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‘Inspiring a Lifetime Love of Learning’

Our primary aim is to ensure that our curriculum, across the whole school, inspires the pupils to want to acquire and develop a balance of new knowledge and skills built up over their time as they progress through our school.

Intent, Implement and Impact (Overall Effectiveness)

We involve our children in the design of the personalised curriculum which helps us to actively engage the children in their own learning; challenging them to become independent, well-rounded individuals who take ownership of their learning and become deep thinkers with sticky knowledge. We also want our children to be able to apply their knowledge and skill set in a range of contexts within cross curricular and purposeful real life experience.

We follow the National Curriculum which is the statutory requirement for learning for all pupils and focuses on ensuring that pupils develop in all subject areas and promotes preparation for, and an appreciation of life in Modern Britain. Through following the aims set out in the National Curriculum, we aim to foster pupil creativity and develop spiritual, moral, social and cultural skills and attitudes to learning and life. Our sequential curriculum offer includes clear progression between the key stages (KS1 and KS2) to help build on the skills experienced and learned in the Early Years Foundation Stage (Pre-School and Reception).

At Cheselbourne Village School and Pre-School we ensure that there is breadth and balance within the school’s curriculum and plan to link learning in different subjects where we feel that relevant and meaningful links can be made. We intend to make learning as hands on and fun as possible, whilst also making links that enhance and give context to topic learning. This in turn will help embed and consolidate a solid understanding of all knowledge and skills taught. This approach is supported through having the opportunity to plan together as a staff team, through regular monitoring and evaluation and through working in partnership with other schools to share expertise and validate our curriculum delivery and assessment.

Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be. Rita Pierson

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EYFS Long

Term Plan 22-23

“We believe that all children should feel cherished and nurtured in an environment that values mutual respect. We work hard to provide an engaging environment where we model, motivate and question.

We work and listen to our parents to build a strong relationship to ensure we can help our children achieve their full potential.

We want all our children to grow and thrive. Celebrating their individual abilities, skills and cultural diversity.

We understand that all children have different starting points and we acknowledge their own individual journey.

We plan a curriculum that will inspire our children and has them at the heart. It is purposeful and we provide appropriate interventions.

We are led by their interests and our approach is based on curiosity, exploration, creativity and imagination.” CVS – EYFS TEAM

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Long Term Plan 22-23

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Whole School theme

General Themes

NB: These themes may be adapted at various points to allow for children’s interests to flow through the provision

All About me!

Starting school / my new class / New Beginnings

/ Careers

Staying healthy / Food / Human body

How have I changed?

My family / PSED focus

How do I make others feel?

Being kind / staying safe

Down on the farm

Lets Celebrate!

Little Red Hen - Harvest

Old favourites

Familiar tales

Library visits

The Nativity

Christmas Lists

Letters to Father Christmas

People Who Help us!

Climates / Hibernation

Night and day animals

Jobs

The Past

Growing!

Plants & Flowers

Weather / seasons

Does the moon shine?

Planting seeds

Reduce, Reuse & Recycle

Pancake Day

Easter

Ticket to ride – Amazing Animals!

Around the Town

How do I get there?

Where in the world have you been what animals did we see? Life cycle

Where do we live in the UK / world?

Vehicles past and Present

Design your own transport!

Who was Neil Armstrong?

Fun at the Seaside!

Under the sea

Sea transport

Off on holiday / clothes

Where in the world shall we go?

Send me a postcard!

Marine life

Fossils – Mary Anning

Seasides in the past

Compare: Now and then!

Seaside art

Possible Texts and

‘old favourites’

Once there were Giants

The Colour Monster

All About Families (Usborne)

Goldilocks

Starting School - Allan Alhberg

Its Okay to be Different

All Kinds of People - Emma Samon

A Family is a Family - Sarah O-leary

Once There Were Giants

My Two Grannies by Floella Benjamin

Peepo!

Little Red Hen

Christmas Story

Guy Fawkes

Rama and Sita

Robin Hood

The Colour Monster Joshua Brooks

Where the Wild things are Maurice Sendak

Christmas Pine Julia Donalson

Santa's Aussie Holiday Maria Farrer Anna Walker

Enormous Turnip

John Lewis Advert

Nativity

The Emperors Egg

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

How to Catch a Star - Oliver Jeffers

The Tiger Who Came for Tea

Chinese New Year - Magic Wok (Magic Porridge Pot)

The Magic Paint Brush

One Snowy Night Nick Butterworth

Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers

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The Tiny Seed

Oliver’s Vegetables

Jack and the Beanstalk

One Plastic Bag

Jasper’s Beanstalk

Tree, Seasons come and seasons go

A stroll through the seasons

The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett

The giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord

Bob, The Man on the Moon

Mr Wolfs Pancakes

The Snail and the Whale

The Way back Home

The Naughty Bus

The Train Ride

Beegu

Oi! Get off my train!

