Starting Point- Birthdays Key Text- Kipper s Birthday Conclusion- Class toy s Birthday Party Personal Social and Emotional Development.

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1 Foundation Stage Topic Plan- Birthdays Autumn 1 Starting Point- Birthdays Key Text- Kipper s Birthday Conclusion- Class toy s Birthday Party Discuss how we celebrate birthdays. Play party games together taking turns. Work together to decorate/ organise a birthday party for Pip and Pop Role Play- Home Who are my friends? Hot seat Kipper and ask/answer questions. When is your birthday and how do you celebrate it? Look at baby photos and pictures of their birthdays how have they changed. Talk about favourite foods toys etc. Share things they are good at. Make party decorations Make party food. Wrap presents Play Dough biscuits What can my body do Label body parts What are the senses? Write party invites and birthday cards Write lists of party games/food Follow instructions to make party food How I am the same how am I different from others? Look at and compare how different people celebrate birthdays including the church Online shop for birthday party food. Talk about Jesus s birthday. What makes a family look at family tree? Look at parents photos and compare. Sequence stages of growing up. Make birthday cards Count the candles on a cake How old will I be on my next Birthday? Make birthday cakes Make a birthday calendar and talk about the different months. Make wrapping paper- repeating patterns Paint ourselves Drawings/paintings birthday cakes Make up birthday songs using nursery rhymes Make decorations

2 Foundation Stage Topic Plan- Polar Regions Autumn 2 Starting Point- Finding a lost penguin in the classroom. Key Texts- Lost and Found Conclusion- Drama Day : Expedition to the Antarctic Discuss our own experience of snow. Play penguin hide and seek. Discuss how the penguin feels. Talk about feeling lonely. Explore the rights and wrongs of keeping the penguin verses returning him to the wild. Use grouping words. Use puppets to re-enact stories. Role play returning the penguin to the wild. What might to say the penguin? Recount the events of our journey to the Antarctic. Read and share Christmas jokes Lost and found pencil mazes. Move like polar animals. Playdough- make polar animals. Constructing large boats.? Sewing making snowflakes/ penguins. Write a letter to the zoo to find out about caring for penguins. Read non-fiction books about penguins and polar regions. Read and retell the story of lost and found. Write lost posters. Write a recount of our journey to the south pole. Where do penguins come from? What do penguins eat? Explore the different features of penguins. Compare different penguins. Explore and find out about polar regions. Look at maps of the world. Compare the north and south pole. Explore the nativity. Visit Polesworth Abbey. Order penguins by size. Measure lengths. Read Inuit counting book and count polar animals. Make repeating and symmetrical pattern. Polar themed addition and subtraction problems. Paintings and drawings of Penguins Make a carry case / boats to return the penguin to the wild. Create polar animals using a variety of materials. Make snowflakes. Make moving penguins Make polar habitat models.

3 Foundation Stage Topic Plan- Space Spring 1 Starting Point- The mystery of the missing pants. Key Texts- Pants and Aliens love under Pants Conclusion- Pants Party Day Discuss what has happened to our pants. Who has stolen them and how do we feel about that? How could we stop the aliens stealing our pants? Will they be hurt or feel sad? What would it be like to live on the ISS. What would you miss from home? Discuss what might have happened to the pants. Discuss the events on the star gazing live programmes. Look for clues and explain what you have found and who you think has stolen the pants. Wash clothing and peg it out. Cut stars and planets out. Drive space buggies- large wheeled toys. Space walks ( welly walk) Make creators and planets using play dough. Write a pants poem. Read and learn the story Aliens love underpants. Write missing posters. Space facts sheet. Where do Aliens live? Search for aliens in the playground and record your findings on a map. What is space like? Find out about the different planets. Explore stars and our own star. What is an alien? What would it be like to live in space? What do astronauts do? Who landed on the moon and what was the moon like? Role play- laundry and ISS Create aliens and rockets using purple Mash. Compare and match pants. Create and describe patterns. Solve missing pants problems involving addition and subtraction. Describe 3d shapes and make telescopes. Make rockets using 3d shapes. Learn to count backwards from 20. Paint fancy/ superhero pants. Make stars. Make junk model rockets and aliens. Space paintings and pictures.

