Welcome to William Bellamy Primary

Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

Please read on to find out about what is happening in Early Years Foundation Stage and learn more about the EYFS curriculum and practice.

You can also see more Nursery information on our Nursery page (Go to the main menu, select Children / Year Groups / Nursery)

Welcome WBP families!

We are looking forward to greeting and transitioning our new Nursery and Reception children.

We will hold meetings in the Summer Term via Zoom.

Please check your email inboxes (and junk mail boxes) for our messages and invitations.

Nursery Welcome Meetings [via Zoom]

Come and meet the team and find out more about our nursery induction and curriculum! :)

Welcome - Part 1 

The Nursery Induction and Virtual Tour!

• Tuesday 27th June 2pm
• Tuesday 5th May 2pm

Welcome - Part 2 

EYFS Curriculum, Getting Ready for Nursery and Story Time!

• Tuesday 15th June 2pm

Welcome - Part 3 

'Little Learners' Activity Session!

•  Thursday 8th July 1:30pm

Welcome to Reception!

Meeting and Virtual Tour - Via Zoom

For families new to William Bellamy 

Thursday 1st July 2021 2pm

Meeting and Virtual Tour - Via Zoom

For families with children attending William Bellamy School Nursery

Date coming very soon!

William Bellamy School Nursery Children - Meet the teacher

Friday 9th July :)

Would you like to find out ways to manage your child's behaviour?

Please see this attached document Toddler Tips!

School staff are available to talk about strategies that may work for individual children and situation. Please let us know if you would like more support.

Some steps to help set up this system:

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• Parents to read and sign the eyLog agreement.
• Parents to give us their email addresses and signed permissions.
• Staff to set up children's files on eyLog.
• Staff to gather observational assessments (photos, video, audio recordings, written narratives) of a child or group of children. 
• Staff to upload observations to eyLog.
• Parents are notified when observations are ready to be viewed.
• Parents can comment on children's learning and staff can reply.
• Parents can upload photos and video showing experiences that children are having outside school.​

THANK YOU to parents who have already started uploading their own comments, photos and observations to their child's eyLog page! We are enjoying finding out what your child is doing, talking about and learning at home! :)

We are going to be tagging your observations with assessment statements. Your observations will become an important part of your child's Learning Journey. They will used to build a holistic picture of what your child is achieving at home as well as at school. So THANK YOU for this support! We really appreciate it :)

Problems with eyLog? Let us know. 

Please speak to your child's class adults if you are having any difficult with registration or other issues. We can check and amend information uploaded in the system. We resend the link as soon as all the information looks correct. Please check your junk mail folder as the registration email may end up in there. We can't wait for you to see your child's learning and development!   

No email address? Please come and look at your child's learning journey on our computers at school. Speak to staff as soon as possible to arrange this.

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) 

Key Principles

Unique Child

'Every child is a unique child who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self assured'            

                                   (Development Matters in the EYFS 2012)

Positive Relationships

We value parents as children's first educators. We hope that parents and carers become fully involve in their child's learning. We carry out the following activities to support two way communication:

• Home visits
• A carefully planned induction period
• Time to speak to parents at handover times each day
• 'Family Friday' sessions each term
• Termly parent consultations
• eyLog online Learning Journeys
• Termly newsletters
• Updates on the year group web pages 

Enabling Environment

'Children learn and develop well in enabling environments, in which their experiences respond to their individual needs and there is a strong partnership between practitioners and parents and / or carers.'

                                    (Development Matters in the EYFS 2012)

Learning and Development

Our EYFS children are offered a broad curriculum which includes seven areas of learning and development. These are:

Prime Areas:

• Communication and Language
• Physical Development
• Personal Social and Emotional Development 

Specific Areas:

• Literacy
• Mathematical Development
• Understanding the World
• Creative Development

The Characteristics of Efective Learning

Playing and Exploring: Interest...

Developing interests and fascinations, making sense of their world through play and 'having a go!'

Active Learning: Motivation...

Keep on trying, pursuing personal goals and being proud of successes

Creating and Thinking Critically: Thinking...

Having own ideas, making links, problem solving, reasoning and many more thinking skills

These are essential learning behaviours that help children develop a love of learning and enable them to become effective learners. These characteristics begin to develop at home with families from birth and they continue to develop though school years and adult life. Encouragement and support from adults enables our children to become resilient, capable learners.  Children who become confident to pursue their aspirations and eventually fulfill their dreams!