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Themes/Topics
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Settling in, ourselves, our family, rules and routines
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Festivals and celebrations
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Traditional tales
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Pirates, superheroes, fairy tales
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Extended story topic
(this changes year on year) & people who help us
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Extended story topic
Farm visit to academy
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Personal, social and emotional
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Learning academy rules, boundaries & routines
Forming friendships and social skills
Sharing and taking turns with toys and resources
Building confidence and engagement
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Bonfire night and firework safety
Staying safe in the dark-be bright, be seen
Team work and working together in groups
E-safety
Playground games, looking after others in the class
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Re-visit school rules
Feelings-persona doll
Developing likes/dislikes
Taking others suggestions and ideas into account
Our similarities and differences
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Looking after the environment-re-cycling, litter
Looking after animals and plants
Thinking about endangered animals around the world
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Learn about police, firefighters, paramedics, doctors, nurses etc. and when you might need them
Stranger danger
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Moving up to Year 1 (transition)
Reflection on the year
New classes
Strengths and areas to improve
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Communication and language
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Listening to others
How to be a good listener
Following instructions
Special boxes-speaking & listening
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Building vocabulary
Word games
Rhyming
Speaking in front of an audience (Christmas assembly)
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Show and tell-home academy books
Using describing words
Speaking in full sentences
Connecting words: and, because
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How and why questions and exploring question words
Asking and answering questions
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Past and present forms
Speaking clearly and confidently
Explaining thoughts and ideas
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Building on and extending vocabulary use
Class assemblies (speaking in front of an audience)
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Physical development
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Changing for PE
Explore movement
Move in different ways: hopping/skipping/crawling etc.
Funky fingers: fine motor skills to support hand strength
Handwashing and hygiene
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Changing for PE independently
Move in different ways to music (dance)
Gross and fine motor movements continued
Pencil grip: moving towards tripod grip
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Apparatus: learn to jump and land off apparatus safely
Balance and upper body strength
Build on climbing skills
Develop effective pencil grip
Form letter shapes (handwriting)
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Ball skills: throwing, catching, kicking, controlling a ball
Develop effective pencil grip
Form letter shapes (handwriting)
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Athletics: high jump, javelin, running etc.
Develop effective pencil grip
Form letter shapes (handwriting)
Healthy eating
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Sports Day practice
Secure effective pencil grip
Form letter shapes (handwriting)
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Literacy
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Name recognition
Begin phonics, phases 1-3
Become aware of logos and print in the environment
Exploring picture books and independent reading
Oxford reading tree characters & names
Handa’s surprise
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Name writing
Writing words: labels
Guided reading in groups starts
Letter writing
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Role play, character play-hot-seating etc.
Explore various traditional tales
Story telling
Begin to write own story maps
Promote story writing
Sentence structure, begin to write sentences
Traditional tales e.g. Goldilocks and the 3 bears, The Gingerbread man, The 3 Billy Goats Gruff etc.
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World Book Day
Explore books from different cultures
Letter writing
Diary entries
Labelling maps
Pirate stories
Superhero stories
Fairy tale stories
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Information books
Make own information book
Capital letters
(keyboard)
Facts
Activities related to extended story (focused on reading and writing)
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Activities related to extended story
Securing sentence writing: finger spaces, full-stops and capital letters
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Maths
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Verbal count to 10/20
1:1 counting
Awareness of numbers to 10 and the associated amount
Ordering numbers
Numbers before/after
Begin number zoo
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Number zoo continued
Counting two groups (adding)
Taking objects away
One more/one less, ordering numbers
Patterns and 2D shape
Introduce length, weight, height
Number formation
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Addition/subtraction vocabulary
Begin to recognise symbols: + = -
Time: months of the year, days of the week, ordering the days
Money-counting 1p, recognising coins
Number formation
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Compare different lengths, weights, heights and capacities
Use vocabulary associated with measure
3D shapes
Recording number sentences
Introduce counting on and back
Positional language and directions
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Number bonds to 5, 10 and 20
Place value of numbers to 20-teen numbers
Addition and subtraction: counting on and back
Doubling, halving and sharing
Problem solving
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Problem solving with shapes and numbers
Counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s
Recording mathematical understanding
Sorting, ordering and comparing different heights, lengths, weights and capacities
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Understanding the world
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Number zoo animals
Harvest time
Autumn
Fruit tasting
Bread making
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Number zoo animals
Diwali
Bonfire night
Light and dark
Remembrance Day
Christmas and the nativity
Winter
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Chinese New Year
Make Chinese noodle soup
New Year
Valentines day
Spring
Explore i-pads in groups
Bee-bots and other programmable toy
Floating and sinking
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Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday
Make pancakes
Easter
Mother’s day
Holi festival
Growing and planting
Babies-growing and changing
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Ramadan
Summer
Father’s day
Mini-beasts and bug hunting (caterpillars & butterflies)
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Holidays-the seaside
Farm animals-farm visit
Father’s Day
Eid celebrations
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Expressive arts and design
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Using paint and brushes
Painting-selfportrait
Singing songs e.g. nursery rhymes
Exploring musical instruments
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Colour mixing
Scissor skills
Moving to music and different sounds
Using tools e.g. with clay
Make fireworks using junk modelling
Marbling
Christmas cards
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Role play and developing imagination
Puppets and puppet theatre
Design and make own puppets
Masks
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Junk modelling-telescopes, boats, etc.
Singing pirate songs
Gentle music-lullabies and nursery rhymes
Make musical instruments
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Design and make mini-beasts and their habitats.
Combing materials
Self-chosen tools and equipment
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Design and make 3D under the sea shoe box
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