YEAR RECEPTION (YR) 2009 Autumn Term

The Jolly Postman

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• Share ‘This is Me’ books.
• Get to know our class.
• Devise a classroom code of behaviour.
• Learn how to be polite.
• Understand what is right and wrong.
• Understand our feelings.
• Make friends and deal with friendship issues.
• Work in a team.

Communications, Language and Literacy

• Main texts – The Jolly Postman, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Cinderella, The Jolly Christmas Postman.  There will also be other texts to support the children’s learning.
• Our work will be centred around sending and receiving letters.
• We will be; Re-telling stories, writing lists, invitations, letters and postcards.
• Other work will include; Speaking and Listening, following simple instructions, labels and captions, role-play, phonics, rhyme, syllable clapping, word recognition, handwriting, sentence construction and punctuation.

Mathematical Development

• Counting songs.
• Counting.
• Number recognition.
• 2D and 3D shape.
• Measures – ordering different sizes.
• Days of the week
• Time – ordering what happens in a day (first, next, before lunch…)
• Repeating patterns
• Data handling
• Positional language (in front, behind…).
• Ordering sequential and non-sequential numbers.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

• Science -Exploring porridge and breakfasts from around the world, exploring flour and bread, making sandwiches.
• History – Our lives so far.
• Geography – Finding our way around the school, buildings around the world, simple journeys and maps, castles and palaces, people who help us (Postmen).
• R.E - Finding out about each other, weddings from different cultures, Christmas.
• D.T - Designing money and stamps, making homes for characters from The Jolly Postman story.
• ICT – Learning how to use a variety of programmes and CD ROMs, naming and using simple parts of the computer (mouse, monitor…), developing mouse control, using colour magic to create pictures, using the listening station to listen to a variety of tapes and CDs (play, stop) and using programmable toys (Beebots).

Physical Development

• Different ways of moving (forwards, backwards, high, low, skipping, jumping, small shapes, big shapes…). 
• Waltzing like Cinderella.
• Christmas dance.

Creative Development

• Art - Colour mixing, painting homes and fairytale characters, making clay thumb pots.  Exploring collage and mark making. Drawing castles and palaces, portraits of The Royal Family, drawing pumpkins (all using a variety of media e.g. pastels, charcoal…)
• Music – Naming and playing a variety of musical instruments.  Playing instruments in a variety of ways (scraping, tapping, high sounds, low sounds…)

YEAR RECEPTION (YR) 2009 Summer Term

 Flower Power and Animal Magic

Personal Social and Emotional Development

• Look after our environment.
• Beginning to understand our emotions.
• Be good friends.
• Be healthy.
• Be happy about our move into Year 1

Communications, Language and Literacy

• Main texts – The Sunflower, The Sunflower House, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Cow.
• Ask questions about why things happen and give explanations, listen attentively to others views.
• Know and show an understanding that information can be found from a variety of different sources.
• Sequence and write instructions.
• Write super sentences using interesting words and punctuation.
• Re-tell a simple story by choosing to act it out, freeze frame the main events, use puppets and storyboards.
• Ongoing – Reading, writing, phonics, word recognition, spelling, handwriting, sentence construction, punctuation.

 Mathmatical Development

• Double numbers.
• Name and describe 2D and 3D shapes.
• Make symmetrical patterns.
• To find all ways to make 5 using 2 numbers, all the ways to make 10 using 2 numbers (number doubles).
• Sort and organise information (data handling).
• To tell the time using o’clock.
• Ongoing – addition and subtraction, counting, reading, ordering and recognising numbers, recognise and recreate patterns, count in 2s and 10s, find missing numbers.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

• Understand and sequence the life cycle of a sunflower.
• Plant a Sunflower seed and observe it grow.
• Plant and observe a variety of seeds including sprouting seeds.
• Look after and observe the life cycle of a caterpillar.
• Find out about farms and cows. Floating and sinking.

Physical Development

• Create simple 3 step sequences using shapes, jumps and travelling (gymnastics).
• Have an awareness of space and move with control and co-ordination.
• Develop skills of sending and retrieving equipment by rolling, pushing, touching, kicking, catching and trapping.

Creative Development

• Use Van Gogh’s work to inspire our own paintings.
• Make a clay cow.
• Whole school project inspired by Renoir’s ‘Umbrellas’
• Use a variety of media to draw, sketch and colour.
• Weave and sew.

Information, Communications Technology

• Operate simple equipment.

• Navigate our way around a computer programme.

Cultures and Beliefs

• About the story of Noah’s Ark.
• Show care and concern for others, the environment and living things.