Reception
Curriculum Map
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- Investigate their Five Senses by carrying out simple tests.
- Talk about what they have found out and how they found it out.
- Record and communicate their findings and begin to use simple scientific language.
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- Identify the 5 senses and the associated body part Investigating the 5 senses through popcorn.
- What can you hear,taste,smell,see?
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- Identify the 5 senses and the associated body part Investigating the 5 senses through popcorn.
- What can you hear,taste,smell,see?
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- Learn that humans also have a personality and imagination which makes each unique.
- Express their uniqueness in a creative way.
- Personality, thinking ability, imagination, artistic ability and creativeness.
- Appreciate and celebrate the uniqueness of others.
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- How can you bring out the superhero in yourself?
- Explore being the best you can be and what makes you unique and special.
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- Consider you can help your body be super strong and healthy, your brain – super sparky and your actions – super helpful.
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- Which foods can help your body to stay super strong and healthy?
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- Draw self-portraits.
- Take part in superhero training and a special superhero ceremony with medals and certificates.
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- Who helps us in school?
- Find the Superheroes disguised as teachers, teaching assistants, cooks, lunch time supervisors.
- Interview and report back.
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- Who helps us in an emergency?
- Find out about the emergency services who answer a 999 call.
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- If possible-Visit to school of emergency services vehicle. (FIRE ENGINE)
- Record visit in photos.
- Children should think about and ask questions.
- Record their learning.
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- If possible-Visit to school of emergency services personnel. (POLICEMAN)
- Record visit in drawings with written captions/speech bubbles.
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- Who helps us when we’re feeling ill? DOCTOR /NURSE Arrange a visit by local GP Find out about health care professionals.
- Read ‘Dr Dog’ by Babette Cole.
- Children should rehearse dialogue related to visiting health professionals using their own experiences
- Learn the importance of washing hands properly.
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- Who helps us outside school?
- Find out about local faith leaders – the Vicar, Imam, Rabbi, Guru, Priest.
- Identify and group together correctly artefacts and resources for different local faiths.
- Share their own experiences (if any) of visiting/belonging to a faith group.
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- Who helps us when our parents are unavailable?
- Appreciate other carers such as childminders and grandparents.
- Children must recognise the contribution of adults other than parents to their care and nurture.
- Make a thank you card as opportunity to share in building relationship with an adult in their lives.
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- Plan a special banquet.
- Recap what they had learnt in Autumn 1 about foods that keep you healthy and make you strong .
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- A fun activity in which children transform a Bee-Bot into an emergency vehicle and direct it around the Bee-Bot Mat to the different emergencies.Do they recognise the sounds of sirens.
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- A simple role play activity in which children use their knowledge about people who help us to act out the different jobs for the rest of the group to identify. Can they recall the names of people who help us.
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- Create your own emergency vehicle. Think about its features – sirens,hosepipes and ladders, bright colours. You could make your vehicles out of old boxes, bottle tops and cardboard tubes.
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- Simple investigation. Can children identify the tools of different people who help us and can match them with the right people.
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- To discuss ideas and make predictions about what kind of animals make a good pet and why?
- Talk about what makes a good pet and discuss their own pets.
- Talk with confidence about their own experiences.
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- To explore which products that we use every day are derived from farm animals.
- Children must predict which products are derived from which animal based on their prior knowledge of farm animals.
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- To identify and describe strong animals that can be trained to help humans complete difficult tasks, compare and contrast using animals and machines to undertake the same role.
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- To understand that some animals are active during the day while others are active at night. Identify the similarities and differences between these animals.
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- To identify specific diurnal and nocturnal flying animals and to explore the physical characteristics of those animals
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- To observe how animals and humans change as they get older and think about reasons for these changes.
- Learn that animals and human babies change as they get older.
- Observe and discuss these changes and why they might need to happen.
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- To observe how animals and humans change as they get older and think about reasons for these changes.
- Learn that animals and human babies change as they get older.
- Observe and discuss these changes and why they might need to happen.
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- To sort animals according to their habitats.
- Create their own animal and think about where it might live.
- Use saltdough to mould and create an animal.