This is an overview so parent and carers are aware of what children will be learning this half term.

PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT	Focus on school rules and co-operating through Circle Time. Children will be introduced to the idea of making, keeping and adding to their own scrap book throughout the year to celebrate and remember good memories, this will be made in school and kept in their star boxes.
COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY	Nursery Rhymes, songs and text with rhyme. Experimenting with mark making and writing – developing awareness of letters and sounds when speaking and listening, reading and writing.
	At home: sing a range of nursery rhymes, ask your child to say the words that rhyme.  Regularly read your child’s home reader book and other books with your child.
PROBLEM SOLVING, REASONING AND NUMERACY	Counting and number recognition, number games and rhymes. Developing language when comparing quantities, (more/less) and when describing 2D and 3D shapes.
	At home: sing a range of number rhymes that count up and down! Look at and read numbers in your local environment, for example door numbers.
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT	Exploring basic ball skills. Investigating large equipment and resources. Moving in a space with an awareness of others.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD
SCIENCE	Our body – identifying external and internal parts of our bodies. Explore using our senses, touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing.
ICT	Find out about and identify how to use different everyday technology, including a digital camera, Dictaphone and laptops.
SENSE OF PLACE	Explore our local environment, where their house is in relation to school and find out how members of the class travel to school. Visit our local post box to send a card.
SENSE OF TIME	Finding out about past events in own lives and those of others, looking at baby photos to find out how we change and grow.    (We will be asking children to bring in photo’s or photocopies of family photo’s with different generations, and a picture of them as a baby to be used in a collage – a letter will be sent home to inform you when this will be required.)
RE	Explore how we belong, recognising that we belong to different things.
DT	Explore a range of construction kits, children to design and make a model to suit a purpose.
CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT
ART	Exploring using a range of media, for example pastels, crayons, pencils, charcoal, chalk and paint. To use different media to create a desired effect, a self-portrait.
ROLE PLAY	Rooms in the home: bedroom, kitchen, living room and a nursery including multicultural resources
SAND AND WATER	To use and create stories using small world toys, linked to ourselves, our home and our local environment.