Early Years Foundation Stage
Early Years Curriculum Overview – Autumn Term
| Autumn 1 Topic – Seaside and All About Me |
Autumn 2 Traditional Tales |
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| Communication and Language | Encouraging conversation with others. Use of social conventions. Making needs known/ taking messages to others. Following simple instructions. Friday Friend feedback. Cross curricular circle times | As Autumn 1 plus Retelling stories in small groups. Drama / puppets
Circle times continued |
| Physical Development | Learning to change and dress independently. Write dance / parachute and circle games .
Using malleable materials. Teach tracing plus other fine motor skills , threading, peg boards etc. Scissor skill activities. Gym – ways of moving (Val Sabin scheme) |
As Autumn 1 plus Obstacle course / Dance (Trialling Val Sabin)
All other PD activities are on going and tailored to be cross curricular with the topic. |
| PSED | Seal – New Beginnings
My new class and me – celebrations about each child. Role play – The Home – explores a different familiar event each week – baking day, wash day, a birthday party. Learning the names of others through circle time activities. Building relationships through play and in activities where turn taking and sharing are necessary. Introduce Class rules and routines of the school day. Introduce Milly Molly stories British Values – the rule of law / class rules |
Sharing things that are special to me
Role play – 3 bears cottage / Grandmas cottage / The Post office/ Toy shop Stranger danger linked to LRRH. PHSE – Good deed beanstalk SEAL – Good to be me Milly and Molly stories |
| Literacy | Reading – Introduce Teddy Books and early book skills. Introduce ORT characters through flip over/ discussion cards. Introduce Key vocab. and begin learning key word cards when appropriate.
Phonics – Teach Letter sounds and begin simple word building. (3 / 4 SOUNDS PER WEEK) Rhyming activities. Writing– Opportunities for emergent writing in role play. Daily Name card practise. Writing opportunities linked to phonics. News writing. |
Reading – Key vocabulary and simple sentences. Patterned and story language. Traditional Tales and ORT Big Books .
Phonics – Letter sounds continued – reading / writing and links with other areas of the curriculum Retelling and sequencing stories through use of puppets and role play. Rhyming strings. Writing – Writing captions and simple sentences using sounds knowledge. Opportunity for free emergent writing. Reading simple captions and sentences. |
| Maths | Number-Sorting, matching , working with numbers to 10 and counting and making sets of objects reliably. Sing mathematical songs. More/ less ordering. Introduce Numicon
Shape, space, measures-Exploring shape – 2D and 3D naming and using language to describe properties. Making pictures, sorting and constructing. |
Number – Work with numbers to 10 1 more / less money
Shape, space and measures–Length and weight -Ordering sizes and learning comparative language. Pattern – recognising and making simple repeating patterns. Positional and directional language. Introduce bee bots for directional language. Simple routes – giving and following instructions. |
| Understanding the world | RE – Who am I and where do I belong?
UW – Naming and labelling body parts. Healthy Eating. Body songs. Baking. Looking at similarities, differences and changes. ICT – Using Tizzy to draw lines (l – r) simple pictures, type strings of letters to familiarise with key board. Friday Friend news. Circle times about families / interests. History – past and present events in their own lives
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RE – Why do we have Celebrations?
UW – Sorting to specified and own criteria. Making porridge. The journey of a letter ICT – Bee bots, Tizzy’s Tools – Create a picture. The Post Office. Post man Visit – Trip to local post office to post Christmas cards |
| Expressive arts and design | Surrey Arts – Me and My stories
UMMFree creative table Self-portrait construction and model making. Music – Surrey Arts Interactive Jolly phonic songs – All about me songs BI – Role play / free painting and materials table |
UMMDesign a bed for Teddy. Observational drawing of Teddy. Make a patterned headboard and use fabric pens to make a patterned cover. Firework picture ( Fluorescent) and collage. Make a pop up jack.
BI – Role play Puppet theatre Free creative table |
Early Years Curriculum Overview – Spring Term
| Spring 1 Topic Colour and Light / Chinese New Year / People who help |
Spring 2 Journeys and Transport Spring / Growing / Farm visit |
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| Communication and Language | Encouraging conversation with others. Use of social conventions. Making needs known/ taking messages to others. Friday Friend feedback. Extend Vocab. | Encouraging conversation with others. Use of social conventions. Making needs known / taking messages to others. Friday Friend feedback. Taking turns to speak and respond appropriately. Extend vocab |
| Physical Development | Write dance Val Sabin -Dance
Elmer lacing cards Ongoing fine motor skills – Tracing, letter formation, cutting skills |
Write Dance – Gym
Ongoing – tracing/ cutting / fine motor activities. Model making with recyclable materials |
| PSED | People who help us
Milly Molly stories Role Play: Week 1 / 2 Colour Lab and Dark Tent Week 3 / 4 – Chinese Kitchen Week 5 / 6 – School Room Fire Fighters resource box SEAL – Going for Goals Talk about New Year Resolutions (goals for the year) Talk about achievements the children have made over their 1 term at school Road safety British Values – Democracy Children to join school council |
Growing and changing
Milly Molly stories RE – What makes something Special?
