1. Enabling environments
Themes
Characteristics of effective learning
Playing and exploring
Active learning
Creating and thinking critically
Learning and development
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Rainforest
Celebrations
Fairy tales
Minibeasts
Growing
Pirates
Prime Areas
Personal, Social, Emotional Development
Making Relationships
Social skills - learning
each other's names,
making friends
‘Games with
our names, to change
places & to cooperate,
feelings photos
Motivation, learning
new things, keeping
going
Feeling
excited, calming down
Feelings: happy, sad,
Angry-
pass the teddy game,
who has hidden the
honey?
'Changes' - what we
can do now, what if...?
Self-Confidence and Self Awareness
Unique child
Display children’s names
Celebrate Birthdays
Learning journeys
Children’s ideas, activities, interests
Key groups
Indoor
and outdoor resource enhancements
‘Plan- do review’
Support and scaffold children’s learning
Managing Feelings and Behaviour
Physical Development
Moving and Handling
Moving safely, in a space, in different ways, balancing, using climbing equipment, wheeled toys, changing speed & direction. Rolling, throwing, catching,
kicking. Developing fine motor skills - pencil & scissor grip and control, manipulating objects, tools, construction, malleable materials.
Developing independence with toileting, hand washing, dressing. Recognising danger and developing awareness of safety.
Health and Self Care
Communication and Language
Listening and Attention
Sitting quietly. Listening and responding to sounds, own name, rhymes, stories, conversations. Anticipating words, phrases, events. Answering simple
questions (who, what, where). Understanding humour. Recalling stories. Following directions. Using language to make friends, to share ideas and
experiences, to give explanations, to ask questions, to pretend and imagine. Developing vocabulary, use of sentences, tenses.
Positive relationships
Understanding
Speaking
Specific Areas
Literacy
Reading
Phonics ‘Letters and Sounds’ Phase 1: Sound discrimination ' environmental, body, voice & instrumental sounds, rhythm & rhyme, alliteration, oral blending
& segmenting (Nursery) RWI: Set 1 and 2 sounds (Reception) Reading and writing own name/ labels/ sentences. Turning pages in books, looking at illustrations & print in books & the environment. Texts include: nursery rhymes, stories, traditional stories, fairy stories and non-fiction.
Writing
Maths
Number
Reciting number names, number rhymes & songs, sorting, matching, counting, comparing quantities, representing numbers using fingers or marks on paper
or pictures, reading & writing numbers, adding and taking away.
Positions, patterns, shapes, size, comparing and ordering, time-based events, using vocabulary.
Enabling environments
Shape, Space and Measure
The World
People and Communities
Harvest/ Diwali
Christmas
Chinese New Year
Easter
St Georges Day
Harvest service
Friendship week
Christmas service
Bonfire night
Christmas play
Valentines Day
Mothers Day/ Pancake Day
Easter service
Fathers Day
Leavers srvice
Seasons and the weather
Technology
Remote control toys, Beebot, favourite websites, keeping safe online with an adult, messages eg to Santa, computer paint programmes, photos and videos with I pads and cameras and record voices.
Expressive Arts and Design
Exploring and Using Media and Materials
Natural materials -
autumn leaves, sticks
Making marks
Hand & finger prints
Paper plate faces
Role play home
Autumn action songs &
Nursery rhymes -
puppets
Paint colours, collage
materials - bonfires,
fireworks
Making Rangoli patterns
Christmas cards
Nativity role play
Christmas songs
Character paintings,
choosing collage
materials
Model-making
Role play castle -
dressing up, acting out
fairy stories
Fairy tale character
Animal pictures
Caterpillars to butterfly's
Easter cards
Role play
Animal puppets
Spring and animal songs
Music, Fast & slow sounds
flowers
Observational
drawings
Shape & Space - sizes
High & low sounds
shells & pebbles
Different construction
Role play seaside,
travelling, transport
Being Imaginative