WELCOME TO OUR SCHOOL!!!

As teachers have always done, we will spend a few weeks getting to know your child, watching how they play and get on with others and finding out all they already know. We will hopefully have some information passed on from any pre-school settings they attended as well.

We have a system of on-going assessment that links with the new Foundation Stage Profile. This does not involve formal testing but carefully planned hands-on activities involving play, group games and one- t o-one chats. The Profile is something that we use across the year and it informs our teaching as well as being a means of assessment. We will share any information we have during our Parents Consultation in the Autumn Term and again in the Spring Term. In the Summer Term you will receive a written report that includes information about the Foundation Stage Profile and the progress made by your child in relation to this.

The National Curriculum lays down the areas of study which should be covered at each stage of a child’s education (known as Key Stages), and the levels of achievement which should be expected (known as Levels).

The total period of a child’s education is split into four key stages. At Wimborne First we cover Reception (which has its own curriculum, the "Foundation Stage"), Key Stage 1 (Year 1 and 2), and the first half of Key Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4).