Welcome to Reception
As we welcome you into our unit you will notice children playing and exploring in the continuous provision. There will be children making models in the workshop or construction, children being story tellers in the small world or role play, children perfecting their new found knowledge of letters and sounds at the writing table - the list really does go on! We are also lucky enough to have a fantastic outdoor area, which we see as an extension of our classroom. Children love to explore the water play, mud kitchen, garden and music area. We go outdoors whatever the weather and sometimes the wetter and the windier the better! We provide the children with fleeces, waterproof jackets/trousers, wellies and sun hats so we are always prepared.
In a typical day children will spend short amounts of time on the carpet with their teacher where they will be taught new knowledge and skills. They will also take part in adult-led activities in a small group. The children then have plenty of time to follow their own interests and fascinations in child-initiated play. We value the importance of play in our unit and ensure that the experienced and specially trained adults have time to play alongside the children too, one of our favourite things to do! We love to share the children’s learning journey with you and at least once a term we will send pictures and stories about your child’s learning via our online learning tool. More details are shared about this in the parents' meeting we have in October.
We follow the Read Write Inc. programme and children begin their journey to reading success by being taught the Set 1 sounds during the Autumn Term. After each new sound we send home a sheet that enables the children to practise the sound and its formation at home with you. Children are given one or two new home/school reading books every Monday. We encourage parents to hear their children read ‘little and often’ and we ask that reading books are in book bags every Monday so books can be collected and changed. Children receive reward points for reading and are entered into a draw giving them the opportunity to win a book to the value of £5. Please ensure your child has their reading book and record at school every day as any opportunity to do additional reading will be taken.
On a Thursday the children will have PE with the school’s specialist PE teacher Mr McCarron. Children will require their PE kit in school on this day. We recommend that children keep their PE kit in school for the half term and we will send it home for washing before each school holiday. Earrings must be removed or taped up for this lesson.
We are also lucky enough to have a specialist music teacher who teaches the children every Tuesday. The children love this time and can often be heard singing the new songs they have learnt. They have plenty of opportunity to explore the musical instruments and compose their own pieces.
This Is Me!
This learning overview provides an insight into the children’s learning experiences at the start of their Reception Year. The learning opportunities will also continue to be enhanced as children build up their own unique experiences and share ideas with their friends, as is the ethos of the EYFS. Through the continuous provision, children are given lots of opportunities for child-initiated investigation and play. This approach allows children to discover and test new things independently, consolidate new learning and gain a deeper understanding. This approach, we believe, helps them to become more independent through the Characteristics of Effective Learning that we are promoting: Playing and Exploring, Active Learning, Creative and Thinking Critically.
Possible Lines Of Enquiry
Are we all the same?
Self – portraits
Families
Inside our bodies
Keeping Healthy
Doctors/Nurses/Dentists
Birthdays
Harvest
Bonfire Night
Divali
Christmas
Possible Wow Days
“This is Me” day (favourite clothes, books, food, toys etc.)
Visit by school nurse/doctor/dentist
Parent and baby visitor
Planning and holding a party for Broughton Bear
Harvest or a Christening at the church.
Parents Stay and Play
Christmas Party
PSED
Taught through our Jigsaw program
School value of the term is: I can be confident
Begin Circle Time
School rules and routines
Getting to know each other and our names
Who we are and our families
RE
Special Times for Me and Others
Our Special Books
Our Special Things
My Friends
English
Rhyming & Alliteration
Name recognition
Character names from Oxford Reading Tree books
Initial Sounds
Learn Set 1 Sounds
Practise Fred talking and word building
Reading simple words and sentences in our story books
Reading Set 1 high frequency words
Practising pre-writing skills e.g lines and circles
Learning to write our names and the Set 1 sounds
Writing simple CVC words
Opportunities to write in the provision and linked to our theme, e.g. lists, cards, invites, labels.
Maths
Sorting and matching objects in pairs and groups
Comparing Amounts
Comparing size, mass and capacity
Making simple patterns
Representing, comparing and the composition of 1,2 and 3
Circles and triangles
Positional Language
Representing, comparing and the composition of 4 and 5
One more and one less
Shapes with four sides
PE
As sports people, we will explore the basic skills of rolling, controlling, dribbling, kicking, throwing and catching a ball and use these skills in some invasion games. To develop our movement skills, we will explore a variety of ways of travelling and focus on spatial awareness. We will balance on a variety of body parts and use body control to stimulate movement to percussion instruments.
