Nursery Medium Term Plan
Autumn2 2014
Theme: Animation and Films (and Christmas!)
PSED
C & L
LO’s Learning to make friends and forming
some meaningful friendships.
Learning to listen and care for others
Understanding my feelings and those of
others.
Learning to demonstrate friendly
behaviour.
Confident to communicate with others
and in front of others, and is new
situations (Christmas Performance!).
PA’s  Shrek – What do I look like? What
do you look like?
 Frozen – Learning about love and
friendship.
 Toy Story –Friendship theme. What
are our favourite toys? Talking about
our feelings.
L
Learning to look after
LO’s books and look at them
independently
LO’s
PD
LO’s
Learning to listen and respond.
Learning to speak in longer sentences
Learning to listen and retell stories.
Understanding more complex sentences.
Learning new vocabulary and using it.
Learning to respond to questions such
as why, how.
LO’s
Learning to move confidently
Learning to dress and undress ourselves
independently
Learning to hold a pencil and use it to make
meaningful marks
Learning to handle tools and equipment.
Learning to understand the importance of
healthy food.
PA’s
 Retelling stories – taking in
sentences and recalling. Creating
our own story maps.
 Learning new accents! American
accent.
 Learning and using story language.
 Designing monsters – describing
them using new and known language.
 Designing and making a ‘toy story’
house – using describing words to
design.
PA’s
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Learning come 2D shape names
and their properties.
Learning to count out, count
LO’s
Lego Movie – Robot dancing
Monsters Inc - Moving like monsters.
Toy Story – dancing like the different
toys.
 Gingerbread Christmas trees
 Monsters Inc – Monster cupcakes.
 Toy Story – Making a real Mr or Mrs
Potato head!
 Frozen – Making marshmallows
 Designing and making monsters using a
variety of tools (clay monsters, paper
mache etc…)
 Monsters Inc – folded paper balloon
‘Mike’s’.
UTW
EAD
Recalling past events and
LO’s Learning new songs
talking about them
Learning new dances
Learning to use ICT and
Learning to use colours for a
Nursery Medium Term Plan
Autumn2 2014
PA’s
Learning to listen and
respond to a story.
Learning to retell
stories and create
pictures to represent
them / story maps.
Learning some HFW’s
(e.g. the, it, is, on).
 Lego Movie – Robot
phonics (Lego
phonics!)
 Shrek – Looking at
Fairy tales,
characters.
 Stop Motion films retelling stories.
 Illustrations
 Similes – snow looks
like marshmallows
etc…)
 Lego Movie –
Character
descriptions.
 Make our own movie
/ show!
 Stories within
stories (e.g. Shrek:
gingerbread man,
puss in boots).
aloud, count 1:1 to, and past 10.
Learning to sort and match.
PA’s
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Toy story – counting soldiers PA’s
/ aliens etc…
Frozen etc…picture puzzles
with numerals to order to
make the picture.
Monsters Inc – designing
monsters – how many eyes /
legs etc…
Using shapes to design our
monsters. How can we fit
the shapes together? What
are the shape names? 2D
and 3D shape names and
properties.
Big / small toys / monsters,
Ordering by size.
Matching and sorting
monsters – same / different.
Shapes- make a snowman.
Estimation – how many aliens
in the jar? Estimate then
count.
simple equipment.
Learning why things happen
and how things work.
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Toy Story - Looking at
moving and working toys.
How do they work?
Frozen – looking at
winter; melting, freezing
Creature Comforts – stop
motion film with the
children?
Shrek – Learning about
the animals
Small world play –
dinosaurs (Rex, Toy
Story)
Toy Story – Buzz
Lightyear, space
activities.
Lego Movie - Building
using Lego. What can we
make?
Small world winter scene
(using coconut?)
purpose
Learning to play
imaginatively.
Learning to build and
construct for a purpose.
PA’s
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Toy story – crafting Mr
Potato heads
Dressing up as dinosaurs
and characters from Toy
Story– role play.
Making a BIG paper
mache dinosaur
Monsters Inc – designing
and making monsters
Frozen – Learning new
songs, dancing, role play
princesses, make a
castle.
Toy Story – Making
rocket wings.
Week
Nursery Medium Term Plan
Autumn2 2014
Theme / Book
Week
Toy Story
1
5
Lego Movie
2
Christmas
6
Monsters Inc
3
Chrsitmas
7
Shrek
4
Topic / Book
Frozen