Curriculum Overview

Red Room Curriculum Summary

PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Dispositions and Attitudes

• To continue to be interested, excited and motivated to learn.
• To be confident in trying new activities, initiating ideas and speaking in a familiar group.
• To maintain attention, concentrate and sit quietly when appropriate.

Self confidence and Self-esteem

• To respond to significant experiences, showing a range of feelings when appropriate.
• To have a developing awareness of their own needs, views and feelings and be sensitive to the needs, views and feelings of others.

Making Relationships

• To form good relationships with adults and peers.
• To work as part of a group or class, taking turns and sharing fairly.

Behaviour and Self-control

• To understand what is right and wrong and why.
• To consider the consequence of their words and actions for themselves and others.

Self-care

• To dress and undress independently and manage their own personal hygiene.
• To select and use activities and resources independently.

Sense of community

• To understand that people have different needs, views, cultures and beliefs, that need to be treated with respect.

COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY

Communication

• To sustain attentive listening, responding to what they have heard with relevant comments, questions or actions.
• To speak clearly and audibly with confidence and control.

Word recognition and structure

• To form all lower case letters correctly and to recognise upper case letters.
• To use phonic knowledge to write simple regular words and make phonetically plausible attempts at more complex words.

Text structure and organisation

• To attempt writing for various purposes, using features of different forms such as lists, stories and instructions.
• To form simple sentences and begin to use capital letters and full stops.
• To retell narratives in the correct sequence, drawing on the language patterns of stories.

Phonics and spelling

• To recognise high-frequency and familiar words.
• To know initial, medial and final sounds in common Consonant Vowel Consonant (C.V.C.) words.

Reading

• To read a range of familiar and common words and simple sentences independently; through both shared and individual texts.

PROBLEM SOLVING, REASONING AND NUMERACY

Using and applying mathematics

• To describe simple patterns and relationships involving numbers or shapes.
• To begin to understand money and 'real life' problems and to recognise coins.

Counting and understanding number

• To read and write numerals from 10-20, then beyond and to use knowledge of place value to position these numbers on a number line.
• To compare and order numbers using the related vocabulary.

Knowing and using number facts

• To say if a number is more or less than a given number up to 100.
• To recall all number bonds to 10 and doubles to 20.

Calculating

• To add and subtract using two numbers.
• To use the vocabulary related to addition and subtraction and symbols to describe and record addition and subtraction number sentences.

Understanding shape

• To visualize and name common 2D shapes and 3D solids and describe their features.
• To visualize and use everyday language to describe the position of objects and direction.

Measuring

• To estimate, measure, weigh and compare objects, suggesting suitable standard or uniform non-standard units and measuring equipment.
• To use vocabulary related to time; order days of the week; read the time to the hour and half hour.

Handling data

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

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD

Our Bodies: To understand the importance of food, water, and exercise for humans to stay healthy. Children will look at the differences between themselves and others and treating others sensitively.

Out and About: To ask questions about where they live and the natural world and to notice features in the local environment. They will use appropriate vocabulary to reinforce observations - e.g. town, park, city. The children will also learn about their own cultures and beliefs and those of other people.

Space: To find out about their environment and talk about its features.  The children will learn about the solar system, the first trip to the moon and space travel.

Light and Dark: To investigate objects and materials by using all of their senses as appropriate.  This topic develops the children's understanding of the need for light in order to see things. Children will learn that darkness is the absence of light and that in the absence of sunlight other light sources are seen more easily.

Traditional Tales: To be introduced to a variety of texts, including a range of narrative types that originated in the oral storytelling traditions of many cultures, including myths, legends, fairy tales and fables.

Plants and Insects: To look closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change. The children will investigate the outside world (minibeasts, plants and flowers) and understand that plants need light and water to grow.

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

Movement and Space

• To move with control and coordination and show an awareness of space, of themselves and of others.
• To travel around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment at the local park.
• To exercise increasing control over an object i.e. throwing, catching, bouncing, kicking and striking skills.

Health and Body Awareness

• To recognise the importance of keeping healthy.
• To recognise the changes that happen to their bodies when they are active.

Using Equipment and Materials

• To handle tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control.

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

Being Creative - Responding to Experiences, Expressing and Communicating Ideas

• To express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings by using a widening range of materials, suitable tools, imaginative and role-play, movement, designing and making and a variety of songs and musical instruments.

Exploring Media and Materials

• To explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in two and three dimensions.

Creating Music and Dance

• To recognise and explore how sounds can be changed.
• To sing simple songs from memory.
• To recognise repeated sounds and sound patterns and match movements to music.

Developing Imagination and Imaginative Play

• To play co-operatively as part of a group to act out a narrative.
• To use their imagination in art and design, music, dance, role-play and stories.