Astro Girl

Mr Gumpy’s Outing

Handa’s Surprise (Journey story)

Rosie's Walk

Oi Frog

Billy goats Gruff

100 Decker Bus by Mike Smith

Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch

Under the Sea Non – Fiction

P is for Passport

The Journey

Zoom

World Atlases

Tiddler

Who Swallowed Stanley

Blue Planet David Attenborough Little People Big Dreams

Sharing a Shell

Alba the 100 year old fish

Who Swallowed Stanley

Little People Big Dreams

Tiddler by Julia Donalson

The Night Pirates by Peter Harris

Drawing Club

Little Red Hen

‘Wow’ moments / Enrichment Weeks

Autumn Trail

Dental Nurse / Firefighter visit

Harvest Time

Birthdays

Favourite Songs

Halloween Pumpkins

Guy Fawkes / Bonfire Night

Christmas Time / Nativity

Diwali

Black History Month

Remembrance day

Road Safety

Children in Need

What do I want to be when I grow up? Calendar

Anti- Bullying Week

Chinese New Year

LENT

Story Telling Week

Random Acts of Kindness Week

Valentine’s Day

Internet Safety Day

Village Walk/ Picnic

Planting seeds

Easter time

Nature Scavenger Hunt

Mother’s Day

Science Week

Easter Egg Hunt

World Book Day

Chicks

Post a letter

Food tasting – different cultures

Map work

Ramadan March 22 April 21

Eid 20-21 2023

Visit to the beach

Under the Sea – singing songs and sea shanties

Fossil hunting

Father’s Day

Heathy Eating Week

World Environment Day

Ice – Cream making

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Reception Long Term Plan 21-22

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Over Arching Principles

Characteristics of Effective Learning

Playing and exploring: - Children investigate and experience things, and ‘have a go’. Children who actively participate in their own play develop a larger store of information and experiences to draw on which positively supports their learning

Active learning: - Children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties. They are proud of their own achievements. For children to develop into self-regulating, lifelong learners they are required to take ownership, accept challenges and learn persistence.

Creating and thinking critically: - Children develop their own ideas and make links between these ideas. They think flexibly and rationally, drawing on previous experiences which help them to solve problems and reach conclusions.

Unique Child: Every child is unique and has the potential to be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.

Positive Relationships: Children flourish with warm, strong & positive partnerships between all staff and parents/carers. This promotes independence across the EYFS curriculum. Children and practitioners are NOT alone – embrace each community.

Enabling environments: Children learn and develop well in safe and secure environments where routines are established and where adults respond to their individual needs and passions and help them to build upon their learning over time.

Learning and Development: Children develop and learn at different rates (not in different ways as it stated 2017). We must be aware of children who need greater support than others.

PLAY: At Cheselbourne Village School, we understand that children learn best when they are absorbed, interested and active.  We understand that active learning involves other children, adults, objects, ideas, stimuli and events that aim to engage and involve children for sustained periods. We believe that Early Years education should be as practical as possible and therefore , we are proud that our EYFS setting has an underlying ethos of ‘Learning through play. PLAY is essential for children’s development across all areas. Play builds on children’s confidence as they learn to explore, to relate to others around them and develop relationships , set their own goals and solve problems. Children learn by leading their own play and by taking part in play which is guided by adults.’. EYFS Team

We will ensure that all children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe at ALL times.

The ultimate purpose of education, for adults and children, is to help them cultivate love, which is both an aesthetic and rational experience.

COEL

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Long Term Plan 22-23

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Our Values

Mutual respect 

 We are all unique.

We respect differences between different people and their beliefs in our community, in this country and all around the world.

All cultures are learned , respected, and celebrated.

 

Mutual

Tolerance 

Everyone is valued, all cultures are celebrated and we all share and respect the opinions of others.

 Mutual tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith.

Rule of law 

We all know that we have rules at school that we must follow.

We know who to talk to if we do not feel safe.

We know right from wrong.

We recognise that we are accountable for our actions.

We must work together as a team when it is necessary.

Individual liberty

We all have the right to have our own views.

We are all respected as individuals.

We feel safe to have a go at new activities.

We understand and celebrate the fact that everyone is different.

 

 

Democracy

We all have the right to be listened to.

We respect everyone and we value their different ideas and opinions.

We have the opportunity to play with who we want to play with.

We listen with intrigue and value and respect the opinions of others.  

Recap all British Values 

 Fundamental British Values underpin what it is to be a citizen in a modern and diverse Great Britain valuing our community and celebrating diversity of the UK.

Fundamental British Values are not exclusive to being British and are shared by other democratic countries.

Assessment opportunities

In-house - Baseline data on entry

National Baseline data by end of term

On going assessments

Baseline analysis

Pupil progress meetings

Parents evening info

EYFS team meetings

In house moderation

Midterm Assessments

On going assessments

Pupil progress meetings

EYFS team meetings

In house moderation

Midterm Assessments

Pupil progress meetings

Parents evening info

EYFS team meetings

On going assessment

EYFS team meetings

Pupil progress meetings

Report

EYFS team meetings

EOY data

Parental

Involvement

Parents Evening

Harvest Assembly

Home / School Agreement

Tapestry

Nativity

Parents Evening

Tapestry

Adventure Time – parents workshop

Tapestry

Parents Evening

Art workshop / Gallery

Adventure Time – parents workshop

Tapestry

Tapestry

Parents Evening

Parent’s Breakfast

We recognise that all children are unique and special.

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Long Term Plan 22-23

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Communication and Language

Talk to parents about what language they speak at home, try and learn a few key words and celebrate multilingualism in your setting.

