We will be learning about the importance of listening carefully and why listening is important.  We will learn new vocabulary and use these new words through the day. We will engage in story times, listen to and talk about stories to build familiarity and understanding.

The children will be learning many different nursery rhymes and enjoying a range of topic-based stories including The Smartest Giant in Town, Ruby’s Worry and Owl Babies. Through daily literacy lessons, children will talk about these stories, learn new vocabulary and engage in many different oracy-based activities e.g. pretending to be characters, role-playing stories and engaging in different small world experiences.

In PE we will be joining in with Maltby Academy sports activities to help us develop our gross motor skills. Children will enjoy weekly PE lessons with Mrs White where they will dress and undress independently and learn a range of physical skills from hand/eye co-ordination to spatial awareness.

We will also be developing our pincer grip when using writing tools.  Children will write daily in phonics and across different areas of provision where they can write for pleasure and purpose.

In outdoor provision, children will continue to build on their physical skills when engaging in a variety of activities from climbing on the trim trail to riding on the many different vehicles.

We will be developing our self-confidence and self-awareness through new experiences. We will also be exploring what it means to be kind with our friends in Foundation Stage. 

This will initially be explored through our core text ‘The Smartest Giant in Town.’ We will then create class charters around our school Core Learning Characteristics and agree how we will work as a team in class.

We will be learning how to read and write letters through daily Read. Write. Inc (our Phonics programme.) We will be reading, re-telling and sequencing stories such as The Smartest Giant in Town and Owl Babies. 

Children will thoroughly enjoy daily literacy lessons as we read and re-read stories, promoting both oracy and a love of reading.  Children will quickly apply what thy learn in daily RWI into their literacy work.

We will be matching and sort objects, comparing amounts as well as size, mass and capacity.  We will also be exploring pattern.

Through daily maths lessons children will learn key aspects of maths, initially beginning with a unit of work focussed around comparisons of objects and groups. Children will learn and use a range of vocabulary including ‘same, different, compare, similar’ etc. 

Many maths lessons will include stories, such as Simon Sock where we will match, compare and sort different socks.

Maths will be embedded across the full day in Reception, ensuring maths is real life and purposeful. For example, at registration times where we count and record how many children are present/absent.

We will be talking about members of our immediate families and within the community.  We will name and describe people who are familiar and special to us.

Children will be asked to send in family photographs so that they can talk about their different family members. We will then create a family display in class.

An on-going part of Understanding the World will be Seasonal Changes, where we explore what happens throughout the months of the year in relation to the weather. This will include seasonal walks around the school grounds.

We will be building on our drawing skills and knowledge of colour mixing to create self-portraits.

The children will enjoy and experience a range of creative activities from making silly faces in the playdough to creating collages using different materials.

Children will develop a love of role play through our many stories and continuous provision areas.