1. Summer Term Topic Reception Kent
SOUTHFIELD PRIMARY
Stay & Play
Every other Friday morning
Books changes
Every Monday – please ensure reading records are in school everyday and that they are signed.
PE Kits
In school all week
CHILDREN
Read, little and often everyday
Talk about numbers, shapes, time and money everywhere you go.
Practice phonics and tricky words
Write a short sentence
Take notice of the changes in the environment. Do the trees look the same? What is the weather like?
Summer Term Topic Reception Kent
Am I the fastest?
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Parents
Encourage reading in all shapes and forms, comics, shop signs and bedtime stories
Count everything you can, forward, backward and say one more one less.
Encourage thinking skills, allow children to find their own way of solving a problem.
Encourage curiosity, ask questions yourself and your child will want to find the answer!
Encourage writing and drawing in all varieties, pencil chalk, paint…
Play games with HF words and CVC words to build confidence.
Learning Websites
Teacher
Mrs S Kent
T.A
Mrs E Parkes
Miss C Parnaby
Miss B Glover

2. Expressive Arts and Design Communication and Language
Maths
Use mathematical language like ‘more than’, ‘less than’ to explore the concept of adding and subtracting.
Investigate and practice weighing and estimating skills.
Use breakfast items to compare amounts and totals.
Knowledge of the World
Think of all the different ways we can keep our bodies fit and healthy.
What things are fast, what things are slow.
Knowing that earth is part of our solar system.
Expressive Arts and Design
Space art.
• Acting out our stories.
• Use modelling material to create items for our space station.
Exploring the different ways we can express ourselves through dance and movement.
Communication and Language
Investigate objects that move fast and slow, experiment and investigate whether we can get things to move faster or slower.
Discuss sports day, what will it be like?
Generate questions to explore as a point of interest.
Talk about different types of sports and sporting events in our country and around the world.
Talk about the memorable experience. What did they enjoy? How did they feel? What does it mean to take part?
Talk about teams and positions in racing and sporting events.
Physical Development
Uses a pencil and holds it effectively to form recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed.
Through dance and games, experiment with different ways of moving, negotiating space successfully
Throwing, catching, kicking and moving with a ball
PSED
Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.
English – Reading
Become immersed in books, talking about the story and making predictions.
Explore the fable, The tortoise and the hare.
In guided reading, can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together and knows which letters represent some of them.
Begin to know HF words by sight.
English – Writing
Write captions and sentences to support pictures from our sporting event.
Use our phonic knowledge to create sport/game rules.
Make a plan of an obstacle course and label the equipment used.