Reception Curriculum Map
Autumn Term 2016
What’s That Sound?
Communication
Communicationand
andLanguage
Language(CAL)
(CAL)
We
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arelearning
learningto:
to:
  Remember
happens
in a story.
To listen inwhat
a range
of situations
(whole class,
group,
individual)
 Listen
and
work at the same time eg write
our names AND listen to instructions
 Listen to our friends and respond to what
they are saying
 Follow a story without pictures or props
 Follow instructions that have two parts eg
hang up your coat and sit on the mat
Personal, Social and Emotional
Development (PSED)
WeTo
will
listen
focus
in on
a range of situations (whole class,
 group,
Asking individual)
our friends questions about their




ideas, games or stories
Explaining our own ideas
Challenging ourselves in our learning
Talking about our own behaviour
Comforting our friends if they are upset
Physical Development (PD)
Exploring Arts and Design (EAD)
We will focus on:
 Forming letters correctly
 Writing simple words eg mum, dad, cat, dog
 Negotiating space (not bumping into our
friends or equipment)
 Doing up our own coat zips
 Talking about how to stay safe
 Talking about how food helps us eg it gives us
energy to play and learn
We will focus on :
 Listening to different sounds
 Working out how to change sound
 Describing sounds eg loud, quiet, high, low
 Making our own instruments
 Making up songs using our instruments
 Play as part of a group to act out our stories
What’s That Sound?
Literacy
Maths
We are learning to:
 Read high frequency words
 Remember the sounds letters make
 Form lowercase letters correctly
 Use the sounds we know to write words
 Write simple sentences eg. The cat sat on the
mat.
 Recognise rhyming words eg cat, sat, bat. In,
grin, pin, thin.
We are learning to:
 Use positional language eg on, under, through,
below, beside
 Say when they are next to, behind, in front of
something
 Use language related to money eg this banana
cost me 50p
 Use language related to time eg it will be
lunchtime soon. We do PE on Friday afternoon.
 Count things to 10, then 20 and beyond
Understanding the World
Reminders
 Please name all clothes
 Please send coats, hats, scarves daily
 Send PE kits to school on Monday
 Bring your Book Bag every day
 Gates open at 8.45
 To have fun learning when out and
about!
We will focus on:
 Talking about what makes us special and
different from other people
 Talk about how things change eg autumnal
leaves on trees
 Describe similarities and differences eg a tiger
and a zebra have stripes but a lion doesn’t
 Use the computer/tablet to finish a
programme or game