Personal,
Social & Emotional Development: We will continue to learn about managing feelings and being independent in preparation for the move to Year One. We will encourage confidence, ready to try new adventures and celebrate all of our achievements. Physical Development: Sports Day is on the horizon, so children will be practicing running and moving in different ways! West Lancashire Coaches take PE once a week.
Fine motor skills will continue to be stretched through play and formal teaching of pencil control for writing.
Maths ( linked to White Rose ): Develop problem solving and critical thinking skills using stories and real life situations. E.G. Billy’s Bucket ( book ) can be used as a starting point for comparison and number stories. Consolidating counting with numbers up to 10 and beyond.
Reception - Summer 2: ‘Once Upon a Time…’
Understanding the world: We will link the children’s learning about settings in stories to observation of their own environment including nature. We will explore changes such as melting and growth.
Literacy: We will continue sharing traditional tales, and encourage the children to reflect on the characters and settings in stories. Phonics groups will continue and children will have increased opportunities to write independently, and apply their phonic skills.
Communication & Language: Children will be encouraged to talk more confidently to audiences through the characters in traditional tales. We will also be working on extending children’s listening and concentration in preparation for Year One.
Expressive Arts: Opportunities to invent, adapt and recount the stories they have heard, create and improve their own and add props and materials to them. Create their own music and songs and have opportunities to use a variety of musical instruments.
RE: Through books and stories, we will explore some of the cultural and religious experience of members of British society.
Maths:
In Maths this half term, we will start by learning all about multiplication and division! We will be using concrete resources and pictures to help us as we tackle this brand new topic! We will then begin to explore the concept of Fractions. The children will learn about halves and quarters of different shapes and objects. We will then continue our Place Value learning, by exploring the number range between 0100. We will practise finding one more and one less of numbers, represent numbers using objects and pictures and also counting forwards and backwards from a range of starting points!
Through our Number Ninja passports, we will continue refining our arithmetic skills and focus on our number bonds to 10, 20 and 100 in our passport tests.
English:
This half term we will be enjoying the book ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ by Richard Walker and Niamh Sharkey. Jack and the Beanstalk is a traditional tale about a boy and his Mother, and how 5 magic beans changed their life forever! The children will be writing to inform this half term and will focus on writing instructions.
Year 1 - Summer 1:
PE:
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Shhh! Don’t Wake the Giant’
Science:
Geography:
As Geographers, we will be learning about compass directions (North, South, East, West) and will use these to navigate the school grounds during our school fieldwork!
In Science this half term, our topic will be Plants! We will identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees! We will identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, while we observe the growth of plants in class, and make observations about how plants change over time.
In PE this half term we will continue to have two sessions a week, one with our class teacher and one with our PE coach. We are continuing our learning of the fundamental movement skills and will look at:
• Skipping
• Sidestepping
• Rolling
• Throwing
• Catching
• Striking
• Kicking
Music:
As Musicians, the children will be continuing their learning, all about percussion instruments! They will also be exploring the different noises that animals make and try their best to replicate them during their music lessons with Mr Pritchard!
Art & Design and Design Technology: This half term, the children will be focusing on Design Technology! They will be learning about moving pictures and creating their very own Jack and the Beanstalk story books, with moving pictures! The children will explore different ways to incorporate moving parts into picture books by looking at a wide range of texts, before designing and making their own to share with their buddy classes.
RE:
In RE this half-term, our key question will be ‘What does it mean to belong?'. We will begin by looking at groups that we belong to, before discussing how people belong to different religions and what this means to them.
PSHE
The focus for this half term will be ‘Growing in Our World’. We will be describing common features of family life, recognising how our own families are unique and special, and understanding how we care for others.
Computing: Our Computing lessons this half-term will be based in the classroom. The children will learn all about algorithms and how to programme and problem solve using BeeBots!
History: This area of the curriculum is taught in Autumn 1, Autumn 2 and Spring 2 and Summer 2.
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 be using the large apparatus in PE lessons, and West Lancashire Coaches take PE once a week, all developing gross motor control. They will be using and remembering sequences and patterns of movements. The children develop their strength and coordination through play.
Literacy: We will use traditional tales to encourage the children to write aspects of the stories they know well. 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 understandingof feelings of others and regulate appropriatebehaviour.Promote opportunitiesthat incorporatetakingturns and sharing.
Physical Development: Children will be using the large apparatusin PE lessons, and West Lancashire Coaches take PE once a week, all developinggross motor control. Children also extend this in their outdoor play and work on their fine motor control through play and letter formation in lessons.
Maths ( linked to White Rose ): We will be focussing on deepening the understandingof number to 10, focussing on 6, 7 and 8 to start with. They will learn some early number bonds and doubles consolidatethe concept of one more/one less and use opportunities to applynumber in their play.
ReceptionSpring 1:
Understandingthe 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.
Literacy: We will be taking a deep dive into the 'Oi' series of books by Kes Gray. Alwaysa populartheme, the children get to know the characters, are immersed in rhyme, and learn a range of new vocabulary. The children will learn to retell some of the stories verballyand use them as impetus for writing.
Communication& Language: Children will practise speaking to different audiences, through 'talking partners' in lessons, and through performing/ improvising stories in their play. We will be encouraging the use of technical vocabularywhen exploring the environment.
ExpressiveArts: Small world and role playareas are availableat all times. This half term the children will have a safari/vets area within their classroom. The children will have lots of opportunities to act out parts of the Oi Frog 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 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’sgross and especially fine motor skills. This means helping the children to develop accuratecontrolof 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 understandingof numbers to 10. We will learn to identifyand use securely, numbers to 5. Children will sing number and countingsongs and work practicallyin the indoor and outdoor environments.
ReceptionAutumn 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.
ExpressiveArts: 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.
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.
Maths ( linked to White Rose ):
Physical Development: A lot of time will be devoted to developingthe children’sgross 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,drawingprogram, PE lessons and funky fingers activities.
Through ‘number of the week,’ counting songs and play, we will be helping the children develop their understandingof 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).
ReceptionAutumn 2: ‘A Time to Celebrate’
Understandingthe world: We will continue exploring the world around us and link changes in the environmentto the seasons. Through, for example, water play,the children will experience science concepts.
Literacy: The children will continuephonics, 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.
Communication& Language: Children will be encouraged to speak to groups and larger audiences, while considering the needs of the listener. We will use opportunitieslike show and tell, or family celebrations, for the children to discuss.
ExpressiveArts: We will include different role playexperiences (eg a shop) in the classroom to spark the children’s imaginativeplay. 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 includingthe Nativity, we will explore the meaning of Christmas.