Curriculum Overview

Red Room Curriculum Summary

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Self-confidence and Self-awareness

• Confidently try new activities, and say why they prefer some more than others.
• Confident to speak in different group settings.
• Choose resources they need for their chosen activity independently.
• Say when they do or don’t need help.

Making Relationships

• Take account others’ ideas about how to organise their activity.
• Show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings.
• Form positive relationships with adults and other children.

Managing Feelings and Behaviour

• Talk about their own and others’ feelings and behaviour.
• Understand that some behaviour is unacceptable.
• Work as part of a group to understand and follow the rules.
• Accept changes in daily routine.

Communication and Language

Listening and Attention

• Maintains attention, concentration and sits quietly during appropriate activity.
• Sustain attentive listening in a range of situations.
• Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond with relevant comments, questions or actions.
• Give their attention to others and respond appropriately to what they say.

Understanding

• Responds to instructions involving several ideas or actions.
• Answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events.
• Able to follow a story without pictures or props.

Speaking

• Links statements and adheres to a main theme or intention.
• Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.
• Express themselves effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs.
• Use past, present and future forms accurately.

Physical Development

Moving and Handling

• Shows increasing control and co-ordination in large and small movements, including catching, throwing or kicking an object.
• Handle various pieces of equipment and tools effectively.
• Move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space.
• Travels with confidence and skill around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.

Health and Self-care

• Shows understanding of the need for safety when tackling new challenges, considering and managing some risks.
• Knows the importance of physical exercise and a healthy diet for good health, and can talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.
• Understands and can manage own personal hygiene, including the importance of hand washing.

Literacy

Reading

• Continues and creates rhyming strings.
• Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by books.
• To read a range of familiar and common words and simple sentences independently, through both shared and individual texts.
• Demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.
• To recognise high-frequency and familiar words.

Writing

• Uses their phonic knowledge to write words which match their spoken sounds, representing most sounds correctly and in sequence.
• Writes common high frequency words correctly.
• To attempt writing for various purposes, using features of different forms such as lists, stories, captions, labels and instructions.
• To form simple sentences and begin to use punctuation.
• To retell narratives in the correct sequence, drawing on the language patterns of stories.

Mathematics

Numbers

• Begins to identify own mathematical problems based on own interest and fascinations.
• Add and subtract using numbers up to 20 by counting on or back.
• Recall all number bonds and doubles with a total of 10.
• Solve problems including doubling, halving and sharing.
• To read and write numerals from 0-20, then beyond; use knowledge of place value to position these numbers on a number line.
• Say the number that is one more than a given number, up to twenty.

Shape, Space and Measure

• Uses everyday language related to size, weight, capacity and distance.
• Explore characteristics, patterns and relationships of everyday objects and shapes, using mathematical language to describe them.
• Order and sequence different events.
• To begin to understand money and ‘real life’ problems; recognizing coins one pence to one pound
• To use vocabulary related to time; order days of the week; read the time to the hour and half hour.
• To estimate, measure, weigh and compare objects, suggesting suitable standard or uniform non-standard units and measuring equipment.

Handling Data

• To use diagrams to sort objects into groups according to a given criterion.
• To record information in lists and tables, block graphs and pictograms.

Understanding the World

People and Communities

• Talk about past and present events in their own and family members’ lives.
•  Know about similarities and differences between themselves and others, and among families, communities and traditions.

The World

• Show care and concern for living things and the environment.
• Know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.
• Talk about features in their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.
• Make observations of the natural world, explain why some things occur and talk about changes.

Technology

• Interacts with age-appropriate software and technological toys.
• Recognise that a range of technology is used in places such as hones and schools.
• Uses simple programmes on the computer.
• Developing control when using a mouse.

Expressive Arts and Design

Being Imaginative

• Plays cooperatively as part of a group to develop and act out a narrative.
• Use what they have learnt about media and materials in original ways.
• Represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design, art, music, role play and stories.

Exploring and Using Media and Materials

• Explores what happens when they mix colours.
• Understands that different media can be combined to create new effects.
• Uses simple tools and techniques competently and appropriately.
• Selects appropriate resources and adapts work where necessary.