Welcome to Year R

Class Teachers:

Mrs Anna Harmer teaches YR Monday - Tuesday.

Mrs Lambert teaches YR Wednesday - Friday. 

Learning Support Assistants:

Mrs Leach

Miss Paine 

PE days:

PE is on a Tuesday and Friday and children will need to wear PE kit into school on these days.

Notices:

Children change their phonics (learn to read) books on a Thursday and their library (love to read) books on a Friday.

Please ensure your child has their book bag and reading folder in school everyday.

Our approach in Early Years

At Curdridge, we are proud to provide our children with a safe, nurturing environment where they can thrive as individuals. This forms the foundation for achieving our Recipe for Success. Our Curdridge core values — caring, confident, polite, proud, supportive, and successful — guide our school community every day, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to flourish.

Our dedicated team believes passionately in providing an exciting, hands-on, and captivating curriculum that responds to the needs and interests of our children. We continually reflect on the changing world and the impact it has on our pupils, making thoughtful adaptations and enhancements to our learning environment to ensure it remains rich and engaging.

Our bespoke curriculum is largely play-based, with skilled adults joining children in their play to move learning forward in a friendly, stimulating, and purposeful way. Alongside this, we offer short whole-class and small-group sessions to teach specific skills and knowledge.

At Curdridge, we understand the importance of a child’s first year at school. We create a warm, nurturing environment that allows each child to flourish, supporting their personal and emotional development, sparking their imagination, and instilling a lifelong love of learning.

The Early Years Curriculum, assessment and progress

There are seven areas of learning and development that shape our educational programme in Year R. All areas of learning and development are important and interconnected. Three areas are particularly important for building foundations for igniting children's curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, forming relationships and thriving. These are communication and language; personal, social and emotional development; and physical development.

We also support children through literacy, mathematics, understanding of the world and expressive arts and design. 

Further information on each of these areas can be found in the EYFS profile handbook below.

Early years foundation stage profile handbook

There is a level of development that children should be expected to obtain by the end of Year R, known as the Early Learning Goals.

Assessment plays an important part in helping us recognise children's progress, understand their needs, and plan activities and support. We use tapestry, an online learning journal to provide ongoing assessment which links home and school. 

At the end of Year R an EYFS profile is completed for each child which indicates whether or not children have met the expected levels of development. We share these results with parents, carers and the Year 1 teacher. 

Reading at CPS

"The more that you read, the more things you will know.  

The more that you learn, the more places you will go". 

A child's ability to read is a strong predictor of their life-long success.  Please remember to read daily at home with your child during their school journey.  Children bring home phonics books (their Learn to Read books) and the aim is to hear them read these 3-4 times per week, every week.  They also bring home library books (their Love to Read books) and it is equally important for them to snuggle up and listen to you read to them, discuss the story, predict endings and just enjoy sharing stories together.