Reception and Nursery Curriculum Meeting

1. Reception and Nursery Curriculum Meeting Friday 16th September 2016 Emma Fitzpatrick & Sarah Walton

2. The Early Years Curriculum From September 2012 there has been a curriculum called the Early Years Foundation Stage.

3. Four Principles in Early Years Settings. We believe that • every child is a unique child, who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured; • children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships; • children learn and develop well in enabling environments, in which their experiences respond to their individual needs and there is a strong partnership between practitioners and parents and/or carers; and • children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates. The framework covers the education and care of all children in early years provision, including children with special educational needs and disabilities.

4. Characteristics of Learnning Playing and exploring – engagement • Finding out and exploring • Playing with what they know • Being willing to ‘have a go’ Active learning – motivation • Being involved and concentrating • Keeping trying • Enjoying achieving what they set out to do Creating and thinking critically – thinking • Having their own ideas • Making links • Choosing ways to do things

5. The Prime Areas are fundamental as they run through and support development and learning in all other areas. • Personal, Social & Emotional Areas • Physical Development • Communication & Language

6. Specific Areas include essential skills and knowledge for children to participate successfully in society. • Literacy • Mathematics • Understanding the World • Expressive Arts & Design

7. Moving Through the Early Years

8. Assessment for Learning adult observes the children asks questions, challenges, develops understanding, supports thinking, plans next steps sees what they can do thinks about what the child needs to do next

9. Play Every child has the right to relax and play. (article 31) Children need to play! They need to practice their skills in a fun, hands on, practical way.

10. Learning in Reception • Learning Outside • Working with an Adult • Working Independently • Working and Playing with Friends • Learning Inside

11. Learning Activities • Balance of adult led activities • Cooking • Maths • Writing • Art • and child led activities • Sand • Water • Role play • Construction

12. Outdoor Play • Nursery and Reception play and learn together • Important part of the curriculum • Children go out in all weathers • Need for physical activity • Reception children act as role-models to younger children in Nursery

13. Parents as Partners • Special Books • Swapping Reading Books • Parents Consultations • Talking to us and sharing information

14. Helping Your Child to Play • Turn off the screens • Think about limiting the choice of toys available • Play with your child • Talk about what you are doing • Be fair, they need to learn to win and lose • Read lots of stories and sing rhymes and rhymes • Allow independent play • Get dirty!

15. Developing Independence • Give your child simple chores • Ask your child to tidy away toys • Encourage your child to put on their coat by themselves • Teach your child to eat independently • Teach them how to ask for help

16. Developing Literacy Skills • Talk, talk and talk some more! • Think about how much of your talk is functional each day. • Be a reader, show how much you enjoy reading and how reading is a necessary part of your life. • Be a writer, show how much you need to write WITH A PEN AND PAPER!

17. Developing Maths Skills • Talk about the maths you are using in your day to day life… • Telling the time • Weighing • Looking at the temperature • Finding door numbers • Using phone numbers

18. Reception Curriculum Meeting