The development of children’s spoken language underpins all seven areas of learning and development. Children’s back-and-forth interactions from an early age form the foundations for language and cognitive development. The number and quality of the conversations they have with adults and peers throughout the day in a language-rich environment is crucial. By commenting on what children are interested in or doing, and echoing back what they say with new vocabulary added, practitioners will build children's language effectively. Reading frequently to children, and engaging them actively in stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems, and then providing them with extensive opportunities to use and embed new words in a range of contexts, will give children the opportunity to thrive. Through conversation, story-telling and role play, where children share their ideas with support and modelling from their teacher, and sensitive questioning that invites them to elaborate, children become comfortable using a rich range of vocabulary and language structures.

Whole EYFS Focus – C&L is developed throughout the year through high quality interactions, daily group discussions, sharing circles, Drawing club PSHE times, stories, singing, speech and language interventions, EYFS productions, assemblies and weekly interventions. 1

Daily story time

Daily Phonics Story

Welcome to EYFS

Settling in activities

Making friends

Children talking about experiences that are familiar to them

What are your passions / goals / dreams?

This is me!

Rhyming and alliteration

Familiar Print

Sharing facts about me!

Mood Monsters Shared stories

All about me!

Model talk routines through the day. For example, arriving in school: “Good morning, how are you?”

Tell me a story!

Develop vocabulary

Discovering Passions

Tell me a story - retelling stories

Story language

Word hunts

Listening and responding to stories

Following instructions

Takes part in discussion

Understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important.

Use new vocabulary through the day.

Choose books that will develop their vocabulary.

Tell me why!

Using language well

Ask’s how and why questions…

Discovering Passions

Retell a story with story language

Story invention – talk it!

Ask questions to find out more and to check they understand what has been said to them.

Describe events in some detail.

Listen to and talk about stories to build familiarity and understanding.

Learn rhymes, poems and songs.

Talk it through!

Describe events in detail – time connectives

Discovering Passions

Understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important.

Use picture cue cards to talk about an object: “What colour is it? Where would you find it?

Sustained focus when listening to a story

What happened?

Discovering Passions

Re-read some books so children learn the language necessary to talk about what is happening in each illustration and relate it to their own lives

Time to share!

Show and tell

Weekend news

Discovering Passions

Read aloud books to children that will extend their knowledge of the world and illustrate a current topic. Select books containing photographs and pictures, for example, places in different weather conditions and seasons.

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Long Term Plan 22-23

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Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Children’s personal, social and emotional development (PSED) is crucial for children to lead healthy and happy lives, and is fundamental to their cognitive development. Underpinning their personal development are the important attachments that shape their social world. Strong, warm and supportive relationships with adults enable children to learn how to understand their own feelings and those of others. Children should be supported to manage emotions, develop a positive sense of self, set themselves simple goals, have confidence in their own abilities, to persist and wait for what they want and direct attention as necessary. Through adult modelling and guidance, they will learn how to look after their bodies, including healthy eating, and manage personal needs independently. Through supported interaction with other children, they learn how to make good friendships, co-operate and resolve conflicts peaceably. These attributes will provide a secure platform from which children can achieve at school and in later life.

Managing Self

Self - Regulation

Link to Behaviour for Learning

New Beginnings

See themselves as a valuable individual.

Being me in my world

Class Rule Rules and Routines

Supporting children to build relationships

Dreams and Goals

Getting on and falling out.

How to deal with anger Emotions

Self - Confidence

Build constructive and respectful relationships.

Ask children to explain to others how they thought about a problem or an emotion and how they dealt with it.

Good to be me Feelings

Learning about qualities and differences

Celebrating differences

Identify and moderate their own feelings socially and emotionally.

Encourage them to think about their own feelings and those of others by giving explicit examples of how others might feel in particular scenarios

Relationships

What makes a good friend?

Healthy me

Random acts of Kindness

Looking after pets

Looking After our Planet

Give children strategies for staying calm in the face of frustration. Talk them through why we take turns, wait politely, tidy up after ourselves and so on

Looking after others

Friendships

Dreams and Goals

Show resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge.

Discuss why we take turns, wait politely, tidy up after ourselves and so on.

Taking part in sports day - Winning and loosing

Changing me

Look how far I've come!

Model positive behaviour and highlight exemplary behaviour of children in class, narrating what was kind and considerate about the behaviour.

Show an understanding of their own feelings and those of others, and begin to regulate their behaviour accordingly. Set and work towards simple goals, being able to wait for what they want and control their immediate impulses when appropriate. Give focused attention to what the teacher says, responding appropriately even when engaged in activity, and show an ability to follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.

  • Controlling own feelings and behaviours
  • Applying personalised strategies to return to a state of calm
  • Being able to curb impulsive behaviours
  • Being able to concentrate on a task
  • Being able to ignore distractions
  • Behaving in ways that are pro-social
  • Planning
  • Thinking before acting
  • Delaying gratification
  • Persisting in the face of difficulty.

“Self-regulatory skills can be defined as the ability of children to manage their own behaviour and aspects of their learning. In the early years, efforts to develop self-regulation often seek to improve levels of self-control and reduce impulsivity. Activities typically include supporting children in articulating their plans and learning strategies and reviewing what they have done.” Education Endowment Foundation.

We understand that children develop in individual ways and at varying rates – physically, cognitively, linguistically, socially and emotionally.

