Year R overview 2015 – 2016
We follow the objectives from all 17 areas of the EYFSP, however the topic may change dependant on our children’s interests.
Autumn 1
I can do…
Personal, Social and
Emotional Development
- Making Relationships
- Self-confidence and selfawareness
- Managing feelings and
behaviour
Physical Development
- Moving and handling
- Health and self-care
Communication and
Language
- Listening and attention
- Understanding
- Speaking
Literacy
- Reading
- Writing
Mathematics
- Numbers
- Shape, Space and
Measures
Understanding and World
- People and Communities
- The World
- Technology
Autumn 2
Pirates and The Ocean
Spring 1
Traditional Tales
Establish school routines
Friendships
School routines
Respecting each other and environment
Aware of own feelings and others
Accept needs of others, takes turn
Negotiate and solve problems
(Rainbow Fish/Smiley Shark)
Good and Bad characteristics – Make the Knight
‘Reading’ emotions/feelings
BEAM programme
Playground Games and Rhymes
Battleships
Pirate Ship game
Using small tools with control i.e. scissors, pencils
See Communication and Language half termly overview for objectives
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Marvellous Me!
Red Rocket – I Like
Library Books to be sent home
Poetry – Commotion in the Ocean
Hook/Peter Pan
Pirate Pete
Captain Sparrow – letter in a bottle
Pirates have underpants
Traditional Tales
Charlie Cooks Favourite Book – produce class park
following this pattern
Mixed up fairy tales
Trap the wolf/troll
Billy Goats Gruff
See Mathematics half termly overview for objectives
Our body (body parts)
Keeping healthy and Road Safety
Me and my friends – similarities and differences
Sensory Experiences – music, feely feet, dark dens, gloop
and spaghetti
English Ocean
Portsmouth heritage – King Henry VIII at Southsea Castle
Floating and Sinking challenge: make treasure that will sink
Treasure Maps
Treasure maps – following and making directions
Navigate around a website (national geographic)
Find out what life would be like for a pirate (fictional)
Journeys within stories i.e. Gingerbread Man
Look closely at similarities, differences, pattern and change
– make the perfect Gingerbread Man (Gingerbread week)
BBC website – traditional stories
Use colour program on computer to create desired effects
RE: Special objects
Double click/typing name
RE: Belonging/Christmas Story
Expressive Arts and Design
- Exploring and using
media and materials
- Being imaginative
Visits out
Visitors In
Social links
RE: Special Objects
Exploration of…
Mark Making, printing, painting, drawing
Singing traditional rhyming songs and nursery rhymes
Exploration of media – create sea scene/porthole
Junk Modelling Ship
Local walk to the butchers shop
Walk to local church – harvest festival
Walk to the park/around our local area
Linked to PSED – friendships, establishing routines
Nativity performance – invite other nurseries and members
Explore range of media to create a traditional character –
model magic, salt dough, collage
Role play together using characters and retelling traditional
Moral links
Spiritual links
Cultural links
Participating in harvest festival – community links
Talking together about class agreements, playground rules,
assembly rules and class routines
Being part of whole school and class worship daily
Linked to RE – thinking about special objects
Families, routines at home, likes and dislikes
of our local community.
Is it right that the pirate steels money from others?
Being part of whole school and class worship daily
Reading the Nativity story
Performance of the Nativity story as a year group
Christmas in other cultures
tales
Asking key questions about the characters whilst reading
the stories such as: “Should Jack take the hen?”
Being part of whole school and class worship daily
Reading traditional tales from other countries
Spring 2
Farm – new Life
Personal, Social and
Emotional Development
- Making Relationships
- Self-confidence and selfawareness
- Managing feelings and
behaviour
Physical Development
- Moving and handling
- Health and self-care
Communication and
Language
- Listening and attention
- Understanding
- Speaking
Literacy
- Reading
- Writing
Mathematics
- Numbers
- Shape, Space and
Measures
Understanding and World
- People and Communities
- The World
- Technology
Summer 1
The Environment/Recycling
Summer 2
Minibeasts
Looking after and respecting living things
Exploring different emotions
Friendships – working collaboratively i.e. board games,
parachute
Safe strangers
How to be a friend
Changes – transition to Year 1
Celebrations
New beginnings
To explore how body effects our bodies.
Moving safely (including with apparatus)
Continuation of playground games and rhymes
Write Dance
Healthy life style
See Communication and Language half termly overview for objectives
Non-Fiction – writing questions/recount
Dora’s Eggs
Who’s in the shed?
Whatever Next
People who help us in our community
Instructions
Poetry
Factual writing – recalling interesting facts
Bugs life – ant duties!
See Mathematics half termly overview for objectives
Maps and keys – make our own farm
Talk about things they observe and talk about why things
occur
Understanding changes over time
Compare old and new
Record farm noises with Dictaphones, record events with
camera
Our local environment – visit shops, Drayton park, church
Staying safe in our environment
Different breads from around the world
Construct representation of journey to the butchers – use
of remote control toys to re-enact journey
Habitats – compare environments and talk about how
their different – build a habitat and monitor
BeeBots – journey of day and life of a minibeast, pressing
parts to achieve effects
Observing minibeasts i.e. antquarim, caterpillars
Whole class – using search engine to find out information
Show care and concern for living things
RE: Special Books
Expressive Arts and Design
- Exploring and using
media and materials
- Being imaginative
Visits out
Visitors In
Social
Moral
Spiritual
RE: Easter/New Life
Explore media – how different media can be combined to
create different effects
Observational drawings
Making rockets to launch at Drayton Park
Firework pictures – splatter, marble, circle/rotating, junk
modelling, colour magic
Longdown Dairy Farm
Visiting places in our local area
Asking questions to the farmer at Longdown Dairy Farm
Listening to each other and to instructions from the farmer
on our visit
Discussing the ways we should treat the farm, the animals
and the farmers before we go to the farm.
Working collaboratively together in different activities
Safe strangers in our local community
Visiting our local community
How do we show other children’s special objects respect?
Giving compliments to each other
Being part of whole school and class worship daily
Reading the Easter story
Being part of whole school and class worship daily
Bringing in their own special books and thinking about
RE: Storytelling
Children to make their own minibeast by selecting a
method
Mini-beast hunt in Drayton Park
Mini-beast Man – Grange Reptiles
Working together in teams to find mini-beats – letting
everyone take a turn, sharing ideas and working together.
How do we show the mini-beasts respect?
Discussing ways to care for mini-beasts in our school
community.
Being part of whole school and class worship daily
Reading stories from the bible.
Cultural
Looking for different types of new life
what is the special book for other religions.
Researching and learning about farms in other countries.
Looking around our local community and the local
communities in other places – how are they similar, how
are they different?
Learning about the importance of books from other
religions
Similarities and differences between mini-beasts in other
countries and those we find here.