Class One Barlow Primary School

Children playing in our Early Years area

Early Years Play

Children playing in our Early Years area

Children playing in our Early Years area

Grandparents

Grandparents' Surprise - 7th October 2024

The children in Class 1 were joined by many of their grandparents for a special surprise last week. The children led their ...

Fire service

Class 1 Fire Service Visit 2024

The children in Class 1 welcomed the local firefighting team into school recently to build on the work that they have been ...

Lunar New Year

Class 1 Lunar New Year

We have had so much fun in Class 1 exploring all things relating to the Lunar New Year. We have enjoyed learning ...

Class 1

Class 1 Learning

Please see our children exploring and learning in Class 1. They like to play and learn both indoors and outdoors and take ...

Outdoor area

Inside the Classroom

Here are some photos of the fantastic provision in the classroom in Spring 2023....

Class 1

Class 1 Science

Last week the frosty weather activities were in full force! We have loved wrapping up warm and exploring the ice, learning all ...

Fireman

Fire Service Visit to Class 1

We had so much fun in Class 1 when the firefighters arrived at school in their fire engine! We learnt all about ...

chocolate cake fun

Chocolate Cake Mixing with Mrs Smith

EYFS children turned their hand to a chocolate cake this week, measuring their own ingredients, binding the mixture, whisking the eggs and ...

valentines day biscuits

Valentine's Day Biscuits with Mrs Smith

The children in Class One made Valentine's Day biscuits with Mrs Smith this week for their mums and dads.

Teaching Staff

Teacher(s):

Miss Nunn

Assisted by:

Mrs Alnajjar, Miss Lindley & Mrs Bowmer

About Class One

Welcome to Class 1! Our teacher Miss Nunn teaches us during the week. We are very lucky to have Mrs Robbins and Mrs Cammack who also help us in our learning.

Class 1 is where the fun happens! Every day is set up by our teachers to make sure we enjoy our learning and make the most of the exciting indoor and outdoor learning space at our disposal!

Exploration and play are at the heart of our learning in EYFS. We define our own day, steering our own learning whilst exploring and playing in the amazing setting that we have at Barlow. We learn to develop physically, emotionally, and socially before moving on to expressing ourselves through Art and Design, developing confidence in Literacy and Maths and learning to understand our world. In EYFS, we love exploring and learning, becoming confident, resilient, and curious learners, ready for anything!

In Reception, Miss Nunn helps us to develop our core skills in reading, writing and maths. We have adult-directed sessions in phonics, handwriting and maths across the week, where we begin to link sounds to letters, read and write meaningful sentences and apply our number and shape knowledge in real-life scenarios.

By the time we start in Year 1, we are keen to learn more formally and tackle the National Curriculum with enthusiasm. Our teachers enable us to work in a practical, hands-on, and collaborative manner to make sure that learning is still fun and engaging. We move on to learn about alternative pronunciations of graphemes in phonics which helps us, in turn, to read fluently and spell accurately. We are given plenty of opportunities to apply our maths skills to problem-solving and real-life scenarios. Alongside all this, we tackle the wider curriculum through our topic, which is always inspired by our own interests, observed by the teachers in the previous term. As the oldest children in Class 1, we are given plenty of responsibility to take care of our environment and lead the smaller children in their learning.

In Class 1, we are very passionate about the outdoors, and you will see us outside in all weathers, wrapped up in winter and with our sun hats on in summer! We enrich our learning outdoors and are encouraged to learn through exploration, investigation, and enquiry, using play and imagination to develop socially, emotionally, and physically.

We are a happy and friendly class, always welcoming parents, and carers to come and talk to us and see how we learn here at Barlow. In EYFS we encourage families to engage with our ‘Learning Journey’ which begins at the start of Nursery using ‘Tapestry’. Here we celebrate all the achievements at school, and we give the opportunity for families to add other achievements outside of school.

Every half term families receive a curriculum newsletter which explains the focus for the term and a little bit more about how our families can support this at home.

Barlow EYFS Newsletter Spring 2025

Barlow Year 1 Newsletter Spring 2025

Barlow EYFS Newsletter Autumn 2024

Barlow Year 1 Newsletter Autumn 2024

Nursery & Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Policy Spring 2023

Early Years Choking Hazards Table

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