Reception Curriculum

CO Reception

 

RECEPTION

AUTUMN 1
(8 weeks)

AUTUMN 2
(8 weeks)

SPRING 1
(5 weeks)

SPRING 2
(6 weeks)

SUMMER 1
(6 weeks)

SUMMER 2
(7 weeks)

TOPIC

All About Me

Let Us Celebrate

Terrific Tales

Dinosaurs

Plants and Growing

What is in the Wild

 THE BIG QUESTION

What makes me unique?

What do you celebrate?

What is your
 favourite story?

How has life on Earth changed since the Dinosaurs lived?

How does your garden grow?

What great things do
little creatures do?

KEY CONCEPTS

Diversity

Identity

Friendship

Love

Imagination

Equality

Change

Reflectiveness

Sustainability

Responsibility

Empathy

Beauty

WOW

Sharing Family Photos
Making Treasure Boxes 

Planning and Preparing a Party

Author Visit

Natural History Museum - Dinosaur Workshop

Planting at Forest School

Butterflies

AUTHENTIC OUTCOME

Self Portraits

Nativity

Making a Book

Build a Dinosaur

Growing Different Seeds

Vet Visit

CULTURAL CAPITAL

 

Dear Santa
Christmas Pantomime
Christ Church Crib Scene

Library Visit

Travelling Natural History Museum - Dinosaur Workshop

Willows Farm

Barnet Environment Centre

ROLE PLAY

Home, Kitchen, School

Santa's Grotto
Nativity Scene

Fairy Tale Castle or Cottage

Archaeologist Lab, Mini Museum

Garden Centre, Flower Shop

Jungle, Farm, Vet, Pet Store

FOCUS WEEKS

Black History Month
Vision Day

 

French Day
National Geographic Day

Book Day

Steam Week

Wellbeing Day
Art Week

 CLASSICAL MUSIC

Florence Price

Scott Joplin

Benjamin Britten

Clara Schumann

Beethoven

Debussy

CHRISTIAN VALUE

Humility

Perseverance / Hope

Community / Friendship

Forgiveness

Generosity

Gratitude / Thankfulness

RE

Creation and Fall

Incarnation

Gospel

Salvation

World Faiths

World Faiths

BLP

Reflective Robbie

Resilient Rosie

Relational Ruby

Redemptive Raya

Resourceful Rocco

Reverent Ritchie

PSHE

Bring Me in My World

Celebrating Difference

Dreams and Goals

Healthy Me

Relationships

Changing Me

HEARTSMART

Being HeartSmart

Do not Forget to let the Love in

Too much Selfie is not Healthy

Fake is a Mistake

No way Through is not True

Do not Rub it in, Rub it Out

WOWS AND WELLBEING

Continuous Provision

Nativity

Allotment

Community Cohesion

Daily Mile / Meditations

Cooking

LINKED TALK FOR WRITING TEXTS

The Big Book of Families

Can I Build Another Me

Super Duper You!

The Jolly Christmas Postman

Babushka

Let us Celebrate! Festival Poems from Around the World

Traditional Tales from a Variety of Cultures

Pattan's Pumpkins

The Enormous Pumpkin

The GingerBread Man

A Street Through Time

Life on Earth - Dinosaurs

Mad About Dinosaurs

The Extraordinary Gardener

Mama Miti

A Seed is Sleepy

Ten Things I can do to Help My World

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Being a Bee

Yucky Worms

Mad about MiniBeasts

MENTAL MATHS

Count Accurately to 20

Order Numbers
1 - 20

1 More or 1 Less up to 20

Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. 
Know Doubles to 10

Add and Subtract two Single Digit Numbers

UW

Talk about the lives of people around them and their Roles in Society

Maps - Where are our Families from?

Know some Similarities and Differences between Religious and Cultral Communities

Know some Similarities and Differences between life in this Country and other Countries

Know some Similarities and Differences between things now and in the past

Natural World - Make Drawings and Observations

Maps - Where do Plants grow around the World?

Know about some important changes and processes in the Natural World

EAD

Portraits

Diwali Art, Firework Paintings, Christmas Decorations

Illustrating Stories, and Performing Stories and Rhymes

Observational Drawing and Paintings

Using Modelling Tools and Techniques

Pattern and Symmetry in Art

PE

Bodily Co-ordination

Fundamental Movement

Dance Introduction

Gymnastics Introduction

Throwing and catching

Active Athletics

COMPUTING

Online Safety Storytime and Evolve Project Lessons

Beebots on Story Maps

Evolve Beebots using Directional Language / give specific instructions to Teachers and Peers

Role Play area with range of Technology (Old and New)

Photos on the iPad / Develop fine motor skills using Keyboard and Mouse

Purple Mash MiniBeast Drawings

FRENCH

Greetings and Introductions

Greetings and Christmas Song

Colours

Food

Numbers

Re-cap of the Year

DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

Photo Frames

Designing Cards

Building a Structure for the three Little Pigs

Weaving

Designing and Making a Mini Garden

Cooking