Reception - Curriculum

Dear Parents,

Below you will find the curriculum your child will be covering this Autumn term (2024). As a result of this planner, you may be able to discuss the areas with your child or do research together.

Autumn Term

Theme: All About Me
My family, my school, my environment, the people around me, people who help us.

RE	Creation- God’s Gifts To know that the Creation story is a very special story from the beginning of the Bible. Recall parts of the story of creation using pictures and captions. To know that God who created the world is Our Father. Know that they are blessed with gifts, which develop as they grow. People Who Care For Us Know that families show love and care for each other. That Jesus’ family included Mary and Joseph. Know that Jesus grew up as a little boy in Nazareth. Hear stories about the life of Jesus as a child.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development	To express their feelings if they feel hurt or upset using descriptive vocabulary. Activities that encourage talk about feelings and offering their opinions. Opportunities for children to tell each other about their work and play. Adults to help them reflect and self-evaluate their own work. Supporting in developing problem-solving skills by talking through how they and others resolved a problem or difficulty. Show that mistakes are an important part of learning and going back is trial and error not failure.
Communication and Language	To start a conversation with an adult or a friend and continue it for many turns. To begin to understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important. Ask questions using what where, when and why to find out more information. Role Play- using imaginative movement and vocabulary to recreate scenes from familiar stories.
Physical Development	Listen and respond appropriately to instructions. Move in a variety of ways, changing speed and direction. Jump on and off apparatus with safety and control. Move over, under, around, through, on and off apparatus safely. Be increasingly independent, as they get dressed and undressed, for example, putting coats on and doing up zips. Use a comfortable grip with good control when holding pens and pencils.
Literacy	Read individual letters by saying the sounds for them. Blend sounds into words, so that they can read short words made up of known letter– sound correspondences. Read simple phrases and sentences made up of words with known letter–sound correspondences and, where necessary, a few exception words. To write their first name independently with correct letter formation.
Mathematics	Count objects, sounds and actions Subitise to 5 Can count forwards and backwards to 5 Represent numbers to 5 in different ways (five frame, ten frame, Numicon etc.) Compare numbers- use vocabulary: ‘more than’, ‘less than’, ‘fewer’, ‘the same as’, ‘equal to’. Continue, copy and create repeating patterns. Compose and decompose shapes so that children recognise a shape can have other shapes within it, just as numbers can.
Key Vocabulary	Family: People who are connected to each other. Community: A group of people who live in an area. Local Area: The place where I live. Map: A picture or a drawing of a place. Emergency: When someone needs help quickly.
Festivals and Celebrations	Harvest Festival Hallowe’en – 31st October 2024 All Saints Day – 1st November World Smile Day – 4th October Diwali-1st November 2024 Nursery Rhyme Week- 11th – 15th November 2024
Understanding of the World	Children identify main body parts. Children begin to identify additional body parts and their functions e.g. wrists, knuckles etc. Children know we have bones inside our bodies that help us to move. Children are beginning to recognize different growth stages within the life cycle of a human. Children are beginning to imagine what they might do when they are an adult. Children will describe their journey to school. Children will begin to understand that maps show us where places are located. Children know that emergency services are there when people need urgent help. Children know that people in our community work together to make it a good place to live.
Expressive Arts and Design	Children will explore primary colours (red, yellow, blue) and be able to name them. To learn about the artist Mondrian and look at his work. To explore their facial features and create a self-portrait using pencils and paints. To learn how to mix paints to make secondary colours. Listen attentively, move to and talk about music, expressing their feelings and responses Begin to create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills.
Texts	Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers Tree by Britta Teckentrup The Squirrels who Squabbled by Rachel Bright and Jim Field Owl Babies Little Bear Lost Where’s My Teddy? Ruby’s Worry by Tom Percival Peepbo by Janet and Alan Ahlberg A Great Big Cuddle (poetry) by Michael Rosen

Reception Class Blog

7th Jul

Welcome to Reception’s Twitter takeover. We hope you enjoy a snapshot of our last few days in our class...

 

We enjoyed lots of Fun in our outdoor classroom- dressing up, building and playing together

 

We had special visitors to school today- Bournbrook Fire brigade came to visit. We loved learning about their special jobs and a special treat when we visited the fire engine!

 

We loved our first sports day at St Joseph’s!

 

We have have had such fun in our woodland adventure lessons this year, exploring nature along with building and growing together

 

We have been so busy, we enjoyed a special treat this afternoon. We hope you enjoyed our reception Twitter takeover. Have a lovely weekend

12th May

Welcome to Reception’s Twitter takeover. We have had so much fun together over the last few weeks and want to share it with you.

This week we have been learning all about Our Lady of Fatima with Dan and Emily. We prayed for peace in the world and in all our families. Then we sang the hymn ‘O Virgin fair, star of the sea, my deepest mother, pray for me.’

 

We are very excited in class because our caterpillars are changing and soon we will have beautiful butterflies. Can you guess what stage the caterpillars are at now?

 

We had lots of fun celebrating the Coronation together. God save the King and Queen

 

Look at how creative we have been this week. Can you guess what we have made? We shared our ideas with each other and proud of what we have made.

 

Look at are fantastic writing all about King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

 

We love to solve number problems in Reception.

 

We really enjoy being part of the Royal Family in our Buckingham Castle, as we are learning all about Kings and Queens this term. Also, we are enjoying retelling the story of the “The Paper Bag Princess.” Have you read this book all about a very brave Princess Elizabeth?

 

We love having visitors in our classroom, especially ones who come to read stories to us. The ‘Aliens in Underpants’ was a very funny story. What is your favourite story?

 

We are so proud of our wonderful Y6 children.They have came in each day with a smile on their face,ready to try their best in their SATs- & thats all we could ever ask for.

Thanks to Miss T & Mr C for their hard work preparing them, they enjoyed the fun parts of week too!

9th Mar

Welcome to receptions Twitter takeover

We started the day with a special Lenten Prayer Service with our friends

 

We are loving our art lessons this week, we are starting to look at still life drawings. We think we have lots of budding artists in reception! 🎨🖍
Next stop Van Gogh sun flowers...

 

We enjoyed a lunch picnic in the hall with our pack lunches we had prepared for our trip. Then we had a little dance!

 

Although we were sad we could not go on our first school trip 😢 it was okay because we LOVED playing in the snow with our friends

 

We hope you enjoyed our Twitter takeover. See you soon!!!

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12th Jan

Welcome to Reception’s ‘Twitter Takeover’! 😊⭐️

We led a prayer liturgy about the wise men’s journeys to see baby Jesus.

 

We love working as a team! 🤗

 

We’ve been learning about the Christmas story. Look at our lovely art work.

 

We are all mathematicians!

 

We love exploring in woodlands adventure.

 

We are getting ready to learn all about Space!

 

Our buddies taught us some new dance moves.

Thank you for joining us for Reception’s ‘Twitter Takeover’. 😄

 

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Welcome to reception class first ever exciting ‘Twitter takeover’ sharing some of our fun experiences in school

We had lots of fun this morning during our ‘wow active’ session. We just love being active together!

We have been celebrating St Joseph- our class saint who guides us in reception. We love learning and praying to St Joseph. We hope you enjoy our artwork too.

St Joseph- pray for us

We loved our art lessons, learning about primary colours. We even got a chance to mix them this week to create beautiful artwork

This month we have been raising awareness and celebrating Black History Month. We love celebrating everyone’s unique gifts from God

We have loved our first few weeks at St Joseph’s, learning and growing together in all weathers! We’ve loved making new friends in our class and are super proud of our hard work!

We hope you’ve enjoyed our reception Twitter takeover. See you soon!