Kinder Corner for Reception

Reception programme – 'Kinder Corner'

This Reception programme is aligned to the Welsh Foundation Phase.

The Kinder Corner programme helps ensure that your pupils enter Year 1 with:

• basic language, literacy and numeracy concepts and skills
• a basic knowledge of science and the world around them
• the social skills, self-reliance and confidence necessary to succeed in primary school.

Our comprehensive materials, including lesson plans, save you time so that you can focus on bringing the activities to life and enthusing your pupils.

Key features

• We provide you with age-appropriate activities that focus on the areas of learning and development set by the English and Welsh curriculums.
• We provide user-friendly, straightforward lesson plans based around the 16 fortnightly themes.
• You will receive a comprehensive teacher's guide, which includes the rationale behind each theme, a materials list, objectives, vocabulary list, detailed directions for each component, and letters for parents.
• It incorporates a systematic synthetic phonics programme, using specially-developed stories.

How Kinder Corner is structured

Kinder Corner is designed to be a full-day programme and can be run in conjunction with our Nursery programme, Curiosity Corner. It contains 16 themes that run for two weeks each.

It's designed to be a spiral curriculum: children build their knowledge and expertise through repeated exposure to a concept or continual practice of a skill.

Kinder Corner includes key elements that are repeated each day:

• Greetings, Readings and Writings
  You will invite children to begin the day with reading, writing, and other meaningful activities.
• Let's Get Together
  In this session you will bring your pupils together to talk about the theme. It encourages their oral language development and their sense of community.
• Rhyme Time
  You will use rhymes, songs, and games related to the theme, to improve vocabulary and phonemic awareness.
• Story Tree
  Using stories, you will encourage pupils to make predictions, recall events, and learn new vocabulary.
• Learning Labs
  A range of child-initiated activities involving problem solving, exploring materials, experimenting, observing, and recording.
• 15 Minute Maths
  This connects maths to everyday life. All the activities centre on an interactive calendar display.
• Snack/Outside/Gross Motor Play
  By interacting with their peers and adults, your pupils will develop their interpersonal skills. It also promotes self-help and gross motor skills.
• Sound Steps
  You will use specially-developed stories to practice beginning reading skills. It exposes pupils to phonics through letter-sound connections, blending, and segmenting.
• Math Mysteries
  This session enables pupils to construct their own understanding of mathematics. It encourages an awareness of numbers and develops maths skills.
• Let's Daydream
  A chance to engage children's imagination and story-telling skills, while introducing poetry and prose.
• Write Away
  Using carefully developed creative or theme-related topics, you will encourage pupils to practice their emerging writing skills.
• Let's Think About It
  You will reinforce the skills and concepts that your pupils have learned during the day.
• Home Link
  Using tasks that link learning to life outside school, this encourages each pupil's family to be involved in their education.