Marine Academy Primary Reception Curriculum Map 2015-2016

Autumn Spring Summer Reception Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6 In the Deep Blue Sea Ahoy… Pirates! Everything Changes I’m Special A Walk on the Wild Side Dangerous Dinosaurs

Have you ever wondered what lives Do you know how a butterfly Focus Have you ever wanted to Where in the world would you We are all special in our own way; we in the deep blue sea? Dinosaurs lived a long time ago, become a pirate? come across amazing began its life, or a frog? Have are good at different things and we There is a whole but were they all dangerous? Learning how to make creatures such as leopards, you ever wondered how a don’t all do things in the same way. other world waiting to Some dinosaurs would eat you boats which float and cheetahs and elephants? sunflower got to be so tall? In Learning about the things that make be explored and by and some would prefer juicy green how to follow a map to How can you tell them apart our wonderful world lots of you and your new class friends learning about the leaves! There were small ones, big reveal hidden treasure, and what makes each one changes happen to the unique will help you to understand the different creatures ones, fast ones slow ones-let’s go as well as making your special? As we take a ‘walk plants, the creatures and similarities and differences between that live there, for on a dinosaur adventure and learn own papier mache island on the wild side’ we will learn even to you. We will take a you and how that makes you so example their all about them. will mean that you are about these amazing animals close look how ‘everything special. features and what ready to become one… and the countries they live in. changes’ as you get ready to they like to eat, will ahoy me hearties! move into Year One. answer all of your questions. Main Story Large Family Five Minutes Peace Bright Stanley Super Swooper Dinosaur Pizza for Pirates Monkey Puzzle The Very Hungry Caterpillar Pirate Ship/Treasure House Aquarium Paleontologist Station Jungle Garden Centre Role Play Island Friendships Easter Differences New beginnings Christmas Truth and Honesty Aspirations Mothering Sunday Father’s Day SMSC Whole Body Listening Whole Body Whole Body Listening Whole Body Listening Whole Body Listening Whole Body Listening Listening Educational National Marine Fruit Picking/Supermarket Bring Your Events Dinosaur Dig at Mt Batten Beach Pirate Picnic on the Hoe Dartmoor Zoo Visit Aquarium Visit Wow Visit/Letter from a Arrival of a treasure Postcard from Barnaby Bear Clues leading to Dinosaur egg/footprints moment mermaid chest in Ghana caterpillars/butterfly net Questions, Questions: What do we already know about marine life and devising questions How does your garden grow? for our visit to the What do things need to grow? National Marine Where is Barnaby Bear? Children make miniature Aquarium. Looking closely at Ghana Fossils: What is a fossil? Mary Mapping: Using the bee- gardens in a container with (wk 1) How did he get there? What Anning- making salt dough fossils bot to direct each other pebbles/ grass seed. is the weather? Comparing to (Wk 1) to the treasure. (Wk 1) Turtles: What do they Britain. (Wk 1) eat? What are their (Wk 1) Dinosaur Art: spirals Sunflowers: Looking at the life features? Where do Looking closely at our features: Where can we find spirals in Map making: plotting cycle of a sunflower- planting they come from? Identity: individual characteristics (wk1) nature? Children create pictures treasure on a map and them and writing instructions (wk 2) Comparing school uniforms / using spirals. using techniques to (to be planted in our outdoor flags. Children make their My Family: differences between ours (wk 2) make their maps look area when ready) Starfish: How do they own flags using different and our friends (wk2) old. (Wk 2) eat? What do they media. Different dinosaurs: carnivore or (Wk 2) eat? Where they live (wk 2) What I can do: looking at individual herbivore? Fast or slow? Land or The lifecycle of a Butterfly: (shallow or deep) special skills (wk 3) sky? How to be a pirate: sequencing/ making zigzag (wk 3) African Animals: looking at (wk 3 and 4) What do you need to be books- relating to our class the features of different Self- portraits in the style of Andy a pirate? Reading words butterflies. Themed Sharks: Looking at African animals Warhol (wk 4) Favourite Dinosaurs: describing and writing lists. (Wk 3) different species. Writing animal fact files. Learning favourite dinosaurs- why do you (Wk 3) What do sharks eat? (WK 4) Emotions: What makes us happy, like it? Writing sentences/ labels Baby it’s you: do you still look What are their sad, worried or excited (wk 5) for favourite dinosaurs. the same as when you were a features? Where do Who’s who? Looking carefully (wk 5) How to make a pirate baby? Do other animals look they come from? at the colours/patterns on Where I live: looking at children’s hat Writing/sequencing the same? Comparing (wk4) African animals- identifying homes/bedrooms etc.(wk 6) Who am I? : Dinosaur clues using instructions to make a adult animals to their young. and recreating them. facts about different dinosaurs to hat fit for a pirate. (wk 4) Clown Fish: (WK 5) Friendships: thinking about our new make a. (Wk 4): Recreating their friends and what makes them a friend. lift the flap book... who is the Reflections: Looking back patterns. Where are Postcards to Ghana: Writing (wk7) tallest, the fastest? Pirate Ships: Floating over their Reception year they from? What do postcards/letters to our (wk 6) and sinking. Which Writing about achievements. they eat? How do Ghanaian friends. materials are good for a (Wk 5) they breathe? (Wk 6 and 7) pirate ship? (wk 5) (Wk 5) Aspirations: thinking about Year One: how will it change? Seahorses: How do What will we want to they swim? Who has learn/improve? the babies? (Wk 6 and 7) Comparing sizes. (wk 6)

Christmas Learning (wk 7) Maths Week 1: Counting and numbers Week 1: Counting Week 1: Counting and Sequences Week 1: Counting Week 1: Counting Week 1: Time Week 2: Counting and ordering and numbers Week 2: Patterns sequences Week 2: Patterns and Week 2: Money and counting Week 3: 2D Shape and position Week 2: 3D Shape Week 3: Counting and adding Week 2: Length symmetry Week 3: Capacity Week 4: Counting and patterns Week 3: Counting Week 4: Addition and subtraction Week 3: Data recording Week 3: Money and counting Week 4: Addition Week 5: Counting and addition and ordinal numbers Week 5: Capacity Week 4: Addition and Week 4: Counting and Week 5: Patterns and Week 6: Addition and subtraction Week 4: Data Week 6: Time subtraction subtraction symmetry Week 7: Length Weeks 5: Addition Week 5: Counting and Week 5: Estimation Week 6: Counting and Week 6: Counting place value Week 6: Addition and comparing and subtraction Week 7: Counting and comparing/estimating Week 7: Counting and place Sequences Week 7: Weight value