Class Teacher: Mrs McGarry

Class TA: Mrs Stenton

Year groups: EYFS - Reception 

Hello and welcome to the class page for McGarry's Meerkats.

At the start of the day, we welcome pupils at the classroom door from 8.35-8.45am.

If parents need to contact Mrs McGarry, this can be done in the following ways:

• Seesaw 
• Leave a message at the school office to be passed onto to us
• Ask us to ring you later in the day
• Make an appointment to see us
• Speak to us at the start or end of the school day at the classroom door.

Making new relationships is a major part of life in the Early Years and it is something we focus on all year round. Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Communication and Language and Physical Development are also prime areas in the Early Years and we encourage our children to be confident in these aspects of their learning.

We are very lucky to have an amazing outdoor area which the children have access to all day every day. They can experience so many different elements of learning without even realising it and the children have the chance to complete fine and gross motor tasks as and when they choose.  

     "The best classroom and the widest cupboard is in the open  air"

       Margaret Macmillan 

                                                              

                

In Early Years, we try and follow the children's interests and in that way, the children will be more enthusiastic about moving their own learning on. 

 We will be using lots of stories as a basis for our directed tasks and enhancing our continuous provision .....

                        

                   

 Every day the children take part in small group phonics session where we follow the Red Rose Letters & Sounds program. The children take part in listening games, soundwalks, and a variety of exciting ways to learn letter sounds and how to form their letters correctly. The children will be choosing a school story book to read together with you at home. It is a book that each child has picked because they found it interesting, it may be too difficult for them to read but we want to focus on the enjoyment side of books and the technicalities of reading ie reading left to right, top to bottom and turning the page. They will also be given a reading book which is to be read during the week with an adult and their Reading Record book signed when read. 

These books are changed on a Wednesday.

                                        

 We follow our school schemes MathShed and White Rose to learn all about numbers, shapes, capacity and all elements of the maths curriculum.

                                                  

Our beliefs are pretty much summed up in this little saying:

                                            

Our P.E days are: Wednesday and Thursday.

We will be getting changed at school for our P.E. sessions.

Your child will need a white T-Shirt, black shorts and pumps. 

Please make sure your child has their P.E. things at school. They need to be in a bag and clearly labelled.  

Our reading book day is: Wednesday. Please read with your child at home and if you could add a comment in their reading record this will help us to support you.