4 Foundation Stage Topic Plan- Dinosaurs Spring 2 Starting Point-Dinosaurs that come to life at night and cause mischief. Key Texts- The Somethingosaur Read the Somethingosaur discuss how the little dinosaur feels. Discuss why are mothers are important to use. What if there is not enough food for year 6 at dinner because the dinosaurs ate some of the lunches? Look after and care for our dinosaur eggs. What does extinct mean? What animals are at risk of becoming extinct today? How does that make us feel Discuss the daily mischief of the dinosaurs. What will different people in our school say about it. Describe different dinosaurs. describe how to make a chocolate nest. Show parents around our dinosaur museum. Move like different dinosaurs. Go on a dinosaur hunt. Make dinosaur food. Play dough dinosaur eggs Read and re enact the Somethingosur. Label dinosaur body parts. Write sentences using and or but Create a class dinosaur diary. Dinosaur reading den. Write a book review. Name and describe some dinosaurs. What do dinosaurs eat. What habitats did the dinosaurs live in? How do we know about dinosaurs? Explore how dinosaurs produced young. Dinosaur life cycles. Why do dinosaurs not live today? How do we know about dinosaurs? Compare sort and count dinosaurs. Estimate how many dinosaurs Harry has in his bucket. Compare and estimate the size of dinosaur footprints. Solve addition and subtraction problems involving dinosaurs. Make a dinosaur and make up a dinosaur name using their own name. Make up a dinosaur sound picture and record as a graphic score. Make dinosaur food. Make a dinosaur habitat model. Make volcanoes Create chocolate dinosaur nests and eggs. make dinosaur skeletons and fossils Sing dinosaur songs.

5 Foundation Stage Topic Plan- Mini Beasts Summer 1 Starting Point-Mrs Leszczyk s Garden Drama Key Texts- Diary of a worm, Diary of a Spider and Diary of a Fly. Conclusion- Trip to Conkers What would it be like to ride on a mini beast and how would you feel? How will we escape from the giant spider? What do you do when you feel scared? How can we help the caterpillar? What is the right thing to do?.mrs Leszczyk s Garden Drama What would be the best thing about being a spider worm etc. Hot seat Mrs Leszczyk and other mini beasts. Gardening Move like mini beasts Label plants and animals. Read fiction and non fiction books about mini beasts. List mini beasts found on a mini beast hunt. Recount the events of the shrinking machine. What mini beasts live in the garden? What jobs need doing in the garden? What plants grow in the school grounds? Investigate making a pond what materials make a good pond liner? Why do spiders build webs? How do worms help plants grow? Investigate the life cycle of a butterfly. How do animals and plants change over time? Make a map of the garden. Grow seeds and describe the changes. Use 2d shapes to create a garden path / patio for Mrs Leszczyk s garden. compare and order plants and mini beasts by size. Describe the position of objects and mini beasts in the garden. Double and halve objects. Make ladybird doubles. Create a soundscape for the shrinking machine. Make / paint and draw mini beasts. Paint a portrait of Mrs Leszczyk.

6 Foundation Stage Topic Plan- Pirates Summer 2 Starting Point-discovery of a treasure chest. Key Texts- Peter Pan and The Pirate s next door. Conclusion- Pirate Day Discuss the rights and wrongs of piracy. Were all pirates bad? Play port and starboard. What if we could fly? What should we do with our treasure?.what could be in the treasure box. Hot seating pirates Sail in Pirate ships. Walk the plank Pirate dances. Shot cannon balls at a pirate ship. Write with a quill Dress up as a pirate. digging in the sand for coins. Write a wanted poster. Write pirate names. Read fiction and non- fiction books about pirates. What is a pirate? Compare pirate flags. Look at Maps. What is a pirate ship like? Use metal detectors to find treasure..count pirate treasure Weigh pirate treasure Tell the time. Use positional language to describe a route to buried treasure. Total groups of coins. Coin rubbings Make pirate flags Paint pirate ships. Make telescopes. Make a buried treasure map.