learning the last of our single sounds (phonemes) and started with j!
• Monday 27 October 2025 Squiggle While You Wiggle Every day in the EYFS we do something called 'Squiggle While You Wiggle', you may hear it called 'Squiggle Time' by your children! This is a gross motor programme designed to support early writing. Last term the children did a number of exercises each day during Squiggle Time, they quickly learnt that we were doing the exercises to get our bodies 'ready to learn'. By the end of term the class were able to complete all exercises with sustained attention and focus and much-improved techniques compared to week 1! This term we are moving onto big movements that will support letter formation and today we had our first session in the new format! The children used their 'flappers' (squares of fabric) to do the big movements, then we moved onto using the giant paper to recreate these movements with crayons! Today we focussed on up and down, side to side and criss-cross (both of the former but at the same time).
• Friday 10 October 2025 Phonics - h, b, f, l This week in Phonics in the EYFS we have learnt the sounds 'h, b, f, l'.
• Friday 10 October 2025 World Mental Health Day 2025 in the EYFS! Today, Friday 10th October 2025, is World Mental Health Day! To mark this important event everyone was invited to wear yellow clothes or accessories, don't they look great?
• Friday 3 October 2025 Phonics - ck, e, u, r This week in Phonics in the EYFS we have learnt the sounds 'ck, e, u & r'. The children were excited to learn their first digraph - ck! A digraph is when two letters and placed together to make one sound (e.g. ch, sh, th). The children identified that the digraph 'ck' had a different sound button on the word cards when they began reading, we discussed that Phonemes (single sounds) have a dot sound button and digraphs have a line. They did brilliantly at reading words containing our new sounds during our phonics session!
• Wednesday 1 October 2025 Marvellous Me! The children in the EYFS have been busy over the last week painting beautiful portraits of themselves! This term our topic is 'All About Me' and we want the children to celebrate their individuality and uniqueness. The children took it in turns to sit with an adult and spend time looking in the mirror and discussing what makes them, them! They discussed eye colour, hair colour, face shape, skin colour, defining features such as freckles or dimples and so much more. It was an excellent opportunity for early language development as the children had to think of words to describe themselves.
• Friday 26 September 2025 Phonics - g, o, c, k This week in Phonics in the EYFS we have learnt the sounds 'g, o, c and k'. The children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring these sounds further in their child initiated play! We drew 'g' in glitter, stacked 'o' shaped cereal and used paint to dot suckers onto octopus pictures to work our fine motor skills, cut out cats with curly tails for 'c' and made fantastic kites for 'k'! We have also started our early writing practice sessions which are going brilliantly!
• Friday 19 September 2025 Phonics - i, n, m, d Please see below a short video in which some children from the EYFS will tell you what sounds we have learnt this week!
• Monday 15 September 2025 It's Buddy Time! Our wonderful Year 6 children have been eagerly awaiting the day they would get to 'buddy up' with our new EYFS children.
• Friday 12 September 2025 Starting Phonics This week in the EYFS we began our Phonics learning! Here is Arlo, Lilly, Theo and Connie letting you know what sounds we know so far...
• Friday 5 September 2025 Our First Week in the EYFS! What an amazing first week it has been for our wonderful new EYFS children. They have settled in so beautifully, coming in with big smiles in the morning and playing so cooperatively with their new peers. We have seen an immense amount of kindness, turn taking and sharing this week. The children wowed me on Thursday when they came together as a full class for the first time!
• Friday 6 June 2025 We all scream for ice cream! To kick start our new topic 'At the Seaside' the children in the EYFS enjoyed an exciting new outdoor role-play activity - an ice cream parlour! We set up a shop front for them as well as the ice cream kitchen. The children used a mixture of different malleable materials including kinetic sand to role play making ice cream cones, sundaes and more! This was a wonderful opportunity to immerse the children in this fabulous new topic as well as encourage them to explore using new language, take turns and collaborate with their peers. In Topic later in the week we learnt about how ice cream is made and even shared our own experiences of visiting a seaside, lots of the children's stories included getting an ice cream!
• Friday 4 April 2025 Easter in the EYFS!
• Friday 28 March 2025 Mother's Day in the EYFS We had a lovely morning welcoming all the Mummies into the EYFS! We began with a 'guess the Mummy' game, moved onto sharing our wonderful journals and folders, showing our Mums the brilliant work we've been doing in class and we finished with a beautiful flower paper craft! Thank you so much for joining us for such a fun morning!

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