Reception Curriculum Guide

Throughout the year, students will be guided through six Units of Inquiry of global significance, providing opportunities to broaden their learning by developing their conceptual understandings, strengthening their knowledge and skills across, between and beyond subject areas.

The following four Units of Inquiry will be explored throughout the year. Each unit is developed around a concept, a Central Idea and Lines of Inquiry.

An inquiry into:

• Myself: My health and wellbeing
• Interactions: My relationships with others and my sense of belonging
• Growth: The impact on my learning and development

An inquiry into:

• inspiration, imagination and creativity
• personal, social and cultural modes and practices of communication
• intentions, perceptions, interpretations and responses

An inquiry into:

• Characteristics of living things 生物的特徵
  
• How living things change 生物生長的變化
• Our responsibility towards the well-being of other living things 人類對其他生物健康成長的責任

An inquiry into:

• Different materials 不同的物料
  
• Properties of materials 物料的特徵
  
• Uses of materials 使用物料
  

The development of language is fundamental to all areas of our learning programs. Language helps us communicate our thinking and understanding.

Language is socially constructed - it is dependent on social interactions and relationships. It permeates all subject areas. As such, we view all of our teachers and assistants to be language teachers.

English is our main language of instruction, with Chinese (Mandarin) taught as an additional language. We take similar approaches teaching both English and Chinese.

Students are provided opportunities to enrich their vocabulary by describing different sensorial experiences and exploring stories, songs and rhymes. Students learn how to interact socially - using appropriate voice and body language. Students recount and retell experiences and stories through socio-dramatic play, drawing and "writing".

Mathematics is a global language of concepts and symbols through which we make sense of the world around us.

Mathematics is taught through three main stages:

1. Constructing meaning and ideas about a mathematical concept through interactions with objects, discussions, experimentation and play;
2. Transferring these ideas and understandings into symbols;
3. Applying these ideas and understanding in real-life and hands-on problem solving activities.

Mathematics is taught through the strands of number, shape and space and measure.

Students explore the concept of counting. They learn how to connect number names, numerals and quantities (including zero) up to 20. They are provided opportunities to explore patterns around them, describing and creating them by using materials, sounds, movements and drawings.

Students explore the concept of space by following and providing simple directions. They compare the length, mass and capacity of different objects. They sort and describe basic 2D shapes and 3D objects. They explore the concept of time by identifying days of the week.

Students explore a range of land-based environments (including school grounds and local built environments). They will use different tools to observe nature in outdoor and natural settings. They will investigate how plants need water, light & a suitable temperature to grow and flourish. They will have opportunities to create and maintain a sensory garden.

Wellbeing is a central pillar of our school and is taught on a weekly basis. Students learn through Relationships and Sexuality Education, Social and Emotional Learning, PE & Health and Digital Wellbeing. There is a focus on self-management, relationship skills and fundamental movement skills.

Students are provided to show and build the understanding of how the world works by exploring the different properties of materials; investigating the behaviour of light and sound; and observing how different objects move. Students also describe natural patterns they see daily and as seasons change. They explore human needs and the concept of family.

• Use words to express emotions.

• Begin to understand and use self-help skills when faced with a challenge.
• Use visual cues eg timers and daily timetables to help manage time and move through transitions.

• Listen attentively when others are speaking, waiting for their turn to speak.
• Begin to understand what personal boundaries are and how to respect these eg.not touching others without consent.
• Use basic social norms, such as saying "please" and "thank you,"
• Take turns when speaking.
• Engage in cooperative play activities with peers.
• Participate in games with simple rules.

• Completes sentences using appropriate rhyming words

• Remembers and reproduces a sound sequence

• Recognises some high frequency words

• Creates drawing and marks to convey meaning

• Link numerals and amounts up to 20

• Use objects to add and subtract two single digit numbers

• Find ways to fit shapes into a puzzle

• Nesting, posting and ordering

To see the Subject Guidance for all subjects from Nursery to Year 6 please click on this link

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