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EYFS Development Matters with checkpoints and notes Reception

The document outlines the learning objectives for children in reception across various developmental areas including Communication and Language, Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development, Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World, and Expressive Arts and Design. Each section details specific skills and knowledge that children are expected to acquire, such as listening skills, vocabulary development, physical coordination, basic literacy and numeracy, and understanding their environment. The aim is to foster holistic development in young children through engaging and age-appropriate activities.

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EYFS Development Matters with checkpoints and notes Reception

The document outlines the learning objectives for children in reception across various developmental areas including Communication and Language, Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development, Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World, and Expressive Arts and Design. Each section details specific skills and knowledge that children are expected to acquire, such as listening skills, vocabulary development, physical coordination, basic literacy and numeracy, and understanding their environment. The aim is to foster holistic development in young children through engaging and age-appropriate activities.

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EYFS Development Matters Note Sheets: Reception

Communication and Language


Children in reception will be learning to: Notes:
• Understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important.

• Learn new vocabulary.

• Use new vocabulary through the day.

• Ask questions to find out more and to check they understand what has been
said to them.

• Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences.

• Connect one idea or action to another using a range of connectives.

• Describe events in some detail.

• Use talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities, and to
explain how things work and why they might happen.

• Develop social phrases.

• Engage in story times.

• Listen to and talk about stories to build familiarity and understanding.

• Retell the story, once they have developed a deep familiarity with the text, some as
exact repetition and some in their own words.

• Use new vocabulary in different contexts.

• Listen carefully to rhymes and songs, paying attention to how they sound.

• Learn rhymes, poems and songs.

• Engage in non-fiction books.

• Listen to and talk about selected non-fiction to develop a deep familiarity with
new knowledge and vocabulary.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development


Children in reception will be learning to: Notes:
• See themselves as a valuable individual.

• Build constructive and respectful relationships.

• Express their feelings and consider the feelings of others.

• Show resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge.

• Identify and moderate their own feelings socially and emotionally.

• Think about the perspectives of others.

• Manage their own needs.


- personal hygiene

• Know and talk about the different factors that support their overall health and
wellbeing;
- regular physical activity - sensible amounts of ‘screen time’
- healthy eating - having a good sleep routine
- toothbrushing - being a safe pedestrian

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EYFS Development Matters Note Sheets: Reception

Physical Development
Children in reception will be learning to: Notes:
• Revise and refine the fundamental movement skills they have already acquired:
- rolling
- crawling
- walking
- jumping
- running
- hopping
- skipping
- climbing

• Progress towards a more fluent style of moving, with developing control


and grace.

• Develop the overall body strength, co-ordination, balance and agility needed to
engage successfully with future physical education sessions and other physical
disciplines including dance, gymnastics, sport and swimming.

• Develop their small motor skills so that they can use a range of tools competently,
safely and confidently. Suggested tools: pencils for drawing and writing,
paintbrushes, scissors, knives, forks and spoons.

• Use their core muscle strength to achieve a good posture when sitting at a table
or sitting on the floor.

• Combine different movements with ease and fluency.

• Confidently and safely use a range of large and small apparatus indoors and
outside, alone and in a group.

• Develop overall body-strength, balance, co-ordination and agility.

• Further develop and refine a range of ball skills including: throwing, catching,
kicking, passing, batting, and aiming.

• Develop confidence, competence, precision and accuracy when engaging in


activities that involve a ball.

• Develop the foundations of a handwriting style which is fast, accurate and


efficient.

• Further develop the skills they need to manage the school day successfully:
- lining up and queuing
- mealtimes

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EYFS Development Matters Note Sheets: Reception

Literacy
Children in reception will be learning to: Notes:
• Read individual letters by saying the sounds for them.

• Blend sounds into words, so that they can read short words made up of known
letter-sound correspondences.

• Read some letter groups that each represent one sound and say sounds for them.

• Read a few common exception words matched to the school’s phonic


programme.

• Read simple phrases and sentences made up of words with known letter–sound
correspondences and, where necessary, a few exception words.

• Re-read these books to build up their confidence in word reading, their fluency and
their understanding and enjoyment.

• Form lower-case and capital letters correctly.

• Spell words by identifying the sounds and then writing the sound with letter/s.

• Write short sentences with words with known letter-sound correspondences


using a capital letter and full stop.

• Re-read what they have written to check that it makes sense.

Mathematics
Children in reception will be learning to: Notes:
• Count objects, actions and sounds.

• Subitise.

• Link the number symbol (numeral) with its cardinal number value.

• Count beyond ten.

• Compare numbers.

• Understand the ‘one more than/one less than’ relationship between


consecutive numbers.

• Explore the composition of numbers to 10.

• Automatically recall number bonds for numbers 0–5 and some to 10.

• Select, rotate and manipulate shapes to develop spatial reasoning skills.

• Compose and decompose shapes so that children recognise a shape can have
other shapes within it, just as numbers can.

• Continue, copy and create repeating patterns.

• Compare length, weight and capacity.

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EYFS Development Matters Note Sheets: Reception

Understanding the World


Children in reception will be learning to: Notes:
• Talk about members of their immediate family and community.

• Name and describe people who are familiar to them.

• Comment on images of familiar situations in the past.

• Compare and contrast characters from stories, including figures from the past.

• Draw information from a simple map.

• Understand that some places are special to members of their community.

• Recognise that people have different beliefs and celebrate special times in
different ways.

• Recognise some similarities and differences between life in this country and life
in other countries.

• Explore the natural world around them.

• Describe what they see, hear and feel whilst outside.

• Recognise some environments that are different to the one in which they live.

• Understand the effect of changing seasons on the natural world around them.

Expressive Arts and Design


Children in reception will be learning to: Notes:
• Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas
and feelings.
• Return to and build on their previous learning, refining ideas and developing their
ability to represent them.
• Create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills.

• Listen attentively, move to and talk about music, expressing their feelings and
responses.

• Watch and talk about dance and performance art, expressing their feelings and
responses.

• Sing in a group or on their own, increasingly matching the pitch and following
the melody.

• Develop storylines in their pretend play.

• Explore and engage in music making and dance, performing solo or in groups.

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