RECEPTION
CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE LEARNING – FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
THEMES & TOPICS
Domestic Church
Family
MYSELF
God knows and loves
each one
Playing and exploring –
engagement
Finding out and exploring
Playing with what they
know
Being willing to ‘have a go’
Children looked for
their own name card
Talked about their
name and their
friends names
Active learning –
motivation
Being involved and
concentrating
Keeping trying
Enjoying achieving what
they set out to do
Name games, sitting in the
circle, rolling the ball.
Repeating these games
outside
Painting pics of themselves
and labelling pics
Drawing around each
others hands
Telling parents about the
hymn If I were a butterfly
Hearing children singing
this when working in the
provision
Creating and thinking
critically – thinking
Having their own ideas
Making links
Choosing ways to do
things
Telling me about
other members of
their family and their
names and how they
are going to making
muddy handprints
Baptism/
Confirmation
Belonging
WELCOME
Baptism; a
welcome to
God’s family
Advent/
Christmas
Loving
BIRTHDAY
Looking
forward to
Jesus’
birthday
Local
Church
Community
CELEBRA
TING
People
celebrate
in Church
Eucharist
Relating
GATHERING
The parish
family
gathers to
celebrate
Eucharist
Lent/Easter
Giving
GROWING
Looking
forward to
Easter
Pentecost
Serving
GOOD
NEWS
Passing on
the Good
news of
Jesus
Reconciliati
on
Interrelating
FRIENDS
Friends of
Jesus
Universal
Church
world
OUR
WORLD
God’s
wonderful
world
RECEPTION
PRIME AREA OF LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT - PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT - SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
THEMES & TOPICS
Domestic
Baptism/
Confirmation
Church
Belonging
Family
WELCOME
MYSELF
God knows Baptism; a
and loves welcome to
God’s
each one
family
Making relationships
Children play co-operatively, taking
turns with others. They take
account of one another’s ideas about
how to organise their activity. They
show sensitivity to others’ needs
and feelings, and form positive
relationships with adults and other
children.
Introducing
each other,
recognising
each others
names
Self confidence and self
awareness
Children are confident to try new
activities, and say why they like
some activities more than others.
They are confident to speak in a
familiar group, will talk about their
ideas, and will choose the resources
they need for their chosen
activities. They say when they do or
don’t need help.
Joining in
with the
games.
Singing
hymns to
parents at
the rejoice.
Joining in at
respond
Managing feelings and behaviour
Children talk about how they and
others show feelings, talk about
their own and others’ behaviour, and
its consequences, and know that
some behaviour is unacceptable.
They work as part of a group or
class, and understand and follow the
rules. They adjust their behaviour
to different situations, and take
changes of routine in their stride.
Knowing and
using their
friends name
when they
are playing
with them
Advent/
Christmas
Loving
BIRTHDAY
Looking
forward to
Jesus’
birthday
Eucharist
Local
Lent/East
Church
Relating
er
Community GATHERING
Giving
CELEBRAT The parish GROWING
family
Looking
ING
gathers
to
forward
People
to Easter
celebrate
celebrate
Eucharist
in Church
Pentecost
Serving
GOOD
NEWS
Passing on
the Good
news of
Jesus
Reconciliati
on
Interrelating
FRIENDS
Friends of
Jesus
Universal
Church
world
OUR
WORLD
God’s
wonderful
world
THEMES & TOPICS
Domestic
Church
Family
MYSELF
God knows
and loves
each one
Listening and attention
Children listen attentively in a range
of situations. They listen to stories,
accurately anticipating key events
and respond to what they hear with
relevant comments, questions or
actions. They give their attention to
what others say and respond
appropriately, while engaged in
another activity.
Listening to the
Psalm,
Responding to
prayers and
daily hymns.
Listening to
children talk
about their
pictures when
they are being
held safe and
snug.
Understanding
Moving to music
Children follow instructions involving and stopping
several ideas or actions. They
and waving to
answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions
friend saying
about their experiences and in
hello God loves
response to stories or events.
you. Listening to
the Psalm and
responding to it
Speaking
Children express themselves
effectively, showing awareness of
listeners’ needs. They use past,
present and future forms accurately
when talking about events that have
happened or are to happen in the
future. They develop their own
narratives and explanations by
connecting ideas or events.
Children talked
about their
feelings they
told me about
feeling safe and
snug in mothers
arms .
Using the
treasure chest
and saying I
have called you
by your name.
