Reception Curriculum Overview
Autumn 1
Ourselves
RE
God’s World
Harvest
Autumn 2
Colour and Light
Autumn
Winter
God’s Family
Christmas
PSED
New Beginnings
Getting On and Falling
Out
PD
- (Carried out
through cross curricular
activities)
Control - Shop the
Clock
Space - Space Walk
Manipulative - Touchy
Feely
CL & Literacy
Books that link to
termly theme,
other areas of
learning and
children’s
interests.
Starting School
Going to School
You’ll soon grow into
them Titch
Borris Starts School
Tom and Lucy go to
School
Owl Babies
My Dad is fantastic
My Mum is brilliant
Maths
Number:
Begin to organise and categorise objects.
Says counting words randomly and then in
order.
Selects a small number of objects from a group
when asked, ‘give me 1/2’
Recites some number names in sequence.
Shape, space & Measure:
Attempts, sometimes successfully to fit shapes
into spaces on insert boards or jigsaw puzzles.
Uses blocks to create their own simple
structures and arrangements.
Enjoys filling and empting containers.
Begins to use the language of size.
Say No to Bullying
Control - Changing
Shapes
Mobility – Shop and
Hop
Manipulative –
Spin and Roll
Rama and Sita
Elmer
Maisy’s Colours
Maisy’s Rainbow
Laura’s Star
The Rainbow Fish
Stick Man
Nativity
Spring 1
Big Cook, Little Cook
Winter
Spring 2
Exploring Materials
Spring
Summer 1
Plants
Summer 2
Animals
Summer
Getting to Know Jesus
The Lost Sheep
Marriage Feast of
Cana
Sorrow and Joy
Lent/Easter
Feeding the 5000
New Life
Easter
The Church
St. Peter
St. Paul
Going for Goals
Relationships
Good to Be Me
Changes
Control – Zig Zag Rag
Space – You and Me
Mobility – Trains and
Planes
Control – Task Zone
Space – Talking
Machine
Manipulative - Spikey
Fingers
Control – Motivation
time
Mobility - Funfair Time
Manipulative – Throw
in the hole.
Control – Challenge
Time
Space – Group Link
Mobility - Pathways
Chinese New Year
Gingerbread Man
Hungry Caterpillar
Oliver’s Vegetables
Little Red Hen
Recipes
Handa’s Surprise
Mud
Mud recipes
The Three Little Pigs
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Non Fiction books on
materials
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jasper’s Beanstalk
How to Grow a
Sunflower
Non Fiction books on
plants
The Bad Tempered
Ladybird
On the Farm
Non Fiction books on
animals
3 Little Pigs
Number:
Creates and experiments with symbols and marks
representing ideas of numbers.
Begins to make comparisons between and use
the language of quantities.
Uses some number names and number language
spontaneously and sometimes recites some
numbers in order.
Shape, space & Measure:
Number:
Uses more language of quantities such as, ‘more’
or ‘a lot’.
Knows that a group of things changes in quantity
when something is added or taken away.
Uses some number names accurately in play.
Recites numbers in order to 10.
Sometimes matches numeral and quantity.
Shape, space & Measure:
Notices simple shapes and patterns in
pictures.
Begins to categorise objects according to
properties such as shape or size.
Anticipate specific time based events, such
as meal and home times.
Shows an interest in shape and space by
playing with shapes or making arrangements
with objects.
Begins to use the more language of size.
UW/EAD
Understands some talk about immediate past and
future, for example ‘before, later or soon’.
Shows an awareness of shapes in the
environment.
Begins to use positional language.
Plants
Songs, rhymes,
pictures, models,
food, investigations,
inquiries and
explorations linked to
the theme.
Basic Skills
Animals
Songs, rhymes, pictures,
models, food,
investigations, inquiries
and explorations linked
to the theme.
Inside:
Vets
Inside:
Farm House
Outside:
Deconstructive Play
Outside:
Deconstructive Play
Ourselves
Songs, rhymes,
pictures, models,
food, investigations,
inquiries and
explorations linked to
the theme.
Introduction to
technology
Colour and Light
Songs, rhymes,
pictures, models,
food, investigations,
inquiries and
explorations linked to
the theme.
We can complete a
simple programme
Big Cook, Little Cook
Songs, rhymes,
pictures, models,
food, investigations,
inquiries and
explorations linked to
the theme.
We understand
instructions
Exploring Materials
Songs, rhymes,
pictures, models, food,
investigations, inquiries
and explorations linked
to the theme.
Role Play
As the role play
areas are designed
around the
children’s interests
and fascinations
these role play
areas are only a
guide.
Inside:
Home Corner
Inside:
Beach then
Santa’s Workshop
Inside:
Bakery/Cafe
Inside:
Clothing Boutique
Outside:
Cave/Santa’s Grotto
Outside:
Deconstructive Play
Outside:
Deconstructive Play
(Ideas only)
(Ideas only)
(Ideas only)
Continuous
Provision
Children need active learning through hands-on, play-based activities this is called continuous provision. Continuous provision enables children to explore
recent learning, practice new skills, and follow their own interests. Teachers are able to enhance the continuously offered activities to make links to adultinitiated and adult-directed, focused sessions. This combination gives the children plenty of opportunities to practice and improve skills, knowledge and
confidence in active, independent learning.
Technology
Outside:
Deconstructive Play
We can save and print
our work.
Basic Skills
(Ideas only)
(Ideas only)
(Ideas only)
Please Note: These topics and themes are subject to change weekly depending on the children’s interests, this overview is used as
a guide for Reception Class Staff to ensure all the children cover each objective from the Early Years Curriculum.