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Physical development

Fine motor

Continuously check the process of children’s handwriting (pencil grip and letter formation, including directionality). Provide extra help and guidance when needed.

Daily opportunities for Fine Motor Activities

Gross motor

Physical activity is vital in children’s all-round development, enabling them to pursue happy, healthy and active lives. Gross and fine motor experiences develop incrementally throughout early childhood, starting with sensory explorations and the development of a child’s strength, co-ordination and positional awareness through tummy time, crawling and play movement with both objects and adults. By creating games and providing opportunities for play both indoors and outdoors, adults can support children to develop their core strength, stability, balance, spatial awareness, co-ordination and agility. Gross motor skills provide the foundation for developing healthy bodies and social and emotional well-being. Fine motor control and precision helps with hand-eye co-ordination, which is later linked to early literacy. Repeated and varied opportunities to explore and play with small world activities, puzzles, arts and crafts and the practice of using small tools, with feedback and support from adults, allow children to develop proficiency, control and confidence.

Threading, cutting, weaving, playdough, Fine Motor activities.

Manipulate objects with good fine motor skills

Draw lines and circles using gross motor movements

Hold pencil/paint brush beyond whole hand grasp

Pencil Grip

Threading, cutting, weaving, playdough, Fine Motor activities.

Develop muscle tone to put pencil pressure on paper Use tools to effect changes to materials Show preference for dominant hand

Engage children in structured activities: guide them in what to draw, write or copy. Teach and model correct letter formation.

Threading, cutting, weaving, playdough, Fine Motor activities.

Begin to form letters correctly Handle tools, objects, construction and malleable materials with increasing control

Encourage children to draw freely.

Holding Small Items /

Button Clothing /

Cutting with Scissors

Threading, cutting, weaving, playdough, Fine Motor activities.

Hold pencil effectively with comfortable grip Forms recognisable letters most correctly formed

More Ideas here:

Threading, cutting, weaving, playdough, Fine Motor activities.

Develop pencil grip and letter formation continually

Use one hand consistently for fine motor tasks

Cut along a straight line with scissors /

Start to cut along a curved line, like a circle / Draw a cross

Threading, cutting, weaving, playdough, Fine Motor activities.

Form letters correctly

Copy a square

Begin to draw diagonal lines, like in a triangle / Start to colour inside the lines of a picture

Start to draw pictures that are recognisable /

Build things with smaller linking blocks, such as Duplo or Lego

Cooperation games i.e. parachute games.

Climbing – outdoor equipment

Different ways of moving to be explored with children

Changing for PE / Help individual children to develop good personal hygiene. Acknowledge and praise their efforts. Provide regular reminders about thorough handwashing and toileting.

Ball skills- throwing and catching.

Crates play- climbing. Skipping ropes in outside area

dance related activities

Provide a range of wheeled resources for children to balance, sit or ride on, or pull and push.

Ball skills- aiming, dribbling, pushing, throwing & catching, patting, or kicking

Ensure that spaces are accessible to children with varying confidence levels, skills and needs. Provide a wide range of activities to support a broad range of abilities.

Dance / moving to music

Gymnastics ./ Balance

Balance- children moving with confidence

dance related activities

Provide opportunities for children to, spin, rock, tilt, fall, slide and bounce.

Use picture books and other resources to explain the importance of the different aspects of a healthy lifestyle.

Obstacle activities

children moving over, under, through and around equipment

Encourage children to be highly active and get out of breath several times every day. Provide opportunities for children to, spin, rock, tilt, fall, slide and bounce.

Dance / moving to music

Races / team games involving gross motor movements

dance related activities

Allow less competent and confident children to spend time initially observing and listening, without feeling pressured to join in.

Gymnastics ./ Balance

From Development Matters 20’:

Revise and refine the fundamental movement skills they have already acquired: - rolling - crawling - walking - jumping - running - hopping - skipping – climbing

Progress towards a more fluent style of moving, with developing control and grace.

Develop the overall body strength, co-ordination, balance and agility needed to engage successfully with future physical education sessions and other physical disciplines including dance, gymnastics, sport and swimming.

Develop their small motor skills so that they can use a range of tools competently, safely and confidently. Suggested tools: pencils for drawing and writing, paintbrushes, scissors, knives, forks and spoons.

Use their core muscle strength to achieve a good posture when sitting at a table or sitting on the floor.

Confidently and safely use a range of large and small apparatus indoors and outside, alone and in a group. Develop overall body-strength, balance, co-ordination and agility.

Further develop and refine a range of ball skills including: throwing, catching, kicking, passing, batting, and aiming. Develop confidence, competence, precision and accuracy when engaging in activities that involve a ball.

All these ideas will be revisited each term. Children need time to practice and consolidate. Repetition is a good thing.

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Literacy

Comprehension

- Developing a passion for reading

Word

Reading

It is crucial for children to develop a life-long love of reading. Reading consists of two dimensions: language comprehension and word reading. Language comprehension (necessary for both reading and writing) starts from birth. It only develops when adults talk with children about the world around them and the books (stories and non-fiction) they read with them, and enjoy rhymes, poems and songs together. Skilled word reading, taught later, involves both the speedy working out of the pronunciation of unfamiliar printed words (decoding) and the speedy recognition of familiar printed words. Writing involves transcription (spelling and handwriting) and composition (articulating ideas and structuring them in speech, before writing)

Joining in with rhymes and showing an interest in stories with repeated refrains. Environment print. Having a favourite story/rhyme. Understand the five key concepts about print: - print has meaning - print can have different purposes - we read English text from left to right and from top to bottom - the names of the different parts of a book

Sequencing familiar stories through the use of pictures to tell the story. Recognising initial sounds. Name writing activities. Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary.

