Reception Class Curriculum Evening

1. Reception ClassCurriculum Evening Miss Marie Rundle

2. Foundation Stage. Your child is in Reception class which is the second part of the Foundation Stage.

3. Key Worker. The role of the key worker. Each child deserves to have a special relationship with someone within school and the key person approach effectively celebrates this. It provides you and your child with a sense of security. Developing a secure bond with their key person allows them to explore and play freely but feel safe within the environment. So if you have any concerns or issues that you think we might need to know, please inform your child’s key worker. Next week we will be introducing the children to their specific key workers, explaining what their purpose is through stories, games and circle times.

4. Key Adults.

5. The Daily Routine

6. Reading. • Next week we will begin our reading activities and your child will receive a reading record book. • In the reading record there is a space for a comment from a member of staff AND a parent or carer, which will need to be completed each week.

7. Book Bag. • It is extremely important that the children come to school each day with their book bag and that their reading record is in their book bag each day. (There are times when the children’s reading day might change due to unforeseen circumstances).

8. Snacks and water bottles. • Each day at school the children are provided with a different piece of fruit which they are welcome to have, if they like. Fruit and sweet snacks from home aren’t necessary. • There is a mini tuck-shop that the children can bring money into school for. The money that the children bring in, is their responsibility and must be looked after by them. The tuck shop provides healthy snacks for the children.

9. Reception class behaviour management and rewards. • House points • Leaf charts. • Caterpillar. • Sad clouds.

10. Reception class curriculum. • There are 7 main areas. • The three PRIME areas. • Personal, social and emotional development. • Communication and language. • Physical development.

11. Reception class curriculum. • The three SPECIFIC areas. • Literacy. • Mathematics. • Expressive art and design. • Understanding the world.

12. Child initiated time. In the class are different workstations. Each work station is equipped with different activities which change frequently, depending on what concepts we are thinking about at any particular time. The activities are always objective based, so when the children tell you they have been playing all day, they have been (tricked into) working.

13. Outdoor Area. • Throughout the day the children have constant access to the outdoor area, which includes our water area. • If possible, could all children have a spare change of clothes which we can hang on their peg in case they get wet whilst carrying out their independent science and maths investigations in this area. • A clearly identifiable pair of wellies clearly labelled would also be very helpful.

14. Lessons in Reception. Lessons in Reception class all follow the same structure. Whole class teaching time – usually takes place on the carpet where main concept is conveyed. Adult led activities/ child initiated activities-both activities run simultaneously and all children get focused small group time with one of the adults. The other adults will be working in the work stations with the children making observations of their applied skills. In Reception we don’t follow any particular themes, but instead we follow what the children are interested in at the time, so what one year group might have followed, another year group might not.

15. English Reading- Writing - Both strands of English have their foundations firmly in phonics. For both areas we begin by teaching the children all of the different sounds that single letters and combinations of letters make. Then once the children are confident with letter sounds we begin to blend and segment using them. Segmenting- in order to write and spell words, the children must be able to segment them into the sounds they can hear and know which letters represent the sounds. Along with this the children must know a range of ‘tricky words’ which can not be segmented. Blending- in order to read, the children must be able to look at a word and identify the sounds that the letters make, then try and join them together (or blend) in order to hear what the word says.

16. For example… • If we were to segment the word sheep…

17. Sh-ee-p.

18. Can you blend the word… Shark.

19. Phonics Terminology Phonemes: The sounds in words Graphemes: The letters representing the sound Digraph: Two letters that make one sound Trigraph: Three letters that make one sound

20. Handwriting – Letter and number Formation Each week we have an explicit letter formation session in which the children get time to look at and practise correct letter formation in different media. To begin with we will be focusing on fine motor skills and pencil control, before we go on to correct formation.

21. Mathematics. Maths is split into two sections. Number. Shape, space and measure. Recognising number. Ordering numbers. Counting items. Adding/ subtracting. More or less. Naming and talking about different 2D and 3D shapes. Patterns. Positional language. Weight, capacity, length, time.

22. Understanding the world. • This area covers • -The World. • People and Communities. • Technology. • The children will learn about the world around them through looking at natural and man made features. • They will think about their community and the families they come from and how life has changed up to now, and how technology helps us as well as how to use it.

23. Expressive art and design. This area covers… -art -music -imaginative play. The children will build their foundation of art and musical concepts which will be built on throughout their time at school.

24. Religious Education Religious Education is based on the new “Come and See” programme. Autumn Term Myself Welcome Birthday Spring Term Celebrating Gathering Growing Summer Term Good news Friends Our world

25. PE The children get their PE sessions on a Thursday after lunch. • P.E kit is needed for all PE lessons. Please ensure that all items, including plimsolls, are labelled. • Children are not able to take part in P.E. if they do not have their kit. Letters will be sent home if your child misses two consecutive P.E. lessons as a reminder.

26. French • The children have half an hour of French every Friday morning. • This is taught by Mrs Thomas. The children will learn through rhymes, songs and poems.

27. Don’t forget… • Throughout all of the things going on in the classroom, we still need to know as much as possible about what the children are doing at home and any progress you see them making. • Even if this is a quick note on a scrap of paper. The progress you see at home is probably the most important application of skill that the children will make, so please let us know.

28. “An open door” • We want to help out with everything possible, so feel free to see me, Mrs Brown or Mrs Birrell about any concerns you have. • Pop into the office or give us a call.