All Saints Church in Wales Primary School

Term: Summer Term 2017 Year/ Blwyddyn: Reception/Derbyn

The learning themes for this term are: Packing our case & the Great Outdoors

Personal and Social Development, Well Language, Literacy and Communication

Being and Cultural Diversity:
SEAL theme-Relationships
Understanding - I can tell when Im feeling sad/angry
Managing- I am beginning to understand that if someone
leaves me they can still love me.
Making choices-I can tell you what is fair and unfair.
Understanding the feelings of others- I can tell if
someone is happy, sad or angry.
SEAL theme Changes
Knowing myself-I can tell you how Ive changed,
Understand my feelings-saying how I feel
Understanding the feelings of others-I can help someone.
Making choices-I can tell you what I did with my class to
make things better.
Values for Life: Forgiveness and thankfulness
Trying to achieve our class targets eg know which is our
left or right hand, know the school creed and the Lords
Prayer.
Skills
Continue to reinforce knowledge of upper case
letter sounds. Continue to learn the All Aboard
characters and flashcards words. Reading books
linked to All Aboard scheme. Continue to encourage
correct letter formation. Writing for a purpose
with links to other areas of learning eg. Mr Gumpys
Outing, Encouraging independent emergent writing
skills.
Mathematical Development
Continue to encourage good number formation. Play
mathematical games. Count reliably up to 20 objects and
beyond. Counting in 2s, 5s and 10sBegin to recognise
coins 1p2p 5p 10p & 20p and introduce 50p, 1 2 coins.
Look at the properties of solid and flat shapes. Continue
to use positional language during play.Continue to
recognize and create more complex patterns. Continue to
relate addition to combining two groups of objects and
subtraction to taking away. Number bonds to 10.

Welsh Language Development

Phrases of the week.
Continue with known sentence patterns such as Sut maer
tywydd? Ga i ? and introduce new ones eg Wyt tin hoffi,
Ydw/nac ydw, Dw in hoffi. Pa liw/siap ydy hwn? What
colour/shape is this?
Anifeiliaid-Animals eg ci dog, buwch cow, cath cat,
mochyn pig, dafad sheep
Ar Lan y Mor At the Seaside. Beth wyt tin wisgo? What
are you wearing? het/haul/tywel /siorts/crys t
hat/towel/shorts/t-shirt? Songs and books supporting the
themes.
Knowledge and Understanding of the
World
Holidays-role play villa, camper van, ship, ice cream
van.
Visitors- such as a fireman, a vet, nurse to talk
about their jobs. Special clothes for different
occasions. Clothes for different types of weather
and different countries. Caring for animals. Mini
beast hunt, sorting mini beasts, foods they eat, life
cycles,

Religious Education
Physical Development
Begin to know that the Bible is a special book which means
Movement activities based on stories like Down in the
something in our lives at school, at home and in church.
Jungle and Mr Gumpys Outing. Games skills eg basic
Begin to know that the Bible tells us about peoples lives.
footwork, ball skills, skipping and team skills. Using the
Begin to know Bible stories about belonging and sharing.
adventure play area for developing confidence and
Begin to know the importance of saying thank you and
dexterity. Understanding and getting ready for sports
understand that the stories Jesus told show us how to be
day. Mask making, modelling insects using fine and gross
kind, caring and brave. Begin to understand that Jesus
skills.
wants us to behave like him. Understand that we each
belong to a family and also a wider family- a class, a whole
school and church.
Creative Development ICT
Setting up the role play areas and making props. ICT is also used to support, develop and
Cooking activities, choosing and making food for
extend learning across and within a range
special occasions. Variety of painting and collage
of activities.
skills to support the themes. Making models from
Making a multi media story including text,
different materials such as willow. Using the small
world toys to make scenes from the stories weve pictures and voices.
read in the tuff spot tray. Data handling mini beasts. Develop story
writing to become more independent
writers.

This is a guide of the teaching and learning for the term. The children add their own input which determines
how the learning theme develops.
Ways you can help:
Go with family and friends on a picnic and play games.
Involve your child in planning day trips and holidays.
Plant seeds and see how they grow.
Go on a mini beast hunt and see what you can find.
Helping your child to be responsible and care for animals correctly.
Continue to foster a love of books and reading by visiting the local library, sharing the book bag stories and the prayer bear bag.
Continue to play games and share a jigsaw.
Look at patterns in nature and try making some.