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Areas being covered in Reception in the Autumn Term
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Prime Areas – lifelong skills
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PSED
Personal, Social, Emotional Development
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- Exploring the classroom and outdoor areas
- Learning where to find resources and how to put them away
- Following new rules and classroom routines
- Learning how to look after my belongings
- Making friends and finding out about each other
- Taking part in ‘Odd Socks day’ and recognising why I am special
- Learning to share and take turns
- Learning about mental health and wellbeing and what things help me to feel good
- Talking about feelings and using words like; happy, sad, angry and worried
- Learning how to stay safe on my way to school (Green Cross Code)
- Identifying the people who can help to keep me safe
- Learning how to dial 999 in an emergency
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C&L
Communication & Language
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- Using talk to communicate with my friends and teachers
- Understanding a question or instruction that has two parts (such as; get your coat and wait by the door)
- Listening to stories and remembering the key parts
- Making up my own stories and retelling familiar ones
- Understanding ‘why’ questions, like: “Why do you think the caterpillar got so fat?”
- Singing songs and nursery rhymes from memory
- Talking to my friends about my likes and dislikes
- Talking to the class about the ‘This is Me’ box and explaining why I have chosen the special items that I have put inside
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PD
Physical Development
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- Linking movement to music during our daily Wake and Shake sessions
- Skipping, hopping and balancing on one leg during games like musical statues
- Learning to find a space and how to stop safely when travelling indoors and outdoors
- Using large-muscle movements to wave flags and streamers on the outdoor stage
- Using one-handed tools safely, for example when snipping with scissors
- Using a comfortable grip with good control when holding pens and pencils
- Drawing lines and circles before learning letter formation
- Becoming independent when getting dressed and undressed, for example, putting my coat on and doing up zips
- Knowing how and when to wash my hands, developing good personal hygiene
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Specific Areas – essential skills and knowledge
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Literacy
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- Sharing library books with my family, talking about the pictures and guessing what might happen next
- Clapping out the syllables in my name (Is-a-bell-a)
- Listening to stories and joining in with the repetitive parts that I know, for example; ‘we’re going on a bear hunt, we’re going to catch a big one…’
- Playing I-Spy to practise hearing the first sound in a word
- Learning how the marks I make can represent meaning
- Learning to read and write some single letter sounds (s, a, t, p, i, n)
- Writing my name and some ‘tricky’ words (such as; is, I, the)
- Learning how to blend to read simple CVC words (c a t = cat)
- Reading and writing messages in the home corner and in other areas of my provision and play
- Using the Internet to find out interesting facts about animals, including some facts about owls
- Learning to recite a story with actions during my Talk4Writing sessions
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Mathematics
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- Singing the days of the week, rhymes and other counting songs
- Identifying amounts that are equal and that are not equal, for example; when handing out snacks
- Comparing quantities using the language ‘more than’ and ‘fewer than’
- Learning to recognise amounts without counting, such as the spots on a dice (subitising)
- Showing finger numbers up to 5
- Matching numerals to quantities and vice versa
- Finding one more or one less than, using up to 5 objects
- Looking for numerals in my school and home environment
- Weighing and measuring in the role play area and mud kitchen
- Talking about 2D and 3D shapes (circles, rectangles, triangles and cuboids) using simple and mathematical language (‘sides’, ‘corners’; ‘straight’, ‘flat’, ‘round’)
- Spotting patterns that I can see around me and making up my own with spots, stripes or shapes
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UW
Understanding the World
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- Talking about my family and who is special to me
- Finding out about my friends and their families
- Identifying people who can keep me safe
- Learning about different beliefs and traditions (Islam, Buddhism, Christianity)
- Learning about some special celebrations (Diwali, Bonfire Night and Christmas)
- Learning other languages (Arabic/Sinhala/French and some sign language, such as Makaton)
- Investigating the outdoor area and exploring nature in Forest School
- Talking about what I can see, hear, smell and touch using a growing vocabulary
- Using the class digital camera, cd player and interactive whiteboard to enhance my learning
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EAD
Expressive Arts & Design
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- Making up stories during pretend play, by myself and with others
- Using construction and junk modelling to create ‘small worlds’
- Selecting materials and tools to create pictures
- Using shapes and lines to draw pictures that represent objects and people
- Exploring colour mixing with paints and water colours
- Listening to sounds and explaining what they make me think of and how they make me feel
- Remember and sing entire songs by myself of with my friends
- Playing instruments with increasing control
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