1. Miss Scott and Miss Barham
Numbers:
Say and use number names in order in familiar contexts.
Count reliably up to 10 everyday objects.
Recognise numerals 1 to 20.
Use developing mathematical ideas and methods to solve practical problems.
Find one more or one less from a group of up to five objects, then ten objects.
In practical activities and discussion begin to use vocabulary in adding and subtracting.
Record, using marks that they can interpret and explain.
Begin to relate addition to combining two groups of objects and subtraction to ‘taking away’.
Use language such as ‘greater’, ‘smaller’, heavier’ or ‘lighter’ to compare quantities
Shape, space and ,measures:
Use mathematical names for solid 3d shapes and flat 2D shapes and use mathematical terms to describe these shapes.
Select a particular named shape.
Describe their relative position such as behind or next to.
Reception Team:
Miss Scott and Miss Barham
Literacy
Books: The Magic Bed, Room on a Broom, Magic Porridge Pot
Use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences
Sustain attentive listening, responding to what they have heard by relevant comments, questions or actions
Use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events
Attempt writing for various purposes, using features of different forms such as lists, stories and instructions
Know that print carries meaning and, in English, is read from left to right and top to bottom
Show an understanding of the elements of stories, such as main character, sequence of events, and openings, and how information can be found in non-fiction texts to answer questions about where, who, why and how
Use phonic knowledge to write simple regular words and make phonetically plausible attempts at more complex words
Read some high frequency words
Link sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet
Write their own names and other things such as labels and captions and begin to form simple sentences sometimes using punctuation.
Reception Spring 1 Theme: Magic
Science:
Magnets and Forces
Experimenting with different materials, magnetic and non-magnetic.
Sorting materials
Magnets in the environment.
Uses for magnets.
Understand forces and their effect.
Knowledge and understanding of the world:
Exploration and investigation: Investigate objects and materials by using all of their senses as appropriate.
Find out about, and identify, some features of living things, objects and events they observe.
Ask questions about why things happen and how things work.
Time: Find out about past and present events in their own lives, and in those of their families and other people they know Place: Find out about their environment, and talk about those features they like and dislike.

2. ICT
Developing ICT skills, learning rules of use, care of equipment.
Find out about and identify the uses of everyday technology and use information and communication technology and programmable toys to support their learning.
Identify ways of being safe online.
Upcoming Events:Parents Curriculum Meeting: 12th January 8:30-9:30
Read, Write Inc Meeting 2nd March 9:00-10:00
Music
Children will listen to different types of music and finding the beat.
They will experiment with movement and sound.
They will use body percussion in songs and make instruments using recycled materials.
Games/P.E
Children work on the three core fundamental skills of; agility, balance and coordination.
Explore positional language to use the equipment safely.
Parachute games.
Developing independence in managing their own clothes, i.e. buttoning and unbuttoning cardigans, tying laces, doing up their coats. Dressing and undressing for P.E.
Attendance
Please ensure that your child is in school, ready in the line at 8:55. Children must not be left unaccompanied until the teacher comes to collect the class from the playground.
Please pick up children promptly at 3:15pm.
Personal, social and Emotional Development:
Taking responsibility for their own belongings.
Understand and follow the rules during circle/carpet time.
Discussing who is your friend and why? What is a good friend?
Talk about school rules- Why are they important? Why do we have to follow them?
Looking after our environment
Taking turns and being patient.
Creative Development
Role play with other children
Acting out stories
Zigzag books
Freeze framing
Recreating stories
Retelling, predicting and discussing stories
Explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in two or three dimensions.
Ways to help your child at home
Encouraging them and making time for homework to be done.
Reading together every day and recording this in their reading journals
R.E.
Why is Jesus special?
How can we follow in Jesus’s footsteps?
Homework
Homework is handed out on a Friday. Homework is to be completed and handed back to Miss Scott or Miss Barham on a Tuesday morning to ensure it can be corrected in time for Friday.