Reception Curriculum Overview 2014- 2015
Theme
Personal Social
and Emotional
Development
PSHE/Circle
Time
Physical
Development
Journeys
Toys
Dinosaurs
Animals
Space
The Seaside
Michaelmas 1
Michaelmas 2
Lent 1
Lent 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
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New Beginnings
Getting on and falling
out
Going for goals
Relationships
Changes
Multiskills including
spatial awareness,
basic motor skills and
co-ordination and
control
Multiskills including
sending, aiming,
tracking and receiving
Multi skills including
bouncing, throwing
and striking
Games skills including
rounders, cricket and
tennis
Swimming
Sports day practise
Games skills incl
rounders, cricket and
tennis
Swimming
Sports day practise
Gymnastics including
spatial and body
awareness, balance,
jumps, travelling
balance and rolls
Use imagination to
describe being in an
egg, write labels and
simple sentences
including a dinosaur
speech bubble and
dinosaur food. Use
non-fiction texts to find
information on
dinosaurs and fossils
Design an imaginary
land
Gymnastics including
exploring shapes –
tuck, star, straight and
sequences
Various Gross and
fine motor activities
Write Dance
Dance including body
actions, body parts
and travelling
Communication
and Language
Literacy
Use holiday stories to;
order events, begin to
write some sounds
and words, design
tickets, retell stories
and use imagination
to recreate roles of
animals on the train,
use descriptive
language to describe
story scenes and write
speech bubbles
Describe and write
labels for toys,
develop questioning
and discussion skills,
begin to explore a
wider variety of texts,
invent a new toy
character and act out
a story in sequence,
write labels for a
favourite toy, develop
rhyming skills
Good to be me
Make class book
writing simple
sentences, ask
relevant questions to
parent bathing baby,
sequence events of
bath time, create and
use lists, distinguish
between fact and
fiction, make up and
act out their own
stories
Dance including
responding to different
moods and emotions
Use poetry to develop
rhyming skills, create
a fictional character
using descriptive
language, use nonfiction books to find
information on planets
and make
comparisons between
Earth and the moon,
talk about different
books and share
opinions
Imagine how a
character feels and
express this in writing,
predict the ending of a
story, write suitable
captions and labels for
a sea shore
information book,
imagine an
experience and
describe in words,
take orders for the ice
cream parlour!
Numeracy
Seasons and days of
the week, adding and
subtracting one more,
understand a simple
addition sentence
through taking a
family on holiday,
count to 10 and
beyond, order objects
and make repeating
patterns, recognising
2 and 3D shapes
Estimating, recognise
simple patterns and
sort into categories,
count down from 10,
understand length and
create simple class
graph, make own
counting book to aid
1:1 correspondence
and number
constancy, developing
addition,
distinguishing 3D
shapes and their
properties
Comparing and
measuring lengths of
a dinosaur footprint,
use ordinal language,
count beyond 10 and
match numerals, find
practical ways of
finding totals, using
subtraction to count
back, explore 2D
shapes by cutting
paper in different
ways, use number
sentences and stories
for addition and
number bonds to 6
Writing numbers,
focusing on teen
numbers, directional
and positional
language when
bathing a baby,
estimating and
comparing 2 numbers
and sets saying which
has more/less,
capacity and weight,
using the language of
time, day and night
time animals, what
can you do in a
minute challenge?
Understanding
the World
(UW)
Investigation
afternoon – exploring
changes (malleable)
and children’s
interests
Forest School
Journey activities
using globe and world
map
Diwali activities
Autumn activities
Investigation
afternoon – exploring
changes (ice) and
children’s interests
Forest School
Firework and
remembrance
Christmas and
celebrations around
the world
Investigation
afternoon – growing
(planting, dinosaur
eggs, crystals) and
children’s interests
Forest School
Winter activities
Dinosaur topic,
exploration of fossils
and museum visit
Chinese New Year
Investigation
afternoon –life cycles,
floating and sinking
and children’s
interests
Forest School
Spring activities
Growing activities
Easter
ICT (UW)
ICT in the world
around us including a
technology walk
Using computers and
log cabin rules
Using computers –
develop mouse and
keyboard skills using
simple programs
Audio; using
microphones and
recording devices
Using cameras and
video cameras
RS (UW)
Harvest.
The Christmas Story
Chinese New Year
Diwali
Count down from
10/20 in rocket
launches, look at 2D
faces compared to 3D
incl. The moon,
complete a moon
phase and other
patterns, 2D shapes
review and look at
stars and different
ways to make them
using other 2D
shapes, using planets
begin to subtract by
taking objects away
from a set and
counting back
Investigation
afternoon – light and
dark (Space, moon
experiment)
Forest School
Animals topic
Visit to zoo farm
Jewish festival and
visitor
Summer activities
Make 3D shapes from
playdough and paper,
find a 3D shape from
descriptions, count in
2’s, identify coins and
use to buy milk and
fruit at Forest School,
addition and writing
simple number
sentences, number
bonds to 10
Exploring using floor
robots such as Bee
bots, Lego remote
control car and other
toys
Exploring letters,
words and text
Multimedia – story
making
Exploring floor robots
Copying and enlarging
Easter
Jewish Passover
Noah
Jesus – A friend to
children
Investigation
afternoon – magnets,
reversible changes
(toast) and children’s
interests
Forest School
Beach visit – fossil
hunting
Healthy eating, fruit
tasting
Expressive Art
and Design
(EAD)
Seasonal art work
related to Autumn and
apple harvest
Diwali – clay lamps,
mehndi patterns and
rangoli patterns
Exploratory art, colour
mixing, child initiated
activities
Holiday collage
Forest School art work
Seasonal art work –
observational
snowdrop drawings
Exploratory art, colour
mixing, child initiated
activities
Forest School art work
Christmas cards
Patterned wrapping
paper
Calendars – marbling
Music (EAD)
Special People – beat
and tempo
Role play areas
Beach hut home
Special People – beat
and tempo
Christmas songs and
nativity
Beach hut home
Travel agents/airport
Charlton Apple
orchard
Visits and
Visitors
Seasonal art work
Forest School art work
Exploratory art, colour
mixing, child initiated
activities
Chinese new year,
painting symbols,
lucky envelopes,
lanterns
Dinosaur topic,
dinosaur eggs,
dinosaur large
landscape painting.
Going Places – high
and low
Dinosaur songs
Seasonal art work
Forest School art work
Exploratory art, colour
mixing, child initiated
activities
Daffodil observational
painting
Animal topic,
observational
drawings of animals
seen on trip
Easter art work, cards,
eggs.
Growth and Change –
loud and quiet
Seasonal art work
Forest School art work
Exploratory art, colour
mixing, child initiated
activities
Space topic, Oliver
Jeffers pictures, new
planet design, 3d
aliens and rockets
Seasonal art work
Forest School art work
Exploratory art, colour
mixing, child initiated
activities
Seaside topic, beach
scenes, ice creams,
sea scapes.
Senses - timbre
Noah rap, summer
show
Beach hut home
Beach hut home
Beach hut home
Beach hut home
Santa’s workshop
Dinosaur dig
Pet shop/vet
Space station/shuttle
Seaside cafe
Special Visitor
Dinosaur Museum
Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm
@Bristol planetarium
Watchet beach on
steam train
Baby to visit for bath!