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British Values

Reception

The Circle of Life

Education

Mindfulness

History

Stamina Physical Education

Compete

Respect

Sportsmanship

Wellbeing

Determination

We Are The Champions

Communicate

Dance

Drama

Theatre Club

Music

Choir Musical Cabaret

Production

Art

Create

Design

Geography

Language

Explore

Historians

Tradition

Population

Communities

Developments

Science

ICT

Enquiry

Data

Evaluate

Predict

Measure Calculate

Analyse

Investigate

Test

Experiment

Coding

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Rationale for The Circle of Life Reception Curriculum—New for 2018

Delivering our Vision: ‘Ready For The Future’

Our ‘Circle of Life—Curriculum and Beyond’ encompasses 4 main elements that work together to provide children with a fully rounded understanding of their curriculum topics amidst an all-encompassing experience which develops their spiritual, moral, social and cultural maturity

alongside their own physical and mental well-being, acting as key indicators of their readiness for the future. Our curriculum asks the children to live our school vision and is the primary motivation for its design.

Our ‘Circle of Life’ works on three levels: core subject learning; equal emphasis upon our wider non-core curriculum learning; curriculum enrichment focusing upon lunchtime provision, extra-curricular opportunities and identified intervention and support on a social and academic level with trained

staff immersed within a wide range of pupil leadership and pupil voice opportunities.

Details for the Journey Initially, children are provided with a theme to explore across the duration of the half term. In Reception, children will lead their own learning by posing their own questions to explore and investigate. Provision enhancements and provocations are open ended to help stimulate and ignite a desire for inquiry and exploration as children lead their learning in the direction of interest. The 4 main elements: ‘Shaping The Future’, ‘Express

Yourself’, ‘Live Life Well’ and ‘Worldly Wise’ cover all aspects of the EYFS curriculum and capture much of this work. Each session is clearly identified to the children so that they understand the curriculum area they are working on during a given session. All topics are introduced with a ’Stunning Start’,

this is chance for teachers to capture the children’s imagination and enthuse them about the topic that they will be covering. These sessions are designed to create maximum impact and to be something that the children will remember and talk about with enthusiasm.

FOUR SPIRITUAL, MORAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DRIVERS RUN CONSISTENTLY THROUGH THE HEART OF EACH TOPIC

EQUALITY & DIVERSITY CHRISTIAN VALUES BRITISH VALUES PERSONAL, SOCIAL & HEALTH EDUCATION

Our model allows teachers to take direction from the children’s interests and plan enhancements to challenge their learning further. This exciting way of working provides an opportunity for both staff and children to see where their learning can go.

Our children’s mathematics, reading, writing and religious educational development runs parallel to this work and aspects are used as a tool to enhance outcomes across the curriculum.

Our extra-curricular work is designed to build physical and mental stamina, capture pupil interest and foster their independence and resilience—these skills can only enhance the potential levels of achievement our

children can then achieve in the classroom.

‘Ready for the Future’ means a fit, happy young person who is well placed to maximize their academic achievements.

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The Circle

Of Life

Diversity &

Equality

Personal, Social and Emotional

Development (PSED)

Physical Development (PD)

Personal, Social &

Understanding the World (UW)

The World

Technology

Understanding the World (UW)

People and Communities

The World

Expressive Arts and Design (EAD)

Exploring and Using Media and Materials

Being Imaginative

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R E L I G I O U S

MATHEMATICS

E D U C A T I O N

Health

In this area, children will be given the opportunity to explore and engage in a variety of competitive sport and physically demanding activities. We hope to inspire them to succeed and excel in sport whilst also building on the values of fairness, respect and trust.

Alongside this, the children will learn to understand the importance of living a healthy and active lifestyle, both physically and mentally.

The broad range of extra curricular activities that school provides will also support this area of the curriculum.

Understanding the World will provide children with the tools they need to become effective citizens in their lives.

In ’The World’ children will be provided with opportunities to work scientifically, develop their curiosity to the world around them, make predictions and analyse outcomes.

