Mrs Swift is the teacher in our Reception class. Mrs Constantinou and Mrs Higgins are the teaching assistants. Our PE day is Tuesday or Thursday.

Class Saint

St Nicholas. Patron Saint of Children. Feast day is 6th December.

St Nicholas was a Bishop who devoted himself to caring for the poor and protecting children. He was a defender of truth and justice and during the persecution of Christians, he upheld the divinity of Christ. St Nicholas is an important figure in The Netherlands where, on his feast day, children put out shoes for St Nicholas to fill with gifts. Dutch immigrants took the legend and traditions of St Nicholas with them to the USA along with his nickname Sinterklaas which eventually became Santa Claus and part of the Christmas holiday.  

St Nicholas, pray for us

 

Summer Term Curriculum Overview

RE

Good News: Passing on the Good News of Jesus

Friends: Friends of Jesus

Our World: God's wonderful world

Communication and Language

Giving explanations using new vocab; expression of ideas and feelings

Physical Development

Demonstrating more control with small tools (including pencils)

Dance: develop their expressive movement. Explore space and how to use space safely. Explore travelling movements, shapes and balances. Choose their own actions in response to a stimulus.  Copy, repeat and remember actions. Perform to others and begin to provide simple feedback.

Games: develop their understanding of playing games. Learn how to score and play by the rules, how to work with a partner and begin to understand what a team is, as well as learning how to behave when winning and losing.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Consideration of other people’s feelings (including adapting own behaviour) Be more independent in selecting new activities/ challenges Showing more sensitivity to other people’s needs

Literacy

RWI, Weekly writing of sentences in line with weekly topics (see Understanding the world for topics)

Maths

Pupils will: • continue to develop their counting skills, counting larger sets as well as counting actions and sounds • explore a range of representations of numbers, including the 10-frame, and see how doubles can be arranged in a 10-frame • compare quantities and numbers, including sets of objects which have different attributes • continue to develop a sense of magnitude, e.g. knowing that 8 is quite a lot more than 2, but 4 is only a little bit more than 2• begin to generalise about ‘one more than’ and ‘one less than’ numbers within 10 • continue to identify when sets can be subitised and when counting is necessary • develop conceptual subitising skills including when using a rekenrek

Understanding the World

Summer (eg. blossom, weather), minibeasts (including lifecycles – eg. butterfly, frog), sea and rockpool creatures, differences between countries around the world (focused upon current cohort of children), plastic pollution, boats

Expressive Arts and Design

Recount stories (roleplay/ smallworld), working collaboratively to make creations and discuss the process they have used – including evaluations.