Literacy

In literacy children will be singing along to nursery rhymes and songs, and showing an interest in stories.

Phonological awareness of the initial sounds in words, rhyming, alliteration, syllable clapping. Name recognition and hear and say initial sounds to word. 

Phonics 

Children in reception will be accessing Read Write Inc Phonics. RWI is a proven synthetic phonics programme that ensures early success in reading, writing and spelling.

Reception children will be begin with set 1 sounds to aid oral blending and writing. 

Mathematics

In maths children in reception will be Counting, subitising and representing numbers within 5. Exposing children to different representations e.g. Numicon, counters, dice patterns etc.

Develop 1:1 correspondence, when counting and matching numerals to quantities 0-5

Communication and Language

Communication and Language is developed throughout the year, through high quality interactions, daily group discussions, circle times, stories, singing and SALT interventions.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Rules, routines, boundaries and high expectations will continually be a focus for the children, during their time in Reception. They will be reinforced continually and built upon throughout the year.

Physical Development

In reception, children have daily opportunities for Fine Motor Development, through the participation in activities, such as: threading, cutting, playdough, peg boards etc. Children who are identified as having poor fine motor skills, are targeted daily.

Gross Motor

In Reception, the children have daily, free-flow access to our Outside Provision, no matter what the weather. Our Outside Environment is set-up and designed to help develop the children’s gross motor skills, for example: climbing and balancing equipment, water area, sand area

Expressive Arts and Design

In reception children will be expressing how different emotions are through their drawings and paintings, like happiness, sadness. They will draw with increasing complexity and detail, such as representing a face with a circle and including details.

They will also begin to develop complex stories using small world equipment like animal sets, dolls and dolls houses etc (3 and 4-year-olds)

Understanding the World

Children in reception will begin to make sense of their own life-story and family’s history. They will talk about members of their immediate family and begin talking about what they see, using a wide vocabulary. Recognise the differences between themselves and their friends. Recognise that people have different beliefs and celebrate special times in different ways (Children in Reception).