Welcome to the Goslings and Cygnets

If you are joining us in September 2024, please jump to the bottom of this page for links to support you and your child and to get ready for transition into school. 

To see your new class teacher and classroom, click on the picture below for your new class:

 

Please CLICK HERE  for information to parents and carers for supporting your child with phonics and maths. 

The new EYFS framework for Early Years is statutory. 

Click the links to find out more about your teachers.

Mr Wilbrooke	Mrs Tromans	Miss Pritchard	Mrs Mobbs
Mrs Sohna	Mrs Malone	Mrs Wyton	Miss Banks

Contact teachers via class email  (teachers will not be able to answer messages during the day as they will be teaching their class. They will endeavour to reply to queries as soon as possible) cygnets@meadows.worcs.sch.uk and goslings@meadows.worcs.sch.uk

PHONICS - here is some useful information for you on helping your child with phonics

www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

We use 'Little Wandle' phonics scheme. CLICK here to download the letter order                

Look here for more ideas for supporting learning in Reception: powerpoint on our guide to phonics   Signs for reading   Silly Soup   Phase 2 corrrect letter sounds video   Dan the Rhyming man (stick this onto a box and cut a hole for the mouth - use to post through rhyming objects or words) Writing box leaflet  Play Doh Recipe (great for developing fine motor control). 

Ideas to help with reading and phonics (how we teach letter sounds):

                                                          

Alphablocks are great for teaching the sounds!    Phonics Play - a fun website

 

                                                                      

 

Top marks have great games to play                      Skywriter - how to write letters correctly.

NUMBERS: Here are some ideas to help with numbers in the Early years. We follow the White Rose Hub for maths and Master the Curriculum. We aim to do as much practical work as possible - children love to use numicon, real objects, play-doh, conkers, acorns, egg boxes etc to learn about number. We love to sing lots of number rhymes and songs as these will help too!

Click on Meadows Mouse  great video for explaining Maths in the EYFS:   

Click on Meadows Mouse below for our number help sheet.

Thinking of joining us at Meadows First School?

New starters for 2025: If you are new to reception, or thinking about joining us, please follow this link for lots of information about starting school.

By now you will have seen this little fellow  - he is called Meadows Mouse and he helps us with our learning. He also has many friends and you will meet each of these over the year as well! If you click on him he will tell you about our learning code.

Can you see who is who?

Guess their names: Friendly Mouse, Active Mouse, Clever Mouse, Global Mouse, Calm Mouse, Safe Mouse

     

Parents and carers, please also click here to find out more about the Early Years at Meadows.