Communication and Language
Communication and Language is developed throughout the year through high-quality interactions, sustained shared thinking, questioning, sentence starters, daily group discussions, circle times, stories, singing and when necessary, speech and language interventions.
Early Learning Goals
Listening, Attention and Understanding: Listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions and small group interactions. Make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding. Hold conversation when engaged in back-and-forth exchanges with their teacher and peers.
Speaking: Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary. Offer explanations for why things might happen, making use of recently introduced vocabulary from stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems when appropriate. Express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including use of past, present and future tenses and making use of conjunctions, with modelling and support from their teacher.
Autumn term
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Themes Getting to know you, New beginnings and Family diversity, Science – Can we fix it?Autumn |
Enrichment activities Drama Workshop, Teddy Bear Hospital |
Themes Who am I? – personal timelines, Diwali, Christmas, Remembrance Day , Bonfire Night, Anti-bullying week |
Enrichment activities Toys – visiting year 1 toy museum, Nativity Performance, Christmas lunch |
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Listening, Attention and Understanding Children will be able to understand how to listen carefully and know why it is important. |
Listening, Attention and Understanding Children will begin to understand how and why questions. |
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Speaking Children will talk in front of small groups and their teacher offering their own ideas. |
Speaking Children will use new vocabulary throughout the day. |
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Spring term
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Themes Who has feathers and who has fur? The differences between animals and humans Our senses Valentine’s Day Chinese New Year |
Enrichment activities Chinese New Year Parade Animal Cam/Virtual Zoo Trip |
Themes Whole school art focus Pancake Day Fairtrade Easter International Women’s Day |
Enrichment activities World Book Day Teddy Bear sleep over Teddy Bear’s picnic |
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Listening, Attention and Understanding Children will learn to ask questions to find out more. |
Listening, Attention and Understanding Children will retell a story and follow a story without pictures or props. |
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Speaking Children will talk in sentences using conjunctions, e.g. and, because. Children will engage in non-fiction books and to use new vocabulary in different contexts. |
Speaking Use basic connecting words and phrases, with actions, to structure stories in sequence. |
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Summer term
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Themes How does your garden grow? |
Enrichment activities Growing flowers (sunflowers, daisies) Vegetable Patch Cress Heads Trip to Blatchington Windmill Performance – our class assembly |
Themes Around our school. Where will we go and how will we get there? |
Enrichment activities Trip to the i360 Creating the Gruffalo Recipe Book |
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Listening, Attention and Understanding Children will be able to understand a question such as who, what, where, when, why and how. |
Listening, Attention and Understanding Children will be able to have conversations with adults and peers with back-and-forth exchanges. |
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Speaking Children will use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events. |
Speaking Children will use talk in sentences using a range of tenses. Children will use prepositions confidently |
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