Prime Area: Communication and Language (CL)
Prime Area: Personal, Social and
Emotional development (PSED)Feelings
Friendship rocks- link to art. Special words.
People who help us
Road safety and personal safety- tools and tinker table based.
Sun safety
Make own hand washing posters.
Dolls house in small world role play with furniture.
Fathers’ Day activity
Transition time Yr R- Y1 and N to Rec- BOBBI and CHARLIEwith Mrs Jahid- once weekly from Summer 2.
Transition visits to new Rec chn’s nurseries and preschools.
New Rec chn visit school
Parent;s Eve Mon 6th July
Specific Area: Expressive Arts and
Design (EAD)
Washing and painting rocks for an area of the garden.
Drawing what’s inside the fruits and veg- observational drawing.
Wax resist- secret messages., salt dough, collage- sewing projects,
rag rug collaborativeTeaching sketching.
Model a make and leave out resources for children to access.
Group music session- repeated rhythms.
More teaching of painting- more opportunities.
Painting pebbles- link to PSED.
Constructing homes- construction and junk modelling.
CARDBOARD CITY- outside.
Summer Term- 5 weeks and 7 weeks
What’s Inside? (mini themes of summer,
people who help, farms)
Simple orienteering course in school grounds.
Welly walks around school grounds.
Trip to Alex Park
Continue snack chat- focus on children asking questions. Model good
speaking- clearly, looking at listener- including talking about healthy
eating. Try new things Fridays.
Skipping/French skipping- PE- dance focus.
SPORTS DAY End July- to be decided.
Specific Area: Understanding the World (UW)
Make own musical instruments and have instruments in
class.
Free choice creative area – make more inviting- Artists focus- a
few artists, craftspeople, designers- link to ICT.
RWI letters in environment outside.
Sp and Listening games
Praising use of sentences, what does a good speaker look like?eye contact- clear speaking. Commenting on how children have
said things. Encouraging children to ask questions- discrete
teaching of questioning.
Prime Area: Physical Development (PD)
ICT- music making programmes, Bee bots and maps, develop ICT in the setting- Rec to send a short email- model
this- to Mrs Band, use sound recording devices- replace batteries in the talking tins.
Materials- testing the strongest- wood, metal, plastic
Tinkering table- THINGS COME APART- using tools- what’s inside?
Stockley Farm visit- farms- where animals live- what’s inside?
Floating and sinking
People who help us- mini theme—PCSO visit 29th April. Pam from church- prayer workshop.
Where people live in other countries- why they live there?
Unusual places to live e.g house boats- Rosie and Jim.
Den building outside.
Looking inside vegetables- peppers, cucumbers etc. Fruits- coconuts, oranges etc.- cutting in half- chn to do this.
Cutting a flower- what are the parts of a flower?
What’s inside a fish- fresh makerel? A tree? OUR BODIES.
Pebble and rock project- looking carefully at rocks- sorting and classifying rocks. Scratch them with sandpaper- what
happens?
Cooking- stuffed peppers/ pizza
Bop it game/toy and others.
Specific Area: Literacy
RWI walking thesaurus idea.
Books- This is Our House; Sharing a Shell; books about farms, Click Clack Moo- Cows That Type; A Squash and A Squeeze; The Scarecrow’s
Wedding; A New House For Mouse; Toby’s Doll’s House, Harry’s Home, What The Ladybird Heard3 Little Pigs- different versions, Peace at Last,
Firefighter (people who help us), Police Officer (people who help us), Doctor (people who help us)
Talk 4 writing
Making booklets- writing email and letters- go to post box and post letters on our house walk.
Writing super sentences.
Book- THINGS COME APART- A Teardown manual for modern living. Non Fiction books about materials, Floating and Sinking. Books about
unusual places to live- make a display in construction area.
Specific Area:
Mathematics (M)
Direction
Time and order and sequencing school
day.
Simple coordinates/position
Make a simple chart/graph
Weighing- weighing rocks and
balancing them.
Make outdoor scales.
Capacity
Shape walk- take pictures of the
houses and pick out shapes of
features.