Retell stories related to events through acting/role play. Christmas letters/lists. Retelling stories using images / apps. Pie Corbett Actions to retell the story – Story Maps. Retelling of stories. Editing of story maps and orally retelling new stories. Non-Fiction Focus Retelling of stories.

Sequence story – use vocabulary of beginning, middle and end.

Blend sounds into words, so that they can read short words made up of known letter– sound correspondences.

Enjoys an increasing range of books

Making up stories with themselves as the main character .. Encourage children to record stories through picture drawing/mark making for LAs.

Read simple phrases and sentences made up of words with known letter–sound correspondences and, where necessary, a few exception words. Read a few common exception words. Make the books available for children to share at school and at home. Avoid asking children to read books at home they cannot yet read

Information leaflets about animals in the garden/plants and growing.

Re-read books to build up their confidence in word reading, their fluency and their understanding and enjoyment. World Book Day

Timeline of how plants grow.

Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books.

They develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events

Stories from other cultures and traditions

Retell a story with actions and / or picture prompts as part of a group - Use story language when acting out a narrative. Rhyming words.

Parents reading stories

Can explain the main events of a story - Can draw pictures of characters/ event / setting in a story. May include labels, sentences or captions.

Can draw pictures of characters/ event / setting in a story

Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events & respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions and reactions.

Make predictions

Beginning to understand that a non-fiction is a non-story- it gives information instead. Fiction means story. - Can point to front cover, back cover, spine, blurb, illustration, illustrator, author and title.

Sort books into categories.

Pre-school Phase 1

Phonic Sounds: Phase 2 Supersonic Phonics Friends

Reading: Initial sounds, oral blending, CVC sounds, reciting know stories, listening to stories with attention and recall.

Help children to read the sounds speedily. This will make sound-blending easier

Listen to children read aloud, ensuring books are consistent with their developing phonic knowledge

Preschool Phase 1

Phonic Sounds: Phase 2/3 Supersonic Phonics Friends

Reading: Blending CVC sounds, rhyming, alliteration, knows that print is read from left to right. Spotting diagraphs in words.

Show children how to touch each finger as they say each sound. For exception words such as ‘the’ and ‘said’, help children identify the sound that is tricky to spell.

Phonic Sounds:

Preschool Phase 1

Phonic Sounds: Phase 3 Supersonic Phonics Friends

Reading: Rhyming strings, common theme in traditional tales, identifying characters and settings.

Help children to become familiar with letter groups, such as ‘th’, ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘ee’ ‘or’ ‘igh’. Provide opportunities for children to read words containing familiar letter groups: ‘that’, ‘shop’, ‘chin’, ‘feet’, ‘storm’, ‘night’.

Phonic Sounds:

Preschool Phase 1

Phonic Sounds: Phase 3 Supersonic Phonics Friends

Reading: Story structure-beginning, middle, end. Innovating and retelling stories to an audience, non-fiction books.

Listen to children read some longer words made up of letter-sound correspondences they know: ‘rabbit’, ‘himself’, ‘jumping’.

Children should not be required to use other strategies to work out words.

Phonic Sounds:

Preschool Phase 1/2

Phonic Sounds: Phase 3-4 Supersonic Phonics Friends

Reading: Non-fiction texts, Internal blending, Naming letters of the alphabet. Distinguishing capital letters and lower case letters.

Note correspondences between letters and sounds that are unusual or that they have not yet been taught, such as ‘do’, ‘said’, ‘were’.

Phonic Sounds:

Preschool Phase 1/2

Phonic Sounds: Phase 3-4 Supersonic Phonics Friends

Reading: Reading simple sentences with fluency. Reading CVCC and CCVC words confidently.

End of term assessments

Transition work with Year 1 staff

We will provide experiences which build on children’s existing knowledge and understanding in order to challenge, stimulate and extend their learning and development

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Writing

Texts may change due to children’s interests

Only ask children to write sentences when they have sufficient knowledge of letter-sound correspondences.

Stimulus:

Starting School - Allan Alhberg

It’s Okay to Be Different - Todd Parr

All Kinds of People - Emma Samon

A family is a family - Sarah O-leary

Once There Were Giants by Martin Waddell (Walker Books, 2001)

Splat the Cat starts school

PEEPO!

Little Red Hen

Golidlocks

Village Walk

Dominant hand, tripod grip, mark making, giving meaning to marks and labelling. Shopping lists,

Writing initial sounds and simple captions.

Use initial sounds to label characters / images. Silly soup. Names Labels. Captions Lists Diagrams Messages – Create a Message centre!

Stimulus

Robin Hood

The Colour Monster Joshua Brooks

Where the Wild things are Maurice Sendak

Christmas Pine Julia Donalson

Santa's Aussie Holiday Maria Farrer Anna Walker

Enormous Turnip

John Lewis Advert

Nativity

Mince Pies

Name writing, labelling using initial sounds, story scribing. Retelling stories in writing area, instructions

Help children identify the sound that is tricky to spell.

