Reception Curriculum Overview 2015-2016

Autumn 1
All About me/Houses and Homes / Autumn 2
Festivals/Christmas / Spring 1
Toys / Spring 2
People Who Help Us / Summer 1
Fairy tales / Summer 2
Growing/Minibeasts
RE / Domestic Church/Family / Baptism/Confirmation
Advent/Christmas / Local Church/Eucharist / Lent/Easter / Pentecost/Reconciliation / Universal Church/Other Religions
Caritas in Action/SMSC / Solidarity and the common good
Focus: We are all friends
We all help each other
We are all brothers and sisters / Rights and Responsibilities
Focus: Making the right choices
We all share god’s gifts / The dignity of the human person
Focus: To show our love for each other
To thank god for loving us / Option for the Poor and vulnerable
Focus Helping everyone to be happy Playing and learning
Using our gifts to help others / The Dignity of work
Focus: everybody’s work is valuable and important
Working together / Stewardship
Focus: Growing
God’s beautiful world
Celebration God’s creation
Prime
Personal, Social and Emotional Development/SMSC / Settling in Reception/ rules and routines. Making new friends playing and sharing resources
Talking about self and family and where we live.
Stories- Harry and his Dinosaurs start School, Peace at Last, 3 Little Pigs, 3 Bears, Tiger who Came to Tea.
Getting to know each other. Key Group activities, mutual respect. / Following rules and routines.
Talk/explain how they celebrate festivals.
Key Group activities, mutual respect, tolerance and understanding of other faiths and beliefs. / Speaking and listening to others. Managing feelings and relationships with friends and adults.
Talking about favourite toys, comparing with others sharing likes/dislikes. / Speaking and listening to others. Managing feelings and relationships with friends and adults.
Researching with peers and adults, talking about favourite animals and likes/dislikes. / Speaking and listening to others. Managing feelings and relationships with friends and adults.
Retelling stories and role play with peers and adults / Speaking and listening to others. Managing feelings and relationships with friends and adults.
Discovering with peers and adults, investigating and talking about findings.
Care and considerations for each other and things in our environments. Noticing change.
British Values / Rule of Law
Class rules
SEAL
Reward system
Individual Liberty
Challenges in continuous provision
Independent milk table
Responsibilities/ jobs for children
Rights and responsibilities of children and staff / Tolerance /Mutual Respect
Respect for each others beliefs
We are all special
Turn-taking / Democracy
Class voting for-
Pupil council
Eco- council
E-safety group
GIFT Team
Suggestion box
Sharing
SRE
In the Beginning
Plants and growing plants from seeds
Prime
Communication and Language / Talk about themselves and families
Speaking and Listening activities- talk about an activity they have done at home/weekend sharing with friends
Listening and Attention Skills
Language Assessment
RoSCo& BPVS / Talk about/explain how they and their families celebrate festivals.
Listening and Attention Skills
Kick start language groups / Talk about their special toy and why it is special.
Name toys and how they work/move
Listening and Attention Skills
Kick start language groups / Name different occupations/people who help us, talk about how they help us and how we need them in society.
Listening and Attention Skills
Kick start language groups / Talk about the stories/recall and re-enact the stories
Listening and Attention Skills / Name the mini beast and talk about the features and how they move, its life cycle etc.
Listening and Attention Skills
Prime
Physical Development / Fine and Gross motor skill targeted through continuous provision and outdoor play.
Outdoor Play
Write Dance / Fine and Gross motor skill targeted through continuous provision and outdoor play.
Outdoor Play
Write Dance
Formal PE lesson / Move like toys (jack in a box, robots)
Fine and Gross motor skill targeted through continuous provision and outdoor play.
Outdoor Play
Write Dance
Dough Disco
Formal PE lesson / Ambulance/police/fire role play using bikes/scooters, staging an incident etc
Fine and Gross motor skill targeted through continuous provision and outdoor play.
Outdoor Play
Write Dance
Dough Disco
Formal PE lesson / Fine and Gross motor skill targeted through continuous provision and outdoor play.
Formal PE lesson
Outdoor Play
Write Dance
Dough Disco
Formal PE lesson / Move like various mini beasts
Fine and Gross motor skill targeted through continuous provision and outdoor play.
Outdoor Play
Write DanceDough Disco
Formal PE lesson
Specific
Literacy / Stories and rhymes
Draw/write/paint pictures about self and family.
Write invitations, menus and shopping lists
Phonics- Phase 1/2 Aspects 1-3 / Stories and rhymes
Draw/write about celebrations
Letters to Father Christmas
Phonics- Phase 2/3 / Stories and rhymes
Draw/write/paint about favourite toy
Visit to museum
Findings about freezing/melting
Toy Story
Phonics- Phase 2/3 / Stories and rhymes
Draw/write about Emergency Services facts, advert for a job etc
Make labels, information books
Phonics- Phase 3 / Stories and rhymes
Draw/write about stories/characters/ settings
Write lists, invites,
Phonics – Phase 3/4 / Stories and rhymes
Draw/write about minibeasts
Make labels, information books about mini beats/life cycles- changes
Phonics- Phase 4/5
Specific
Mathematics / Counting to 10 and beyond, number recognition, counting out from a larger group, class members etc.
Shape recognition building houses
Number Rhymes / Counting up and down using number lines
Number recognition to 15+
Finding how many
Shape recognition 3D
Number Rhymes / Addition and Subtraction using items to help us.
Recording on whiteboards / Addition and Subtraction
Problem Solving
Number recognition to 20, one more one less
Number Rhymes / Addition and Subtraction
Problem Solving
one more one less
Encouraging independence in problem solving/maths work/play using techniques taught / Addition and Subtraction
Problem Solving
one more one less
Encouraging independence in problem solving/maths work/play using techniques taught
Specific
Understanding the World / Families
Houses and homes / Look at different cultures in the world comparing to our own. Family customs and routines.
Autumn / How toys work/move
Making toys
Old toys
Winter/Frozen topic- freezing and melting / Aware of occupations and how significant they are to life.
Spring / How life use to be, life in castles comparing with our lives now. / Life cycles
Summer
Specific
Expressive Arts and Design
/ Role-play- home, 3 bears cottage, tea party, supermarket
Painting/ collage of themselves, families and their homes.
Building houses using junk modelling / Music, song and rhymes about various cultures.
Paintings/drawings/ junk modelling of mosque/church/
santas workshop
Role-play-Santa’s workshop
Christmas crafts / Songs and rhymes about toys
Role-play -toy shop
Junk modelling- making robots, racing cars, toys that move
Painting toys / Songs and Rhymes about people who help us
Role –play- hospital/vets/fire engine
Painting/ collage / Songs , rhymes and stories about fairy tales
Role-play- castle, re-enacting stories
Painting /collage of fairy tales and characters. Building using junk modelling / Songs, rhymes and stories about minibeast
Role-play- investigation station
Painting/ collage of mini beast.
Big Questions / Are all homes the same? / How do you celebrate?
Do we all celebrate the same things? / Why do we have toys? / Who helps you?
How can we help others? / What does it mean to be a hero/villain? / How do things change as they grow?
Experiences, Visit, Visitors / Tea Party
Visit to the supermarket / Visit to church,
Mosque
Ask someone to talk to the children about how they celebrate their festival. / Bring special toys
Visit to Blackburn Museum to look at old toys. / Visit from people who help us e.g. police, nurse, doctor, lollipop person, vet, dentist etc. / Visit to Clitheroe Castle for a fairytale day. / Crocodile Joe/ Creepy Critters to come to school.
Growing butterflies