Subject

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Focus

Marvellous Me

Let’s Celebrate

Help!

Once Upon a Time

Come Outside

Where in the world?

Key Texts

• You choose

• Harry and the dinosaurs go to school

• Guess how much I love you?

Significant figure: My Family

• Kipper’s birthday

• Lots of lights

• A very messy Christmas

• Teachers

• Police officer

• Dazzling diggers

Significant figure: Police officer

• Three Billy Goats Gruff

• The Gingerbread Man

• Three little pigs

• We’re going on a bear hunt

• The Gruffalo

• Thank you for looking after our pets

• Lost and found

• The train ride

• We all go travelling by

Significant figure: Reception Class Teacher

Literacy

• Enjoy songs, rhymes and books.

• Draws freely.

• Understand that print has meaning.

• Understand that print can have different purposes.

• Clap syllables in a word.

• Develop phonological awareness.

• Engage in extended conversations about stories.

• Learning new vocabulary.

• Use some of their print and letter knowledge in their early writing.

• Write some of their name.

• Write some letters accurately.

• Write all of their name.

Mathematics

• Can complete a simple insert jigsaw.

• Says some numerals.

• Make comparisons between objects relating to size, length, weight and capacity.

• Select shapes appropriately.

• Combine shapes to make new ones.

• Extend and create ABAB patterns – stick, leaf, stick, leaf.

• Notice and correct an error in a repeating pattern.

• Begin to describe a sequence of events, using words such as ‘first’, ‘then.’

• Say one number for each item in order: 1,2,3,4,5.

Show ‘finger numbers’ up to 5.

• Compare quantities using language: ‘more than’, ‘fewer than’.

• Experiment with their own symbols and marks as well as numerals

Personal, Social, Emotional Development

• Start to enjoy the company of other children and want to play with them.

• Sometimes manage to share and take turns with other children.

• Remember rules without needing an adult to remind them.

• Talk about their feelings using words like ‘happy’, ‘sad’, ‘angry’ or ‘worried’.

• Become more outgoing with unfamiliar people, in the safe context of their setting.

• Show more confidence in new social situations.

• Understand gradually how others might be feeling.

• Develop appropriate ways of being assertive.

• Take part in pretend play (for example, being ‘mummy’ or ‘daddy’?)

• Play alongside others and negotiate solutions to conflict during play.

• Be increasingly independent in meeting their own care needs, e.g. brushing teeth, using the toilet, washing and drying their hands thoroughly.

• Make healthy choices about food, drink, activity and toothbrushing.

Communication and Language

• Understand action words by pointing to the right picture in a book.

• Shift from one task to another

• Enjoy listening to longer stories and can remember much of what happens.  

• Pay attention to more than one thing at a time.

• Use a wider range of vocabulary.

• Understand a question or instruction that has two parts, such as: “Get your coat and wait at the door”. 

• Know many rhymes, be able to talk about familiar books

• Start a conversation with an adult or a friend and continue it for many turns.

• Be able to express a point of view.

• Use talk to organise themselves and their play:

• Use the future and past tense.

• Develop their pronunciation.

• Use sentences of four to six words

Physical Development

• Climb confidently, catch a large ball and pedal a tricycle.

• Start taking part in some group activities

• Use large-muscle movements to wave flags and streamers, paint and make marks.

• Choose the right resources to carry out their own plan.

• Decide whether to crawl, walk or run across a plank, depending on its length and width. 

• Match their developing physical skills to tasks and activities in the setting

• Go up steps and stairs, or climb up apparatus, using alternate feet.  

• Continue to develop their movement, balancing, riding and ball skills.  

• Use one-handed tools and equipment.

• Show a preference for a dominant hand.

• Be increasingly independent as they get dressed and undressed,

• Skip, hop, stand on one leg and hold a pose for a game like musical statues.  

Understanding the World

• Talk about their family and people who are important to them. 

• Interested in finding out how things work. 

• Show interest in different occupations.  

• Explore how things work.

• Plant seeds and care for growing plants

• Begin to understand the need to respect and care for the natural environment and all living things.  

• Talk about what they see, using a wide vocabulary.  

• Talk about the differences between materials

• Explore collections of materials with similar and/or different properties.

• Continue developing positive attitudes about the differences between people.

• Know that there are different countries in the world and talk about the differences.

• Explore and talk about different forces they can feel.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Enjoy moving to music. 

• Enjoy taking part in pretend play. 

• Remember and sing entire songs

• Play instruments with increasing control.

• Create their own songs

• Draw with increasing complexity.

• Use drawing to represent ideas like movement or loud noises.

• Make imaginative and complex ‘small worlds’ with blocks and construction materials.

• Begin to develop complex stories using small world equipment.

• Take part in simple pretend play, using an object to represent something else.

• Join different materials and explore different textures. 

• Explore colour and colour-mixing.

Trips / visits

Postman visit

Police Officer Visit

The Big Toddle