Sequence the story

Write a sentence

Stimulus:

How to Catch a Star - Oliver Jeffers

The Tiger Who Came for Tea

Chinese New Year - The Magic Paintbrush

One Snowy Night Nick Butterworth

Ginger Bread Man

News writing

Writing some of the tricky words such as I, me, my, like, to, the. Writing CVC words, Labels using CVC, CVCC, CCVC words.

Guided writing based around developing short sentences in a meaningful context. Create a story board.

Stimulus:

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jaspers Beanstalk

Hungry Caterpillar -

Look up Nathan Bryon

The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett

The giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord

Growing

Easter

Creating own story maps, writing captions and labels, writing simple sentences. Writing short sentences to accompany story maps. Order the Easter story.

Labels and captions – life cycles Recount – A trip to the park

Character descriptions.

Write 2 sentences

Stimulus:

Mr Gumpy’s Outing

Handa’s Surprise (Journey story)

The Train Ride

Rosie's Walk

Oi Frog

Billy goats Gruff

100 Decker Bus by Mike Smith

Trip

Writing recipes, lists. Writing for a purpose in role play using phonetically plausible attempts at words, beginning to use finger spaces. Form lower-case and capital letters correctly. Rhyming words.

Acrostic poems

Stimulus:

Alba the 100 year old fish

Who Swallowed Stanley

Blue Planet David Attenborough

Little People Big Dreams

Tiddler by Julia Donalson

The Night Pirates by Peter Harris

Sleepingbeauty

Story writing, writing sentences using a range of tricky words that are spelt correctly. Beginning to use full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. Innovation of familiar texts Using familiar texts as a model for writing own stories. Character description –

Write 3 sentences

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Maths

Developing a strong grounding in number is essential so that all children develop the necessary building blocks to excel mathematically. Children should be able to count confidently, develop a deep understanding of the numbers to 10, the relationships between them and the patterns within those numbers. By providing frequent and varied opportunities to build and apply this understanding - such as using manipulatives, including small pebbles and tens frames for organising counting - children will develop a secure base of knowledge and vocabulary from which mastery of mathematics is built. In addition, it is important that the curriculum includes rich opportunities for children to develop their spatial reasoning skills across all areas of mathematics including shape, space and measures. It is important that children develop positive attitudes and interests in mathematics, look for patterns and relationships, spot connections, ‘have a go’, talk to adults and peers about what they notice and not be afraid to make mistakes.

Pre- school

Number songs

Match, sort, numbers 1-2 and pattern

Pre – School

Number songs

Number 3,4,5,6, capacity, mass, height and length

Pre – School

Number songs

More than, fewer, shape, night and day, positional language, numbers 1-5

Reception

Just like me!

Match and sort

Compare amounts

Compare size, mass & capacity

Exploring pattern

It's me 1, 2, 3!

Representing 1, 2 & 3

Comparing 1, 2 & 3

Composition of 1, 2 & 3

Circles and triangles

Positional language

Light & dark

Representing numbers to 5

One more or less

Shapes with 4 sides

Time

Reception

Alive in 5!

Introducing zero

Comparing numbers to 5

Composition of 4 & 5

Compare mass (2)

Compare capacity (2)

Growing 6, 7, 8 6, 7 & 8

Combining two amounts

Making pairs

Length & height

Time (2)

Building 9 & 10

Counting to 9 & 10

Comparing numbers to 10

Bonds to 10

3-D shapes

Spatial awareness

Patterns

Reception

To 20 and beyond

Build numbers beyond 10

Count patterns beyond 10

Spatial reasoning 1

Match, rotate, manipulate

First, then, now

Adding more

Taking away

Spatial reasoning 2

Compose and decompose

Find my pattern

 Doubling�Sharing & grouping�Even & odd�Spatial reasoning 3�Visualise and build

On the move

 Deepening understanding�Patterns & relationships�Spatial mapping (4)�Mapping

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Understanding the world

RE / Festivals

Our RE Curriculum enables children to develop a positive sense of themselves and others and learn how to form positive and respectful relationships.

They will begin to understand and value the differences of individuals and groups within their own community.

Children will have opportunity to develop their emerging moral and cultural awareness.

Encourage interactions with the outdoors to foster curiosity and give children freedom to touch, smell and hear the natural world around them during hands-on experiences.

Understanding the world involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community. The frequency and range of children’s personal experiences increases their knowledge and sense of the world around them – from visiting parks, libraries and museums to meeting important members of society such as police officers, nurses and firefighters. In addition, listening to a broad selection of stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems will foster their understanding of our culturally, socially, technologically and ecologically diverse world. As well as building important knowledge, this extends their familiarity with words that support understanding across domains. Enriching and widening children’s vocabulary will support later reading comprehension.

  • Identifying their family. Commenting on photos of their family; naming who they can see and of what relation they are to them.
  • Can talk about what they do with their family and places they have been with their family. Can draw similarities and make comparisons between other families. Name and describe people who are familiar to them.
  • Read fictional stories about families and start to tell the difference between real and fiction. Talk about members of their immediate family and community.
  • Navigating around our classroom and outdoor areas. Create treasure hunts to find places/ objects within our learning environment.
  • Introduce children to different occupations and how they use transport to help them in their jobs.

