Reception Curriculum Evening Monday 29 June,2015

1.Welcome to Streetsbrook 2.Overview of the Evening 3.PTA 4.School Meals 5. Curriculum and Assessment 6. Daily routine, including timetable, PE /Swimming 7.School Fund 8.Home School Agreement Attendance, including holidays 9. Zone Board 10. Communication 11. Ways to get involved - Parent Partnership - Workshops - Inclusion Forum - EAL Forum Agenda

Curriculum - Prime & Specific Areas Prime Areas –Personal, Social & Emotional Development –Communication & Language Development –Physical Development Specific Areas Literacy Development –Reading –Writing Mathematical Development –Numbers –Shape & Space Understanding the World –People & Communities –The World –Technology Expressive Arts & Design –Media & Materials –Being Imaginative

Topics Reception Ahoy There! U.W. (Science) Floating & Sinking U.W. (Geography) Maps U.W. (History) Understanding the Past - Pirates Inside Out U.W. (Science) Weather/ Seasons Waterproof U.W. (Geography) Weather in different Environments U.W. (History) Family Customs Out of this World U.W. (Science) Space/Planets U.W. (Geography) U.W. (History) Moon Landing Stones & Bones U.W. (Science) Fossils (Portals from the Past) U.W. (Geography) U.W. (History) Dinosaur timelines You Are What You Eat U.W. (Science) Healthy Eating U.W. (Geography) Where Food Comes From U.W. (History) Spots & Stripes U.W. (Science) Animal Habitats U.W. (Geography) U.W. (History) Animals who are extinct Wow Starters/Wow Enders

S Personal, Social and Emotional Development Children will be learning the expectations of school life. They will have opportunities to create and understand their school rules and practise them in everyday contexts. Physical Development Children will develop their ability to climb, balance and travel along the gymnastic equipment while aboard the ‘Pirate Ship’. They will also move to music as different sea creatures. Children will learn to dodge and chase during games such as ‘Climb the Rigging’ and ‘Sharks and Fish’. Children will develop their fine motor skills creating treasure, jewellery and food for the Pirates with play dough and small beads and jewels. Maths Children will practice their 1:1 counting, expanding their existing knowledge of the number system. They will be estimating, counting and ordering ‘pieces of eight’. They will have the opportunity to count forwards and backwards, understanding ‘1 more’ and ‘1 less’. They will learn 2D shapes, creating their own pirate flags. They will begin to understand capacity, playing in the water area with an underwater theme. Expressive Arts and Design Children will be mixing colours to create painting of themselves, pirates and sea creatures. They will using different materials such as cellophane, cardboard, salt dough and collage materials to create a pirate ship, treasure chests, fish and pirate attire. Children will develop their singing skills, singing songs including ‘The day I went to sea’ and ‘A Pirate went to sea, sea, sea’. Understanding the World The World In Understanding of the World, children will have the opportunity to experiment with floating and sinking, predicting and describing the changes they observe. They will also learn about the forces of ‘push’ and ‘pull’, using treasure chests and different sized ramps. The children will make and follow their own Treasure Maps using a range of geographical and positional vocabulary. People and Communities Children will learn about Sikhism and explore ‘The 5 k’s’ and will learn about symbols in different religions, including the Muslim ‘Crescent Moon’. Technology Children will know how people contact and communicate with each other using ICT safely, including , walkie talkies, telephones and video link. They will use this in role play to contact Pirate Pete. Children will be able to use programmable devices in ICT including ‘BeeBots’, ‘Easispeaks’ and ‘Talking Photo Albums’. Communication & Language Children will have the opportunity to speak and listen to their friends. They will invited to bring in a piece of ‘pirate treasure’ to share. They will use language and events from pirate and ocean related stories to expand their vocabulary through role play. Literacy The children will learn to link sounds to letters when reading and writing and will begin daily phonics sessions. They will have the opportunity to write to Pirate Pete and read and follow clues to his treasure. They will be exposed to a range of new and exciting vocabulary linked to the topic. As the topic is called ‘Ahoy There’, children will find out about different greetings. They will learn each others names, and practise writing their own. In reading, children will be introduced to the ‘Oxford Reading Tree’ family and will begin to look at a range of picture and word books. Streetsbrook Infant & Nursery School Curriculum Overview for Parents Reception, Autumn Term 1 Ahoy There!

Assessment End of year expectations (ELG sheet) Baseline Assessment Assessment on a daily basis – planning for next steps Assessment updated on termly basis Interventions Parental input Additional handouts

Daily Routines Children come into school Encouraging children to be as independent as possible A member of staff will be on the door Book bags Swimming kits PE bag

Timetable MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday 9.00 – 9.20 Phonics R1 Guided Reading 15 inside 15 outside/creative area PEMaths Guided Writing Free flow Maths Freeflow ICTArt Swimmin g R2 Guided Reading 15 inside 15 outside/creative area Swimming Maths Free flow Guided Writing ICTMathsPEArt Lunch R1 Topic – UW R1 outside Handwriting R1 Creative area Reading half class R1 Outside Reading half class R1 Creative area Topic R2 Topic – UW) R2 Creative area Reading (half class) R2 Outside Reading half class R2 Creative Handwriting R2 Outside Topic Celebration AssemblyCollective Worship in classroom Assembly

School Meals

Funding School Trips Voluntary Contributions –Swimming –Visitors to school –Special days and weeks eg book Day, Science Week, Celebration Day –Wow starters/finishes –Additional resources, including cooking ingredients

Home School Agreement Attendance –holidays in term-time

Zone Board Behaviour Policy –Zone Board –Anti-Bullying

Communication Open Door Policy Half-Termly Newsletters Weekly Newsletters Letters on Thursdays

Ways to get involved Curriculum Workshops Parent Partnership Inclusion Forum EAL Forum PTA SNAG