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

 

Autumn Term Curriculum Overview

RE

Creation and Covenant

Children will know that:

• God made them, God loves them, and that they are part of a family.
• They should look after themselves and each other.
• God made our world
• We should look after God’s world
• We are all invited to be part of God’s family.

Prophecy and Promise

Children will know:

• The Nativity story
• That Jesus came for the whole world

Other Faiths

• Diwali (Hindu)

Communication and Language

Children to understand why listening is important

Children to learn and use new vocabulary

Children to answer questions

Children to articulate their thoughts in well-formed sentences.

Children to engage in story times and learn rhymes and songs

Physical Development

Children to take risks in their play and start to manage their own risks safety

Children to be able to dress and undress for outdoors independently

Children to practise climbing, balancing and transporting objects.

Children to develop a more fluent style of moving.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Children to see themselves as a valuable individual

Children to understand a range of feelings.

Children to use the toilet and snack area independently

Children to discuss internet safety and know about sensible amounts of screen time

Children to be supported in making friends and asking others to join in their play

Children to know basic rules around road safety

Literacy

Children to read individual letters by saying the sounds for them

Children to start blending sounds into words

Children to start to form lower case letters independently

Children to understand how to handle books and that books are precious

Children to use ‘fred fingers’ to start writing words.

Maths

Children to practise subitising (saying how many objects there are in a set by just seeing – not counting)

Children to practise counting objects (1:1 correspondence)

Children to know that the last number they say when counting objects tells them how many objects there are altogether

Composition of numbers 3, 4, 5

Use the language of more and fewer

Verbal counting to 20

Understanding the World

Children to explore the natural world around them,

Children to describe what they see, hear and feel whilst outside,

Children to explore the change in the season from Summer into Autumn,

Children to talk about members of their immediate family

Children to talk about figures from the past (including introduction to our class Saint)

Children to recognise our community and celebrations (including Harvest, Christmas, Bonfire Night, Diwali) and how different people have different celebrations.

Children to comment on events from the past (including remembrance day)

Expressive Arts and Design

Introduce a range of media to allow children to express themselves in different ways (eg. paints, model making, woodwork).

Children to be encouraged to work together to create different outcomes

Children to move to music.

Children to explore instruments to create their own music

Children to be taught a range of songs

Children’s storylines to be developed during roleplay