Term 1

Outside Inside

Term 2

Knowing Yourself

Term 3

Talents and Powers

Term 4

Sowing a Seed

Term 5

Celebrating Self

Term 6

Family and Friends

Communication and Language

Create and share a ‘Chatterbox’ all about themselves.

Talk about special events and celebrations.

Talk about what we are good at and if there is anything we want to get better at.

Using specific vocabulary linked to animals and plants.

Retell familiar stories using a repeated refrain.

Sharing their own experiences of things they have done with their family and friends.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Settling into life at Priory, following rules and adapting to new routines.

Practicing turn taking games and learning to share.

Real life experiences – Having special visitors

Demonstrating care and compassion for living things and their habitats.

Working towards goals with growing persistence.

Preparing for transition to Year 1.

Physical Development

Strengthening fine motor skills to enable a secure pencil grip.

Exploring the outside area to develop gross motor skills. Using climbing equipment, to strengthen muscles.

Strengthening fine motor skills to enable a secure pencil grip.

Exploring the outside area to develop gross motor skills.

Using trikes to strengthen muscles.

PE: Movement Development

PE: Throwing & Catching

PE: Ball Skills

PE: Working with Others

Sports day practice

Literacy

Core Books

The Literacy Tree

Where the Wild Things Are

National Poetry Day

The Literacy Tree

Look up!

I am Henry Finch

The Literacy Tree

The Magic Paintbrush

Super Milly and the Super School Day

The Literacy Tree

The Tiny Seed

The Extraordinary Gardener

Storytelling Week

The Literacy Tree

My Shadow is Pink

So Much

The Literacy Tree

Hairy Maclary

Izzy Gizmo

Literacy

Quality Books

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

We’re Going on a Lion Hunt

We’re Going to Find the Monster

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

The Gruffalo

The Gingerbread Man

Martha Maps it Out

The Gruffalo’s Child

Stick Man

Big Bright Feelings Books

Superworm

Supertato

Zog

Room on the Broom

A Superhero Like You

Astro Girl

Little People, Big Dreams Books

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jasper’s Beanstalk

The Enormous Turnip

The Little Red Hen

Luna Loves Gardening

Oliver’s Vegetables

This is Me

I’m a Girl

This Love

All are Welcome

The Lion Inside

All You Need

There’s Only One You

What Makes Me a Me?

Handa’s Surprise

Owl Babies

Whatever Next?

Peace at Last

Five Minutes Peace

Mr. Large in Charge

All in One Piece

Sharing a Shell

Maths

Singing counting rhymes.

Counting to 20.

Subitising to 3.

Develop counting skills.

Working within numbers to 5.

Compare sets of objects.

Sorting by size and colour.

Identifying 2D shapes.

Continue, copy and recreate repeating patterns.

Counting objects.

Comparing quantities.

Using key words - More Than/ Fewer Than/ Equal Number.

Parts and Whole of objects and numbers.

How numbers are made.

Cardinal number – last number that is counted.

Counting beyond 20.

Compose & Decompose shapes.

Subitising to 6.

Showing quantities in different ways.

Using a number track.

Placing dice games.

Ordering numbers to 5.

1 more.

Parts of numbers to 5.

5 and a bit when looking at 6 and 7.

Using key words – Equal/ Unequal

Count out objects from a larger set.

Ordering numbers to 10.

Parts of numbers to 7.

Recall some double facts.

Doubling using objects.

Sorting objects in a range of ways.

Even and Odd numbers.

Using spatial language.

Comparing length, weight and capacity.

Identify missing numbers within a counting sequence.

Counting on from different starting numbers.

Counting objects which cannot be moved.

5 and a bit when looking at 8 and 9.

How 10 is made.

Use number tracks to play games.

More & Less.

Using a rekenrek.

Recall number bonds to 5/10.

Identifying 3D shapes.

Money.

Recap & Review

Understanding the World

Geography – Local area – Where do we live?

History – Look at our baby photos and talk about how we have changed.

Science – Seasonal changes – Autumn

Harvest festival

Icing biscuits.

RE – What stories are special and why?

Celebrations - Diwali

Computing – Exploring technology

Geography – Exploring simple maps

History – Remembrance Day, Bonfire night.

Science – Seasonal changes – Winter Light & Dark

Nocturnal animals

RE – What times are special and why?

Celebrations - Christmas

Computing – Taking a photo

Geography – Local walk

History – Peek into the past.

Science – Experiments – Predicting what we think will happen.

RE – What is special about our world?

Celebrations - Valentine's Day

Computing – Internet Safety Day

Geography – Outdoor adventures – Forest School Visit

History – Peek into the past.

Science – Observing the life cycle of a caterpillar.

Seasonal Changes – Spring

Science Week

RE – Which people are special and why?

Celebrations - Holi, Easter

Computing - Beebots

Geography –

Exploring maps

History – Using past and present tenses correctly.

Science – Baking biscuits.

RE – Which places are special and why?

Celebrations - Eid

Computing – Using a mouse

Geography – Local walk to the seaside.

History – Adventures through time.

Science –

Seasonal Changes – Summer

RE – Which people and places are special and why?

Computing – Logging on and interacting with software

Expressive Art and Design

Art – Using materials found outside to create pictures

DT – Halloween crafts

Music – Nursery Rhymes

Art - Using different media for a planned effect, such as fireworks exploding.

Christmas cards

DT - Making a Christmas decoration

Music - Learning Christmas songs

Art – Identify features, such as eye colour for a self-portrait

DT – Valentine’s cards

Music – Call & Response songs

Art – Mother’s Day cards

DT – Easter cards

Music – Exploring instruments

Art – Exploring clay

DT – Junk modelling

Music - Exploring instruments – looking at pitch & tempo

Art – Father's Day cards

DT – Summer project

Music – Moving to music