Welcome to our Reception class page. Here you will find our long term overview for learning throughout the year.
R | Autumn | Spring | Summer | |||
Topic | Topic: Super me! | Topic: Up into space | Topic: Deep in the forest | Topic: Growing | Topic: At sea | Topic: Animals and their habitats |
Wow: Enrichment moments | Parent ‘Stay and Play’ session | World Nursery Rhyme week Family sponsored Santa walk Santa visit | Tasting Chinese food | Visit from the Easter Bunny | Trip to the beach Sponsored ‘Treasure hunt’ Pirate Fun Day Visit from Lifeboat Crew/Offshore Rescue | Sports Day Transition Day Trip to Wildlife Oasis Visit from Little Beasties |
Festivals and Cultural Celebrations | Harvest Autumn trail Diwali Halloween | Remembrance Day Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night Christmas | Winter Walk Valentines day Pancake day Chinese New Year
| World Book Day Mother’s Day Easter Ramadan Mental Health Week | St Georges Day Eid Al Adha | World Environment Day Healthy Eating Week Father’s Day Friendship Day |
English | Where the Wild Things Are
Own version Narrative Labels, captions, oral retelling, developing a new character.
Anansi
Booklets about spiders Labels and captions, call-and-response poems, descriptive posters and simple explanations. | Look up!
Non-Chronological Report Dialogue, diaries, re-telling (oral dictation), mini-autobiography and ships log.
I am Henry Finch
Guidebook on How to think. Timetable, thought-bubble, lists, commands and letter of advice. | The Magic Paintbrush Julia Donaldson and Joel Stewart
Own version ‘overcoming’ tale Thought bubbles, labels, oral re-telling, writing in role, thank you letter
Little Red Lynn Roberts and David Roberts
Alternative character version Labels, notes of advice and advert. | The Tiny Seed Eric Carle
Advice leaflet Labels and captions, advice, retelling, writing in role, narrative, letter
The Extraordinary Gardener Sam Boughton
Narrative inspired by the original text. Labels, letter of advice, instructions, narrative
| So Much Trish Cooke and Helen Oxenbury
Own ‘So Much’ narrative poem. Past tense sentences, writing in role, performance/ narrative poetry
The Night Pirates Pete Harris and Deborah Allwright
How to be a pirate’ guide Writing in role, letter, labels and captions. | Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy Lynley Dodd
Alternative version narrative Character description, writing in role, letters and leaflet.
Oi! Frog Kes Gray and Jim Field
Own version rhyming narrative. Rhyming flipbook, questions, captions and labels |
Maths | Match, sort and compare Talk about measure and patterns It’s me, 1, 2, 3 Circles and Triangles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Shapes with 4 sides | Alive in 5 Mass and capacity Growing 6, 7, 8 Length, height and time Building 9 & 10 Exploring 3D shapes | To 20 and beyond How many now? Manipulate, compose and decompose Sharing and grouping Visualise, build and map Make connections | |||
Science | Autumn – seasonal changes and the weather. Ourselves – me and my body, naming body parts. Senses Continue to observe seasonal changes. Melting chocolate for bonfire night sparklers | Season – Winter Investigate different types of weather. Explore ice melting. Show an interest in different occupations. Signs of spring. Growing – planting seeds. Life cycles | Caring for plants and flowers. Explore different forces Floating and sinking Waterproof Minibeasts Lifecycles Caring or the environment | |||
Geography | My classroom and school My local area Talk about people who are special to me Maps linked to stories Positional vocabulary Celebrations around the world – Diwali | I wonder why some places are hot and some are cold? Chinese New Year Identifying spring flowers around the woodland | Celebrations around the world – Eid Where can animals be found – looking at a world map. Why are animals suited to particular habitats. | |||
History | Language: today, tomorrow, yesterday. What did you do at the weekend/in the holidays? How we have changed since birth. Begin to make sense of our own life story and history. Reflect upon things that have happened in the past. Remember special/significant times such as Remembrance Day, the birth of Jesus through the Nativity story, Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder plot. | |||||
The Arts and DT | Combine materials and creating textures. Autumn craft Explore a wide range or media and experiment with making different marks, Self portraits. Creating family artwork. Mixing colours to explore feelings. Creating Rangili patterns for Diwali Indian dancing Colour mixing Firework and Bonfire Night pictures and songs. Making Christmas cards and decorations. Decorating home corner for Christmas. Nativity performance | Artwork depicting weather. Cold and hot colours. Painting with ice. Crafts linked to stories, i.e. designing trap for the Big Bad wolf. Andy Goldsworthy art – nature patterns. Observational drawings of flowers. Mixing different shades. Easter crafts | Design a boat Collage a pirate Paint fish and other sea creatures. Test out materials to fins a waterproof cover. Minibeast crafts Matisse are work – The Snail. Recreate animal patterns and create habitats e.g. jungle. Design an animal home. | |||
PE | Introduction to PE Units 1 & 2 Outdoor Day
| Dance Moving Monkeez Outdoor Day Gymnastics | Fundamentals Outdoor day Games Yoga | |||
RE | Where do I belong?
Why do Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus?
| How can we use our hands?
Why do we talk about new life at Easter?
| What feelings can we talk about?
Who helps is? Who can we help?
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PSHE | Me and my relationships Valuing differences PSHE | Keeping safe
Rights and respect
Me and my relationships
Valuing difference | Being my best
Growing and changing
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