Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

Welcome to William Bellamy 2024!

Do you wish to find out more about a Nursery or 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.

NURSERY ADMISSIONS FOR SEPTEMBER 2024

We have already held out first welcome event to begin the admissions process for our new nursery children and families. If you are interested in taking up a part time or full time place, please contact the school admin team. Your child can be placed on our waiting list and we will contact to with details of the next welcome event.

You can contact us in the following ways: office@w-bellamy.bardaglea.org.uk OR 02082706506 OR come and complete a nursery place request form at the main office on Frizlands Lane.

Nursery Welcome Meeting 2024

2024.Welcome to Nursery.pdf

RECEPTION ADMISSIONS FOR SEPTEMBER 2024

We now have our list of children and families who will be joining Reception in September. We are planned our transition programme and will be in touch with dates soon.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

EYFS Intent Statement

EYFS Intent Statement Sept 2023.docx

Early Year Foundation Stage - Statutory Framework and Non Statutory Curriculum

EYFS_framework_from_September_2023.pdf

Development Matters - Non-statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage (publishing.service.gov.uk)

D.F.E Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) - September 2021

2021_Information_for_parents_reception_baseline_assessment.pdf

Take a look at our child-friendly environment

'eyLog' provides our Early Years Online Learning Journey

'eyLog' guide for parents

eyLog for Parents - v5.0.docx

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!

How to help your child at home

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.

Toddler Tips

Toddler tips.pdf

Early Years Foundation Stage

Key Principles

Unique Child

We know that the most effective learning and development takes place when children feel safe and secure and when adults tune into their unique interests, needs and abilities. We love finding out about our children's fascinations! It helps us plan experiences that motivate them to learn.

Celebrating our unique backgrounds!

We are very lucky to have children with many different home languages in our Nursery and Reception classes. We celebrate and promote these languages through 'Language of the Month' activities and dual language story telling.

Positive Relationships

At William Bellamy Primary positive relationships between adults and children are considered a priority. Carefully planned transition arrangements allow adults to spend time getting to know each child and his or her family. Each child is allocated a key person who helps make sure his or her individual needs are met. Sensitive observation and interaction between adults and children encourage each child to communicate in his or her own way. This communication is a crucial part of all learning and teaching in the EYFS.

Parent Partnership

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

We believe young children learn effectively when engaging with rich resources and a wide range of carefully planned learning opportunities. Stimulating indoor and outdoor provision enables children to move, interact, talk and develop in a way that meets their individual learning needs. Quality adult interactions ensure children develop language and thinking whichs supports and extends their learning.

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 Effective 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!

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