1. Welcome to the Reception Curriculum Meeting 2017
The purpose of tonight’s meeting:
What does your child do all day?
How do the children learn?
What do the children learn?
How can you support your child at home?

2. How the school Day Starts
Coats, hats, gloves
Bags –take out letters, fruit, etc.
Water bottles
Fruit
Self registration

3. Adult Directed Activities
Monday-Thursday
Literacy
Mathematics
Topic
Friday
PE, Music, RE, ICT, PSED/Circle time
Everyday children have:
Phonics, Guided Reading
and outdoor learning.

4. Child Initiated learning
Play – Choosing – Free-choice
Continuous provision – writing area, role play, malleable area, sand, water, quiet area, making area, construction area, small world area, investigation area, ICT area.
Enhancements – added to support children’s interests, develop and extend learning, consolidate skills.

5. The children work in 3 learning zones:
The 3 Learning Zones
The children work in 3 learning zones:
The yellow zone is literacy based –
Mrs Bamber’s class base
The green zone is mathematics based –
Miss Buxton’s class base
The blue zone is topic based –
Mrs Smith’s class base

6. The 7 Areas of learning The 3 Prime Areas:
Communication and Language (Listening & attention, understanding, speaking)
Personal Social and Emotional Development (Relationships, confidence, feelings)
Physical Development (Co-ordination & movement, gross & fine motor skills, health care)
The 4 Specific Areas:
Literacy (Reading, writing)
Mathematics (number, shape, space & measures)
Understanding the World (People & communities, past and present, similarities & differences, observations of plants & animals and changes they see)
Expressive Arts and Design (singing, music, dance, imagination, using materials & tools to create)

7. Shape, space and measure
Mathematics
Number
Use numbers to 20
Understand more/less than
Add and subtract using single digit numbers
Solve problems by doubling, halving and sharing
Shape, space and measure
Use everyday language related to size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money
Compare objects
Recognise, describe and create patterns
Talk about 2D and 3D shapes

8. Phonics Phonics taught daily
Learn letter names and letter sounds - taught with actions
Letter formation
Segmenting and blending words
Learn ‘tricky’ and ‘high frequency’ words
What you can do to help:
Use the actions to practice the sounds (purple booklet) Sing nursery rhymes.
Create rhyming strings
Make up silly sentences (alliteration)
Play sound spotting games
Support homework and practise sounds

9. Click above to be directed to Youtube video
Phonics
Click above to be directed to Youtube video

10. 44 Sounds b d f g h j k l m n ng p r s t v w y z th ch sh a e i o u aiee
igh oa oo ar ur or er ow oi
air
ear
ure

11. Reading
All children have been given a take home book –phonics, key words, wordless
Story elements and understanding
Language comprehension
Phonics
What you can do to help:
Read to your child
Help with key words
Segment/blend simple words
Discuss the story/characters

12. Writing What can you do to help: Encourage correct pencil grip
Children are at different stages
Guided Writing – the children write with an adult for different purposes. We encourage them to attempt words by themselves and use correct letter formation. We praise all attempts.
At home – please encourage children to write. Be a good role model – let them see you writing – explain what you are doing.
Free writing – we encourage mark making in as many of our structured play activities as possible, for example, making a tally of farm animals in the small world area, drawing designs in the construction area and making notes in the doctors surgery, etc.
Handwriting – pre-cursive (see purple phonics booklet)
What can you do to help:
Encourage correct pencil grip
Model writing (shopping lists etc.)
Practise name writing

13. Positive behaviour management
At Trinity we always……follow instructions
show respect for everyone
show respect for property
are ready to learn
Stickers, golden tickets, star of the week, Head teacher award, sun – star – cloud.
Yellow and red sheets

14. “Children learn best through play”
“Adults who help children to play are adults who help children to learn.”