Manor Field Infant and Nursery school
Curriculum overview – Reception
Summer term 1 2017
This half term, our Core stories are ‘Rosie’s Walk’ by Pat Hutchins and ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by
Julia Donaldson. These books will be central to our planning and activities. We will also be reading
‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle as part of science week.
Subject
We will be learning
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Personal,
Social and
Emotional
development
This term, we will be promoting the
children’s independence by asking
them to come into school themselves
and carrying out tasks with less
support. We will continue to learn
about different feelings and emotions
and how to handle these during our
PATHs sessions. A class visit will give
children new experiences and learn
appropriate behaviours in different
situations.
The children will be taking part in many
physical activities, both as a class and
during their independent play. In our
PE lessons, we will explore
coordination through dance and multiskill activities. We will also be using
some equipment such as bats,
beanbags and quoits to practise
throwing, catching, balancing and
aiming.
Outdoors, the children will have
opportunities to develop special
awareness and gross motor skills.
Give children small responsibilities around
the home to increase their independence.
Ask them to organise their own belongings
for school.
Talk to your children about how they are
feeling and discuss the different emotions
of other people or characters in stories too.
Talk to your children about what to do if
they or someone else is feeling upset or
angry.
Physical
development
Communication All of our activities will promote
and Language speaking and listening skills and
extend the children’s language through
open ended enquiries, such as ‘how’
and ‘why’ questions. During ‘children’s
voice’ sessions and circle time children
are encouraged to share their own
ideas and opinions.
Children will be taught the correct
vocabulary related to the core story of
farming and farm animals.
Literacy
Our Core Story will be the starting
point for lots of our reading and writing
activities including exploring the
language used in the stories and
rhyme and alliteration.
Play action games or songs with children
encouraging their coordination and rhythm.
Play throwing, catching or aiming games
outside.
Support children to extend their speaking
skills by asking further questions, for
example ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions.
Model using the correct vocabulary when
discussing animals and objects including
the correct names for male, female and
baby farm animals (Ram, Ewe, Lamb).
Share different types of writing with your
child including stories, information books,
poems and magazines and discuss what
you have read.
Manor Field Infant and Nursery school
Curriculum overview – Reception
Summer term 1 2017
Mathematics
We will be learning about non-fiction
writing and writing our own information
books about farms as well as writing
about our experiences on our school
visit to Easton College Farm.
Look out for rhymes in books, asking the
children to guess the rhyming word. Make
up silly sentences with your children using
alliteration e.g. ‘Lily lion laughed at the
leopards’.
Encourage children to write about their
interests at home, writing their own stories,
cards or letters, and labelling pictures.
Make a fact book about farm animals.
In maths children will be enhancing
their counting skills and counting
multiples of two, five and ten. We will
revise and extend doubling and
halving. Through our core stories
children will learn about direction and
position and we will look closely at
patterns and symmetry. We continue
to work on children’s number
recognition, writing numbers and
problem solving.
When playing support children to count
their toys in two’s, ten’s and five’s by
grouping them. When eating a snack,
encourage children to double or halve the
food they have. When out and about talk
about the directions you are going using
the correct language and the position of
objects. Use coloured toys to make
patterns or symmetrical patterns.
Look together at online maths games:http://www.topmarks.co.uk/mathsgames/5-7-years/counting
http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html
Understanding
the World
Expressive
Arts and
Design
During science week, children will
learn about life cycles of different
animals and learn to name the stages
and animals correctly. Children will
discuss the changes as well as how
they themselves have grown and
changed.
Following on from our core stories and
school visit children will learn about
different farm animals and what
produce we get from farms.
Discuss life cycles of different animals with
children including butterflies, chickens and
frogs. Talk about how people change and
grow as they get older, share family photo
albums and pictures of you and your
children when you were younger.
Research information about farming and
farm animals using information books or
websites online. Name baby animals
correctly and discuss what the animals eat.
Discuss where food comes from as you are
cooking and eating.
Children will begin to learn aspects of
Discuss the music that you listen to at
music including rhythm and beat
home or in the car, encouraging children to
through games and songs.
tap along to the beat or copy a rhythm.
Children will learn and explore different Discuss instruments that you can hear in
art techniques and have opportunities
the songs.
to develop their own creative ideas.
Create pictures of your favourite farm
animals with children using different pens,
pencils, paints or other materials.