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 and developing everyday life skills.
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.
Maths
(Mastering
Number
): Build on composition, by exploring how 10 can be composed of two parts. Become more confident when using our fingers to represent quantities in efficient ways. Introduce the resources Rekenrek, ready for future learning in year 1, whilst understanding parts and the whole number.
Reception Summer 1: ‘People Who Help Us!’
Understanding the world
:
We will continue looking at life cycles and developing their understanding of seasonal changes. We will have live caterpillars in class and will watch them turn into butterflies.
Expressive
Literacy: We will enjoy sharing many books around the topic of people who help us and will welcome lots of special visitors to discuss their roles with us. In addition to this, the children will have lots of opportunities to practise writing with increasing independence using the Drawing Club format.
Communication & Language: Opportunities for children to talk with adults and friends. Use of drawing club to expand vocabulary. Encouraging children to talk confidently in front of larger audiences during show and tell and in assemblies. Setting high expectations for listening skills.
Arts: Small world and role play areas will be available at all times. Through observational drawing and painting, the children will use tools such as smaller paintbrushes to develop fine motor skills further. Through story and role play, the children investigate the topic of people who help us.
RE: Use opportunities, such as outdoor play and field, to celebrate the awe and wonder of the world, and link that to creation stories.