1. Welcome to Streetsbrook2. Overview of the Evening3. PTA4. School Meals5. Curriculum and Assessment6. Daily routine, including timetable, PE /Swimming 7. School Fund8. Home School Agreement
Attendance, including holidays9. Zone Board10. Communication11. Ways to get involved
- Parent Partnership- Workshops
- Inclusion Forum - EAL Forum
Agenda
Curriculum - Prime & Specific Areas
Prime Areas– Personal, Social & Emotional Development – Communication & Language Development – Physical Development
Specific Areas
Literacy Development– Reading– Writing
Mathematical Development– Numbers– Shape & Space
Understanding the World– People & Communities– The World– Technology
Expressive Arts & Design– Media & Materials– Being Imaginative
SPersonal, Social and Emotional Development
Children will be learning the expectations of school life. They will have opportunities to create and understand their school rules and practise them in everyday contexts.
Physical Development
Children will develop their ability to climb, balance and travel along the gymnastic equipment while aboard the ‘Pirate Ship’. They will also move to music as different sea creatures. Children will learn to dodge and chase during games such as ‘Climb the Rigging’ and ‘Sharks and Fish’.Children will develop their fine motor skills creating treasure, jewellery and food for the Pirates with play dough and small beads and jewels.
Maths
Children will practice their 1:1 counting, expanding their existing knowledge of the number system. They will be estimating, counting and ordering ‘pieces of eight’. They will have the opportunity to count forwards and backwards, understanding ‘1 more’ and ‘1 less’. They will learn 2D shapes, creating their own pirate flags. They will begin to understand capacity, playing in the water area with an underwater theme.
Expressive Arts and DesignChildren will be mixing colours to create painting of themselves, pirates and sea creatures. They will using different materials such as cellophane, cardboard, salt dough and collage materials to create a pirate ship, treasure chests, fish and pirate attire.Children will develop their singing skills, singing songs including ‘The day I went to sea’ and ‘A Pirate went to sea, sea, sea’.
Understanding the World
The World In Understanding of the World, children will have the opportunity to experiment with floating and sinking, predicting and describing the changes they observe. They will also learn about the forces of ‘push’ and ‘pull’, using treasure chests and different sized ramps. The children will make and follow their own Treasure Maps using a range of geographical and positional vocabulary. People and Communities Children will learn about Sikhism and explore ‘The 5 k’s’ and will learn about symbols in different religions, including the Muslim ‘Crescent Moon’. Technology Children will know how people contact and communicate with each other using ICT safely, including email, walkie talkies, telephones and video link. They will use this in role play to contact Pirate Pete. Children will be able to use programmable devices in ICT including ‘BeeBots’, ‘Easispeaks’ and ‘Talking Photo Albums’.
Communication & Language
Children will have the opportunity to speak and listen to their friends. They will invited to bring in a piece of ‘pirate treasure’ to share. They will use language and events from pirate and ocean related stories to expand their vocabulary through role play.
Literacy
The children will learn to link sounds to letters when reading and writing and will begin daily phonics sessions. They will have the opportunity to write to Pirate Pete and read and follow clues to his treasure. They will be exposed to a range of new and exciting vocabulary linked to the topic. As the topic is called ‘Ahoy There’, children will find out about different greetings. They will learn each others names, and practise writing their own. In reading, children will be introduced to the ‘Oxford Reading Tree’ family and will begin to look at a range of picture and word books.
Streetsbrook Infant & Nursery School
Curriculum Overview for Parents
Reception, Autumn Term 1
Ahoy There!
Assessment
•End of year expectations (ELG sheet)•Baseline Assessment•Assessment on a daily basis – planning for next steps•Assessment updated on termly basis•Interventions•Parental input•Additional handouts
Daily Routines
•Children come into school•Encouraging children to be as independent as possible•A member of staff will be on the door•Book bags•Swimming kits•PE bag
Timetable
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 9.00 – 9.20 Phonics
R1 Guided Reading 15 inside
15 outside/creative area
PE Maths Guided WritingFree flow
MathsFreeflow
ICT Art Swimming
R2 Guided Reading 15 inside
15 outside/creative area
Swimming
MathsFree flow
Guided Writing
ICT Maths PE Art
Lunch
R1 Topic – UW R1 outside
HandwritingR1 Creative area
Reading half classR1 Outside
Reading half classR1 Creative area
Topic
R2 Topic – UW)R2 Creative area
Reading (half class)R2 Outside
Reading half classR2 Creative
HandwritingR2 Outside
Topic
Celebration Assembly Collective Worship in classroom
Assembly Assembly Assembly
Funding
• School Trips
• Voluntary Contributions– Swimming– Visitors to school– Special days and weeks eg book Day, Science Week, Celebration
Day– Wow starters/finishes– Additional resources, including cooking ingredients
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