Mrs Swift is the teacher in our Reception class. Our PE day is Tuesday.

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

To the Ends of the Earth

· Jesus goes back to his Father in Heaven

· Jesus sent the Holy Spirit

· the Holy Spirit is our friend

· Jesus’ friends spread the good news about Jesus

· the Parish church is a special place

· our parish is a community and family.

Dialogue and Encounter

· Peter was a friend of Jesus

· Saint Paul was a friend of Jesus

· We are all invited to be friends of Jesus

· People all over the world are friends of Jesus

· There are other faiths with specific traditions and celebrations

Communication and Language

• Giving explanations using new vocab

• Expression of ideas and feelings

Physical Development

• Demonstrating more control with small tools (including pencils)

• PE: Dance and Athletics

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

• Keeping safe (including different jobs that people do to help us, keeping themselves safe, self image and identity)

• Living in the wider world (including work on communities, how money is used to buy things)

Literacy

• RWI (reading and writing at children’s stage of development),

• Writing of dictated sentences in line with weekly topics

Maths

• 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

• Seasonal changes from Spring to Summer: including 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
• Plants

Expressive Arts and Design

• Create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills;
• Explore and engage in music making and dance, performing solo or in groups;
• Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
• Children’s storylines to be developed during roleplay