Children will be equipped to use information technology to help them become digitally literate members of society. They will understand the importance of their own digital footprint and will develop a strong awareness of cyber safety.

The children will become inventors, creators, thinkers, doers and problem solvers, shaping not only their own future, but those of generations to come.

Children will develop a fascination of the world around them through ’Understanding the World’.

When exploring ‘The World’, children will identify similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things. Children will talk about the features of their own environment and how environments might vary from one another.

Observations of animals and plants will allow children opportunities to explain why some things occur, and talk about changes .

Through ‘People & Communities’, children will talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of their family. Children will discuss similarities and differences between themselves and others.

These areas of learning will encourage the children to express their own individuality through a variety of creative outlets.

own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role-play and stories.

In ’Expressive Arts & Design’, children will learn about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes. They will represent their

Children will explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

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Spring 1: Traditional Tal

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The Jolly

Postman

Physical Development

PSED

Expressive Arts & Design

UW (Technology) UW (The World)

UW (People & Communities)

Stunning Start:

The Jolly Postman has left his bicycle and mail in our classroom. Help to identify the recipients of each piece of mail.

Exceeding Challenge

Children can hop confidently and skip in time to music.

Children are beginning to write on lines and control their letter size.

Exceeding Challenge

They select appropriate applications that support an identified need - for example deciding how to record an event.

Exceeding Challenge

Children will suggest uses for some of the materials based on their properties.

Exceeding Challenge

Children through Literacy input’s and shared writing opportunities, write letters of apology from Goldilocks. Children will be able to explain what she did wrong and the consequences to her actions.

Trips to plan:

‘Bring your Bike to School Day’

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Exceeding Challenge

Children understand that different people have different beliefs, attitudes, customs and traditions and why it is important to treat them with respect.

Exceeding Challenge

Children to talk about their own designs and those of others. Discuss and compare the features.

Children will explore the properties of materials whilst

exploring the story of The Three Little Pigs. We will explore

the use of materials in our school environment and why

they have been chosen.

Children will note the similarities and differences in the

materials when looking at their properties.

Children will explore colour mixing whilst using the water

colours. We will use the weather and nature to help us with

this by using ice and snow to help explore the reaction with

water colours.

Children will explore how to join various materials by exploring

different fasteners.

Opportunities to food technology are linked to R.E e.g. pancake

day and Easter hot cross buns.

Children will explore sketching techniques by drawing real life

objects such as a bicycle.

Children will represent their own ideas through DT, Art, music,

dance, role-play and stories.

Music will focus on the name of percussion instruments and how

they can be played. Music will enhance other input sessions.

Children will investigate on how mail is delivered in the UK.

Children will be able to see film footage of the Royal Mail

sorting room. They will track the process taken the moment

the mail is posted in the mail box to the moment the postal

worker delivers it.

Modes of transport will be explored. Why does the Jolly

Postman use a bicycle? Look at alternative transport Postal

workers use.

During ICT sessions children will be working on their mouse

skills, dragging, selecting and altering images. Children will

continue to load suitable ICT programs.

UW (The World)

How have bicycles changed over time? Look at the history of

the bicycle and how technology has influenced this.

The children will be focusing on ways of travelling,

maintaining control whilst travelling over, under and

around objects.

Children will explore travelling in different directions and

being able to communicate their movements with others.

P.E sessions will focus on ball skills but use further

enhancements such as bats and uni-hocs. Traditional tale

dances will be used to accompany the stories taught each

week. Children to express their knowledge of the story

through dance and movement.

Co-ordination and control of small and large objects will be

explored in various enhancements and provocations in the

provision areas.

Children’s pencil grip will be encouraged whilst writing,

ensuring that letters and numbers are formed correctly.

Children will be able to discuss the importance of

having rules. This will be applied in a class charter

during our RE lessons.

Children will relate unacceptable behaviour to

traditional tale stories. Children will offer advice to

characters and explain how to control feelings and

express them in the right way.

