Tollgate Primary School Subject Overview: Nursery
Autumn 2 2014/2015
Celebrations
Subject
PSED
Literacy and
CL
Week 1
Back into school routine
after a break
My friends
Recapping rules
Brown Bear
Writing to Brown Bear
Describing characters
Circle time – my favourite
colour
Phonics
Mathematics
Week 2
Following the school
routine
Recapping rules
Being a good friend
Exploring new friendships
Rainbow Fish
Writing about my friends
Circle time – being a good
friend
Week 3
Boundaries
Turn taking
Sharing
Anti-Bullying Week
Spot’s Birthday
Writing party invitations
Gift cards
Week 4
Adapting to a new
environment
Following rules
(Panto visit)
Circle time – growing older
Circle time – celebrations in
my home
Circle time – my birthday
Week 6
Assessment Week
Nativity Story
Letter to Santa
Christmas cards
Week 7
Confidence to perform in
Parents Assembly
Group games
Sense of community (part
of school, class)
Fancy Dress Christmas
Circle time – people who
are special to us
Phase 2: introduce new sound daily, letter formation and finding words with that sound, phonic game. Blending and segmenting games. Intervention group for late starters
Counting the animals
Sizing and mathematical
language using animals
Counting rhymes and songs
Shape
Counting 1-10 using candles
on cakes
Positional language with
birthday presents
Counting 1-10 presents
Shape – using birthday
presents
UW
Bonfire Night
Light and dark
Animals: their young,
their habitat
Remembrance Day
Under the sea
Autumn; changes in
seasons
Birthdays
Seasons/weather
Growing older
St Andrews Day
Birthdays
Days of the week
Using Talking Pegs to record
birthday messages for
Kipper
EAD
Making Bonfire collage
Colour differentiation
Using different medias for
a planned effect
Christmas song – learning
and performing
Making poppies
Role playing story with
props
Christmas song – learning
and performing
Making party hats
Role playing story with
props
Managing myself; helping
to put my coat on, etc
Gross motor skills
Hygiene; covering mouth
when sneezing, washing
hands after using the
toilet etc
Gross motor skills
Changes in my body (from
baby until now)
Fine motor: threading,
scissor skills,
Physical
Week 5
Being different (link to
different festivals/Jehovah
Witness’)
Talking about home
life/family
Kipper’s Birthday
Writing about a present for
Kipper
Identifying number using
numbered stars
Missing number
Patterns using coloured
stars
Pantomime
Class PC – games for chdn
Growing older
People that are different to
us (link to Jehovah Witness)
Counting real life objects
Matching number and
quantity
Shape
Christmas song – learning
and performing
Role playing story with props
Christmas song – learning
and performing
Christmas decorations
Christmas hats
Role playing story with props
Christmas song – learning
and performing
Christmas decorations
Role playing story with
props
Clay for Christmas
decoration
Pencil control
Fine motor: pouring, finger
painting,
Using my body in different
ways
Using equipment safely
Gross motor skills
Fine motor skills: tearing
and twisting paper making
Christmas decorations
Christmas
Nativity
Snow/ice/winter