1. Teaching Assistants: Miss Cambell, Miss Patterson & Mrs Frost
Autumn Term 2016
Teacher: Miss Lewins
Teaching Assistants: Miss Cambell, Miss Patterson & Mrs Frost

2. The Seven Areas of Learning
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Mathematics
Expressive and Creative Arts
Physical Development
Understanding the World

3. Prime Areas & Specific Areas
Prime areas: PSED, Communication and Language, Physical Development
Specific Areas: Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World, Expressive art and design

4. Autumn Term Topics Super Me! My World Harvest/Autumn
Ourselves
Our Families
Our Likes/dislikes
Our friends
Favourite stories & Nursery Rhymes
My World
Harvest/Autumn
Cultural differences
Christmas

5. Personal, Social & Emotional Development (relationships/self confidence and self awareness/feelings and behaviour)
Taking risks and making mistakes – its ok!
Building self esteem
Behaviour in school – traffic lights
Negotiating problems without aggression
Dressing and undressing independently
Managing personal hygiene
Forming relationships, sharing, turn taking, Y3 reading buddy

6. Communication and Language (listening and attention/understanding/speaking)
Maintaining attention, sitting quietly (as and when appropriate)
Reading to the children
Responding to and following instructions – 1 step / 2 step
Taking part in quality conversations and discussion/show and tell
Exploring new words – hungry/famished, clothing/garments, fewest/most
Role play
Talk partners/turn to your partner in phonics
Paired reading with Y3

7. Physical Development (moving and handling/health and self care)
Developing an awareness of space
Different ways of moving (with confidence)
Apparatus – developing confidence and awareness of safe practise – climbing, jumping and balancing
Self care – health and hygiene awareness
Pencil & scissor control – dominant hand, forming recognisable letters, cutting up the Argos catalogue!

8. Literacy (reading/writing)
Developing a love for books
Listening to stories
The sounds in words (phonics)
Read Write Inc (phonics, ditty reading, writing - pure sounds)
Guided reading
Ditties and Green cards
Writing own name and other words from memory (such as mum, dad, love)
Writing to improve play

9. What is phonics? A way of teaching children to read
Recognising sounds in their written form
Identifying combinations of souds eg. ‘oo’ (book)
Blending sounds together to read words – Fred Talk
15 minutes a day in school
Children are grouped by ability
Assessment takes place once each half term

10. Writing in Reception Mark making Talk for writing
Letter formation – Read, Write, Inc ‘patter’
Sentence maker

11. Mathematical Development (numbers/shape, space and measures)
Say and use number names, in order where appropriate (0-10/0-20)
Sort and match objects - numicon
Describe shapes – corners, edges
Using mathematical language, e.g. circle, bigger to describe shape/size, behind/in/under
Find 1 more/less
Big Maths (Mrs Poole)

12. Expressive Arts & Design (exploring and using media and materials/being imaginative)
Exploring different media, e.g. collage, paint, clay, role play
Music making (instruments)
Portraits
Singing songs and nursery rhymes
Christmas decorations

13. Understanding the World (people and communities/the world/technology)
Family experiences and routines - News
Similarities & differences
Constructing with purpose
Using ICT (360/Ipads/Mathletics)
E-safety – facebook etc

14. PHSE PHSE: Personal, Social and Health Education Circle time
Dansi – puppet
Issues addressed include…frienships, feelings, making decisions
Supports Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum learning goals.

15. Outdoor Learning Cooking on the camp fire Exploration
Use of equipment including hoops and balls
Nature trails / I spy
Mark making in mud
Walks in the local environment
Shape/sound/number hunts

16. Parent Consultations New informal style
Opportunity to see the teacher in a relaxed environment
Concerns addressed as they arise
Autumn Term – appointments now available

17. A Typical Day – Autumn (but there never really is one!)
9.00am Assembly
9.30am Phonics
9.50am Activate followed indoor & outdoor activites
10.30am Snack Time including story/singing
10.45am Activities resume
11.45am Big Maths
12.00pm Lunch time
1.15pm Carpet session – story/singing/IWB game
1.30pm Activities (PE – Tuesday/Thursday & Field - Friday)
2.30pm Tidy Up/Get changed/Paired reading
3.00pm Story/Singing/Prepare for home time

18. Parent Support Quality conversations-Talk, talk, talk!!!
Be positive…Smile and your child will smile with you!
High aspirations
Help us help you – stories, games
Time (story – 10 minutes!)
If you’re not sure – ask!

19. What parents really want to know…
Does my child behave?
What do I write in the reading diary?
What is a dough disco?
What do the children do on field days?
What happens at lunchtime? Times/ Opening packets/ supervisors/toilet/
What are the traffic lights? What happens if you’re on the red light?
Do the children get a snack?
What is activate?
How long can we keep Saturday?
What is numicon?
What are merit badges and why do you get them?

20. Labelling House keeping… Buy big! Field day clothing Head lice
Reading folders
Reading diary
INDEPENDENCE

21. Diary Dates Non uniform day – Friday 18th September
Macmillan Coffee Morning – Friday 30th September
Harvest Festival – Wednesday 19th October 2pm.
CoLA – Friday 21st October 9-10am. School closes 3.15pm
Open Class – Thursday 8th December pm
Christmas Production – Monday-Wednesday 5-7th December 2pm
CoLA – Monday 12th December 9am
Class party – Thursday 15th December 1.30pm. Party clothes can be worn to school.
COLA – Celebration of Learning Assembly – all classes contribute

22. Any questions?
(Thank you for coming!)