Personal. Social and Emotional Development
(Prime Area)
This term, children will engage in a number of activities encouraging sharing and compromise. They will
discuss and share their own ideas about robots and will offer their own opinions. Children will also be
encouraged to reflect on how their actions might make other children feel and how they feel in different
situations.
Communication and Language
(Prime Area)
Children will develop their vocabulary in relation to our topic by
participating in different role play situations. They will begin to engage in
activities for a longer period of time and will ask questions about things
that puzzle and interest them. They will be able to listen attentively in a
number of different situations in school and will be able to talk about what
they have heard.
Literacy
(Specific Area)
Children will continue to engage in a range of stories with a specific link to robots. They will also use
Toy story 3 to explore different plots and predict what might happen next. They will continue to use the
narratives they explore to engage them in role play activities and will use this to create their own role
play corner. This term, children will continue to engage in daily phonics sessions and will be encouraged
to use their sounds when writing. They will begin to write their own labels, captions and sentences to
accompany their work.
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Physical Development
(Prime Area)
This term, in gymnastics, children will practice and refine balances using different areas of their
bodies. They will learn to put several balances together to form a short sequence and will begin to
incorporate a piece of apparatus into their balance. Children will also experiment moving in different
ways to including using different equipment to jump from and land safely. Children will also learn to
manage their own risks and identify whether something is safe or unsafe.
Mathematics
(Specific Area)
This term, children will continue to explore addition and subtraction beginning by combining
different amounts to find a total. They will begin to record their work using their own marks and
will be able to discuss what their marks show. Children will also begin to explore measure by
looking at and comparing different lengths and using non standard units to measure different
robots with. They will be able to explain and prove which robot is the tallest and shortest.
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Expressive Arts and Design
(Specific Area)
Children will learn to add their gymnastics movements to music and will experiment moving rhythmically in time to the music. They will also experiment with
different ways of moving to show a mood or feeling in response to a piece of music. This term, children will learn a number of different songs about robots and
will experiment with different instruments and rhythms when performing. Children will also enjoy constructing their own robots using a variety of different
resources.
Understanding the world
(Specific Area)
This term, children will experiment with using different computer programs to make programmable toys move.
They will experiment with using bee bots and will programme them to travel around a course. This will help them
understand how robots work without the assistance of an operator. Children will also look at different robotics
toys and compare them to toys from the past.
Early years is very much child led…over the term the
prime and specific areas of learning will be covered
and linked to active, engaging and explorative play.
However the exact direction we take will, to an extent,
be dictated by the children’s interests, linked to our
key questions and matched against their own unique
learning journey.