Welcome to Foundation Stage 2025 - 2026

Our Learning Journey

Winter learning

During this half-term the children have learnt about the season of Winter, and looked at the Polar regions. The children created some Winter artwork.

Dance

 This half-term in PE the children have been learning Dance. Using the story The Gruffalo, the children thought of moves for the animals in the story and put them together in a sequence. In addition to this KTZ Dance teacher came into school for a dance session, the children enjoyed this.

Christmas Learning

Over the last few weeks the children have learnt about Advent, Christingle and Christmas. They helped make buns and decorated them for our party. In maths the children have explored measure and number. In literacy, the children have enjoyed a number of Julia Donaldson's stories including Stickman and the Christmas Pine.

Festivals

In FS2 during the Autumn term, the children have learnt about different festivals and celebrations, these include, Diwali, Odd Sock Day and Anti-Bullying week, Hello Yellow Day, Fireworks and Remembrance Day.

Autumn Learning

During this half-term, the children have learnt lots of new skills, representing numbers and looking at 2D shape in maths. We have explored Autumn and our families in our Topic work. We have started phonics, learning to sound out words and blending them.

First Days in FS2

 During our first few weeks at Mount Pleasant we have explored the unit and outside areas, including forest school. Badger's have taken part in lots of different activities and learnt some new routines. 

Our World

This half term our learning has focused about our local environment, the world around us and ourselves. We have looked at the story of Handa's Surprise, focusing on Africa, we listened to some African music and used the instruments to accompany the music. In maths we have looked at teen numbers, focusing on place value.

Lifecycles

This half-term we have concluded our learning on lifecycles; we wrote about the lifecycle of a frog and butterfly, created artwork and also talked about the lifecycle of humans. 

Summer Learning

During this half term the children have spent lots of time outside in the sunshine. Learning has focused on Farm stories and farm animals. In maths we have learnt have learnt about doubling and halving and number bonds to 10.

Farm Visit

We enjoyed a visit from Emily’s Mini Farm. We saw lots of different animals including ‘Barbie’ the Sheep and ‘Ant’ and ‘Dec’ the goats. We had the opportunity to hold and stroke a tortoise, rabbit and chick. We then headed across to the field for lots of fun and a picnic lunch. We finished our day with an ice cream, yummy!