EYFS 2024 - 2025

Welcome to Foundation Stage!

Welcome back and a happy new year! We hope you have had a wonderful break and are ready to start a brand new year with lots of exciting learning opportunities. This half term we will be diving into our Space theme, where we will be exploring planets, the galaxy and maybe even meeting an alien or two! This is a great opportunity to explore non fiction texts as we learn about our world and beyond. 

In maths, Reception will be concentrating on developing number knowledge up to 10 as well as investigating spatial reasoning and shape. We will also continue to develop our phonic knowledge to support and extend early reading and writing, through our space topic. Reading books will be changed every MONDAY and THURSDAY. Please ensure the reading diary is signed. PE will be every Tuesday with Salford Red Devils. 

In Nursery we will be continuing with Phase 1 phonics, developing our listening and attention skills and tuning into rhyme and alliteration. In maths we will be focusing on numbers 1 – 5, developing our skills of number representation, cardinality, composition and counting. PE will be every Friday - please ensure that your child comes to school wearing a PE kit. 

Thank you as always for your continued support!

If you have any questions, please email us at

h.burke@abbott.manchester.sch.uk - Nursery

r.peters@abbott.manchester.sch.uk - Reception

e.ilic@abbott.manchester.sch.uk - EYFS Lead/Reception

Thank you as always for your continued support and cooperation.