Music
As musicians, we will learn to sing in a group. We will learn to use actions to help us perform and feel music. We will learn about keeping the beat. We will explore music that links to the changing seasons and celebrations.
Amazing Adventures & Street Detectives
This learning overview provides an insight into the children’s learning experiences at they continue to develop. The learning opportunities will also continue to be enhanced as children build up their own unique experiences and share ideas with their friends, as is the ethos of the EYFS. Through the continuous provision, children are given lots of opportunities for child-initiated investigation and play. This approach allows children to discover and test new things independently, consolidate new learning and gain a deeper understanding. This approach, we believe, helps them to become more independent through the Characteristics of Effective Learning that we are promoting: Playing and Exploring, Active Learning, Creative and Thinking Critically
Possible Lines Of Enquiry
Arctic Explorers
Space
Off To St Lucia (Commonwealth Week)
A Chinese Adventure (Chinese New Year)
A Gruffalo Woods adventure
Mapwork
Special Buildings
People Who help Us
Possible Wow Days
Planet Zum Zee Party
Beach Party
A Gruffalo Hunt to the local woods
A Walk around Broughton
A visit from firefighters/policeman
PSED
School values of the term are: I can be resilient
Circle Time
Broughton Bear
Road Safety
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Special Books
Special People to me
Special Times for Me and Others
English
Children will be grouped into Read Write Inc groups where they will read appropriate level books every day. Some children will revise the Set 1 sounds and other children will begin to learn the Set 2 sounds.
Reading and Writing High Frequency Words
Continue reading and writing CVC words
Opportunities to write in the provision, linked to our theme, e.g. writing labels, captions and simple sentences.
Opportunities for extended writing linked to the theme. This will include simple stories, instructions, descriptive writing, recounts.
Maths
Comparing Numbers to 5
Composition of 4 and 5
Comparing Mass/Capacity
Numbers 6,7 and 8
Combining two amounts
Making Pairs
Length and height
Time
Building 9 and 10
Comparing Numbers to 10
Bonds to 10
3-D shapes
Spatial Awareness
PE
As sports people, we will explore the basic skills of rolling, throwing and catching a ball and use these skills in some general invasion games. We will also explore the basic skills of kicking, controlling and dribbling a ball and use these skills in some general invasion games.
Music
As musicians, we will start to be able to name and explore a range of classroom percussion instruments. We will use different instruments to make our own background music. We will sing songs from around the world, from China to the Caribbean.
Down At The Bottom Of The Garden & Brilliant Buildings
This learning overview provides an insight into the children’s learning experiences at the end of their Reception Year. The learning opportunities will also continue to be enhanced as children build up their own unique experiences and share ideas with their friends, as is the ethos of the EYFS. Through the continuous provision, children are given lots of opportunities for child-initiated investigation and play. This approach allows children to discover and test new things independently, consolidate new learning and gain a deeper understanding. This approach, we believe, helps them to become more independent through the Characteristics of Effective Learning that we are promoting: Playing and Exploring, Active Learning, Creative and Thinking Critically.
Possible Lines Of Enquiry
Lifecycles – tadpoles, chicks, seeds
Spring Superheroes
What does a seed need?
Minibeasts
Forest School
Pirates
Coral Reef
Role Of the RNLI
Building Relationships – Transition
Possible Wow Days
Our school trip – Normanby Hall
Bug Hunting
Allotment Visit or Visitor
Visit from chicken/chick owner
Transition visit to new class
PSED
School values of the term are: I can be resilient and I can be respectful
Show and Tell
Moving Up and On - How we feel about our next steps into Year 1.
RE
Our Special Things
Our Beautiful World
My Senses
Our Special Places
My Friends
English
Set2/3 sounds in groups
Reading/Writing Red words
Continue to develop extended writing opportunities as Spring Term.
Maths
Numbers to 20 and beyond
Spatial Reasoning
Adding more
Take away
Compose and decompose
Doubling
Sharing and grouping
Even and odd
Visualise and build
Patterns and relationships
Spatial Mapping
Mapping
PE
As sports people, we will be participating in a variety of track and field events and working in a competitive environment. We will focus on running in an individual track and staying in our own lane. In addition, we will explore the basic skills of striking a ball and improving on our hand-eye coordination. We will focus on how to hold a cricket bat correctly and standing with the correct stance.
Music
As musicians, we will sing songs and make up our own music about the sea. We will respond to music through movement and think about how it makes us feel. We will explore patterns in music.