  • Listen out for and make note of children’s discussion between themselves regarding their experience of past birthday celebrations.
  • Environments – Features of local environment Maps of local area using google earth to map out our journey to school

  • Can talk about what they have done with their families during Christmas’ in the past.
  • Show photos of how Christmas used to be celebrated in the past. Use world maps to show children where some stories are based. Use the Jolly Postman to draw information from a map and begin to understand why maps are so important to postmen.
  • To introduce children to a range of fictional characters and creatures from stories and to begin to differentiate these characters from real people in their lives.
  • What do I want to be when I grow up/

  • Listening to stories and placing events in chronological order.
  • Nocturnal Animals Making sense of different environments and habitats
  • Use images, video clips, shared texts and other resources to bring the wider world into the classroom. Listen to what children say about what they see
  • Listen to children describing and commenting on things they have seen whilst outside, including plants and animals.
  • After close observation, draw pictures of the natural world, including animals and plants
  • Looking at jobs and people who help us
  • Compare now and then

  • Village walk (to link with seasons); discuss what we will see on our journey to the park and how we will get there.
  • Introduce the children to recycling and how it can take care of our world. Look at what rubbish can do to our environment and animals. Create opportunities to discuss how we care for the natural world around us.
  • Can children make comments on the weather, culture, clothing, housing.
  • Change in living things – Changes in the leaves, weather, seasons,
  • Explore the world around us and see how it changes as we enter Summer. Provide opportunities for children to note and record the weather.
  • Building a ‘Bug Hotel’
  • Draw children’s attention to the immediate environment, introducing and modelling new vocabulary where appropriate.
  • Look for children incorporating their understanding of the seasons and weather in their play.
  • Use the BeeBots
  • Stranger danger (based on Jack and the beanstalk). Talking about occupations and how to identify strangers that can help them when they are in need.

  • Use Handa’s Surprise to explore a different country.
  • What can we do here to take care of animals in the jungle?
  • Compare animals from a jungle to those on a farm.
  • Explore a range of jungle animals. Learn their names and label their body parts. Could include a trip to the zoo.

  • Discuss how they got to school and what mode of transport they used. Introduce the children to a range of transport and where they can be found.
  • Look at the difference between transport in this country and one other country. Encourage the children to make simple comparisons.
  • Use bee-bots on simple maps. Encourage the children to use navigational language.
  • Can children talk about their homes and what there is to do near their homes?
  • Look out for children drawing/painting or constructing their homes.
  • Encourage them to comment on what their home is like. Show photos of the children’s homes and encourage them to draw comparisons.
  • Environments – Features of local environment Maps of local area Comparing places on Google Earth – how are they similar/different?
  • Introduce the children to NASA and America.
  • Introduce children to significant figures who have been to space and begin to understand that these events happened before they were born.
  • Can children differentiate between land and water.
  • Take children to places of worship and places of local importance to the community.
  • To understand where dinosaurs are now and begin to understand that they were alive a very long time ago.
  • Learn about what a palaeontologist is and how they explore really old artefacts. Introduce Mary Anning as the first female to find a fossil.
  • Materials: Floating / Sinking – boat building Metallic / non-metallic objects
  • Seasides long ago – Magic Grandad
  • Share non-fiction texts that offer an insight into contrasting environments.
  • Listen to how children communicate their understanding of their own environment and contrasting environments through conversation and in play.

Developing children’s understanding of social skills and the values and codes of behaviour required for people to work together harmoniously.

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Expressive Arts and Design

Painting, 3D modelling, messy play, collage, cutting, drama, role play, threading, moving to music, clay sculptures, following music patterns with instruments, singing songs linked to topics, making instruments, percussion.

Children to produce a piece of art work each half term to be displayed for ‘Celebration wall’ for school / parents to show how drawings have developed - lots of links to Fine Motor Skills. Children to explain their work to others. Children will have opportunities to learn and perform songs, nursery rhymes and poetry linked to their work / interests and passions.

The development of children’s artistic and cultural awareness supports their imagination and creativity. It is important that children have regular opportunities to engage with the arts, enabling them to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials. The quality and variety of what children see, hear and participate in is crucial for developing their understanding, self-expression, vocabulary and ability to communicate through the arts. The frequency, repetition and depth of their experiences are fundamental to their progress in interpreting and appreciating what they hear, respond to and observe.

Give children an insight into new musical worlds. Invite musicians in to play music to children and talk about it. Encourage children to listen attentively to music. Discuss changes and patterns as a piece of music develops.

 Join in with songs; beginning to mix colours, join in with role play games and use resources available for props; build models using construction equipment.

Sing call-and-response songs, so that children can echo phrases of songs you sing.

Self-portraits, junk modelling, take picture of children’s creations and record them explaining what they did.

Natural self portaits

Exploring sounds and how they can be changed, tapping out of simple rhythms.

Provide opportunities to work together to develop and realise creative ideas.

Superhero masks.

Use different textures and materials to make models

Listen to music and make their own dances in response.

Firework pictures, Christmas decorations, Christmas cards, Divas, Christmas songs/poems

 The use of props, puppets & story bags will encourage children to retell, invent and adapt The Nativity

Designing homes for hibernating animals.