Through our RE sessions, we will be exploring the

similarities between different faiths. We will be comparing

the Christian Holy book with that of the Jewish and

Islamic faith.

Children will explore different traditions and festivals

through our Collective Worships.

UW (The World)

Children will look at the features of maps. They will link

the concept to story maps and how they travel to and

from school. Children compare different story settings;

comparing different environments and their features.

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Spring 2: Classic Adven

tures

Beatrix Potter’s

Peter Rabbit &

Friends

Physical Development

PSED

Expressive Arts & Design

UW (Technology) UW (The World)

UW (People & Communities)

Stunning Start:

Classic World Book Day will launch our first of Beatrix Potter’s adventures.

Exceeding Challenge

Children can make healthy choices in relation to healthy eating and exercise.

Children are beginning to write on lines and control their letter size.

Exceeding Challenge

They select appropriate applications that support an identified need.

Use language of past and present confidently.

Exceeding Challenge

Children will explain their observations of animals and plants.

Exceeding Challenge

Children will listen to each other’s suggestions and plan how to achieve an outcome without any adult help.

Trips to plan:

Further trips planned for Summer Term.

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Equality

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Personal, Soc

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Health

Exceeding Challenge

Children understand that different people have different beliefs, attitudes, customs and traditions and why it is important to treat them with respect.

Exceeding Challenge

Children to talk about their own designs and those of others. Discuss and compare the features.

Children will continue to explore the properties of

materials when using magnets. Children will create their

own line of enquiry and investigate findings to their

questions.

Children will explore animals and their babies when looking

at Spring time focus. We will also explore the life-cycle of a

frog.

Children will sketch Spring flowers from the Reception

garden and explore different media to add colour.

Children will recap on their initial self portraits and see how

their artistic skills have developed by improving their work.

Children will create a rabbit picture from material. Children

will chose techniques to fasten and join materials as well as

how they will add detail.

Children will use percussion instruments to represent Spring

time.

Mother’s Day crafts allow children to design and decorate a

canvas bag based on their own design ideas.

Children will use technology to capture their ideas and

investigative skills. During our bean planting investigation

children can track the progress of their beans by creating a

diary with photographic/video evidence.

Children will explore how technology influences their lives at

home and school. Children will select and use technology for

different purposes. During our cooking sessions children will

program a microwave as well as operating other tools with

adult supervision.

During ICT sessions children will be continuing to work on

their mouse skills; dragging, selecting and altering images.

Children will continue to load suitable programs and

continue to build on their typing skills, suing programs to

support this.

UW (The World)

Look at the history of books and our focus of ‘Classic

Adventures’. Look at the famous author, Beatrix Potter, Look

at her life and journey to becoming an author. Can we tell

her books are classic adventures?

The children will explore small and large scales movements,

maintaining balance on apparatus.

The children will be able to explore the importance of

exercise and diet for good health. We will explore the

vegetables in Mr McGregor’s garden to help look at the

variety of vegetables we can introduce into our diets.

Children will work on how to handle cutlery correctly;

ensuring they can manipulate knives and forks correctly

when eating.

P.E sessions will focus on the run up to sports day. Using

their key skills from previous terms, the children will build

on their team work skills.

Children’s pencil grip will continue to be encouraged whilst

writing, ensuring that letters and numbers are formed

correctly.

Children will continue to discuss ways in which to manage our

feelings and behaviours. We will use the character of Mr

McGregor as an example of someone who struggles with this.

We will offer advice in order for him to maintain greater

control with his temper.

We will also explore our School vision, ‘Ready for the future’,

and how we can ensure our attitude towards in school can

influence this

Through our RE sessions, we will be looking at how

Christians celebrate Easter. We will explore the story

behind this Christian festival.

Children will explore how different families celebrate

Easter and meaning behind some of the traditional

customs e.g. hot cross buns, Easter eggs etc.

UW (The World)

Children note the changes to the environment due to

the arrival of Spring time.

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