Reception Curriculum

Meeting

Early Years Curriculum

Play basedWhat to expect, when? –

(Guidance to your child’s learning and development in the early years foundation stage)

Development Matters in the Early Years Foundation Stage

We will provide experiences & support to help your child to…

• Be positive and respect others. • Be interested, excited and motivated to

learn.• Be confident and form good relationships

with adults and peers.• In reception we will build on each child's

diverse experiences to ensure that they acquire the basic skills they need to lay the foundations for their future schooling….

Literacy• RWI Curriculum Meetings - Wednesday 4th November – 6pm - Thursday 5th November – 9am• Book Bags• Please ensure your child brings their book bag

to school every day.• Starting on Monday 14th September your child

will choose a library book on a Monday and a Friday.

• Phonics Books will come home every Friday, starting Friday 18th September, and need to be returned by the following Thursday.

LiteracyWays to help your child learn to read• Handout in pack• Importance of bedtime story.

Expectation for Reading at the end of Reception

Early Learning GoalChildren read and understand simple

sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words

and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common

irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when talking with

others about what they have read.

Reading

Expectation for Writing at the end of Reception

Early Learning GoalChildren use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be

read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.

Writing

NumeracyNumeracy all around us

Vocabulary - Handout

Ways to help your child

Ways to help your child

Numbers• Plan a picnic with me and let me decide how many sandwiches and bananas we will need.• Show me a number before we leave for school. Who can find that number?• Play number snap or bingo with numbers that we’ve cut out of a magazine.• Sing number songs where I have to count backwards like “Five Little Ducks” or “Ten Fat Sausages”.

Expectation for Numbers at the end of Reception

Early Learning GoalChildren count reliably with numbers from

one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers

and count on or back to find the answer. They solve problems, including doubling, halving

and sharing.

Ways to help your child

Shape, space and measure• Let me sort out the pairs of shoes so that they go from small to big.• Let me make patterns with buttons or lids, like “big, small, big”.• Let me give you instructions for an obstacle course, like “Go under the blanket”, “Go through the tunnel” and “Go behind the chair”.

Expectation for Shape, Space and Measure at the

end of ReceptionEarly Learning Goal

Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare

quantities and objects and to solve problems. They recognise, create and describe

patterns. They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use

mathematical language to describe them.

Online Learning Journals

Reception will be using an onlineprogram called Tapestry to recordyour child’s progress anddevelopment.Tapestry meeting for new parents

will be held in October. Date to be confirmed!

Learning JournalsWhat you can do at home

– Upload pictures and models etc from home

– Photos of family occasions– Leaflets and notes from

daytrips/holidays– Take notes on what your child

says.

General Information

Name, name, name!!!!!!!!!!

Named Water bottles

Ways to improve fine motor control

General Information

Healthy Schools Policy• Lunch boxes• Birthdays/celebrations• Parent Notice Boards – outside

each classroom • Nut Free School

General Information

PE– P.E. kits in school– No earrings– Opportunity to practice

dressing– Velcro straps