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Mr Early Years

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With 20+ years of teaching experience across Europe, I bring extensive expertise as a Reception Teacher and Forest School Practitioner. Passionate about play-based learning and the outdoors, I've developed a dynamic environment that fosters children's exploration and connection with nature. Here you'll find some of my outstanding resources to support your own teaching and learning!

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With 20+ years of teaching experience across Europe, I bring extensive expertise as a Reception Teacher and Forest School Practitioner. Passionate about play-based learning and the outdoors, I've developed a dynamic environment that fosters children's exploration and connection with nature. Here you'll find some of my outstanding resources to support your own teaching and learning!
Outdoor Writing Challenge: Sheet 3
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Outdoor Writing Challenge: Sheet 3

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A simple writing challenge for your Reception children. This independent activity challenges the child to first locate the items on the sheet, which they have great fun doing with their friends, and then write down their name. There is guidance for letter formation included. For best results, provide a clipboard with interesting fancy pens!
Outdoor Writing Challenge
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Outdoor Writing Challenge

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A simple writing challenge for your Reception children. This independent activity challenges the child to first locate the items on the sheet, which they have great fun doing with their friends, and then write down its name… For best results, provide a clipboard with interesting fancy pens!
Forest School Outdoor Learning Introduction
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Forest School Outdoor Learning Introduction

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An introduction to gardening through a forest school ethos. This lesson plan contains games (warm up activities) to promote language, literacy and confidence. It contains challenges to promote resilience and confidence and an activity to develop an awareness and respect of/for nature. The lesson/activity is planned for around 2 hours.
Phonics homewoork oo sound worksheet
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Phonics homewoork oo sound worksheet

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A homework sheet for children to fill in the missing oo sound in words. a selection of oo as in book as well as oo as in moon have been included. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of CVC words. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (s)
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Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (s)

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UPDATED TO INCLUDE DIFFERENTIATION. DOWNLOAD AGAIN FOR FREE! Homework sheet for children to identify the sound and write CVC, CVCC and CCVC words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of the words. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (n)
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Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (n)

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A homework sheet for children to identify the sound and write CVC and CVVC words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of the words. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (t)
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Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (t)

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A homework sheet for children to identify the sound and write CVC and CCVC words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of the words. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
ar phonics worksheet
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ar phonics worksheet

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A homework sheet for children to fill in the missing ar sound in words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of CVC words and beyond. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (a)
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Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (a)

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UPDATED TO INCLUDE DIFFERENTIATION. DOWNLOAD AGAIN FOR FREE! Homework sheet for children to identify the sound and write CVC and CCVC words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of the words. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Phonics Homework ee Sound
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Phonics Homework ee Sound

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A homework sheet for children to fill in the missing ee sound in words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of CVC words and beyond. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (p)
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Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (p)

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A homework sheet for children to identify the sound and write CVC and CCVC words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of the words. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (m)
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Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (m)

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A homework sheet for children to identify the sound and write CVC and CVVC words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of the words. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (c)
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Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (c)

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A homework sheet for children to identify the sound and write CVC and CCVVC words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of the words. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (g)
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Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (g)

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A homework sheet for children to identify the sound and write CVC and CVVC words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of the words. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (d)
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Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (d)

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A homework sheet for children to identify the sound and write CVC and CVCC words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of the words. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (k)
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Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (k)

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A homework sheet for children to identify the sound and write CVC and CVCC words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of the words. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (i)
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Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (i)

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A homework sheet for children to identify the sound and write CVC and CVCC words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of the words. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (o)
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Phonics Letters and Sounds Homework Sheet (o)

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A homework sheet for children to identify the sound and write CVC and CCVC words. The illustrations guide the child and the writing frames assist with their independent segmentation of the words. This sheet can be used as a homework or classroom activity and suits as an additional activity to Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Read Write Inc. (RWI) etc. Suitable for EYFS Reception and/or Year 1.
Reading Observation Sheet with Prompts (EYFS)
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Reading Observation Sheet with Prompts (EYFS)

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An observation sheet especially tailored to reading. With this sheet, you can observe the child during an adult led guided reading session or during independent child-led reading. The sheets contain an extensive range of prompts to guide the observer which makes observing quick and easy!
Phonics/Literacy Assessment
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Phonics/Literacy Assessment

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A sheet to record your assessment of the children in phonics/literacy. Print this sheet twice (there are enough rows for 15 names) and use it for on-entry, term 2 and term 3 assessment. Simply fill in beside each child's name their results for the number of phonemes, graphemes tricky words and so forth that the child knows. Each term's entry is on the same page to allow for progression to be seen easily.