Personal, Social & Emotional Development (We Learn)
This is vital in a child’s development for success in all other areas of learning, and to establish a positive sense of themselves. Most children through the foundation stage will continue to be interested and motivated to learn. Gain confidence , initiate their ideas, maintain attention and concentration and respond to significant experiences.
Children will form relationships with others and develop respect for other cultures. Taking turns, sharing and taking part within a group and respect for others. Children’s independence grows, being able to dress themselves, own personal hygiene and select and use activities and resources independently.
Communication, Language & Literacy (We Talk)
This area of learning includes communication, speaking and listening, and having confidence, opportunity and encouragement to use them. Children will enjoy listening to and using spoken and written language and turn to it in their play and learning.
They will enjoy stories, songs, other music, rhymes and poems and readily make their own up. Children will use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences. Link sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet and experiment with these. Children explore retelling narratives in the correct sequence and know that print carries meaning, from left to right and top to bottom, using a pencil and hold it effectively to recognisable letters.
Mathematical Development (We Count)
This area of learning includes counting, sorting, matching, seeking patterns, making connections, recognising relationships and working with numbers, shapes, space and measures. Mathematical understanding is developed through stories, songs, games and imaginative play. By the end of the reception years children are developing recognising numbers 1- 9 and count reliably up to 10 objects. Find one more or one less from one to ten.
Use language such as ‘greater’, ‘smaller’, ‘heavier’ or ‘lighter’ to compare quantities. Discuss, recognise and recreate simple patterns. Use words to describe position, shape and size.
Knowledge & Understanding of the World (We Discover)
Children develop knowledge, skills and understanding that helps them to make sense of the world. This forms the foundation for later work in design and technology, science, history, geography and IT.
Children will enjoy investigating objects, build and construct, select tools and techniques. Find out about their environment and identify features where they live and the natural world.
Physical Development (We Move)
Physical development is about improving skills of coordination , control, manipulation and movement. It also has two aspects of this which are, children will feel confidence in what they can do and this enables them to feel positive benefits. Children will move with imagination, confidence and in safety with control and coordination. Children show awareness of space, use a range of small and large equipment and handle tools, objects, construction and malleable materials, safety and with increasing control.
Creative Development (We Create)
Being creative enables children to make connections between one area of learning and another. This includes, role play, are, music, dance and imaginative play.
Children will explore colour, texture, shape, form and space. Exploring sounds and how they can be changed, sing simple songs from memory and match movement to music.
Children will express their ideas, thought and feelings using a range of materials, suitable tools, imaginative role play, movement, designing and making and a variety of songs and musical instruments.
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