Reception
We have two classes in Reception:
Butterfly taught by Mrs Turner
butterflyclass@cirrustrust.uk
Dragonfly taught by Mr Wallder
dragonflyclass@cirrustrust.uk
Please find below, our curriculum map. This provides an overview of what the children learn while in Reception.
If you visit the Learning and Curriculum page, you will find more detailed information about each curriculum subject, including long term planners which show knowledge and skills for those subjects and where and how the National Curriculum objectives are covered across the school. Please do visit these pages.
At Rushy Meadow, we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework.
Parents may find this document a helpful guide when your child is first starting school:
What to expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage: a guide for parents
Knowledge Organisers
Knowledge Organisers have been devised as a multi-purpose tool to assist teachers in their planning and assessments, Subject Leaders in their evaluations of standards in their subjects and parents to have a fuller understanding of knowledge their child will cover each term and how they can support them to remember this.
At Rushy Meadow, we emphasise the importance of children needing to regularly revisit their prior knowledge to make links in their learning and to help them not to forget. This is referred to as ‘sticky knowledge’ which is important in two ways:
1. Firstly, the more a child knows, the more their knowledge can stick to their existing knowledge (building schemas).
2. Secondly, we want their knowledge to stick! To ensure that this is the case, children must keep retrieving existing knowledge from their long-term memories in order to interrupt forgetting.
Therefore, the children will use the knowledge organisers in class to help them remember key facts. We encourage parents to spend some time looking at them with their child(ren) at home too.
In Early Years, children are introduced to knowledge organisers for the first time. This helps to prepare them for using knowledge organisers in their next stage of learning.
Click on the tabs to view the knowledge organisers for each half term.