Starry night

Children will be encouraged to select the tools and techniques they need to assemble materials that they are using.

Making lanterns, Chinese writing, puppet making, Chinese music and composition

Teach children different techniques for joining materials, such as how to use adhesive tape and different sorts of glue.

Make different textures; make patterns using different colours

Children will explore ways to protect the growing of plants by designing scarecrows.

Collage Making houses. Pastel drawings, printing, patterns on Easter eggs, Life cycles, Flowers-Sun flowers

Mother’s Day crafts Easter crafts Home Corner role play

Artwork themed around topic. Provide a wide range of props for play which encourage imagination.

  Design and make vehicles . Design and make objects they may need in space, thinking about form and function.

Learn song and dance and perform it / Encourage children to create their own music.

Junk modelling, houses, bridges boats and transport.

Exploration of other countries –

Retelling familiar stories Creating outer of space pictures

Provide children with a range of materials for children to construct with.

Sand pictures / Rainbow fish collages

Lighthouse designs

Paper plate jellyfish

Puppet shows: Provide a wide range of props for play which encourage imagination.

Salt dough fossils

Water pictures, collage, shading by adding black or white, colour mixing for beach huts, making passports.

Colour mixing – underwater pictures.

Father’s

Day Crafts

At the heart of education is a positive, synergistic relationship between the teacher and the student. This dynamic creates the environment for learning to take place.

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Early Learning Goals – for the end of eyfs - Holistic / best fit Judgement!

Communication and Language

Personal, social, emotional development

Physical

Development

Literacy

Maths

Understanding the World

Expressive arts and design

ELG: Listening, Attention and Understanding

Listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions and small group interactions

Make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding

Hold conversation when engaged in back-and-forth exchanges with their teacher and peers

ELG: Speaking

Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary.

Offer explanations for why things might happen, making use of recently introduced vocabulary from stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems when appropriate.

Express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including use of past, present and future tenses and making use of conjunctions, with modelling and support from their teacher.

ELG: Self-Regulation

Show an understanding of their own feelings and those of others, and begin to regulate their behaviour accordingly.

Set and work towards simple goals, being able to wait for what they want and control their immediate impulses when appropriate.

Give focused attention to what the teacher says, responding appropriately even when engaged in activity, and show an ability to follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.

ELG: Managing Self

Be confident to try new activities and show independence, resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge.

Explain the reasons for rules, know right from wrong and try to behave accordingly.

Manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs, including dressing, going to the toilet and understanding the importance of healthy food choices.

ELG: Building Relationships

Work and play cooperatively and take turns with others.

Form positive attachments to adults and friendships with peers;.

Show sensitivity to their own and to others’ needs.

ELG: Gross Motor Skills

Negotiate space and obstacles safely, with consideration for themselves and others.

Demonstrate strength, balance and coordination when playing.

Move energetically, such as running, jumping, dancing, hopping, skipping and climbing.

ELG: Fine Motor Skills

Hold a pencil effectively in preparation for fluent writing – using the tripod grip in almost all cases.

Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery.

Begin to show accuracy and care when drawing.

ELG: Comprehension

Demonstrate understanding of what has been read to them by retelling stories and narratives using their own words and recently introduced vocabulary.

Anticipate – where appropriate – key events in stories.

Use and understand recently introduced vocabulary during discussions about stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems and during role-play.

ELG: Word Reading

Say a sound for each letter in the alphabet and at least 10 digraphs.

Read words consistent with their phonic knowledge by sound-blending.

Read aloud simple sentences and books that are consistent with their phonic knowledge, including some common exception words.

ELG: Writing

Write recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed.

Spell words by identifying sounds in them and representing the sounds with a letter or letters.

Write simple phrases and sentences that can be read by others.

ELG: Number

Have a deep understanding of number to 10, including the composition of each number;

Subitise (recognise quantities without counting) up to 5; - Automatically recall (without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids) number bonds up to 5 (including subtraction facts) and some number bonds to 10, including double facts.

ELG: Numerical Patterns

Verbally count beyond 20, recognising the pattern of the counting system; - Compare quantities up to 10 in different contexts, recognising when one quantity is greater than, less than or the same as the other quantity.

Explore and represent patterns within numbers up to 10, including evens and odds, double facts and how quantities can be distributed equally.

ELG: Past and Present

Talk about the lives of the people around them and their roles in society.

Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.

Understand the past through settings, characters and events encountered in books read in class and storytelling.

ELG: People, Culture and Communities

Describe their immediate environment using knowledge from observation, discussion, stories, non-fiction texts and maps.

Know some similarities and differences between different religious and cultural communities in this country, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.

Explain some similarities and differences between life in this country and life in other countries, drawing on knowledge from stories, non-fiction texts and – when appropriate – maps.

ELG: The Natural World

Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants.

Know some similarities and differences between the natural world around them and contrasting environments, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.

Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around them, including the seasons and changing states of matter.

ELG: Creating with Materials

Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

Share their creations, explaining the process they have used; - Make use of props and materials when role playing characters in narratives and stories.

ELG: Being Imaginative and Expressive

Invent, adapt and recount narratives and stories with peers and their teacher.

Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs; Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and – when appropriate – try to move in time with music.

It is important for parents and early years settings to have a strong and respectful partnership. This sets the scene for children to thrive in the early years.