EarlyYears@Hovingham

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

✨Reminder✨

Don’t forget that applications for Reception 2026 places are now open 🤩

Open Day Tour: 02/12/25 9.30-10.30

Come and visit our wonderful school 💫 take a tour of our Early Years unit, Forest School Provision and the opportunity to ask any questions you may have.

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

We all have wonderful women around us… make sure you let them know how much they matter! ❤️#InternationalWomensDay

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

It’s #WorldBookDay2026 !!! As part of our celebrations, all families are invited into school this morning to choose 2 📚 to take 🏡, share and KEEP! Just another way we’re trying to spread our ❤️ for #reading …l HUGE thanks to @ChildrensBookSF for making this happen!

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

As part of our journey to becoming a reading school we desperately need a children’s book author to help us launch our BRAND NEW library for the first week in March… @tompalmerauthor would have you be available???#lovereadinginleeds @CATCHLeeds @Leeds_Learning

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

HUGE thank you to @cashforkids - we’re super excited to have received our first load of donations via #missionchristmas ready for Santa’s elves to start wrapping! Hovingham is definitely going to be filled with festive cheer this year 🥰🎅🏻🤶🏻🎁

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

It’s amazing how time flies when you’re having fun… we can’t believe our EYFS children have only spent 9 weeks in school - they’ve achieved so much already!!! #strongfoundations #expressiveartanddesign
#understandingtheworld @Leeds0_19Team @Child_Leeds @leedsearlyyears

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

@Booktrust Please can you let us know how we can apply for books to be delivered to school for our disadvantaged children?

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

Woo hoo for the weekend! We’re so excited for the final few days in school next week… we can’t wait to see how much interest and talk comes from our latest addition to the outdoor area!!! BIG thanks to all staff and our neighbours @CATCHLeeds for helping us to set this up! 😍

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

Our team have been very busy getting ready to welcome our brand new cohort of children tomorrow… we can’t wait to meet them all and hope they feel the love that has gone into our provision areas! #startingschool2025 #letsdothis #startingstrong

[Wake Up Wednesday @wake_up_weds]

🎒 📅Back to school! This week’s #WakeUpWednesday guide shares 10 top tips to support children with the transition back into school life 🧠💬

Download your FREE copy here > > https://t.co/yGtGA9CUUv

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

Part 2!

#earlylearning #purposefulprovision
#greatstart
#strongfoundations
#welovenursery
❤️

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

We’ve loved exploring our ‘Under the Sea’ topic in Nursery this half term… they say “time flies when you’re having fun” - how are there only 2 weeks left until the summer hols?!?

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

@KidzKlubLeeds @Child_Leeds @CfYoungLives Would you like to join us for our 'Community is Power' event on Wednesday 18/6/25 8.30-9.15am???

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

The children have been developing their own super powers...

On 18/6/25 all Reception children can come to school dressed as 🦸🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️

Parents can find about the amazing things we've learnt to do ⚡️

We'll also have some local community heroes on hand with some FREE goodies! 👍

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

We’ve also visited our sensory room where the children looked at the different coloured lights. We used this to talk about Jellyfish, modelling and reinforcing understanding of new vocabulary e.g. bright, glow, colourful.

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

Snapshot of learning from Nursery…
Using our new 📕, children have been learning & thinking about jellyfish.
We’re using short rhymes to discover a new sea creature each week 🪼🐙🐋🐢🐠🦈
Click on the link to 👀 & listen 👂🏻 to the rhymes at home:
https://t.co/Xqi491SoqP

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

The children have enjoyed exploring a range of activities linked to our ‘jellyfish’ theme!

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

We’ll be planting videos in provision to support children’s writing development with some dictated sentences!
#reducingcognitiveload #talkforwriting #developingearlylanguage #supportingEAL

[EarlyYears@Hovingham @EYTeamHovingham]

Snapshot of learning from Reception…
Using our new 📕, children have described the characters.
Next week we’re using dictated sentences to write messages from the trapped veg 🥕🥦🥒
Click on the link to 👀 & listen 👂🏻 to the story at home:
https://t.co/JvQsXPa6aY @lee

[EEF @EducEndowFoundn]

💡Great to see more families set to benefit from free school meals - a vital support that boosts children’s wellbeing and learning.

🛑But it’s important to remember: these children won’t qualify for Pupil Premium, even though their families are on Universal Credit.

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