Personal, Social & Emotional Development: The children will be working on all the social and emotional skills required for school: sitting still, listening, sharing, turn taking. This will be linked to the assembly theme; Love of learning.
Physical Development: A lot of time will be devoted to developing the children’s gross and especially fine motor skills. This means helping the children to develop accurate control of their hands and fingers to hold and use a pencil accurately. E.g. through playdough, drawing program, PE lessons and funky fingers activities.
Maths ( linked to White Rose ): Through ‘number of the week,’ counting songs and play, we will be helping the children develop their understanding of numbers to 10. They will learn to recognise, count, compare and represent numbers, work out one more/less and understand passing of time (now, next, later).
Literacy: The children will continue phonics, learning RWI set 1 sounds and beginning to use their knowledge to segment the sounds in simple words, and start to blend sounds together to say a word. They will start to bring reading books home, but only when they are able to blend some simple words confidently.
Reception Autumn 2: ‘A Time to Celebrate’ Communication & Language: Children will be encouraged to speak to groups and larger audiences, while considering the needs of the listener. We will use opportunities like show and tell, or family celebrations, for the children to discuss.
Understanding the world: We will continue exploring the world around us and link changes in the environment to the seasons. Through, for example, water play, the children will experience science concepts.
Expressive Arts: We will include different role play experiences (eg a shop) in the classroom to spark the children’s imaginative play. We will be expanding on colour mixing through painting. The children will be preparing to give a performance of the Nativity story! RE: Through books and stories including the Nativity, we will explore the meaning of Christmas.