Role Play – The Hospital The Train/ boat / plane The garden Centre The Vets
Keeping safe by the road Following Rules Healthy Eating
Looking after our pets British Values –Mutual Respect |
| Literacy | Elmer Stories. Noah’s Ark. Colour Poems ORT BB Split for phonics groups
Writing Chinese New Year Story Sequencing Stories Weekend news |
Books
Jaspers Beanstalk / Handa’s Surprise / Oliver’s Fruit Salad /The Giants Stew Writing News writing / creative stories Dictated sentences labelling Phonics Groups |
| Maths | Number
1 more / less Working with number tracks Weigh / vocab ( direct comparison ) Number formation Numicon Addition / Vocab / Ordinal numbers / missing numbers SSM Shape names/ sorting shape pictures Patterns in the environment / repeating patterns. Subtraction |
SSM
length – ordering 3 or more objects/ vocab Time – sequencing familiar events – Seasons 2D/3D shape weight / vocab Problem solving / sharing Simple Data handling / tally charts Money Number Doubling Addition / subtraction
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| Understanding the world | RE – What makes a place special?
Developing language to describe materials. Sorting according to given and own criteria. UW Chinese New Year People Who Help Us The weather / Testing materials for water resistance Light and Dark Visits from Emergency Services Personnel ICT – Drawing Program / Phonics resources |
RE– What makes something special? Seal – Good to be me
Looking at and making own maps Easter UW Journeys – near and far Transport – compare past and present transport Growing seeds Keeping a seed dairy Observations similarities / differences Spring walk – What happens in to flowers / trees/ ponds/animals in Spring? Investigate seeds Animals and their young. Farm to visit school ICT– Drawing program and Bee Bots |
| Expressive arts and design | Surrey Arts Music – Everyone
Fluorescent colours Colour Mixing Making shades Colour Books People who help us and emergency vehicles painting Chinese New Year Craft Music – Surrey Arts
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Surrey Arts Music – Our world
Observational drawing – Making flowers – Fruit Printing Design own transport Music – Surrey Arts |
Early Years Curriculum Overview – Summer Term
| Summer 1 Topic Houses and Homes – Super Hero week – Monsters and Aliens |
Summer 2 Pirate Week , Water/ Mini-beasts / Dinosaur week |
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| Communication and Language | Partner talk / Friday Friend news / guess what’s in the box? Questions – Why and how?
Pie Corbett – Going on a bear hunt / 3 little Pigs – Hot seating/ drama. |
Partner talk / Friday Friend news / guess what’s in the box? Questions – Why and how?
Explanations |
| Physical Development | Ongoing fine motor skill activities.
Outdoor games / Dance – The Bear Hunt |
Ongoing fine motor skill activities. Outdoor games/ ball skills – aiming, throwing /catching Pirate week – Work outs – Polar/ Desert/ rainforest / underwater |
| PSED | My special people
Millie Molly stories Role play – The Kitchen / The Magic Bed / Building site RE– What makes our world wonderful? Safety in the kitchen SEAL– Fair and Unfair British Values – Individual Liberty |
Being involved / moving on
Milly Molly stories – Bullying Role play – Travel agents/ Aeroplane/ Beach shop Seal- Changes RE – What makes a place special? Keeping healthy British Values – Tolerance |
| Literacy | Books
The Magic Bed, The Big Blue Sofa, Superpotato Three Little Pigs – Recite in Style of Pie Corbett Writing Writing with word banks / Targets Write the story of 3 little pigs Dictated sentences. Superhero/ creative Writing Writing a letter |
Rhyme
Books – 123 off to the sea Who sank the boat?
Writing Labelling News writing Non fiction writing |
| Maths | Number
Number tracks Addition and subtraction Number formation. SSM 3D Shapes –build /sort/ investigate capacity – problem solving and ordering containers. Doubling / halving sharing. Real life problems |
Number
Ordering numbers/ ordinal numbers Sharing missing numbers. SSM Capacity/ Addition / subtraction Problem solving Positional language Counting in 2s 10s Repeating patterns – continue a pattern Weight – problem solving Length – Prob solving 2D / 3D SHAPE – properties vocab. Time |
| Understanding the world | RE – What makes our world wonderful? Creation
Houses around the world and Animal homes/ Climates. Sorting animals according to home climate. Texture – sorting Local walk – Observe local house – look for sim / diff. ICT – Drawing program / Bee Bots History – Past and present events in their own lives and those of their family |
RE – What can we learn from stories? Noah’s ark
Water and holes and Floating and sinking Blowing bubbles investigation / dissolving investigation. The seaside – make a boat that will float. Minibeasts – butterfly life cycle. Watch caterpillars change into butterflies Local visit for mini beast hunt ICT – Create a picture using picture banks |
| Expressive arts and design | Surrey Arts Music – Big bear funk
Create a textured house. ( Model making ) Make 3 Little Pigs Home Textured sewing Texture – combining to create pictures Painting pictures of homes |
Surrey Arts Music – Reflect, rewind and replay
Design a shoe box home Bubble pictures Minibeast sculpture Reflection pictures Symmetry. |