Learning Journey
Reception Year

RA - Miss Chapple

RB - Mrs. Holden

Nursery Nurse -  Mrs. McKell

Support Assistant - Mrs. Naylor
 

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Topics:

Creative Activities:
Making models, painting, cutting, printing, sticking and collage work.

House Role Play:
Taking turns, imagining, working together, sharing, language development, re-creating roles & experiences.

Starting School & School Rules:
Routines, our class rules, our school rules, class credit snakes, sharing ideas, making friends, being a good friend, Betty and Bernie Bear.

Harvest:
Food, giving to others, festival, story, songs, vegetable printing and painting a fruit basket.

Sukkot - Jewish Harvest:
Listening to story of Sukkot, making a Sukkah, pictures, collages, understanding the beliefs of Jewish people.

Christmas:
The Christmas Story, Nativity, Bethlehem role play, giving & receiving presents, songs, making cards, calendars.

Autumn:
Walks, weather, temperature, changes, clothing, colours, collage, printing, collecting leaves.

Bonfire Night:
Painting firework patterns, sticking poems, creative language and bonfire food.

Outdoor Curriculum:
Autumn gardening, windy day box, wet day box, community blocks, sand, playground rules, playground games, teamwork, turn taking & sharing, bikes, scooters, balls.

Things I can do / myself:
My name, my family, my pets, my body, self-portraits, listening to instructions, fastening coats, physical activities, name writing, reciting nursery rhymes, counting, threading and sorting.

Key words that your child should be able to read and write:

Use these words in the way you find most useful. For example:- cut up and play pairs, play snap, play matching games, use the words to help make up sentences or use in any other way you find helpful.

Once your child can read the words start the process again spelling out the words.

Make it fun !!