1. Reception Curriculum Meeting

2. The seven areas of learning
The foundation stage curriculum is split into seven areas of learning:
Personal, Social and Emotional development
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design

3. The seven areas of learning are then split into a further 17 Aspects:
PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT is split into:
Making Relationships
Self Confidence and Self Awareness
Managing Feelings and Behaviours
COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE is split into:
Listening and Attention
Understanding
Speaking
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT is split into:
Moving and Handling
Health and Self Care
LITERACY is split into:
Reading
Writing
The 17 Aspects

4. The 17 Aspects MATHEMATICS is split into: Number
Shape, Space and Measure
UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD is split into:
People and Communities
The World
Technology
EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND DESIGN is split into:
Exploring and using Media and Materials
Being Imaginative
The 17 Aspects

5. The Early Years Curriculum is developed around developmental age bands that set the expectations for typical child development.
A document called “ What to expect When” helps you to understand the expectations for children in Reception
At the beginning of Reception, children should be working within the months developmental age band
Some children may still be working at the end of the 30-50months developmental age band
By the end of the Reception Year, the children need to be confident with all of the skills in the 40-60months developmental age band to reach the Early Learning Goal for each area of learning
These skills must be done independently by the children without the need for adult support
The 17 Aspects

6. By the end of the year the children are expected to achieve something called the Good Level of Development
This means that they must achieve the Early Learning Goal in the areas of:
Personal, Social, Emotional Development
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Literacy
Mathematics
to achieve the Good level of development expected by the end of the
Reception Year.
The 17 Aspects

7. By the end of the Reception Year, practitioners will need to make a decision about your child.
The practitioners will have to describe your child as one of the following:
emerging - which means they haven’t met the Early Learning Goals
required just yet
expected – which means they have reached all of the Early Learning Goals
required to gain the good level of development
exceeding – which means they have reached all of the Early Learning Goals
and are now working towards the Year 1 curriculum.
The 17 Aspects

8. Personal, Social and Emotional Development
To develop your child’s confidence and resilience
To develop your child’s independence
To help your child to learn to manage their feelings and to be sensitive to those of others
To develop your child’s social skills – taking turns, sharing
To help your child to share their ideas and also to listen to the ideas of others around them
To be able to resolve conflicts with their peers by themselves, developing solutions

9. To understand and actively show that they are following the rules, routines and behavioural expectations in Reception

10. Physical Development
To develop fine and gross motor skills, using a range of large and small equipment
To handle tools with basic control and understand how to use them safely
To help children to develop a sense of space around themselves and others
To understand and be able to talk about the importance of being healthy
To demonstrate skills when throwing, catching and kicking balls

11. Physical Development
To handle equipment and tools with increasing control including pencils for writing
To ensure letters formed are recognisable and correctly formed
To take risks and show an understanding of safety

12. Communication and Language
To help your child to become a child that is ready for learning – developing their attitude/excitement/love for learning
To teach your child to listen to stories and to talk about these, sharing their ideas about these, answering questions about these
To help develop your child’s understanding so that they can follow instructions
To help your child to both answer and ask questions
To develop children’s speaking and language skills

13. Communication and Language
To help children create and tell their own stories
To help children to talk about events in the past, present and future tenses
To be able to have a dialogue/conversation, listening to the ideas of others and responding accordingly
To encourage the children to talk in full sentences

14. Literacy – Reading To continue a rhyming string
To help your child to hear initial sounds in words
To understand that print carries meaning
To help your child to put the sounds in words together for reading
To help your child read many familiar words
To help your child to read and understand simple sentences
To read tricky words e.g. to, the, you
To show an understanding of what they have read

15. Literacy – Writing To be able to give meaning to marks and drawings
To be able to use identifiable letters for meaning
To be able to hear initial sounds in words
To be able to hear sounds in words
To be able to represent sounds correctly in writing
To write simple words
To write their name
To be able to write labels and captions

16. Literacy – Writing
To be able to write simple sentences that are phonetically plausible that can be read by themselves and others
Exceeding: To be able to write short narratives/stories

17. Mathematics
To help your child to count forwards and backwards to and from 20
To be able to count objects with 1:1 correspondence
To help your child to understand the value of a number – 3 – 3 teddy bears, 3 shells, number 3 on a bus
To help your child to understand the language of more and less
To help your child to be able to recognise numbers to 20 and to be able to put these in order
To say what number is one more/less than a number to 20
To be able to add and subtract with numbers to 9

18. Mathematics To help your child understand the concepts of:
sharing – snap cards/fruit salad
halving – making sandwiches
doubling
Exceeding: Counting in 2s, 5s, 10s

19. Mathematics
To recognise 2D shapes – circle, square, rectangle (Oblong), triangle, diamond, semi-circle and to be able to talk about the properties of these
To recognise 3D shapes – cuboid, cube, sphere, pyramid, prism
Using language relating to size: bigger, smaller, smallest, biggest
Using language relating to weight: heavier, lighter, heaviest, lightest
Using language relating to position: next to, behind, in front
of, under, over
Using language relating to money: pennies and pounds

20. Understanding the World
To help your child to learn about the beliefs and celebrations of different children e.g. Eid, Christmas, Diwali, Chinese New Year, Jehovahs Witnesses
To help your child to develop the respect and to be aware of the differences between themselves and their friends and to be able to talk about these
To help your child to learn to explore their natural environment, gaining an understanding of where they live
To help your children to talk about animals, plants, minibeasts and bird
To help your child to understand the cause and effect of communication and technology

21. Understanding the World
To help your child to explore using different types of technology

22. Expressive Arts and Design
To help your child to sing songs, make music and dance and to change these and make up their own
To help your child to explore playing different musical instruments
To help children to explore using different materials tools and techniques e.g. painting, collage, paper mache, sculpting
To help your child to explore colour, design and form and to get messy, exploring different textures
To help your child to be reflective in their learning

23. Expressive Arts and Design
To help your child to represent their ideas in design, art, music, dance, imaginary play and story creation.
To help your child to select colours for a purpose
To help your child to create clear representations
To help your child to develop their imaginary play skills
To help your child to build and to think about the features of what they are building

24. Tapestry
During your child’s year in Reception we will be collecting observations on your child
This will help us to build a picture of where your child is developmentally in terms of their learning
We will then be able to support your child to extend their learning further and to support them in areas that they might need more support in
All of these magical moments will be captured online and you will be able to see these moments on your phones/ipads/laptops

25. Tapestry
We will be able to communicate with all parents on a 1:1 basis through this online program.
Please do leave us comments/questions and we will respond to them
If your child needs help in any areas, we will also advise you on this
If your are still unable to gain access to the program, please do let us know – please do check junk folders though as well as inboxes

26. Any questions?