Reception
Welcome to Tiger Cubs!
Our teacher is Miss Hampton e.hampton@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk. Our teaching assistant is Mrs Fouracre.
Welcome to Lion Cubs!
Our teacher is Mrs Baldock l.baldock@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk. Our teaching assistant is Mrs Montgomery.
Autumn Term 2024
Welcome to Reception!
We are looking forward to starting your learning journey with you.
Below is an overview of the learning that will take place this term
English Key Text: The Colour Monster, The Colour Monster goes to School, We Are Family, Oliver's Vegetables, The Verty Helpful Hedgehog, Flecther and the Falling Leaves.
Comprehension, word reading and writing:
- Anticipate key events in stories
- Understanding what has been read to them.
- Retelling stories and narratives using their own words.
- To begin to say the sound for some letters of the alphabet.
- To begin to write recognisable letters.
- To write their own name.
Communication and Language: Listening, Attention and Understanding and Speaking.
- To listen attentively and respond to what they hear with questions and comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions.
- To make comments about what they have heard and start to ask questions to clarify their understanding.
- To begin to hold conversation when engaged in back-and-forth exchanges with their teacher and peers.
Maths: Number and Numerical pattern
- Count objects, actions and sounds.
- Match one number name to each item (one-one principle)
- Link the numeral with its cardinal number value.
- Compare length
- Continue, copy and create repeating patterns
Understanding the World:
- Name the four seasons.
- Name different types of weather.
- Make observations about the weather.
- Describe the weather associated which each season.
- Name all the senses and say which body part is associated with each sense.
- Compare his/her life with that of a grandparent
- Emotions are our inner feelings. Explore words used to describe emotions
- The importance of understanding our emotions, and the emotions of other people.
- That behaviour is the way that we act. Good behaviour means following rules, and treating people and things with kindness and respect.
- We all things in common and things that make unique. Our opinion is what we think about something, a
- We all have different likes & dislikes, e.g. we may have different hobbies
- There are many different events that we celebrate through the year. Some of these are a part of religions – Harvest
- I can move objects on a screen.
- I can make choices about the buttons and icons I press, touch or click on.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Being Me in the World.
- To know they have a right to learn and play, safely and happily
- To know that some people are different from themselves
- To know that hands can be used kindly and unkindly
- To know special things about themselves
- To know how happiness and sadness can be expressed
- To know that being kind is good
Expressive Arts and Design:
- Different types of lines; straight, horizontal, curved, continuous, broken, vertical, jagged, thick, thin, wavy, zig zag, parallel, spiral
- To know that tools and equipment need to be used safely
- Food safety: take part in simple clearing up tasks
- Food hygiene: washing hands and touching equipment
- that materials can be used for joining
- To sing or rap nursery rhymes and simple songs from memory.
- An awareness songs have sections
- Know the stories of some of the nursery rhymes.
Physical Development:
- Finds clear space avoiding obstacles in lessons and in games.
- Adjusting speed and direction to avoid obstacles.
- Experiments with different ways of moving showing confidence.
- Copy simple ways of travelling to include; walking, running, hopping.
- Shows improved control and coordination when walking and running.
- Negotiates space when running at speed.
PE will take place on Wednesdays. Could children please come to school dressed in their PE kit with earrings taken out on this day.
For more information on our remote learning offer for those working from home, please click here.
Click here to see the reading, writing and maths expectations in Reception
Curriculum Map
Class Timetables
Reading and Writing in Reception
By the end of the Reception year children should be able to read and understand simple sentences through the teaching of reading with phonically decodable books.. They can use their phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They can also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.
Children should also be able to use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They can 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.
Mathematics in Reception
By the end of Reception children should be able to 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. When using quantities and objects, they can add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. They can solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
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.
Outdoor Learning in EYFS
The outdoors is a place where children can continue to learn by doing. They carry on building on the knowledge, skills and understanding that they have already acquired to make sense of the world around them. They are active learners, seeking information and continuing to question and explore. Being outdoors provides a focus for different types of experiences which support young children’s growing sense of confidence and autonomy. This is enhanced by the enjoyment of new challenges, such as seeking and finding treasure on a treasure hunt. Their enthusiasm to participate in outdoor experiences is expanded as their social and communication skills develop and they seek out and enjoy the company of adults and other children.
