Autumn 1 

Autumn 2 

Spring 1 

Spring 2 

Summer 1 

Summer 2 

Getting to know you 

Woodland animals 

Growing 

PSE 

Jigsaw: Being Me in My World 

Jigsaw: Celebrating Difference 

Jigsaw: Dreams and Goals 

Jigsaw: Healthy Me 

Jigsaw: Relationships 

Jigsaw – Changing Me 

Physical 

Gross motor & fine motor focused activities and child initiated activities.    

Balance 

Ball Skills 

Coordination & agility 

Sports day practice  

C&L 

• Word of the day 

• Teach social phrases (good morning/good afternoon) 

• Daily story time 

• Weekly poetry basket poem/action  

• Reading areas in all rooms & outside 

• Word of the day 

• Teach sentence structure (who, what, where) 

• Daily story time including non fiction books 

• Weekly poetry basket poem/action 

• Reading areas in all rooms & outside 

• Curiosity Cube – encourage discussion 

• Word of the day 

• Teach sentence structure (who, what, where, when/how) 

• Daily story time including non fiction books 

• Weekly poetry basket poem/action 

• Reading areas in all rooms & outside 

• Curiosity Cube – encourage discussion 

Literacy 

Phonics: Phase 2 

Blending & segmenting 

Sound of the day – daily practice of writing sounds/words 

Daily story – focus on vocabulary, retrieval, retelling the story.   

Phonics: Phase 2 

Blending & segmenting 

Sound of the day – daily practice of writing sounds/words 

Daily story – focus on vocabulary, retrieval, retelling the story.   

Phonics: Phase 3 

Reading:  A range of topic related texts & Bug Phonics books 

Writing:  

• List of animals 

• Describe animals (adjectives) 

• Instructions 

• Speech bubbles 

Phonics: Phase 3 

• Reading:  A range of topic related texts & Bug Phonics books 

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Writing: 

• Captions 

• Sentence structure 

• Rhyming words 

• Labels 

Phonics – phase 4 

• Reading:  A range of topic related texts & Bug Phonics books 

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Writing: 

• Instructions 

• Descriptions 

• Lists 

• Labels 

• Sentences 

• Acrostic Poem 

Phonics – phase 4 

• Reading:  A range of topic related texts & Bug Phonics books 

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Writing: 

• Sentences 

• Lists 

• Instructions 

• Letters 

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Maths 

Number of the week focusing on 1-10 – daily maths lessons focusing on:  

• counting accurately (10 objects that cannot be moved) 

• subitising (to 3) 

• comparing quantities 

• name shapes 

• Recap numbers to 10 

• Patterns and shapes 

• Ordinal numbers 

• Counting in 2’s/10’s 

• Odds and evens 

• Number of the week focusing on 11-15 

• Calculations 

• Number bonds 

• Arrays 

• Estimating 

• Doubling 

• Composition of teen numbers 

• One more/less 

• Number of the week focusing on 16-20 

• Sharing 

• Halving/doubling 

• Square numbers 

• Calculations 

• Estimating 

• Subitising 

• Arrays 

• 2D shapes 

• Problem solving 

Number of the week focusing on numbers to 20 

• Odds and evens 

• Problem solving (numbers) 

• Problem solving with measures 

• Counting on  

• Number patterns 

UW 

• learn about interests 

• Colour Monsters – identify feelings 

• Construction 

• My body – look at body parts 

• Spiders – what do they eat/where do they live etc.   

• Autumn – Leaf Man, pumpkin investigation 

• Bonfire night – history & safety 

• Remembrance 

• Our homes 

• Christmas story & traditions 

• Facts about woodland animals (fox, hedgehog, owl) 

• Nocturnal animals 

• Make dens, bird hides, nests & hedgehog homes 

• Chinese New Year 

• Floating/sinking (feathers) 

• Life cycles 

• Facts about woodland animals (birds, squirrels, mice, badgers, deer, rabbits) 

• Bird identification 

• Easter – story & traditions 

• Plant flowers and vegetables 

• Learn how plants grow 

• Look after plants 

• Experiments with flowers/vegetables 

• Learn about different jobs 

• Life cycles 

• Animal prints 

• Our bodies 

EA&D 

• paint/draw pictures of ourselves 

• make colour monster puppets 

• humpty dumpty crafts 

• rainbows – explore colours 

• spider crafts 

• music – harvest songs, Humpty Dumpty, I Can Sing a Rainbow, Incy Wincy Spider 

• Nursery rhyme week: Jack & Jill, Hickory Dickory Dock, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, Row Row Row Your Boat, The Wheels on the Bus 

• Leaf man pictures 

• Fireworks pictures 

• Poppies 

• Pictures of our homes 

• Pictures of our friends 

• Christmas cards & crafts (tbd) 

• Nativity songs 

• Winter handprint pictures 

• The Fox & the Star inspired art 

• Clay hedgehogs 

• Owl Baby printing 

• Chinese New Year – lanterns & dragon puppets 

Music – SingUp:  

• I’ve Got a Grumpy Face (Timbre, beat, pitch contour) 

• The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Musical storytelling, louder/quieter, faster/slower, higher/lower, timbre) 

• Witch witch (Call-and-response, pitch (la-so-mi-do), timbre.) 

• Silhouette birds 

• Printing with acorn cups 

• Mouse finger puppets 

• Black & white art 

• Antler art 

• Easter cards & crafts 

Music – SingUp:  

• Row, Row, Row Your Boat (Beat, pitch (step/leap), timbre.) 

• Birdspotting – Cuckoo (Active listening, beat, pitch (so-mi), vocal play) 

• Shake My Sillies Out (Timbre, pitch (higher/lower), tempo (slower/faster), beat.) 

• Sunflower pictures 

• Vegetable printing 

• 3D flowers 

• Sketching flowers 

• Collaborative art using finger/hand printing 

Music – SingUp:  

• Up and down (Pitch contour (rising and falling) 

• Five Fine Bumble Bees (Timbre, tempo, structure (call-and-response), active listening.) 

• Down There Under the Sea (Timbre, structure, active listening, tune moving in step (stepping notes), soundscape.) 

• Paint future self 

• Make 3D nests and birds 

• Feet hand printing 

• Pictures for new teachers 

• Large scale art outside 

Music – SingUp:  

• It’s Oh So Quiet (Dynamics, timbre, musical storytelling, improvising and composing, exploring instruments.) 

• Slap Clap Clap (Music in 3-time, beat, composing and playing) 

• Bow Bow Bow Belinda (Beat, active listening, instrumental accompaniment.)