Reception Curriculum Evening

Tuesday 6th OctoberSeptember 2015

1. Welcome & Aims

2. Meet the Staff

3. Jargon Busting

4. EYFS Curriculum

5. A Day in the Life…

6. Ways to Help

7. E-Safety

8. Questions

Agenda

Interim Head Teacher: Mrs Luther-Jones & Mrs Llewellyn

Deputy Head Teacher: Mrs Fitter

EYFS Lead: Mrs Thomson

Meet the Staff

Elm Oak

Mrs RaynerMrs Roberts

Mrs StonemanMrs Robbins

EYFS: ‘Early Years Foundation Stage’. It is the stage of education for children from birth to Reception.

KS1: Key Stage 1 (Year 1 & 2)

FS1: Foundation Stage 1 / Nursery

FS2: Foundation Stage 2 / Reception

Jargon Busting

EYFS Curriculum

The EYFS curriculum is based on the recognition that children learn best through play and active learning. It has developed around 4 themes that underpin the EYFS

EYFS Curriculum

The EYFS curriculum is split into the ‘Prime Areas’ and the ‘Specific Areas’.

  

  

A Day in the Life (Oak)

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday8.45-9.00 Registration Registration Registration Registration Registration9.00-9.20 Phonics Phonics

MathematicsLiteracy

(Guided Reading)

Assembly

09.00-10.20

Literacy (Guided Reading)

Literacy(Guided Writing)

Mathematics10.20-11.40

Physical Development

11.40-12.00 Phonics Phonics

12.00-1.15 Lunch

1.15-2.45Understanding the

World(and library)

MathematicsCommunication &

LanguageExpressive Art

and Design

PSED 

UW (incl RE) 

Write Dance

2.45-3.00 Assembly AssemblyCollective Worship

Collective Worship

Story/Singing (Linked to

Phonics, Phase 1)3.00-3.15 Story/Singing Story/Singing Story/Singing Story/Singing

  

  

A Day in the Life (Elm)

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday8.45-9.00 Registration Registration Registration Registration Registration9.00-9.20 Phonics Phonics

Literacy(Guided Reading)

MathematicsAssembly

09.00-10.20

Literacy (Guided Reading)

Literacy(Guided Writing)

MathematicsPhysical Development10.20-11.40

11.40-12.00 Phonics Phonics

12.00-1.15 Lunch

1.15-2.45Understanding the

World(and library)

MathematicsCommunication &

LanguageExpressive Art

and Design

PSED 

UW (incl RE) 

Write Dance

2.45-3.00 Assembly AssemblyCollective Worship

Collective Worship

Story/Singing (Linked to

Phonics, Phase 1)3.00-3.15 Story/Singing Story/Singing Story/Singing Story/Singing

  

  

A Day in the Life

Topics planned for this academic year: • Autumn – Ahoy There! and Inside / Outside• Spring – Stones & Bones and Out of this World• Summer –You are what you eat and Spots and Stripes

Stunning Starters & Fabulous Finales

Reading

• Our expectations are that children will read regularly at home

• Books & diaries need to be brought in every day• Every child will have two guided reading sessions per week• The children will visit the library once a week and borrow a

book of their own choice. They will also choose a book to take home following their guided reading session

• Phonics – taught daily and children will bring home a box with the new letter sounds learnt that week

• Don’t forget bed time stories!

Phonics

• Phonics is all about sounds and it is the foundation of teaching reading in the UK.

• We follow the ‘Letters and Sounds’ programme, which is a DfE document detailing the progression children should make through ‘phases’.

• We use ‘Phonics Play’ as well as other published resources such as ‘Jolly Phonics’ to support our delivery to be as fun and engaging as possible.

• The first step on the phonics journey is to help children listen to the sounds in the environment and discriminate between them.

• Children are taught the phonetic sounds first, then how to match them to letters, and finally how to use the letter sounds for reading and spelling. We call this blending and segmenting.

Phonemes and Graphemes

• A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word.

• Graphemes are the letters that represent the sounds

How to say sounds

• Saying the sound correctly with your child is extremely important

• The way we say a sound may well be different from when you were at school

• We say the shortest form of the sounds

This is where it gets tricky

• Phonemes are represented by graphemes

• Graphemes can consist of 1, 2 or more letters, ie ch or sh

• Using ‘sound buttons’ can you say how many phonemes are in each word?

• cat• goat

Did you get it right?

• cat = c – a – t = 3 phonemenes

• goat = g – oa – t = 3 phonemes

Phonics

• English is a complex language so we try to make phonics fun through activities and games

• We teach the children actions to help them remember phonemes

• Jolly Phonics Songs – available on You Tube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djz82FBYiug

• Tricky words – Words that are not phonically decodable e.g. was, the, I

Ways to Help

Sharing books! Read and talk about the pictures, who the characters are, what happened, or what facts you have learnt.

Talk, talk, talk! Encourage children to talk in full sentences and ask questions that do not require just a yes or no answer.

Sing! Nursery rhymes help development of language, vocabulary and cognition, including memory.

Encourage mark making: shopping lists, writing in cards, drawing, stories through pictures etc.

Practise counting and recognising numbers for example when climbing the stairs, shopping, counting out objects.

Play simple board games. This is good for learning about counting on, number recognition and turn taking.

Homework: weekly reading books, phonics or words sent home to learn.

Bears

E-Safety

• With ever expanding new technologies children are using technology in a way never seen before. The increased use of technology at school and home also exposes children to a number of risks and dangers.

• In its simplest form e-safety is about ensuring children use new technologies in a way which will keep them safe without limiting their opportunities for creation and innovation.

• Safe ~ to remain safe by protecting personal information;• Meeting ~ never meet somebody you have only been in touch with

online without a parent or guardian;• Accepting ~ do not accept email, files or messages from people you

don’t know;• Reliable ~ not all information on the Internet is true, including the

identity of others• Tell ~ it is never to late to tell a parent, carer or responsible adult if

someone or something makes you feel afraid online.

Is your child SMART at home?

Questions?