Wood Farm Reception Curriculum
On this page you can find out about the curriculum in our Reception classes. Click on the sections below to read about the different learning projects your child will be doing.
Reception- (ID 1022)
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Incredible Me!Autumn: Communication and Language
Incredible Me!
A project aiming to help children transition into school by providing them with opportunities to learn and talk about themselves and others. They learn that everybody is unique and are encouraged to celebrate the similarities and differences between themselves and their peers. These experiences enable children to feel connected with each other and build positive relationships with their peers and teachers. Children develop their speaking and listening skills and gain the confidence to speak in front of a small group
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CelebrationsPersonal, social and emotional development
Celebrations
The aim of this project is to introduce children to different cultural, religious celebrations and festivals. Children will develop an understanding of the importance of different festivals and how and why they are celebrated. This will allow children to make comparisons and talk about similarities and differences between different religious and cultural communities. This will promote positive attitudes towards people from different backgrounds. They will start to understand events that have happened in the past and their significance to the present day.
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Walking through South AfricaUnderstanding the World
Walking through South Africa
Children will be learning about how and where their lives fit into the bigger picture of the World. They will feel confident to talk about features of different environments (South Africa, Kalahari Desert, Savanna, and England) and how there may be similarities and differences between them. We will also be learning all about different animals found in South Africa.
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Exploring colour!Understanding the world
Exploring colour!
This is an engaging art project all about colour. The children will learn about primary and secondary colours and explore how to create different colours, shades and tints. They will learn about the artist Alma Thomas and develop their artistic skills.
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Nurturing NatureExpressive Arts and Design
Nurturing Nature
During this project, the children will become more confident with understanding the life cycles of plants and minibeasts which they
encounter in their day to day life. They will learn to take care of plants and living creatures and will have the opportunity to do this at school on a daily basis by taking care of their plants they have planted. By carefully observing plants and animals the children will learn to pay attention to detail when drawing things in nature. They will have experience of using lots of different media and developing different skills to produce different effects the children will become more confident with understanding the life cycles of plants and animals found in a farm. They will learn different facts about animals found there. By carefully observing plants and animals, the children will learn to pay attention to detail when drawing things in nature. -
Sporting Heroes Past and PresentHistory, Physical Development
Sporting Heroes Past and Present
With the children’s first sports day this term, this project aims to teach children about different sports and famous athletes past and present. They will learn about the local historical figure- Roger Bannister. This project will give children the opportunity to develop their gross motor skills and learn new sports. Throughout this project children will learn to build resilience and confidence to try out new sports.
