Nursery long term map - Leadgate Primary School

1 EYFS long Term Planning: Nursery Characteristics of effective learning Playing and exploring Active learning Creating and thinking critically Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 Themes Learning & Development Marvellous me Celebrations Story time All creatures great and small Bears Here, there and everywhere Making relationships Self-confidence and self-awareness Personal, Social and Emotional Development Managing feelings and behaviour 'New beginnings' - social skills - learning each other's names, making friends 'Getting on and falling out' / 'Say no to bullying' - games with our names, to change places & to cooperate.

2 Feelings photos 'Going for goals' - motivation, learning new things, keeping going 'Good to be me' - feeling excited, calming down 'Relationships' - feelings: happy, sad, angry - Goldilocks, pass the teddy game, who has hidden the honey? 'Changes' - what we can do now, what Moving and handling Unique Child Physical Development Health & self-care Moving safely, in a space, in different ways, balancing, using climbing equipment, wheeled toys, changing speed & direction. Rolling, throwing, catching, kicking. Developing fine motor skills - pencil & scissor grip and control, manipulating objects, tools, construction, malleable materials.

3 Developing independence with toileting, hand washing, dressing. Recognising danger and developing awareness of safety. Listening & attention Understanding PRIME AREAS Communication and Language Speaking Sitting quietly. Listening and responding to sounds, own name, rhymes, stories, conversations. Anticipating words, phrases, events. Answering simple questions (who, what, where). Understanding humour. Recalling stories. Following directions. Using language to make friends, to share ideas and experiences, to give explanations, to ask questions, to pretend and imagine. Developing vocabulary, use of sentences, tenses. Reading Literacy Writing Phonics Letters and Sounds Phase 1: Sound discrimination ' environmental, body, voice & instrumental sounds, rhythm & rhyme, alliteration, oral blending & segmenting / Phase 2: letters.

4 Reading and writing own name. Turning pages in books, looking at illustrations & print in books & the environment. Texts include: Nursery rhymes, stories, traditional stories, fairy stories and non-fiction. Positive Relationships Numbers Maths Shape, space and measure Reciting number names, number rhymes & songs, sorting, matching, counting, comparing quantities, representing numbers using fingers or marks on paper or pictures, reading & writing numbers, adding and taking away. Positions, patterns, shapes, size, comparing and ordering, time-based events, using vocabulary. is a statutory subject in all year groups except Nursery - our curriculum is based on Durham Agreed Syllabus 2012 for EYFS Harvest - autumn Festivals - Hindu Divali, Christmas Love - Christian weddings, Jesus at a wedding - miracles Festival - Easter Hindu festival Raksha Bandhan - celebrate brothers & sisters Changes, birth of a baby - Christians celebrate baptism People and communities Halloween Bonfire Night Valentines' Day Chinese New Year Mothers' Day Pancake Day Families, birthdays Holidays People who help us Seasons / weather The world Ourselves - parts of the body Our School Lights.

5 Colour Materials - clothes Animal babies, growing Farm visit The woods - plants, taking care Picnic food, porridge Changing materials Pushing & pulling Travel & transport Seaside visit Understanding the World Technology Computer science: remote control toys, BeeBot / Digital Literacy: favourite websites CBeebies, real people & people in stories, keeping safe online with an adult, Hector's safety button / Communication: own name, messages, to Santa / Digital imagery: computer paint programs, photos & videos with iPads & cameras / Sound: Easispeak microphones to record own voices / Modelling - complete pictures Exploring and using media and materials Enabling Environments Display children s names Celebrate birthdays 'Learning Journeys' Children s ideas, activities, interests Key Groups Indoor and outdoor resource enhancements Plan-do-review Support and scaffold children s learning SPECIFIC AREAS Expressive arts and design Being imaginative Natural materials - autumn leaves, sticks Making marks Hand & finger prints Paper plate faces Role play home Autumn action songs & Nursery rhymes - puppets Paint colours.

6 Collage materials - bonfires, fireworks - Andy Goldsworthy Making Divali lamps Van Gogh 'Starry night' Christmas cards Nativity role play Christmas songs Character paintings, choosing collage materials Model-making Role play castle - dressing up, acting out fairy stories Fairy tale character puppets Animal pictures Joining things Easter cards Role play Animal puppets Spring and animal songs Music, Saint Saens 'Carnival of the animals' Fast & slow sounds Natural materials - flowers Observational drawings Shape & Space - sizes Role play bears' cave or cottage Bear songs High & low sounds Natural materials - shells & pebbles Wheels - Making tracks, prints Different construction Role play seaside, travelling, vehicles