Baptism/
Confirmation
Belonging
WELCOME
Baptism; a
welcome to
God’s family
Advent/
Christmas
Loving
BIRTHDAY
Looking
forward to
Jesus’
birthday
Local Church Eucharist
Lent/Easter
Community
Relating
Giving
CELEBRATI GATHERING GROWING
NG
The parish
Looking
People
family
forward to
celebrate in gathers to
Easter
Church
celebrate
Eucharist
Pentecost
Serving
GOOD
NEWS
Passing on
the Good
news of
Jesus
Reconciliation
Interrelating
FRIENDS
Friends of
Jesus
Universal
Church
world
OUR
WORLD
God’s
wonderful
world
THEMES & TOPICS
Reading
Children 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.
Writing
Children 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.
Domestic
Church
Family
MYSELF
God knows
and loves
each one
We put up
the key words
on our
display and
kept referring
to them.
Class prayers
are displayed.
Children are
encouraged
to recognise
their own
name.
Children
attempted to
label their
pictures with
their own
name
Baptism/
Confirmation
Belonging
WELCOME
Baptism; a
welcome to
God’s family
Advent/
Christmas
Loving
BIRTHDAY
Looking
forward to
Jesus’
birthday
Local
Church
Community
CELEBRATI
NG
People
celebrate in
Church
Eucharist
Relating
GATHERING
The parish
family
gathers to
celebrate
Eucharist
Lent/
Easter
Giving
GROWING
Looking
forward to
Easter
Pentecost
Serving
GOOD
NEWS
Passing on
the Good
news of
Jesus
Reconciliati
on
Interrelating
FRIENDS
Friends of
Jesus
Universal
Church
world
OUR
WORLD
God’s
wonderful
world
THEMES & TOPICS
People and communities
Children talk about past and
present events in their own lives
and in the lives of family members.
They know that other children
don’t always enjoy the same things,
and are sensitive to this. They
know about similarities and
differences between themselves
and others, and among families,
communities and traditions.
The world
Children know about similarities
and differences in relation to
places, objects, materials and living
things. They talk about the
features of their own immediate
environment and how environments
might vary from one another. They
make observations of animals and
plants and explain why some things
occur, and talk about changes.
Technology
Children recognise that a range of
technology is used in places such as
homes and schools. They select and
use technology for particular
purposes.
Domestic
Church
Family
MYSELF
God knows
and loves
each one
Children talked
about their
own families
and the people
in their families
and what their
names were.
Taking on the
roles of being
Mum and Dad
in the home
corner
Using You tube
to find If I were
a butterfly.
Children used
Ipads to draw
their own
portrait
Baptism/
Confirmation
Belonging
WELCOME
Baptism; a
welcome to
God’s family
Advent/
Christmas
Loving
BIRTHDAY
Looking
forward to
Jesus’
birthday
Local
Eucharist
Church
Relating
Community GATHERING
CELEBRATI The parish
NG
family
People
gathers to
celebrate in
celebrate
Church
Eucharist
Lent/
Easter
Giving
GROWING
Looking
forward to
Easter
Pentecost
Serving
GOOD
NEWS
Passing on
the Good
news of
Jesus
Reconciliation
Interrelating
FRIENDS
Friends of
Jesus
Universal
Church
world
OUR
WORLD
God’s
wonderful
world
THEMES & TOPICS
Exploring and using media and
materials
Children sing songs, make music and
dance, and experiment with ways of
changing them. They safely use and
explore a variety of materials,
tools and techniques,
experimenting with colour, design,
texture, form and function.
Domestic
Church
Family
MYSELF
God knows
and loves
each one
Singing hymns
and prayers
Painting
pictures of
themselves
and drew
picture of
someone
precious to
them.
Being imaginative
Children acted
Children use what they have learnt out being safe
about media and materials in
and snug in
original ways, thinking about uses
home corner
and purposes. They represent their and being Mum
own ideas, thoughts and feelings
and Dad.
through design and technology, art, Children made
music, dance, role play and stories. palm prints in
clay .
Outside
children made
palm prints by
putting hands
in to the mud
and printing on
the flags
Baptism/
Confirmation
Belonging
WELCOME
Baptism; a
welcome to
God’s family
Advent/
Christmas
Loving
BIRTHDAY
Looking
forward to
Jesus’
birthday
Local
Church
Community
CELEBRATI
NG
People
celebrate in
Church
Eucharist
Relating
GATHERING
The parish
family
gathers to
celebrate
Eucharist
Lent/Easter Pentecost Reconciliation
InterGiving
Serving
relating
GROWING
GOOD
FRIENDS
Looking
NEWS
Friends
of
forward to
Passing
Jesus
Easter
on the
Good
news of
Jesus
Universal
Church
world
OUR
WORLD
God’s
wonderful
world