Yearly Curriculum Overview 2017-2018 1 Bears 2 weeks Pirates Mermaids 2 weeks Pets 2 weeks Wow activity Main Text Literature Teddy Bear s picnic Bare foot walk linked to Going on a Bear Hunt Welcome party for Rainbow Sunshine Bear Post invitation Pirates theft! Pirate dress up day Bake biscuit bears. Pip the dog is lost! Pets visit school On Sudden Hill (friends boxes) Going on a Bear Hunt A Great Big - Cuddle Michael Rosen Augustus his Smile Catherine Rayner Anna Hibiscus Song Biscuit Bear Mini Grey A Brave Bear Sean Taylor Billy s Bucket Kes Gray Invite to bears Letter to pirates Pip poster Draw label family Welcome cards for R/S Bears Labels for presents Talk about family to class Talking table observations Birthdays Use your imagination to say what your stick is Baseline counting recognising Art Pirate ship roleplay Selfportraits paint Draw family treasure maps Collage bears Colour mixing autumn colours Printing with vegetables Understing Talk about their own lives families Discuss what we enjoy know that everyone s October walk Observe trees Act out going on a bear hunt - trays of textures for a bare foot walk Learn how to look after living things PSED R.E New Beginnings Getting to know each other R.E Baptism Development Big movements - getting ready for letter formation (anticlockwise) Making marks using finger in s / paint etc. Name writing Using etc. (Finger gym) fingers / hs Equipment to develop gross motor stilts, space hoppers, balance beams, Trim trail
Pirates Love Underpants Knuffle Bunny Mo Willems Oh No George Chris Haughton (DOGS) Owl Babies Stanley s Stick (natural objects imagination) Our Very Own Dog 2 Winter Wonderl Christmas Santa s Grotto Nativity Decorate a snow-cave Polar bears trapped in Icebergs to rescue. Blue Penguin Petr Horacek Stick Man Julia Donaldson Polar bear Polar bear Writing lists presents, good lists Letter to Santa Information about polar bears 2D shape Money addition subtraction Art Sketching of polar bears penguins Christmas art activities Chinese New Year dancing Make a big dragon from paper plates Understing Ice experiments how can you make the ice melt? How can you stop the ice from melting? Look at difference between Engl the North South Poles PSED Diwali (Hinduism) Christmas story (Christianity) Getting on Falling Out/ Say No to Bullying Development Using etc (Finger gym) fingers / hs
Speaking about how to be good at Advent to get ready for Christmas. Observations discussion of what is happening to the ice Polar blubber experiment Learn about animals living in cold places Squiggle writing P.E. music movement - acting out stories using movements Spring 1 Fairy stories Castles Knights princesses Fairies wizards Role play castle Letter to fairy l fairies, asking questions. Potions to make magic spells Bake gingerbread men Elves to come : fix something, leave something, Cinderella Billy Goats Gruff Rapunzel George the Dragon Gingerbread man The Dreamtime Fairies The Elves the Shoemaker Sleeping Beauty Act out the Three Billy Goats Gruff Write retell of a traditional tale Make up a spell that a fairy or wizard would do Retelling stories through role play counting recognising size, weight capacity Art Make a clay dragon own monster mask Bake gingerbread men Hansels Gretel s house Understing January Winter walk Observe pattern change in tree. Senses - Recognising smells, ginger herbs Pestle mortar herbs in tuff spot PSED Chinese New Year Going for Goals Using etc. (Finger gym) fingers / hs Apparatus in hall moving
design own shoes. Information books on castles Soundsrecognising sounds Tasting food blindfolded under, over under equipment on parts of your body Spring 2 Spring Planting Dinosaurs/ Jungle animals Elmer the Elephant Looking after the environment Mother s Day treat: cake, card writing Visit to the zoo Dinosaur shop Harry the Bucketful of Dinosaurs Elmer stories Brown Bear, Brown Bear The Tiger who came to tea My First Dinosaur book Dinosaurs love underpants Dinosaur has laid an egg left a note Reply to T Rex Information writing Write a letter asking the dinosaur questions Label a dinosaur addition subtraction 3D shape Time Art Dinosaur paintings textures Elmer collage pictures Understing April Spring walk look for new life Observe pattern change in tree. Looking after the environment Picking up rubbish, turning off lights. Looking at features of dinosaurs PSED Easter Story (Christianity) Good to be Me Moving dancing like animals Using etc. (Finger gym)
Dinosaur Roar! Stomp dinosaur stomp Dinosaurs all that rubbish Tanka Tanka Skunk The Leopards Drum why they were important. Science Week Experiments: Dissolving Magnets Electricity circuits Potion making Growing mould Sinking floating fingers / hs Art Understing the world PSED Summer 1 Mini-beasts Health week Butterfly metamorphosis Mini-beast hunt Ugly bug balldress up games Mini beast craft day - parents come help Yucky Worms Vivien French The Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Flight of the Honey Bee Buzz Off! Little Bee Simple story retell Invitation to an Ugly Bug Ball description of a ball Instructions on how to make a jam swich doubling halving sharing Counting recognising Addition subtraction Symmetrical butterflies Butterfly collages Printing caterpillars Matisse snails How to keep healthy Make a healthy fruit face. Hungry Caterpillar sorting healthy not healthy food. Ramadan / Eid (Islam) Relationships Paper clips Staplers Hole punch Ball skills Football Throwing catching Skipping ropes
Alien crash ling The Boy Who Lost His Bumble Observation al drawing Make up a Mr or Mrs Healthy Assembly to parents Aaaarrrgghhh! Spider! Lydia Monks The Bumble Bear Salt dough snails Ladybird pebbles Write the 5 things that they have to do to keep healthy Hu s Surprise Eileen Browne How To Find a Fruit Bat What The Ladybird Heard I love Bugs Art Understing the world PSED Summer 2 Superheroes Trip to Spain / seaside Father s Day Treat - Daddy superhero picnic activity afternoon Only one you by Linda Kranz Rainbow Fish Share a Shell Capes masks at the writing table Position distance Water colour: Rainbow fish painting June Summer walk: Observe pattern change in tree. Bible stories Changes Transition into year 1 Team games Sports day Superhero challenges rescue the cat,
Summer Disguises moustaches, glasses, newspaper with holes Make a superhero design outfits Role play seaside outside/ Ice-cream parlour Seaside shop / ice-cream shop Sensory seaside experience Lying down, listening to the waves, smelling the fish vinegar, tasting the sweet icecream Lucy Tom at the seaside Can you guess What I am at the Seaside? JP Percy Seaside Book by Alein Gree Supertato Nat Fantastic by Giles Andrea The Train Ride Super Daisy by Kes Gray Eliot, Midnight Superhero by Anne Cottringer Splash Anna Habiscus (Seaside) Writing orders in the ice-cream shop Imaginative writing describing the seaside Writing post cards Super hero tricky words Continuous provision super hero writing sheets Colour mixing: shades of blue Seaside collage pictures Looking at the features of living sea creatures. Looking at the environments Compare the seaside to West Bridgford Learning about the customs in Spain. balance along the beams, crawl under the tunnel, jump over the log