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If you would like to see our learning journey for the year, please have a look at the EYFS overview for 2024-25.

EYFS Overview 2024-25

Within the Early Years at Starcross Primary School, we are passionate about children being happy, confident, well-rounded individuals with a love for learning. We believe that the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is crucial in securing solid foundations that children will continue to build upon throughout their lives.

In these first years at school – children’s learning and confidence grows in leaps and bounds. Here at Starcross Primary, we offer high quality adult interactions to develop and support children’s learning, alongside purposeful and exciting daily child-initiated opportunities. We are fortunate to have access to an on-site nature area and outdoor learning space for every EYFS classroom.

We are passionate about developing a love for reading from the very start. We promote this through our key texts, on-site library space and phonetically matched reading books. Read Write Inc. is our chosen phonics program. First, your child will learn to read:

• Set 1 Speed Sounds: these are sounds written with one letter:
• Set 1 sounds written with two letters (‘special friends’).
• Simple words containing these sounds, by sound-blending.
• Read words in carefully levelled Red, Green and Purple Storybooks.

Each sound is linked to a picture hook and short rhyme to help the children learn and remember them.

Learning to Blend Simple Words:

Your child will learn to read words containing Set 1 Speed Sounds by blending sounds together to create words.  We call this ‘Fred Talk’.
m-a-t    mat
c-a-t    cat
g-o-t    got
f-i-sh    fish
s-p-o-t   spot
b-e-s-t   best
s-p-l-a-sh   splash

For more information please click the below link:
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/