Curriculum Overview for Early Years Foundation Stage – Reception
| Autumn Term 1 | Autumn Term 2 | Spring Term 1 | Spring Term 2 | Summer Term 1 | Summer Term 2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our Colourful World | My Healthy Body | Harry & his Bucketful of Dinosaurs | Jasper’s Beanstalk | Whatever Next? | Commotion in the Ocean | ||
| Communication & Language | Poetry Basket throughout year | Helicopter Stories Treasure boxes / Take home Ted. Recounts. Repeated refrains | ‘Goldilocks’ 3 Tier Vocabulary Positional language Listen to understand. | Developing own oral narratives Following verbal stories without pictures | Let’s make a story Listening to others. | Asking and answering questions Speaking in front of an audience | Answer how and why questions about stories |
| Physical Development | Fine Motor | Make your mark Use of knife & fork | Handwriting Scissor control | Use of tools to construct Handwriting - control size | Use of tools to construct Handwriting - using handwriting lines | Use of tools to construct Handwriting on lines | Use of tools to construct Handwriting on lines |
| Physical Development | Gross Motor P.E | Spatial Awareness Stop & Go Games Fundamentals of movement Managing personal hygiene | Gymnastics - Balancing / Body Awareness SAQ Independence in dressing | Gymnastics - Large Apparatus SAQ | Health Related Fitness Circuits Dance Healthy body - effects of exercise. | Health Related Fitness Circuits Throwing & Catching What I need to be healthy | SAQ Bat & Ball control Team Games |
| Personal, Social & Emotional Development | SEAL | New Beginnings Developing rules and routines | Saying No to Bullying Getting On & Falling Out | Going for Goals My Family - who is special to me | Good to be me | Relationships PANTS Rule | Changes Moving on to Y1 |
| Personal, Social & Emotional Development | Commando Joe | If you are happy and you know it - Self-Awareness | Row, Row, Row your boat - Teamwork Humpty Dumpty - Positivity | Jack & Jill - Empathy | Three Blind Mice - Communication | Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - Excellence | Incy Wincy Spider - Resilience |
| Literacy | Read Write Inc (Phonics) | Speed Sounds Set 1 Word Time 1:1 - 1:4 Phase One - Rhythm & rhyme | Speed Sounds Set 1 Word Time 1:4 - 1:7 Handwriting Phase One - Oral Blending & Segmenting | Red Ditties Phase One - Alliteration / Body Percussion | Speed Sounds Set 2 Red Ditties / Green | Purple Books | Speed Sounds Set 3 Pink |
| Literacy | T4W | Brown Bear Make your Mark Message Centre | Goldilocks and the Three Bears Label writing / Lists | The Little Red Hen Simple Narratives Caption writing - How to make bread Recount - our trip to Discovery Museum | Jaspers Beanstalk - writing instructions - How to plant a bean | The Three Billy Goats Gruff - Writing a Narrative | Commotion in the Ocean - Poetry Non Fiction books |
| Literacy | Reading | Power of reading - Elmer Developing a love of reading Family Reading time Book Talk | Book Talk Reading simple words | Power of reading - Stanley's Stick (woods) Reading simple sentences | Power of reading - Yucky Worms (woods) Reading with expression | Power of Reading - Reading with expression | Power of Reading - Billy’s Bucket Reading with expression |