Foundation Stage Plan
Autumn 2, 2015
L. Hadfield and R. Stewart
Understanding The World
Communication and Language, Reading and Writing
Key skills
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Listens to others one to one or in small groups
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Listens to stories with increasing attention
and recall
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Joins in with repeated refrains and
anticipates key events and phrases
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Maintains attention, concentrates and sits
quality during appropriate activity
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Understands use of objects
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Beginning to understand how and why
questions
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Able to follow a story without pictures or
props
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Listens and responds to ideas expressed by
others in conversation or discussion
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Questions why things happen and give
explanations
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Builds up vocabulary that reflects the breadth
of their experiences
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Uses language to imagine and recreate roles
and experiences in play situations
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Introduces a storyline or narrative into their
play
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Hears and says the initial sound in words
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Can segment the sound in simple words and
blend them together
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Enjoys an increasing range of books
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Knows that information can be retrieved from
books and computers
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Gives meanings to marks as they draw and
paint
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Writes own name and other things such as
labels and captions
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Attempts to write short sentences in
meaningful contexts
Activities – Bonfire Night
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Speaking and listening – sound discrimination
game – phonics play
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Listening and thinking of the different sounds
heard at bonfire night
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Sound cards – writing down forming
recognisable letters
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Listening to the story of Guy Fawkes
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Key skills
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Activities – The three little pigs
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What would you build your house out of
and why?
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Pie Corbett – retell and learn the story
and key story language of 3 little pigs
with actions.
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Innovation – change the events &
characters in the story.
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Rhyming words with pig, stick, pot, straw
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Sequencing the story using sentence
strips
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Activities- The ginger bread man
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Pie Corbett – retell and learn the story
and key story language of Gingerbread
with actions.
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Innovation – change the events &
characters in the story.
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Act out the story of Gingerbread man
with a range of props.
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Bakers shop – role play, writing recipes
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Learn and use language associated with
baker shop, baking, farm animals.
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Describe characters and events in the
story.
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Sequence the story of Gingerbread man;
explain how the events link to each
other.
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PHONICS – Phase 2/Phase 3 activities
linked to Gingerbread man (letter, CVC
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Knows that some of the things that
make them unique, and can talk
about some of the similarities and
differences in relation to family and
friends
Comments and asks questions about
aspects of their familiar world
Can talk about some of the things
they have observed such as plants,
animals, natural and found objects
Talks about why things happen and
how they work
Developing understanding of growth,
decay and changes over time
Shows care and concern for living
things and the environment
Looks
closely
at
similarities,
differences, patterns and change
Knows that information can be
retrieved from computers
Completes a simple program on a
computer
Uses ICT hardware to interact with
age-appropriate computer software
Activities
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Activities
– Bonfire Night
Who is Guy Fawkes?
Firework and bonfire safety
Creating a safety poster
Circle time – how to be safe on bonfire night
– The three little pigs
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Which material is best? Straw, sticks,
bricks?
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Will the wind blow it? Investigation
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Waterproof materials
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Floating and sinking investigation
Activities- The ginger bread man
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Make a gingerbread man, design, make, record
what they have made.
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Construction area - Make a house for the
gingerbread man to live.
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Various games on IWB.
Activities- Christmas/ nativity
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The Christmas Story
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Different religions
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How people celebrate Christmas differently
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Father Christmas
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Decorating a Christmas tree – in the outdoor
area and in the home corner
words hunt).
Design Gingerbread men, patterns,
colouring, cutting, drawing, tracing e.t.c.
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Hot seating.
Activities- Christmas/ nativity
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Reading the Christmas Story
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Sequencing the Christmas story
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Speaking and listening – Christmas production
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Making Christmas cards/writing them
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Christmas lists
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Wrapping presents and writing labels
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Number and Shape and Measures
Key skills
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Shows an interest in
number problems
Shows and interest in
numerals in the
environment
Estimates how many
objects they can see and
checks by counting them
Uses the language of
‘more’ and ‘fewer ‘ to
compare two sets of
numbers
Says the number that is
one more than a given
number
Records, using marks that
they can interpret and
explain
Shows awareness of
shapes in the environment
Beginning to talk about
the shapes of everyday
objects
Orders two or three items
by length and height
Orders and sequences
familiar events
Activities – bonfire Night
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Rockets using shapes
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Measuring how
long/tall/short a rocket is
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Placing made rockets in size
order
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Counting how many
bricks/blocks/paper squares
are used to make a rocket
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Recognising the different
shapes used to make rockets
Activities – The three little pigs
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1 more and 1 less using
bricks, twigs, pigs, wolves
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Recognising door numbers
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Building the tallest, shortest
house – what equipment is
longer, shorter.
