Stithians Community Primary School

Welcome to Gunwalloe Class

Teacher

Amanda Foster
(afoster@stithians.cornwall.sch.uk)

Support Staff


Jo Strick	Adele Zschiesche	Lacey Isaacs

Welcome to Gunwalloe Class.

Information

Our Welcome Pack details all the day-to-day information you may require.

The Photo Gallery is full of helpful images of the Gunwalloe team, members of the school staff, and pictures of the inside and outside facilities.

The school's Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Policy includes:

The school's vision
Aims and principles
Planning and organising the curriculum
Classroom organisation and resources
Use of whole school resources
Induction
Involving parents
Language and literacy supporting the reception child
Assessment and record keeping
Monitoring and evaluation

The Early Years ELGs and Development Statements introduces parents to the seven areas of learning and development.

A baseline assessment will take place within the first six weeks of entry to school. This information pack is sent out to all parents at the beginning of the year. For more information, see the government website here.

Class information

Hi, my name is Cosgrove and I am a cuddly bear. .

Every Friday I sneak into a bag in the hopes of joining one of the children for the weekend. I am a great guest as I am snuggly, quiet and will eat almost anything. I am partial to biscuits so it is probably best if you hide them up high in a cupboard. I travel with few possessions, even though Miss Foster has promised to make me some pyjamas. If you would like to add something for the next sleepover, I would be very appreciative (ie a toothbrush)

Termly Newsletters

Click below to read the latest termly newsletter-

Newsletter - Summer Term 2

Newsletter - Summer Term 1

Newsletter - Spring Term 2

Newsletter - Spring Term 1

Newsletter - Autumn Term 2

Newsletter - Autumn Term 1

Yearly Topic webs

Half-termly topic webs for the school year are shown below. Click on the available links to view the topic webs.

Autumn term	Spring term	Summer term
All About Me! Winter - Celebrations	Beep! All Aboard. Animals - from tall to short	Let's Dig It! Children's Choice

Weekly celebration certificates - Autumn Term 1 2025

18th September 2025	POW Finley Virtue Valentina
25th September	POW Toby Virtue Taran
3rd October 2025	POW Zara Virtue Leonora
10th October 2025	POW Arthur Virtue Elsie

Weekly blog

3rd October 2025

This week in Gunwalloe Class we have been discussing feelings and saying 'sorry' after reading 'Martha doesn't say sorry'. It was lovely to hear the children talk about what they knew. We also read 'A Wet Walk' where the children were introduced to new vocabulary and more information about seasons. We discussed and recorded items that we could wear/use when it is wet. As part of our initial assessments, the children were invited to identify colours and shades of colours in a fun practical activity before we finished the week recapping the four phonemes we have learnt so far - s,a,t,p.

25th September 2025

Another wonderful week has been completed in Gunwalloe. We have started our work on families, how they can be similar and yet different, and we have created a family wall display where the children have shared who their family members are. Feelings has been another main focus this week. The children have been listening to stories about how we feel at certain times - when we fall over, when someone is unkind, when we get a hug and many more instances. We had fun making faces to show how emotions can change the way we look. In writing this week we have looked at capital letters when writing our names and in phonics we have learnt the phonemes 's' and 'a'. To top the week off we have started to learn about seasons. Art lessons have been about creating autumn frames for our face photos.

18th September 2025

What a great first week in Gunwalloe Class. The children have all settled in extremely well. We have read many stories to do with starting school, practised our fine motor skills by taking our pencil for a walk across our paper, made playdough and created faces, dressed up in our role play area, learnt our classroom rules and much, much more. The children have enjoyed dancing, writing their name and we have shared some lovely information with each other about our lives. What a busy, tiring week full of fun!

RESOURCES

Introduction to Phonics - All you need to know about phonics - Pearson (youtube.com)

Letter sounds - Phonics: How to pronounce pure sounds | Oxford Owl (youtube.com)

Letter formation - Learning to Write with Correct Letter Formation full Alphabet (youtube.com)

Bug Club - sequence of learning in Reception

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