- Personal, Social and Emotional
Development -
~ Have confidence and self-respect
~ Behave
appropriately and be aware of right and wrong
~ Be willing to take
turns and share fairly
~ Have good relationships with and sensitivity
towards others including
children of other cultures
and beliefs.
~ Respond with wonder, joy or sorrow to cultural
and religious events or
other experiences of the world.
~ Work
well both independently and as a group
~ Concentrate and
persevere
~ Take initiative
~ Have some personal independence- in
dressing and hygiene, for example
- Communication, Language and
Literacy -
~ Listen attentively to stories, songs, rhymes and
talk about his/her own
experiences
~ Use an increasing number of
words to express thoughts and find out things
~ Be able to make up
stories and take part in role play
~ Use and enjoy books, knowing
that pictures and words have a meaning,
that pages turn and that
words are read from left to right
~ Recognises his/her own name, some
familiar words and alphabet letters
~ Associate sounds with words,
letters and syllables and patterns in rhymes
~ Write his/her own name
and write for different purposes using pictures or
symbols, small and
capital letters
- Problem Solving, Reasoning and
Numeracy-
~ Know the mathematical words to describe shape,
position, size or quantity such as circle, cube, behind, bigger
than.
~ Recognise and make mathematical patterns
~ Sort, compare
and put objects in order
~ Know some number rhymes, songs, stories
and counting games
~ Count, read and write numbers to 10
~ Use
real objects to solve problems, such as adding one, taking away
one
and working out how many are left
- Knowledge and Understanding of the
World -
~ Talk about his or her family, past and present
events, where s/he lives, his
or her environment and the reasons for
some of its features, such as parks,
shops, schools, railway stations
and libraries
~ Talk about living, natural and made objects, patterns
and change
~ Talk about and record, in writing, symbols or pictures
his/her own
observations
~ Ask questions about why things happen
and how things work
~ Choose and use equipment to cut, fold or
bend
~ Be able to use technology, such as computers, telephones and
TV sets.
- Physical Development -
~
Move confidently and imaginatively with control, co-ordination
and
awareness of space
~ Be able to use a wide range of small
equipment such as bats, balls, hoops
and climbing and balancing
equipment.
~ To be able to use tools, objects, hard and soft
construction materials, safely
and with control
- Creative Development -
~
Explore sound, colour, texture, shape, space in both his/her two and
three
dimensional work
~ Respond in various ways to what s/he
hears, smells, touches and feels
~ Use imagination and observation in
art.
~ Express ideas and communicate feelings through a range of
materials,
including suitable tools and musical
instruments.
