Reception - Spring (Terms 3 & 4)
General Overview of the Foundation Stage
There are six areas of learning as part of the Foundation Stage. They are:
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Developing independence and confidence.
- Recognising feelings and needs in ones self and others.
- Learning to be part of a larger group and interacting appropriately.
- Learning to concentrate and share.
Communication, Literacy and Language
- Learning to listen and understand.
- Communicate with one another in different situations.
- Developing skills in interacting, talking, listening, reading and writing.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
- A love of discovery.
- Learning about the world around us throughout hands on experience and the process of investigation.
- Finding out about people, places and different cultures.
Physical Development
- Learning how to be active and interactive.
- Improving balance, control, spatial awareness and coordination.
- Developing fine motor skills when handling equipment.
Problem solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
- Finding out about space and shape, quantity, numbers, measures, comparing.
- Learning the language of number e.g. size, length, weight, more than, less than etc.
Creative Development
- Using different media to explore and develop ideas.
- Communicate using colour, shape, sound, texture, movement and story telling.
- To express thoughts and feeling through the use of music, movement, dance and imaginative role play.
Reception: Spring
Communication, Literacy and Language
- linking sounds and letters.
- extending vocabulary and exploring the meanings of new words.
- begin to use initial sounds in their writing.
- listen with enjoyment and respond to stories, songs and other music making up their own stories and songs.
- show an understanding of the elements of stories such as main characters and sequences of events.
- to know that information can be retrieved from books.
Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
- to use language such as more or less to compare two numbers.
- find one more and one less from a number from 1 to 10.
- to relate addition to combining two groups of objects.
- to relate subtraction to taking away groups of objects.
Knowledge and understanding of the world
- look closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.
- to use ICT to support their own learning.
- ask questions about why things happen and how things work.
Personal, Social Emotional Development
- to dress and undress independently.
- to initiate ideas and speak in a familiar group.
- to have ad developing respect from their own cultures and beliefs and those of others.
- to continue to respond to significant experiences showing a range of feelings when appropriate.
Creative Development
- to work on a large and small scale.
- respond to what they see, hear, smell, touch and feel.
- to recognise and explore how sounds can be changed.
- to introduce a story line or narrative into their play.
Physical Development
- to learn to move with confidence, imagination and in safety.
- travel around, under, over, through, balancing and climbing equipment.
- recognise the changes that happen to our bodies when they are active.
- to develop and refine manipulative skills.