Personal, Social & Emotional
Development: continue to encourage independence, resilience and perseverance. Teach children how to manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs including teeth brushing ( role play Dentist ).
Maths ( linked to White Rose ):
Building numbers to 20 using a range of resources, 10 frames, Numicon, number tracks. Provide opportunities in continuous provision to consolidate key skills including subitising, compare and order, count, sort and match.
Understanding the world:
We will continue looking at life cycles and developing their understanding of seasonal changes. Children will be planting and caring for plants in our outside environment.
Physical Development: Making the most of good weather to develop gross motor skills through moving and playing outdoors.
Continuing to provide opportunities to develop fine motor skills with a focus on letter and number formation. West
Lancashire Coaches take PE once a week.
Literacy: We will enjoy sharing many books including traditional tales. Differentiated groups for phonics with children reading and writing sounds/words/sentences, using the Read Write Inc scheme. Lots of opportunities to practise writing with increasing independence.
Reception Summer 1: ‘Once Upon a Time…’
Communication & Language: Opportunities for children to talk with adults and friends, one to one and in small groups. Encouraging children to talk in front of larger audiences through ‘Helicopter Stories’ where they act out story roles. Setting high expectations for listening skills.
Expressive Arts: Small world and role play areas are available at all times. Through creative exploration we will use an increased range of tools, such as smaller paintbrushes to develop fine motor skills further. Through helicopter stories, the children will begin to invent their own narratives.
RE: Use opportunities, such as charity days, to discuss similarities and differences between countries and/or cultures.
Personal, Social & Emotional
Development: We will be talking about the importance of keeping healthy, and having good personal hygiene. We will continue referring to our learning buddies to promote positivity to learning.
Physical Development: Children will continue to use the large apparatus in PE lessons, both with their class teacher and the coaches from West Lancashire Sports Partnership. They will be using and remembering sequences and patterns of movements and developing their strength and coordination through play.
Literacy: We will continue to explore the stories of Julia Donaldson to extend the children’s experience of our trip to The Atkinson in March. We will also be using non-fiction texts to find out about life cycles, seasons and celebrations. As their phonic knowledge develops, the children will apply their skills to begin writing simple sentences.
Maths ( linked to White Rose ): We will be starting with a focus on measuring using nonstandard units, including the vocabulary of time. We will be building depth of understanding of number from 5 to 10, including number bonds and comparison of number, and quantity.
Reception Spring 2: ‘New life…’
Communication & Language: Children will continue to develop their skills in communicating to different audiences. This may be through role play, show and tell or through comprehension and understanding of the stories and topics we study in class. Technical vocabulary will be modelled and shared through life cycles.
Understanding the world:
We will be celebrating the arrival of Spring and thinking about the things that make seasons different. We will be learning about life cycles of creatures such as frogs! Linked to RE, we will be looking at changes through time. Plus, British Science week means fun experiments!
Expressive Arts: The children will be exploring joining techniques through craft activities focussed on celebrations such as Mothers' Day and Easter. We will be singing songs in preparation for our Easter celebration in church.
RE: We will be learning about the Christian Easter story and the children will find out about how this is celebrated in countries across the world.
Personal, Social & Emotional Development: Continue to encourage an understanding of feelings of others and regulate appropriate behaviour. Promote opportunities that incorporate taking turns and sharing.
Physical Development: Children will be using the large apparatus in PE lessons, and West Lancashire Coaches will be leading on Dance lessons once a week, all developing gross motor control. Children also extend this in their outdoor play and work on their fine motor control through play and letter formation in lessons.
Literacy: We will be taking a deep dive into work of Julia Donaldson, in particular, The Gruffalo's Child. The children will visit The Atkinson to see the story come to life. The children will learn to retell some of the stories verbally and use them as impetus for writing.
Maths ( linked to White Rose ): We will be focussing on deepening the understanding of number to 10, focussing on 6, 7 and 8 to start with. They will learn some early number bonds and doubles consolidate the concept of one more/one less and use opportunities to apply number in their play.
Reception Spring 1: The Gruffalo's Child
Communication & Language: Children will practise speaking to different audiences, through Talk for Writing, and through role play. We are exploring way to use drawing to develop children's imagination and story-telling skills.
Understanding the world: We will be learning about different animals and their habitats. We will find out about hibernation and will discover how some animals adapt during the winter months. Children will be encouraged to make comparisons and explore the natural world around them.
Expressive Arts: Small world and role play areas are available at all times. This half term the children will be able to role play the Gruffalo stories in the outdoors. The children will have lots of opportunities to act out parts of the Gruffalo books.
RE: We will be learning about Lunar New Year, the children will find out about how this is celebrated in countries across the world.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Personal, Social & Emotional
Development: The children will be working on all the social and emotional skills required for starting school: sitting still, listening, sharing, turn taking, making friends. This will be linked to the assembly theme; Respect.
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.
Literacy: The children will begin their phonics journey. We use the RWI programme and will start learning RWI set 1 sounds. We will begin to segment the sounds in simple words using Fred talk, and start to blend sounds together to say a word. Fred is a frog who helps us learn to blend. They will start to bring library books home to share with adults for the joy of reading.
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. We will learn to identify and use securely, numbers to 5. Children will sing number and counting songs and work practically in the indoor and outdoor environments.
Reception Autumn 1: ‘All about me’
Communication & Language: Children will be introduced to their classmates and encouraged to speak in small groups to build their confidence whilst settling into school, always being encouraged to consider the needs of the listener. We will use opportunities like show and tell, and talk time to encourage children to get to know each other.
Understanding the world:
We will explore the world around us and consider the onset of Autumn. Autumn walks around our outdoor environments will encourage the use of appropriate vocabulary. Through outdoor play the children will experience the weather and learn how to choose the right clothing, independently.
Expressive Arts: We will introduce a variety of different role play experiences (eg a potions making workshop) in the classroom to spark the children’s imaginative play and encourage talk. We will be exploring colour mixing through painting and talking about texture
RE: Through books and stories including the Good Samaritan, we will explore the meaning of thinking of others and showing respect.