Welcome to William Bellamy Reception 2022!

Do you wish to find out more about a Reception place for your child? At William Bellamy Primary, we provide quality learning and development in a rich, creative environment, delivered by experienced EYFS professionals. Please join us to find out more via an online Zoom session!

The session will include information about:

• Our principles and aims for William Bellamy EYFS children
• Our approach to teaching and learning
• Our curriculum
• Additional support
• An introduction to our lovely Reception staff
• A virtual tour of the indoor and outdoor learning environments

Session times: Wednesday 1^st December 9:30-10:15am OR

                          Wednesday 8^th December 1:30-2:15pm

If you wish to be sent the Zoom link please send:

• your name
• your email address
• your preferred session time
• any queries or questions you have, or information you would especially like us to cover

Send via email to our Admin Team at this address:

office@w-bellamy.bardaglea.org.uk

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

This page share information about the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum and practice.

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.

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.

We can't wait for you to see your child's learning and development!  

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

Please see this attached document. Also, 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.

Early Years Foundation Stage  

Key Principles

Unique Child

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:

• A carefully planned induction period
• Time to speak to parents at handover times each day
• Termly parent consultations
• eyLog online Learning Journeys
• Termly newsletters
• Updates on the website 

Enabling Environment

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!