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Activities- The ginger bread man
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Counting buttons on the
ginger bread man
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Count the buttons on the
gingerbread men (up to 10,
up to 20 for HA)
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Add a given number of
Traditional tales
Expressive arts and design
Key skills
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‘The 3 little pigs’
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‘The gingerbread man’
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Enjoys joining in
with dancing and
ring games
Beginning to move
rhythmically
Uses various
construction
materials
Joins construction
pieces together to
build and balance
Begins to build a
repertoire of songs
and dances
Manipulates
materials to achieve
a planned effect
Constructs with a
purpose in mind,
using a variety of
resources
Engages in
imaginative roleplay
Uses available
resources to create
props to support
role-play
Activities – Bonfire night –
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Straw blowing to create a
firework
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Black paper and chalks –
fireworks
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Sparklers
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Rockets
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Rocket using shapes and
names
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Pipe cleaners – creating a
firework
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Dancing
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Activities – The three little pigs
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Building and designing
the 3 different
houses
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Using a fan/hair dryer
which material is the
strongest?
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What materials are
water-proof
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Paper plate wolves and
pigs
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Pigs noses on string
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Making a straw, stick
and brick house
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Using a range of
materials to make
houses
buttons to the gingerbread
men. (Up to 10, then 15).
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Count the buttons on two
gingerbread men (adding)
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Add one more/one less
buttons onto the
gingerbread men.
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Add more animals into the
story how many now?
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Count the animals in the
story.
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Bakers shop – buy
gingerbread men, using
pretend money. Count money,
count out gingerbread men
to customers, add one
more/one less.
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Put different shaped
buttons on the gingerbread
men, naming the shapes.
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Find the different shape
buttons.(Circle, triangle,
square, rectangle star).
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Find numbers on gingerbread
men in sand tray.
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Match numbers to amounts
of objects (link to
gingerbread man theme).
Make gingerbread men, measuring.
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Repeating patterns using
buttons/animals from the
story.
Activities- Christmas/ nativity
And ‘Christmas story’
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Introduces a
storyline or
narrative into their
play
Plays cooperatively
as part of a group
to develop and act
out a narrative
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Activities- The ginger bread man
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Draw/paint the characters
from gingerbread man.
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Make a collage of the
gingerbread man story.
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Colour mixing activities in
painting area.
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To apply paint using different
techniques
Scissor control
Make a split pin
gingerbread man/ animal
from the story.
Activities- Christmas/ nativity
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Singing nativity songs
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Dancing to Christmas songs
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Creating Christmas cards
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Wrapping paper
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Christmas calendars
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Christmas angels
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Christmas reindeers
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Christmas doors
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Christmas ornaments
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Wreaths
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Pine cones as Christmas
trees
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Santa slime – red, glittery
slime
Physical Development
Key skills
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Draws lines and circles
using gross motor
movements
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Holds pencil between
thumb and two fingers
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Can copy some letters
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Runs skilfully and
negotiates space
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Can catch a large ball
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Uses simple tools to
effect changes to
materials
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Begins to form
recognisable letters
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Uses pencil and holds it
effectively to form
recognisable
letters, most of which
are correctly formed
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Eats a healthy
range of foods and
understands the
need for a variety
of foods
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Activities – Bonfire Night
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Creating ‘explosive’
dance moves
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Moving like a firework
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Building a fire/rockets
Activities – The three little pigs
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Moving in a range
of different ways
to get away from
the wolf
Activities- The ginger bread man
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Scissor skills –
cutting out
characters to
make stick puppets
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Running and
negotiating space
Activities- Christmas/ nativity
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Christmas music
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Creating a Christmas
band – carol singers
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Scissor skills – cutting
out
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Writing letters,
Christmas lists,
presents, thank you
cards etc
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Key skills
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Initiates conversation,
attends to and takes account
of what others say
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Enjoys responsibility of
carrying out small tasks
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Confident to speak to others
about own needs, wants,
interests and opinions
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Shows confidence in asking
adults for help
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Aware of the boundaries
set, and of behavioural
expectations in the setting
Activity – bonfire night
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What animals may be scared
of the loud bangs on bonfire
night? How can we care for
these animals?
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How to keep safe on bonfire
night
Activities – The three little pigs
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Should we trust the
wolf – why?
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Why would we not talk
to strangers?
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How can we keep safe?
Activities- The gingerbread man
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Should you trust a stranger?
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Story from Fox’s point of
view. Importance of listening
to both side of the story.
Activities- Christmas/ nativity
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Being thankful and saying
thank you – why we write
thank you cards
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Why we celebrate Christmas
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How does Christmas make
you feel?
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What would make your
family happy at Christmas?
Other/ Challenge/’WOW’
Activities
Bonfire Night – explosive rockets outside – using fizzy coke and
bicarbonate of soda
3 little pigs: experiment on which material is the best – using a fan/ hair
dryer to be the wolves ‘Puff’
The Gingerbread Man - Gingerbread man escapes from the classroom
Christmas – Father Christmas pays a visit!