Welcome to our Early Years page; here you will be able to meet the team, find out about our curriculum and any events that have taken place in Early Years.

We will provide a range of links to useful websites to support your child with phonics, maths, reading and much more.

Any letters that are sent out will be uploaded here to ensure that you are always kept up to date with the latest news in school, specifically in Early Years.

Please take a look at our Early Years gallery, here you will be able to see photos of our stimulating environments and the learning that takes place within our setting.

Mrs Pearson- EYFS leader and Reception Teacher

Mrs Booth – Teaching Assistant

Mrs Richardson – Nursery HLTA

Ms Meister – Teaching Assistant

Ms Glasby- Teaching Assistant

Ms Kemp – Teaching Assistant

We have a Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum framework that became statutory in September 2021. We have created an exciting, well sequenced curriculum that is aspirational for all of our children. It allows them to engage in a range of topics to develop the necessary skills and knowledge for them to become exceptional learners. The named person with responsibility for the EYFS curriculum is Rebecca Pearson.

It is vital that your child’s prime areas of Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development and Communication and Language are focused on during their earliest years and as these become well embedded the children move on to focus on the specific areas of Literacy, Maths, Understanding of the World and Expressive Arts and Design. Throughout all of the above topics, children are given the opportunity to develop within all areas of learning.

At The Vale Primary Academy, we value the importance of play and building positive interactions with adults and children. We have therefore, partnered with Boromi play library to offer families exciting and valuable play opportunities that they can complete in their own homes. We have four bags that are sent home weekly with children and built around the play principles: invent, imagine, investigate and share.

For information about Boromi see the following link Play matters – Boromi

In Nursery, children will begin to learn phase one phonics supported by Launchpad for Literacy.

Our Nursery provides the best start for our pupils through a play based curriculum which follows their interests and caters for their ongoing developmental needs. Our pupils have access to high quality provision both indoors and outdoors which is carefully planned and led by a qualified Teacher alongside a team of skilled support staff. Within our provision, our Nursery pupils are able to play, enquire, explore, create, experiment, learn and develop their social and communication skills. Following their excellent start with us, the majority of our Nursery pupils enrol in our Reception classes as they continue their academic journey.

At The Vale Primary Academy, we accept pupils into our Nursery from age three. New pupils can enrol in September, January and April or after their third birthday, depending on the availability of class spaces.

Mornings: 8.40am until 11.40am

Afternoons: 12:20 – 15:20

These places are offered on a first come first served basis and more details are available upon request.

This website has a range of printable resources as well as fun interactive games that can support children through all phases of phonics. Please speak to your child’s class teacher to find out which phase of phonics they are currently working on.

This is our online reading system we use in school. Children have their own account with books assigned to them, they can read these books and have a go at some comprehension questions. We ask that parents read with their children a minimum of four times a week, either through Oxford Owl or physical books sent home. Please speak to your child’s class teacher for their log in details.

This website has a range of interactive games that cover many aspects of the curriculum, particularly maths. If you search Early Years it will bring up a range of activities appropriate for children up to 5 years old.

This website has a range of interactive games that cover many aspects of the curriculum, particularly maths. If you search Early Years it will bring up a range of activities appropriate for children up to 5 years old.

We feel that it is hugely important for parents to be as involved as possible with their child’s education and for us to form an effective home school partnership. Doing this allows you to keep up to date with what your child is doing in school and it provides opportunities for this learning to continue at home. We will regularly provide activities that you can do with your child to help them practise and apply their skills using a real-life context. Teachers will also set challenges for children to complete at home to complement their learning in school. Here are some examples of how the children have responded to their home learning challenges.

Please check Class Dojo regularly see what has been uploaded.

ClassDojo for Parents