DOVE CLASS
Welcome to Doves!
🕊 Turtle Doves and Barbary Doves 🕊
We are two classes - Turtle Doves and Barbary Doves - we work and play together as one EYFS unit.
The Turtle Dove class teacher is Mrs McEwen and the Barbary Dove class teacher is Miss Storey. Our Teaching Assistants are Mrs Hiscoe, Mrs Brown and Mrs Barnes.
PE will be on Tuesdays for Barbary Doves, and Thursdays for Turtle Doves.
Mrs Tawse and Mr Hortin also work with us.
Early Years Foundation Stage Policy
Summer Term 1
Topic: Water
Concept: Friendship
River painting and our under the sea roleplay corner
Rushall Farm Trip!
Our hatching chicks!!!
Child Initiated Learning
World Book Day
1/3/24 Super sports & more
Spring term 2 - On the Farm
Our focus text is Rosie's Walk - Doves can you retell the story to your family using the story map?
On the Farm learning
Have a wonderful half term Doves!!
Spring Term 1
Our new topic is... Castles!
We have a special role play castle with lots of fun costumes. We have designed our own castles in Literacy, and have been focusing on the number zero in Maths.
Our key text is Jack and the Beanstalk.
Doves have started Show and Tell sessions, well done for showing our focus value of 'Courage' this week by getting up in front of the class to tell us about your objects!
Chinese New Year learning!
Planting magic beans from Jack!
Our amazing Castle day!!! "Best day ever!"
Jousting on Castle day!
Learning about mosques
Junk modelling, writing, story maps and more!
Scissor Skills
Subitising in Maths
Castles topic - week 1 and 2
Designing our Coat of Arms!
We hope you have a magical Christmas break, well done for settling in so well in your first term at school! 
Our Magical Nativity Stable Exhibition!
Our recommended book this week is:
Reindeer Dash and other learning!
Christingle!
Posting our Christmas cards
Learning about Diwali
Some of our learning this week - 17th November
Learning this week 10th November
Lost and Found!
Remembrance Day - poppies and assembly 10th November 2023
Autumn term 2
Our topic is 'In the Cold', our key text is Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers, along with lots of other satellite texts related to the topic. This is always a busy term as we prep for lots of lovely festive activities towards the Christmas season.
Friday 10th November: The Doves children were amazing in the Remembrance assembly we held at Infants today, we added our poppies to the cross and held a minutes silence with KS1. Well done Doves!
Taste Test! Honey, salt, lemon, sugar, ginger??
Harvest Festival
Painting Autumn Colours
Recent learning
Picking Apples for Harvest!
Doves First Lunch
Our First Few Days at School!!
Autumn 1
Our Topic this half term is Me, Myself and I and our focus concept is Friendship.
As well as settling into a new school and routine, we will get to know new friends and teachers. We will think about who we are and what makes each of us unique. Some key questions we will talk about over the next six weeks are:
Who am I? What makes me special? What is a friend? What makes a good friend? Is it easy to be friendly all of the time?
Stories that we will read this half term are First Day at Bug School, Owl Babies, Funny Bones, Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Read Write Inc Letter Formation Phrases
These are the phrases that the children are taught at school to help them to form their letters correctly.
However, please note that we do teach pre-cursive letter formation so therefore you will need to slightly adapt the phrases by adding in 'whoosh in' at the beginning of each phrase.
You can also download the letter strip below as well as the pre-cursive alphabet for your children to trace.